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| This is a comments thread about Blog Post: Five Seventies-era Sci-Fi TV Shows Whose Music I'd Like to Have on CD - or - If Wishes Were Horses... by Neil Shurley |
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SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN
Another series I haven't seen since it originally aired. This might - might - have aged better than the others, but I think it would be best not to tempt fate. The music is lost to me, though I dig the theme song and suspect I'd love whatever other cues would make it onto a cd. After all, I enjoy the Bionic Woman music that's been released.
SMDM's episode scores were superb at the time and they hold up tremendously well today. "The Seven Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman" parts 1 and 2 are two favorites.
Also wicked cool: Dusty Springfield's "He's the Man" song. In syndication you used to hear just a few seconds of that after the announcer got done reading his promo. Very frustrating. Having the whole song is excellent.
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I would love to see an album of Star Trek-TAS and Wonder Woman.
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Fred Karlin's score to Man From Atlantis ranks near the top of my list, too! As a kid, I once taped the audio of the pilot movie directly from the tv onto a little cassette deck and played it back repeatedly until the tape wore out!
Another score I would definitely love to have released would be Jimmie Haskell's eerie soundtrack to the 1974 series Land Of The Lost! Using a strange combination of distorted electric bass, mini-Moog synthesizer and banjo, he came up with a soundtrack that was both fun and creepy. It complimented perfectly the bizarre, alien atmosphere of the series.
I recommend renting DVDs of the first season and pay particular attention to episodes like "Stranger", "The Possession" and "Circle". You'll see what I mean.
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Can we venture back, a little, to the sixties??? "The Invaders"???
Who can forget the voice-over..."THE INVADERS...A QUINN MARTIN PRODUCTION!"
Dominic Frontiere's 3-note motif originated in the main title of the unsold pilot "The Unknown" (which itself aired as the final episode ["The Forms Of Things Unknown"] of "The Outer Limits" first season).
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Perhaps I'm wrong but I don't know if a lot of sci-fi television shows were made in the 70's as opposed to the previous decade. Were they?
Other lesser sci-fi (or scifi-ish) shows I remember from the 70s (outside the obvious suspects listed already) include Logan's Run, Fantastic Journey, Quark, Futurecop, Gemini Man, Holmes and Yoyo, Invisible Man, Ark 2, Space Academy, Jason of Star Command -- and most of those predate Star Wars. That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure I've missed some...
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Jul 11, 2010 - 12:36 PM
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filmusicnow
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Perhaps I'm wrong but I don't know if a lot of sci-fi television shows were made in the 70's as opposed to the previous decade. Were they?
Other lesser sci-fi (or scifi-ish) shows I remember from the 70s (outside the obvious suspects listed already) include Logan's Run, Fantastic Journey, Quark, Futurecop, Gemini Man, Holmes and Yoyo, Invisible Man, Ark 2, Space Academy, Jason of Star Command -- and most of those predate Star Wars. That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure I've missed some...
The television series adaptation of "Logan's Run" actually premiered four months after "Star Wars" was released, but lasted only four months.
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That Neil Guy :
Other lesser sci-fi (or scifi-ish) shows I remember from the 70s (outside the obvious suspects listed already) include Logan's Run, Fantastic Journey, Quark, Futurecop, Gemini Man, Holmes and Yoyo, Invisible Man, Ark 2, Space Academy, Jason of Star Command -- and most of those predate Star Wars. That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure I've missed some...
Arise from the dead, ye old thread!
I too enjoyed the scoring from "Holmes & Yoyo". I skimmed the show for the scores, didn't really watch it (too corny for me; not awfully corny, but still).
I made some suites to show off the music:
Rosenman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpoglusOzNw
Dick Halligan:
Suite #1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP_C98zG2XE
Suite #2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLSlIKNB1t4
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That Neil Guy :
Other lesser sci-fi (or scifi-ish) shows I remember from the 70s (outside the obvious suspects listed already) include Logan's Run, Fantastic Journey, Quark, Futurecop, Gemini Man, Holmes and Yoyo, Invisible Man, Ark 2, Space Academy, Jason of Star Command -- and most of those predate Star Wars. That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure I've missed some...
Arise from the dead, ye old thread!
I too enjoyed the scoring from "Holmes & Yoyo". I skimmed the show for the scores, didn't really watch it (too corny for me; not awfully corny, but still).
I made some suites to show off the music:
Rosenman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpoglusOzNw
Dick Halligan:
Suite #1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP_C98zG2XE
Suite #2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLSlIKNB1t4
You are truly doing god's work here, son. Thank you.
Also: the bunco squad. the bunco squad. the bunco squad.
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How the hell did you get so many words in a heading??! 
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