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Mar 23, 2019 - 9:29 PM
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Zooba
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So now knowing that there are a total of 246 ABC TV MOVIES and thus the same number of scores, a 5 CD Box Set seems very unlikely for a COMPLETE Collection. It'd be more like 49 CDs containing 5 Scores on each CD....... If my math is anywhere close to being right. 49 CDs would be an Enormous undertaking and probably unlikely and not cost efficient for the producers and the consumers. Oh well, a lot of the scores are pretty bad and by unknown or little known composers anyway.
More prominent composers, at least to us, like Billy Goldenberg, Robert Drasnin, Fred Steiner, Laurence Rosenthal, Vic Mizzy, Gil Melle and of course Goldsmith and others who have scored the ABC TV- Movies, may make up a nice 5 to 10 Disc Collection which seems more doable in the real world.
I mean do we really need Mark Bucci's scores to SEVEN IN DARKNESS and HONEYMOON WITH A STRANGER or Shorty Roger's score to GIDGET GROWS UP and Pete Carpenter and Mike Post's score to GIDGET GETS MARRIED? Maybe, if they were good.
I'd be quite happy with a Solo CD of THE ABC MOVIE OF THE WEEK SCORES of ROBERT DRASNIN Collection featuring his:
1. DAUGHTER OF THE MIND
2. A TASTE OF EVIL
3. NIGHT OF TERROR
4. DR. COOK'S GARDEN
5. THE OLD MAN WHO CRIED WOLF
6. CROWHAVEN FARM (Reused and tracked from DAUGHTER OF THE MIND)
A screen shot of Drasnin's Credit for A TASTE OF EVIL actually appearing in the Main Titles:
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Looking into my recently acquired ABC MOVIE OF THE WEEK Companion Book. It's a pretty good book. Only drawback for me is that it doesn't list the Full Production Credits of each Movie, which is really what I wanted it for, so I still have to go on IMDB and find out who scored the individiua sonsa bixes. Writer of the book Michael Karol, you dropped the ball there. But at least ALL 246 ABC Movies of the Week PRODUCED ESPECIALLY FOR ABC, are listed.
I'm painstakingly looking up each title on IMDB to find the Music composer/composers credits.
That is such a cool post! Didn't know the book existed, love the photo.
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Mar 25, 2019 - 4:12 AM
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CindyLover
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Forgive my ignorance and pedantry, but wasn't ABC mostly just a network for showing TV Movies made by different studios, such as Paramount, Universal etc? I know there were "ABC Circle" films, but I can't distinguish them from the others. In Scotland in the early to mid '70s, most of the films mentioned so far in this thread turned up on network TV (in my case STV), and a few (a minority) on the BBC. The Friday night horror season generally showed the spookier ones, but the memory I have is of the Universal globe (and coda) at the end of a lot of them. Aaron Spelling's name became a familiar sight too.
They could still turn up in the 1980s as well - under the Murder, Mystery, Suspense banner. I know for a fact that When Michael Calls was on LWT (in my case) one Sunday evening in the mid-80s.
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Mar 25, 2019 - 5:01 AM
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Graham Watt
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Forgive my ignorance and pedantry, but wasn't ABC mostly just a network for showing TV Movies made by different studios, such as Paramount, Universal etc? I know there were "ABC Circle" films, but I can't distinguish them from the others. In Scotland in the early to mid '70s, most of the films mentioned so far in this thread turned up on network TV (in my case STV), and a few (a minority) on the BBC. The Friday night horror season generally showed the spookier ones, but the memory I have is of the Universal globe (and coda) at the end of a lot of them. Aaron Spelling's name became a familiar sight too.
They could still turn up in the 1980s as well - under the Murder, Mystery, Suspense banner. I know for a fact that When Michael Calls was on LWT (in my case) one Sunday evening in the mid-80s.
Yes, CindyLover, I imagine Brit-based viewers got to see them on regional ITV kind of haphazardly, sometimes as part of a "season", but more often than not simply as a Saturday Movie or a Friday Film. STV was always notoriously inconsistent with its supposed seasons of films back then.
By the way, you probably realise this, but the first part of my post was asking about the films when originally aired in the US.
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I'm a big fan of the ABC Movies-Of-The-Week. I'd buy this, depending on what was in it.
So many of these films are lost in the vaults, but many of the key films are being reissued via Kino-Lorber, and Warner Archive.
Greg Espinoza
Keep us updated#
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Looking into my recently acquired ABC MOVIE OF THE WEEK Companion Book. It's a pretty good book. Only drawback for me is that it doesn't list the Full Production Credits of each Movie, which is really what I wanted it for, so I still have to go on IMDB and find out who scored the individiua sonsa bixes. Writer of the book Michael Karol, you dropped the ball there. But at least ALL 246 ABC Movies of the Week PRODUCED ESPECIALLY FOR ABC, are listed.
I'm painstakingly looking up each title on IMDB to find the Music composer/composers credits.
Looks like the serial killer next door
Neighbors: "he was a quiet sort. Kept to himself"
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All this great music - unreleased- and the greedy Golden Agers keep whining for more of ' their' music!
Outrageous.
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Hey Zoob.
Winkler and many Jewish actors often played Eyetalians.
Did you ever play a Jewish character?
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