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This week's mega batch of suites. "Destination Space" Composer: Nathan van Cleave https://youtube.com/watch?v=sbTzyCU0zRA Suite of selected cues from this feature-length pilot for a series not picked up. This was early on when I was still using Lalal A.I. to remove dialogue. As you can see, it has the Star Wars text scroll ... many years before Star Wars. High Point Composer: John Addison https://youtube.com/watch?v=HKTYssRD-rY Suite #2. The final suite. Closing out his score for the original Canadian cut of the film. Lalal A.I. I was used, and I think at the time I had just discovered Easeus and used that a little to remove dialogue Lalal didn't catch. I might have also applied MVSep. Like I said for the first suite, score was tracked into the film, so I was able to do some salvage work. "The Adventurer" Composer: Paul B. Clay https://youtube.com/watch?v=ECF08OItN9A Suite #2 -- the final suite. With these two suites I have covered all of this short-lived 1970's British adventure series. Lalal A.I. and Easeus A.I. suites were used to remove dialogue. Like the other suite, because of lots of tracking, I was able to do some salvage work to make cues better than A.I. programs alone. You'll hear some repeated material from a action track here, because I couldn't find the whole track and couldn't figure out a way to edit and string it all together in suite #1, so I decided to leave it separated. Believe me, I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out! "The Exile" Composer: Michel Rubini https://youtube.com/watch?v=4koTg8gRNzk Suite #1. Suite covering two or three episodes of a short-lived cold-war drama series. Best I can tell without checking all episodes, Rubini scored the entire series. Lalal A.I. was used to remove some dialogue. No further suites intended at this time. "Family Matters" Composer: Bennett Salvay and Jesse Frederick https://youtube.com/watch?v=cqEYjAe62h4 Suite #1. Due to tracking of cues in episodes, I was able to repair and make some cues better and edit the length of the suite down so much that I fit all of their season one work into one suite. Lalal A.I. was used, but primarily I used Easeus because it's really good at removing a lot of the laugh track in sitcom music. "Lucan" Composer: Fred Karlin https://youtube.com/watch?v=sG6fqP7uTMw Suite #2. AT the time I did the first suite -- for the pilot -- I thought he had only scored that episode, but I was wrong and he did one more. This suite covers this final effort by him for the show. J.J. Johnson took over after him. Easeus and Lalal A.I. were used to remove dialogue. "The FBI" TRACK JOB https://youtube.com/watch?v=VbJfh7CFod4 Suite #1. Two suites covering the train bomber episode from season one. At the time I started work on this, I thought the score was by Kaper -- who is credited for the score. However, upon work on i and re-checking episodes to do a salvage job on it, I found there appears to not only be no original scoring in the episode, but that it appears to largely be tracked with score by Markowitz. Once I figured it out, I was too far in to stop, so doing track job suites of episodes of series is NOT something you'll be seeing from me again. I tried to preserve some edits, but in other places I used my own judgment to extend some cues with cleaner material cut from the edit work, so preserve more of the show's scoring. A small portion of the driving music for the train, was edited out of the episode and I could not find parts clean enough to use to re-insert. I included one brief bit edited out, but otherwise if I had not told you part of it was missing, you would not have known. I decided to use A.I. photo editing websites to take Markowitz's credit off another episode, and place it underneath Kaper's to more accurately reflect what's in the episode. Easeus and Lalal A.I. websites were utilized to remove dialogue and some light FX. I think I also used MVSep, but don't recall now.
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This week's mega batch of suites: In Broad Daylight Composer: Leonard Rosenman https://youtube.com/watch?v=_hG41cTlK-U Suite #2 -- the final suite covering this score. "J.J. Starbuck"" Composer: Velton Ray Bunch https://youtube.com/watch?v=WMgyZSnuyMY Suite #3. This is the final suite covering his work for the series. I didn't cover all his work, but the majority of it. It's also the final suite for the series (again, I didn't cover all of it, but most of it). But while may be the last suite for this show, if I am still around next year to make suites, they will be a suite or two with a weird connection... Leaving Normal Composer: W. G. Snuffy Walden https://youtube.com/watch?v=7P-1RXTpk6U My own personal edit and arrangement of select cues from the score, from what I guess was a composer promo. "Operation: Heartbeat" Composer: Lalo Schifrin https://youtube.com/watch?v=5KW7MrMBMZ0 This is a special Lalal A.I. salvage-job suite. This is the feature-length pilot episode of "Medical Center". "The D.A.: Murder One" Composer: Frank Comstock https://youtube.com/watch?v=VApMjMc6T0g Suite covering selections from the feature-length pilot episode to the series "The D.A.". There wasn't much score, so this is pretty much it. As you can hear, some cues were not used in full in the pilot. This is an old suite I've had a while, another one where I kept meaning to drop it but never did for what ever reason. I don't recall if Lalal was used at all. "The FBI" TRACK JOB https://youtube.com/watch?v=qy722JxBAck Suite #2. Second and final suite covering the track-job score for the season one train bomber episode. The Girl Hunters Composer: Philip Green https://youtube.com/watch?v=NDYkA3UlORA Short suite covering select cues from the score. Not all of it was worth hearing. The Generation Children Composer: Jerry Styner https://youtube.com/watch?v=JKFzzwrcBv0 Suite #3. Final suite covering this score. Now none of you need ever watch this pervert film.
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This week's mega batch of suites: In Broad Daylight Composer: Leonard Rosenman https://youtube.com/watch?v=_hG41cTlK-U Suite #2 -- the final suite covering this score. "J.J. Starbuck"" Composer: Velton Ray Bunch https://youtube.com/watch?v=WMgyZSnuyMY Suite #3. This is the final suite covering his work for the series. I didn't cover all his work, but the majority of it. It's also the final suite for the series (again, I didn't cover all of it, but most of it). But while may be the last suite for this show, if I am still around next year to make suites, they will be a suite or two with a weird connection... Leaving Normal Composer: W. G. Snuffy Walden https://youtube.com/watch?v=7P-1RXTpk6U My own personal edit and arrangement of select cues from the score, from what I guess was a composer promo. "Operation: Heartbeat" Composer: Lalo Schifrin https://youtube.com/watch?v=5KW7MrMBMZ0 This is a special Lalal A.I. salvage-job suite. This is the feature-length pilot episode of "Medical Center". "The D.A.: Murder One" Composer: Frank Comstock https://youtube.com/watch?v=VApMjMc6T0g Suite covering selections from the feature-length pilot episode to the series "The D.A.". There wasn't much score, so this is pretty much it. As you can hear, some cues were not used in full in the pilot. This is an old suite I've had a while, another one where I kept meaning to drop it but never did for what ever reason. I don't recall if Lalal was used at all. "The FBI" TRACK JOB https://youtube.com/watch?v=qy722JxBAck Suite #2. Second and final suite covering the track-job score for the season one train bomber episode. The Girl Hunters Composer: Philip Green https://youtube.com/watch?v=NDYkA3UlORA Short suite covering select cues from the score. Not all of it was worth hearing. The Generation Children Composer: Jerry Styner https://youtube.com/watch?v=JKFzzwrcBv0 Suite #3. Final suite covering this score. Now none of you need ever watch this pervert film.
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What to expect from Monday's suites: The final batch of the year, another mega batch. You got your Elfman, you got your John Barry, you got your A-Team on, Thomas Magnum will stop by, a trip back in time with the Waltons, Pete Rugolo, and a special salvage job on a wonderful piece of original commercial music.
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Would you guys want a Delerue for the final batch, too? Let me know and I can try to rush it and get it done tomorrow.
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This week's suites -- the FINAL suites for 2024. And some notes about 2025 suites if I make it. "Family Dog" Composers: Danny Elfman & Steve Bartek https://youtube.com/watch?v=PqNf3CRH_KU This was an episode of the 1980's "Amazing Stories". It's one of my personal favorite animated projects and I never tire of it. I still, to this day, when it's appropriate, use that line "Do I have dreams?! Do I have aspirations?! No, but I have a toilet bowl that's spring-time fresh!" The popularity of this episode spawned a TV series that was scored by Bartek. The series re-vamped it some and now the dogs could talk, which was not the case in the original. And I swear back in the day with the original end credits, only Elfman was credited for the score. Anyway, when Intrada Records did those volumes of scores from "Amazing Stories", they could not expand this score because tapes could not be found, so only the two awesome cues from one of the Music for a Darkened Theater compilations is what you can own right now. But now I can do something about it in the interim until tapes are found. Lalal A.I., Easeus A.I., and MVSep A.I. were all utilized to removed as much dialogue and FX as possible given their current limitations. "Magnum, pi" Composer: Ian Freebairn-Smith Suite #1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_p1XesejGPY Suite #2: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ZNC2LZ3_hg These are special salvage-job suites covering the entire feature-length pilot score. People tend to forget that when the series originally began, it had a theme and episode scores by Ian Freebairn-Smith, who was quickly replaced as composer (as noted in my thread for the show, based upon other info', it appears he even had a scored tossed for his final effort) and his theme then bounced back and forth between a replacement theme by Mike Post until finally the theme was dropped all together. There's nothing inherently wrong with Ian's theme, it's even catchy and works, but Post' theme worked gangbusters and is iconic. Also included is the disco music for the club. I recorded it all, copied and pasted cleaner parts over bad ones, since it was edited up and tracked, then used the A.I. programs to do the best I could with it. PLEASE NOTE: I do not know if the disco music is original music by Ina is something another composer did as source music, but in the chance it is by him, I had to include it. Once again, Lalal A.I., Easeus A.I., and MVSep A.I. were all utilized to removed as much dialogue and FX as possible given their current limitations. In re-runs the feature-length pilot was cut into two episodes. Then sometime later down the road for video release, Ian's opening music and end credits music were cut from the two-part pilot edit and replaced by Post's theme. Muloorina Composer: John Barry https://youtube.com/watch?v=RJ1dC2Vqsdg In the past I did a shorter suite where I had to edit the hell out of the music, but this special redo suite fixes that and includes damn near every single bit of the score. Yet again, Lalal A.I., Easeus A.I., and MVSep A.I. were all utilized to removed as much dialogue and FX as possible given their current limitations. "The A-Team" Composer: Mike Post and Pete Carpenter Suite #4: https://file.io/lx1rVE5qUbYI (download link) Suite #5: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nYWIY3-v6Tw Once again, I continue threw season one of the show, only this year is different. These are the first two suites from the show where I was able to apply Lalal A.I. and Easeus A.I. to remove as much dialogue (and some FX) as possible. Previously, I was just editing up scores. Here, entire liens are dialogue are gone, singing while flying a plane is gone, and I did a little salvage work as one cue was edited up and tracked inside an episode. Suite #4, while Fair Use, was still copyrighted and blocked world wide, so I had to host the video on a file site. One of the ways you can use intellectual property under Fair Use, is that it has to be transformative. The music has been divorced from the episodes, ran threw A.I. programs, edited up, and presented in a suite format -- it's transformative, but Google/YouTube doesn't care. If I make it to next year and I am not busy working, there will be two more suites for the final batch of 2025 as well. "The Waltons" Composer: Alexander Courage https://youtube.com/watch?v=F0TnNl4YS98 Suite #1. Another special salvage-job suite where the A.I. programs ere used to remove dialogue and some light FX. Selections from all episodes Courage scored for season one. Walgreens Composer: Steve Ford https://youtube.com/watch?v=HmkNgBYnfyA And finally, to appropriately close out the year, this super special salvage-job work on a piece of commercial music I love. This music played in the long-running ad campaign by Walgreens for commercials for a "town called Perfect". These commercials ran from the late 1990's into the early 2000's. Not all the commercials are online, but I found all version with usable sound that are on YouTube (not easy, given not are were readily findable), recorded them, copied and pasted cleaner parts over bad ones, then ran the cue threw Easeus to remove dialogue. It's not perfect, but it's close enough for a cue from a musical world called Perfect. The music is supposed to be by Steve Ford. I didn't want to pass that off as 100% fact, so I decided to not use his name in the video picture of video title. Suites return February, 2025 like the previous two years. 2025 SUITES:
So, here are my intentions for 2025, should I make it threw this year: More suites from series I already do suites for, so that means two more "Charlie's Angels", two more for "The A-Team", the starting of season two of "Remington Steele", the start of season two of "T.J. Hooker", and "Hart to Hart". As usual, one Morton Stevens and one Mike Post & Pete Carpenter suites each month. I don't mean this to sound morbid, but when Stu Philips has his 97th birthday a few weeks ago, it was kind of a shocking thing to realize he's 97 years old. I think I need to add him to the monthly suites roster. And given he contacted labels and tried to get interest in a release of "Fall Guy" going but no label was interested, I think maybe a suite from that show each month is needed. Adult film scores will continue. More western suites, more suites from shows I have only done one or two suites of, and suites for shows I have done none for yet. Obscure projects, failed TV series, TV movies, even an episode of a short British documentary series. Alex North, Frank Skinner, Dominic Frontiere, never know who will pop up. Well, Jerry Goldsmith will not pop up unless some super obscure never surfaced pilot surfaces. And, of course, requests will be taken where possible (load availability being one factor, and projects that have too much FX to make it possible, and then bad sound quality).
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Edited my post to include intentions for 2025 suites.
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So, bad news regarding suites. Okay, a good a place as any to begin: I have a lot of crap in my life. And one of those is a shady drug using piece of human garbage homeless guy, who found out I reported him for rolling drugs here in the library, due to incompetence as the part of a staff member. And as a result he's made Godawful sexual insults towards me, threatened to beat me up, brought another shady shitbag homeless guy with him and pointed me out and said I needed an ass-whooping. Well, a few weeks ago my laptop keep suddenly shutting off. I was looking up problems, though it was something serious, but when examining the power cord, found somebody had taken a knife to it and tried to slice it clean, but must have gotten interrupted and didn't finish the job. However, the damage was done, and I had -- thankfully -- some electrical black tape I had found on the side of a road years back, and wrapped it up. This will not solve it, it will go bad eventually. It's the cord that is connected to the power brick, so it's not a simple cheap replacement. A good quality one can cost with shipping over $50.00, which I don't have. Hell, I don't have my tag renewal or insurance for January, a cord a pipe dream. As a result, I have found using the A.I. programs, like Easeus to remove dialogue, drive up the CPU and the cord heats up, which for a normal undamaged cord isn't an issue, but it gets REALLY hot where the black electrical tape it and the laptop is malfunctioning ang trying to shut off. Easeus -- the best A.I. for dialogue (and the only good one for laugh tracks), takes forever to upload, often gets to 100%, then starts back at 0% and reloads again, then processing, just keeps going and going and heating up the cord and the cord cant' handle it. So, suites are effectively not possible any longer. I'm not going back to the old days of editing the hell out of things to remove dialogue and FX, destroying the music. So, right now all I got are suites in the can, and suites I have already ran through the A.I. programs, but have yet to do any editing. If I limit suites to one a week, maybe I can get to about halfway into 2025. So, as a result, I can't take any suggestions either. Sorry, best laid plans of mice, men, and me.
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A new TV series thread starts in February -- a request series some time ago (one I was eventually going to get to anyway). There will also be another request series this year (one I wasn't sure I was going to do, but decided to handle a request). This year will be like last year -- not as many series covered and continuations/completions of series already started. New suites start sometime February. Normally I would start suites the first week of February, but due to my power cord trying to be cue twice and that affect it has when I use an A.I. site like Easeus, it's slowed down my ability to do such things, so suites will be dramatically cut down this year. :-( I can't guarantee a Morton Stevens and a Post & Carpenter suite each month. Normally I would have taken about half of January off, since I only take November and December off in-full, but this the cord situation has forced me to cut into my own free time. :-( Themed months like last year may barely happen, due do the cord issue. Only thing I can say for certain are two western suites for the summer time -- merely because they are in the can already. I'm trying to get "Hart to Hart" suites for February. This cord thing is a bitch.
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In the mean time, here is one cue to enjoy: "Vega$" Composer: Dominic Frontiere https://youtube.com/watch?v=g-J8oXo2BYw I nick named this cue "Walkin' Him Down". While found in another episode, this is an alternate version of the cue from the pilot where Dan walks down the bad guy. "Who are you?!" "I'm the ghost of Christmas past, turkey!" Easeus was used to remove dialogue and MVSep for some FX.
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Suite Notes: I will be finishing up the redo music for the failed feature length pilot "Code Name: Diamondhead". As I stated a while back, somewhere in this thread and ill re-state again so I and other don't have to go looking for it (or maybe it was in the Morton Stevens memorial thread), I had previously many years back before this thread existed, had done a short suite of selections that were edited to hell. But now with Easeus and MVSep, that's all changed. Right now I hope to have it down to two suites, but I may end up with three. Re-stating: Because I have an unverified YouTube channel, I have a limit of fifteen minutes. But they do give some play room, so I can get up to 15:29. So this forces me to spread suites out. Plus, while I wouldn't mind if a suite ran to twenty minutes, I'm not a fan of super long music videos. Now you'll have the score with little editing of dialogue and effects. MVSep caught some in a fight cue, removed some boat motor noise in the end of one cue, and Easeus got all but one bit of dialogue (which have chosen to preserve). If you have a fan of Stevens work, particularly his Emmy-winning score to the episode "Hookman" from "Hawaii Five-O", this score will be right up your alley. It'll be the best thing short of an official release. It also occurred to me that over the years members have mentioned their love for the scoring of "Bewitched". Coupling that with the fact I have barely done any sitcom music, I've decided to do a suite of that -- now with the power of Easeus, Lalal, and MVSep at my hands. I'll note once again that Easeus is really good at catching audience studio laughter. Not necessarily all of it, but it gets large amounts. A fact the folks over at JWFan.com forum have yet to find out and are still noting in their thread of A.I. efforts that cant' be done. I guess they've never seen my thread here or heard any of the three John Williams suites I have done. I'll take suggestions for sitcoms. Please do make sure nobody has already done it on YouTube somewhere, like Fish Man.
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Suite Notes: I will be finishing up the redo music for the failed feature length pilot "Code Name: Diamondhead". As I stated a while back, somewhere in this thread and ill re-state again so I and other don't have to go looking for it (or maybe it was in the Morton Stevens memorial thread), I had previously many years back before this thread existed, had done a short suite of selections that were edited to hell. But now with Easeus and MVSep, that's all changed. Right now I hope to have it down to two suites, but I may end up with three. Re-stating: Because I have an unverified YouTube channel, I have a limit of fifteen minutes. But they do give some play room, so I can get up to 15:29. So this forces me to spread suites out. Plus, while I wouldn't mind if a suite ran to twenty minutes, I'm not a fan of super long music videos. Now you'll have the score with little editing of dialogue and effects. MVSep caught some in a fight cue, removed some boat motor noise in the end of one cue, and Easeus got all but one bit of dialogue (which have chosen to preserve). If you have a fan of Stevens work, particularly his Emmy-winning score to the episode "Hookman" from "Hawaii Five-O", this score will be right up your alley. It'll be the best thing short of an official release. It also occurred to me that over the years members have mentioned their love for the scoring of "Bewitched". Coupling that with the fact I have barely done any sitcom music, I've decided to do a suite of that -- now with the power of Easeus, Lalal, and MVSep at my hands. I'll note once again that Easeus is really good at catching audience studio laughter. Not necessarily all of it, but it gets large amounts. A fact the folks over at JWFan.com forum have yet to find out and are still noting in their thread of A.I. efforts that cant' be done. I guess they've never seen my thread here or heard any of the three John Williams suites I have done. I'll take suggestions for sitcoms. Please do make sure nobody has already done it on YouTube somewhere, like Fish Man. Sounds good, Justin. Looking forward to your new and improved DIAMOND HEAD. …and thank you for all your efforts!:-)
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What to expect from Monday's suites -- the first batch of 2025. I kick off the year with the first (and so maybe the only) batch of Mike Post, and Morton Stevens. For Post we have all he did for a sitcom. For Stevens, the first of three redo suites "Code Name: Diamond Head". The rest of February will have a lot of Hart, to your Hart.
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An update on the A.I. websites I use right now. EaseUS They got their act together for the service weeks ago, shortly before my power cord started acting up from somebody trying to slice it twice, so now I don't encounter the slow loading that fails when it reaches 100% and starts over again. Now it just loads at a god speed and never fails. While the website says three uses a day, up to twenty minutes free, due to the power cord overheating from the CPU being taxed by this website for some reason (the other two sites don't do this) and thus the computer acts up and cuts off, I have to limit each use to no more than just over six minutes, and then I have to wait some time for the cord to cool back down. And while it says three uses, I am only getting two. So, good news about the site, also it's doing a better job than it used to at removing vocals and some FX -- I rarely use Lalal anymore. MVSep This site has also gotten better at vocal removing, but also FX removal. And with some experimenting today, I found I can get up to 2:05 minutes with a wav file and it'll take it. One file which was about 2:20, was rejected for being too large, so now you guys have a good idea of how much you can upload at a time. And man alive, it was crazy stupid how many files I was able to get done on the site today! Loaded one, said I was 25 in line, so I had to watch it to rush another one in when done, loaded another, said I was 11 in line, but I had nothing to load! I had meant to do four episodes of "Emergency!" today in reviews, but I kept having to rush editing things and prepare tracks for MVSep! I must have done a dozen! But, alas, the fun is over, as the last one I uploaded had me 145 in line; I'll have to wait for tomorrow to get that one. But boy howdy -- got all the FX parts for "Charlie's Angels" suites and "S.W.A.T." suites done Now an editing schlog is due.
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This year's suites for "The Fall Guy" are going to be extra special. As I recall, the first two last year were done only with Lalal. But now I have EaseUS and MVSep. So atop like 99.9% of the dialogue now gone, I am taking more time that I would to remove as much FX as I chose to from the suites. Give how time consuming this is, I've decided Mike Post, Morton Stevens, and Stu Philips will get the MVSep treatment, and everyone else as I feel needed or maybe just select tracks/parts of tracks. I can't spend this much time on all suites doing this anymore.
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This week's suites -- the first batch of 2025! "Code Name: Diamond Head" Composer: Morton Stevens https://youtube.com/watch?v=6G_w_KdzEx4 This is Suite #1 (of three). This was a Quinn Martin Productions pilot from 1977 for a series that did not get picked up. The pilot itself isn't necessarily bad, but it's also not good, yet somehow this pilot ended up as an episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3,000". Set in Hawaii, I think this pilot would have succeeded had it been a spin-off of "Hawaii Five-O" and used a character or two, but alas, you know, what could have been. But the score -- sadly still unreleased -- is where it's at. Clearly owing a lot (in particular one cue) for his Emmy-winning score "Hookman" from"Hawaii Five-O", it's yet another gem from the composer that hopefully some label (here's looking at you, DDR...) will release one day. EaseUS was use to remove dialogue, then MVSep caught some bits missed and also removed some FX. This is not the entire score, but it's almost all of it. Probably a good 98% of it. Enjoy! "Newsradio" Composer: Mike Post https://youtube.com/watch?v=4DAZQK96FRs Special salvage-job suite. This score covers [almost] all the scoring heard in the episodes he scored. To avoid copyright tripping, since Google/YouTube doesn't recognize Fair Use, I have decided against including the regular opening/closing theme. I did, however, include the pilot version of the opening theme. I say "almost" all the score, because it doesn't appear anything was written to scenes, but rather he probably created a small library of music to be edited and tracked as needed. This wasn't started as a salvage-job suite, but as I was working on the suite, I realized a number of cues were just tracked over and over again and parts of cues edited and combined with each other. Just for instance: there was one short cue with only five notes -- maybe four seconds long -- that was just short parts of two cues edited together. Post only scored the first season of the show, which was a short season. Ian Dye and Danny Lux alternated episodes for the rest of the series. I guess it's possible I'll do a suite for each of them at some point, but nothing is planned right now.
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