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'The Doll' is a very close second, because of the score and of course, John Lithgow's Emmy Winning performance. However, I've a short story to relate here:
In 1990 I moved to Seattle and for a (very) few months, was working at a Blockbuster Video Store - remember video tapes? At a certain time every evening I'd put on 'The Mission' video tape and it would play on the several overhead tv's around the store. I don't know exactly what the draw was, John Williams propulsive score, the special effects, the dramatic story of the guy trapped in the machine-gun turret on the bottom of the plane, or everything I just mentioned. But every night that I put that tape on, there would always, always be 2-4-6 people viewing the monitors with their necks craned up, just transfixed to the screen. I always got some satisfaction when they'd eventually start browsing again at the end of the episode, and sometimes they'd actually rent the episode too, after asking what it was they just saw.
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Pat Metheny's and Thomas Newman's.
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I've still yet to hear many of them, but certainly "Family Dog". I also consider it one the best Elfman scores.
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Dec 24, 2017 - 10:13 AM
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I was trying to remember if this was from the 1985 Twilight Zone revival series or Amazing Stories, but it turned out to be the latter:
"Ignored by his self-absorbed, social-climbing parents, 5-year-old Jonah Kelley wanders his lonely, sterile house and then the outside world, searching for someone who will see him, while things and people disappear in his wake."
Favorite Episode: "What If?" Stumbled on this episode some years back, long after it originally aired, but it was so wonderfully autobiographical in some ways. LOL
The incomparable Billy Goldenberg composed the score, and since I'm largely unfamiliar with the series and its music, for now I'll say this was my favorite score of the show.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0511130/
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I blasted through the 3 Intrada 2CD volumes of these scores over the past week, and even though my thoughts posted above, back when, still largely apply, the Pat Metheny score moved way up the rankings and the Fred Steiner score was enjoyed by me a lot more too.
This is such a cool collection of music from the series, although the Goldsmith still annoys me and I just can't get into the John Addison stuff.
I know this set was never complete (some Brad Fiedel scores didn't appear and Elfman's FAMILY DOG was MIA, IIRC).
Williams' THE MISSION is still the tops for me, full of that gushy 80s JW goodness, closely followed by Delerue (DOROTHY & BEN...although I prefer the Debney re-recording of that score from Varese) and Horner/ALAMO JOBE.
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Thomas Newman – Santa '85.
A classic we rewatch every holiday season.
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The Mission.
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Sep 3, 2024 - 11:12 AM
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jkruppa
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'The Doll' is a very close second, because of the score and of course, John Lithgow's Emmy Winning performance. However, I've a short story to relate here:
In 1990 I moved to Seattle and for a (very) few months, was working at a Blockbuster Video Store - remember video tapes? At a certain time every evening I'd put on 'The Mission' video tape and it would play on the several overhead tv's around the store. I don't know exactly what the draw was, John Williams propulsive score, the special effects, the dramatic story of the guy trapped in the machine-gun turret on the bottom of the plane, or everything I just mentioned. But every night that I put that tape on, there would always, always be 2-4-6 people viewing the monitors with their necks craned up, just transfixed to the screen. I always got some satisfaction when they'd eventually start browsing again at the end of the episode, and sometimes they'd actually rent the episode too, after asking what it was they just saw.
Thanks for reminding me what a great episode that was. I need to go back and re-watch some of these. When this show clicked, it was really good.
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Leonard Rosenman's NO DAY AT THE BEACH is perhaps my favorite of the scores.
Haven't seen all the episodes, and what I've seen has been too long ago (whenever the show was running), so I don't have favorite episodes.
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