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Jun 12, 2024 - 8:29 AM
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Kentishsax
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As it says on the tin. Here are mine:-
Star Trek the original series - Sandy Courage's theme is so iconic, it's been adapted for use in all films and some series since. The scores themselves are so memorable and very golden age-ish in places. Top flight composers such as Fred Steiner, George Duning, Gerald Fried and so on, were on board and the skilled music editors established a musical identity for the series, in the use of the library music and adaptations of other episodic scores.
Quantum Leap the original series - Mike Post came up with a great catchy theme, both light hearted and dramatic, like the series itself and Velton Ray Bunch picked up the ball and ran with it, when he took over the scoring duties. He even paid for the orchestra himself for the two parter about Lee Harvey Oswald. Glad to have the CD of some scores and Scott Bakula's great singing. We'll ignore the fifth season arrangement of the theme - though they reinstated the original version, for the final episode.
Little House On The Prairie - David Rose fashioned great opening and end title themes and his episodic scoring was beautiful, dramatic and humorous.
Highway to Heaven - David Rose again and my thoughts on Prairie apply here. There's one episode where Landon and French are masquerading as cops and the music is more 1980s cop show in style and Rose adapts his lovely main theme into that vernacular.
Starsky & Hutch - Lalo did the first season theme, Tom Scott took over with his more famous theme, 'Gotcha', then Mark Snow did one and then they reurned to Tom's. The interior scoring had some great funky music, including by trombonist J J Johnson, he was one who stood out.
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Wacky Races
Hong Kong Phooey
The Hair Beat Bunch
Batfink
The Banana Splits, just for the song.
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MIAMI VICE
AIRWOLF
OTHERWORLD
STREETHAWK
TALES FROM THE CRYPT
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1. Hawaii Five-0 (Original series) - theme and scores
2. The Twilight Zone (Original series) - more the scores than the theme
3. Star Trek (Original series) - theme and scores
4. Mission: Impossible (Original series) - more the theme, some good scores
5. The Rat Patrol - theme and scores
(And):
6. Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea - theme and scores
SCOTT
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1. Battlestar Galactica (1978)
2. Star Trek ('60s)
3. Cosmos (1980)
4. Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/Thriller
5. The Orville
How did I forget Batman: The Animated Series? I think I'll replace Cosmos with that. What an omission.
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1. Perry Mason
2. Doctor Who
3. The Wild Wild West
4. Hawaii Five-O
5. Miss Marple (the Hickson series)
Tomorrow, might have a different list!
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1) Jeeves and Wooster (Anne Dudley) Absolutely first-rate theme and a couple of dozen scores with many appropriate variations of the jaunty theme.
2) Sherlock Holmes (Patrick Gowers) Great Holmes violin theme with evocative scores to match.
3) Man From Uncle (Goldsmith, etc.) The FSM CDs showcase so many variations of the theme arranged by several composers. Fried, Schifrin, Drasnin, etc. wrote very good score.
4) Mission: Impossible (Schifrin, etc.)
5) Poirot (Christopher Gunning).
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Star Trek TOS
There will never be anything to beat this one.
Possibly not. but Barry Gray's music from Thunderbirds comes very close.
The repeated use of various cues throughout both shows really embeds the music into your head.
Star Trek is only slightly better from the point of view that a lot of the cues in Thunderbirds are from
previous Anderson shows.
Beam me up Mr Scott. FAB Virgil.
1 more vote for wacky races and Jeeves and Wooster.
Stay Well
CC
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