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SEASON 1:
Series from 1972 that last a full season.
All episode scored are by Frontiere. The catchy theme music is also by him.
And speaking of nice composer credits, Frontiere has good credits on both the pilot and the series regular credit.
Attention readers: I have been using a system that is nothing more than a note to myself; for cues that I want to include in a suite one day, for now on I will denote them with ^ symbol. It has no special meaning to anyone else but myself. No, the lack of an up arrow symbol doesn't mean the cue is bad (it just may have too much SFX or FX for suite use or just isn't worth my time to edit and include). Hence forth this system will be in all future threads and pre-exiting threads that I go back to for missed episodes. Anything in ( ) are just notes to the arrow and you need not bother with that. The system does not mean that I will make a suite or that one has been made, it's simply for my own reference if and when I do decide to.
"Probe" (0) (the feature-length pilot)
https://ok.ru/video/5392557476558
Highlights:
2:58 in.^
12:22 in. Also a bumper cue immediately follows it (another bumper cue at 25:17, and 59:40).^
21:50 in.^
27:51 in.^
33:35 in.^
42:15 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
43:48 in. All the source music and the score cues which immediately follows it.
1:02:52 in.^
1:07:05 in.
1:20:23 in.^
1:26:24 in.
1:31:10 in.
1:33:34 in.^
Sometimes referred to as "Computer Logic".
59:50 in: airplane porn.
(Note to Me: 5:28 in -- composer credit, 1;12:18)
"I don't like to spy, but I must say its a pleasure keeping an eye on you."
Out-of-context quote...
Attractive Blonde Woman: "Intense reaction to superb strudel..."
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Wonderful music. Frontiere was such a talented man. I have the vast majority of his scores released on CD, including The Rat Patrol - finally found a decent copy at a decent price - and I’m always hoping for more.
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Yes, for next year. Especially the pilot, since a number of cues have minor FX and it'll be easy to handle.
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"The Murrow Disappearance" (1)
https://ok.ru/video/7001277336267
Highlights:
7:54 in. And the cue after the commercial break. Including airplane porn.^
21:59 in. Frontiere would go on in 1978 to re-work this music a few times for season one episodes of "Vega$". I don't know where he originated this scoring idea, but it also goes back to 1968 in episodes of "The Name of the Game".^
26:37 in.^
39:30 in. Short intro cue.^
41:09 in.^
43:30 in.^
According to information online, there was a PBS series called "Probe", so the name of the show was changed, even though it's a cosmetic change -- the technology and agency is still called Probe.
(Note to Me: 49:40)
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A post every Friday unless something forces me to post a day before or a day after.
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"One of Our Probes is Missing"
https://ok.ru/video/7001343789771
Highlights:
1:42 in.^
5:28 in.
10:53 in. Including airplane porn.^
14:21 in.^
17:59 in. Short intro cue. And the cue after the commercial break.^
25:44 in.^(open)
29:10 in. And the brief intro cue afterwards.^
29:49 in.^(31:10)
44:16 in. Short intro cue. And the cue after the commercial break.^
47:31 in. More of that action music he later re-worked into "Vega$".^
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"Short Circuit"
https://ok.ru/video/7001344051915
Highlights:
5:00 in.^
7:05 in.^
19:08/22:11 in.^
24:52 in.^
26:37 in.^
29:04 in.^
41:10 in.^
43:23 in. Pauses for a few seconds while the slow-motion shot of the device flying through the air is going on.^
48:29 in.
Some of the scoring in this episode reminds me a good deal of Ron Jones. Did he ever work for Frontiere?
(NtM: 10:10, 18:25, 41:06)
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"Moonrock"
https://ok.ru/video/7001343396555
Highlights:
4:26 in.^
7:36 in.^
12:51 in.^
20:14 in.
22:05 in.
26:47 in. I think this may be tracked from a prior episode.
28:43 in. And the Indian percussion source cue after the source break.^
35:17 in. Immediately followed by an Arabian-flavored cue (which just sounds out-of-place in the scene).^
37:23 in.^
39:39 in. And the Arabian-flavored source cue that immediately follows it.^
47:29 in.
47:40 in.^
30:33 in: brief airplane porn.
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"Live Men Tell Tales" (5)
https://ok.ru/video/7001344641739
Highlights:
1:32 in. Indian-flavored source cue.^
6:42 in.^
8:20 in. Dramatic payphone call music.^
9:59 in.^
15:11 in.^
19:20 in.^
20:41 in.^
23:25 in.^
24:18 in.^
27:25 in.^
35:07 in.^
36:44 in.^
39:06 in.^
46:00 in. Joining a cue already in progress for the action material.^
With the probe computer, the Penguin could have ruled the world.
Out-of-context quote...
Burgess (to Brunette Girl): "Under the right circumstances I would do it again, and again."
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"The Bullet"
https://ok.ru/video/7001344707275
Highlights:
1:31 in.^
4:44 in.^
18:51 in.^
35:29/37:38 in.^
40:44 in.^
42:53 in.^
44:42 in.^
46:55 in.^
This score takes a little bit getting going, but when it does, you have action material, tense chase material, etc.
(NtM: 28:40, 34:30, 39:00)
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"In Search of Midas"
https://ok.ru/video/7001344314059
Highlights:
4:07 in.
8:36 in.^
11:05 in. Montage cue which is SFX free for about the first half, then light SFX from there on in. Another short cue like it is heard after the commercial break below.^
17:46 in. Short outtro cue. And the cue after the commercial break.^
18:47 in. More of that action material I described in an above episode that was re-worked for "Vega$".^
30:02 in.^
33:13 in.
35:11 in. *
40:51 in.^
43:37 in.^
48:22 in.^
The drumkit work under the woodwinds in at 24:15 in, sounds like it is re-worked from "Longstreet" (Oliver Nelson). In "Longstreet" it was cello work over the drum kit. You can hear this cue from "Longstreet" in suite #1.
Some of these cues show you how he might have scored "Vega$" had it taken place four years earlier.
* = Lord, he went to The Prometheus School of Running Away from Things.
(NtM: 1:32, 30:52)
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"The Adonis File"
https://ok.ru/video/7001345166027
Highlights:
1:33 in.^
9:38 in. Sounds like it could have come out of "Charlie's Angels" until the tambourine kicks in.^
15:32 in. More of that action music later re-worked for "Vega$".^
22:03 in.^
23:31 in.^
30:06 in.^
42:30 in.
45:12 in. Including more of that "Vega$" material.^
49:35 in. Short closing cue.^
Plot Hole: How did the blonde sneak up on him? As shown repeatedly in the series, and even earlier in this scene, the Probe sensors detect other vital signs approaching and Burgess tells him. Was everyone going to the bathroom at Probe, at the same time? Come on.
(NtM: 32:13, 33:53)
"Flight to Nowhere"
https://ok.ru/video/7002550831819
Highlights:
1:33 in.^
3:14 in.
5:43 in.^
11:15 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
16:31 in.^
17:36 in.^
22:55 in.^
25:08/34:01 in.^
37:10 in.^
40:48 in.^
44:35 in.
Isn't it nice of the bad guys to stay unconscious after he punches each one separately minutes apart, long enough for him to make his move?
(NtM: 41:23, 49:40)
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"The Gold Machine"
https://ok.ru/video/7001301584587
Highlights:
1:32 in.
7:59 in. Could easily have come out of "Longstreet".
15:59 in. Joining a cue already in progress.^
19:07 in.^
23:06 in.^
30:01 in.^
33:57 in.
39:03 in.^
43:12 in.^
46:35 in.^
48:17 in.^
(NtM: 29:53)
"Let Us Prey"
https://ok.ru/video/7002551159499
Highlights:
1:33 in.^
9:40 in.^
15:18 in.^
24:17 in.^
26:58 in.^
31:49 in.^
38:37 in.^
44:05 in.^
49:34 in.^
(NtM: 24:03)
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"A Honeymoon to Kill"
https://ok.ru/video/7002551356107
Highlights:
1:31 in.
3:51 in.^
9:55 in.^
11:05 in.^
14:39 in.^
18:22 in.^
19:43 in.^
23:39 in.^
26:10 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
36:50 in. The opening twenty seconds sounds like something right out of the first season of "The FBI". A show that, during that time, he was conducting the music to. Perhaps Kaper and Markowitz had an affect on his writing, or perhaps, he had a larger hand than we know in the music outside of conducting...^
38:22 in.^
45:02 in. Joining a cue already in progress.
47:48 in.^
49:10 in. More like "The FBI".
Weirdness: The Probe agent drops one of his luggage at about 7:10, drops other things, picks up the rest but leaves one suit case behind. Very odd.
"The 24 Carat Hit"
https://ok.ru/video/7002551814859
Highlights:
2:10 in.^
21:15 in.
27:57 in. Short outtro cue and short intro cue.^
32:39 in.^
35:36 in.^
38:17 in.^
40:05 in.^
42:42/45:15/46:51 in.^
49:22 in.^
The dark Probe room with black and red, appears to have been done away with -- unless this set is just another Probe location. It's now lighted, grey and workman-like neutral.
28:30 in: The Penguin answers the Batphone. Like you didn't think that, too. Come on.
(NtM: 26:25)
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Continuing SEASON 1:
"Numbered for Death"
https://ok.ru/video/7002552273611
Highlights:
11:50 in.^
12:28 in. And the short intro cue after the commercial break.^
14:19 in. Sounds very much like Bernstein's work on "Serpico", for about the first minute.^
22:12 in.^
24:17 in.^
36:30 in.
29:29 in.^
30:56 in.^
34:41 in.^
36:52 in.^
47:52 in.^
(NtM: 38:57)
"Countdown to Panic"
https://ok.ru/video/7002552732363
Highlights:
1:33 in.^
3:55 in.
9:28 in.^
13:20 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
25:11 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
27:47 in.
31:!5 in.^
33:49 in. And the cue after the commercial break.^
37:02 in.^
41:25 in.
44:35 in.^(48:24)
49:06 in.
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