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 Posted:   Jan 10, 2025 - 9:29 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

SEASON 1:

TV series that began in 1972 and ran for seven seasons, with some TV movies.
IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068067/reference/

The generic jazzy theme music is by Nelson Riddle. Better arrangements of this theme occur in episodes, which sometimes really strengthen it.

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.



"The Wedsworth-Townsend Act" (0) (the feature-length pilot) (Jan. 15, 1972)
By: Nelson Riddle
https://ok.ru/video/3158783036090
https://ok.ru/video/7522474396219 (edited down version)
Alternative link: https://archive.org/details/emergency-s-01-

Highlights:
  • 0:22 in. Special Universal Studios logo music.^
  • 3:55 in. At one point it sounded like the music stopped, but then it faded back in, so I think part of the cue was dropped and it's just one continuous cue.^
  • 8:37 in.
  • 11:33 in.^(open/14:18)
  • 25:51 in.^
  • 32:23 in.^
  • 34:51 in.
  • 42:18 in.
  • 44:08 in.^
  • 47:21 in.^
  • 1:01:54 in.^
  • 1:05:57 in.^
  • 1:10:11 in. With some exciting music for a plane flying.^
  • 1:11:40 in. Brass fanfare opening.^
  • 1:15:10 in.^
  • 1:17:08 in.^
  • 1:23:00 in.^
  • 1:34:32 in. Leads quickly into the [short] end credits.^

    Jack Webb directs. I think he had a hand in some parts of the writing, too, specifically the speech the doctor gives before the panel around the last quarter of the episode, sounds some like one of Joe Friday's good speeches from "Dragnet".

    (Note to Me: 1:35:20 -- composer credit)




    Just a taste for now -- the thread will continue some time in February.


    NOTE: This was a requested series by a fan in the TV Scoring thread I created.

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     Posted:   Jan 10, 2025 - 10:06 AM   
     By:   Solium   (Member)

    Quite the cinematic opening for the series. I watched this all the time growing up.

     
     Posted:   Jan 10, 2025 - 10:51 AM   
     By:   BornOfAJackal   (Member)

    The show was pap.

    The theme is great.

     
     
     Posted:   Jan 10, 2025 - 11:12 AM   
     By:   babbelballetje   (Member)

    The theme is great! I wish there had been a soundtrack lp for this

     
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