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To all fans of Oliver Nelson,
Universal UK is about to release the complete season 1 of "The Six Million dollar Man" on a DVD box set which mean we are about to study the work of Oliver Nelson's masterpiece.
See for further references:
<www.play.com>
<www.choicesdirect.com>
<www.whsmith.co.uk>
<www.tesco.com>
Now, the question that comes to mind: when will Universal USA release "The Six Million Dollar Man" on DVD?
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Yes, its available next month, as is the first season of THE BIONIC WOMAN. I have got a couple of the single DVDs that Universal Playback have issued over here of TSMDM (usual Universal fare: slightly soft but good quality picture, bare bones design and presentation and no extras).
To be honest I didn't find the show as exciting as I did many years ago but the music sounds as great as ever!
Anyone else struggling to find the time to fit in all these DVDs now being released? What with various other ITC series being released here in England, and other series upcoming like TJ HOOKER, McCLOUD (Rregion 1), the BBC series HUSTLE series 2 and SPOOKS series 3 (aka MI-5 in the USA), there's not enough hours in the day - or enough disposable cash - to watch 'em all!!!
Still it's a nice problem to have I suppose 
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Nelson's score for Columbo: The Greenhouse Jungle will always be one of my all time favorite TV scores. It's so sad that practically nothing of his film/TV scoring saw a release. There was a LP by him with the title "Six Million Dollar Man" but was this a compilation sampler or an actual soundtrack consisting of re-recordings?
Chriss,
Do not be sad, email me at <stefanmiklos@hotmail.com> to visit "The Greenhouse Jungle".
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It's a second season episode, but I love Nelson's score for "The Seven Million Dollar Man", where Nelson dished out a heapin' helpin' of white-hot funk while Steve Austin and Barney Miller(!) kick mutton-chopped thug behind like nobody's bidness!
Solid!
I remember that exterior scene too. Actor Monte Markham's best part of the 1970's as the raving mad Barney Miller saying to Steve how he feels about his powers (with a delusion of grandeur in the tone of his voice):
"It's wild, Steve... it's willld!"
I like the sound of the intense and noisy vintage electric guitar that punctuate that moment.
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Just a foretaste of season 1.
1. "Population: Zero": directed by Jeannot Szwarc (from "Rod Serling's Night Gallery"). Good first episode about a bitter scientist, fired from the government, who threatens Uncle Sam by freezing American towns with a soundwave weapon. Nelson's score is filled with electronic sounds and a superb 2 minutes action cue that conclude the story.
2. "Survival of the Fittest": for "Airport" and catastrophy films fans only!
3. "Operation Firefly"
4. "Day of the Robot": starring John Saxon as a stiff faceless robot, featuring weird electronic sounds.
5. "Little Orphan Airplane"
6. "Doomsday, and Counting": A Cold War plot inside a Soviet power plant, starring Gary "Sixth Sense" Collins
7. "Eyewitness to Murder": starring Gary Lockwood as the recursive sniper John Hopper
8. "The Rescue of Athena One": first trip into space episode, starring Farrah Fawcett (Lee Majors' wife!)
9. "Dr. Wells is Missing": starring John Van Dreelen
10. "The Last of the Fourth of Julys"
11. "Burning Bright": starring William Shatner as a mad astronaut (in a way, it forestalls the insane character from "The Seven Million Dollar Man"), featuring weird electronic sounds.
12. "The Coward"
13. "Run, Steve, Run": the sequel of "Day of the Robot"
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After I read this thread I went looking for info regarding this upcoming release but, to no avail. See, I have a region-free dvd player and, if it had some cool bells & whistles, I would order it. I came back here to see where I could find info on this release. I went to www.play.com, and find out that it's not worth getting because it doesn't include the pilot and the 2 other 90 minute episodes that aired before it became a weekly series. Hopefully, the eventual US release will include these episodes, plus some bonus features. I can dream, can't I?
I think "if" Universal USA release TSMDM, they will include the three TV movies but I don't think they will add some extras (see the cases of "Columbo" and "Kolchak"). I guess you have to wait for the release of the feature film version with Jim Carrey, "if" the project is greenlighted.
I know online fans of TSMDM that will buy the set so I will ask them to give the music credits first.
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