Let me just put out a heartfelt recommendation for the wonderful music created for the equally wonderful YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES. With no further ado, I'm forwarding you to my own pocket review of these 4 Varese volumes:

Also would like to see a release of Billy Goldenberg's excellent Columbo scores, I once had a boot of his Ransom for a Dead Man, the feature length first episode of Columbo,proof that it wasn't just Goldsmith,North and Barry who were composing scores of distinction and quality!

I no longer have the boot due to some theiving rat....but that's another story!

If I was them, I'd put Gil Melle's amazing theme for the subsequent KOLCHAK series on there too.

Melle had actually written the theme for a Gene Roddenberry project that didn't get off the ground. The KOLCHAK producer actually said to him something like "Well, what can you come up with in thirty minutes?" and Melle remembered the Roddenberry tape, ran down the hall, and hey presto! looked even more the genius than he actually is!

"The Adventures of Brisco County Jr."
"The Pretender"
"Nash Bridges"
"Walker, Texas Ranger" (there was supposed to be one, but it was cancelled)
"L.A. Heat"
"Cobra"

(1.) The ORIGINAL OUTER LIMITS by Dominic Frontiere (GNP)

(2.) QBVII and MASADA by Jerry Goldmsith

(3.) V & V-The Series (Joe Harnell & Dennis McCarthy)

(4.) "The Thornbirds" (Henry Mancini)

(5.) "Amazing Stories" (Various), have any of you gotton the VARESE CD?

(6.) "Batman Beyond" (Various)

(7.) "Dr.Who:The Movie" (John Debney and company)

(8.) "Beauty and the Beast" (Lee Holdridge and Don Davis) have any of you picked up the Don Davis "Hyperspace" album that has a 45 minutes suite of his music from the series?

If not, your missing a great piece of music.

I could go on, there has been ALOT of good scores written for episodic programs,MOW's and Mini-series.

Sometimes it's far better then many feature scores I hear by major composers.

IMHO of course.

Ford

Jeron

DURANGO by Mark McKenzie

HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (I think it was TV) by
Don Davis

THE BORGIAS by Georges Delerue, some BBC thing

DOROTHY AND BEN from Amazing Stories, again by Delerue

In the SAME time period, Goldsmith scored twenty-five feature films! And scored themes and episode for nine TV series as well!

After that, he's only done a handful of prestige projects for the small screen, including CONTRACT ON CHERRY STREET, which I believe was originally intended for theaters anyway. Goldsmith recalled that he did the movie principally because Sinatra personally requested him to. He must've liked Jerry's work on VON RYAN'S EXPRESS and THE DETECTIVE, eh?

We've mentioned Gil Melle off and on, but I don't think his FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY popped up. Billy Goldenberg did a nice terse score for SHORT WALK TO DAYLIGHT (a sort of a small-scale anticipation of the Stallone DAYLIGHT). Robert Cobert did a great job on the Dan Curtis version of DRACULA with Jack Palance -- indeed, he's said he thought his romantic approach to the material anticipated John Williams' approach in the 1979 DRACULA, and Wojciech Kilar's 1992 DRACULA.

THE FUGITIVE By Peter Rugolo
It's supose to be released on march.

THE UNTOUCHABLES By Nelson Riddle

THE GREEN HORNET By Billy May

THE TIME TUNNEL
The many many many Missing cues
on the Crescendo release

THE BIG VALLEY
THE RIFLEMAN
TWILIGHT ZONE the other scores
from steiner and the other composers thar we're missing
CHIPS

and from the British side:

THE PROFESSIONALS Laurie Johnson
THE AVENGERS A more extended suite
than the one in Varese
THE CHAMPIONS
DANGER MAN
Please,the soundtrack,not the album.
(The album is nice but is not the real thing)
JASON KING
DEPARTMENT S
THE PERSUADERS

As I said before,perhaps this is only a wish...

If you like Horner and/or Edelman, you'll like this score. And it is available at the PBS website.

Some TV music I believe to be excellent over the years

l. Thriller-episode scores by Goldsmith
2. Twilight Zone-much on CD now
3. Star Trek-a lot available now
4. All of the TV movies mentioned above and many others including that great score by Safan for Son of the Morning Star about Custer
5. TV scores by Rosenthal including Billy the Kid, 21 Hours at Munich, Mussolini and many others
6. Several TV films by Broughton
7. Moby Dick-Patrick Stewart version by Gordon
8. Animal Farm-just recently on TV-excellent

Bernstein's GENOCIDE score is mighty powerful.