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meegle Oscar® Winner	Well I just listened to The Man From Atlantis opening theme and.......YUCK!!! Groovy show, but super LAME music (at least the opening). I'm sure there are others I don't like. Which are yours?
posted 03-01-2001 12:53 PM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	Wonder Woman
posted 03-01-2001 02:25 PM PT (US)

SEBULBA Oscar® Winner	Oh come on JJH. What's wrong with Wonder Woman. Definately 70's, but cool.
posted 03-01-2001 03:39 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	John Scott's Return Of The Saint...uuggghhh! ...Give me Edwin Astley's anyday! p.s. I usually love Scott's music but that theme sucks!! p.p.s. ...yeah JJ, whas wrong wid d'Wonder Woman theme? NP : soundphiles - Kinobe
posted 03-01-2001 05:46 PM PT (US)

Eric Paddon Oscar® Winner	Come on, the original ABC Wonder Woman theme rules! The later versions I admit are weak by comparison. For me, the themes I dislike most are the ones that replace earlier themes I loved. Happens a lot for me on game shows, where I quit watching Wheel Of Fortune in 1983 when they original Alan Thicke theme from the Chuck Woolery days was replaced by the Merv Griffin one they still use and which I HATE! Also hated the new version of the Get Smart theme (last season, CBS) and later versions of what we heard on Spiderman, That Girl, Trapper John MD, and The Love Boat.
posted 03-01-2001 05:55 PM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	the only redeeming quality of the Wonder Woman series was Lynda Carter. hubba hubba! NP -- the Grifters, Elmer
posted 03-01-2001 07:34 PM PT (US)

Stephen Lister Oscar® Winner	Hi Timmer! I share your loathing for THE RETURN OF THE SAINT, but I'm happy to report that blame for this tune can't be laid at John Scott's door ... it was composed (decomposed?) by Brian Dee and Irving Martin. (Who? Indeed!) John Scott composed the background scores, and I seem to remember they were very good, rather cinematic-sounding, in a funky 70s kinda way.
posted 03-01-2001 08:01 PM PT (US)

charben Oscar® Winner	Babylon 5 Crusade, both the pilot & the series. After such wonderful music on the original B5 show, this was painful to listen to. I hope if another B5 project launches, it will include Chris Franke again. Chris Harben Atlantic Beach, FL
posted 03-01-2001 08:13 PM PT (US)

meegle Oscar® Winner	Yeah, I thought I was the only one that thought Crusade was awful. I was surprised at it truthfully.
posted 03-02-2001 08:29 AM PT (US)

HAL 2000 Oscar® Winner	Almost anything by Mike Post.
posted 03-02-2001 08:33 AM PT (US)

meegle Oscar® Winner	!!!!LOL!!!!
posted 03-02-2001 08:34 AM PT (US)

SBD Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by HAL 2000: Almost anything by Mike Post. You bite your tongue...right off! Mike Post writes great themes (unless you were talking about the scores; to them, I'm completely indifferent) and you shouldn't bad-mouth him. Anyone that has heard the themes from "Quantum Leap", "NewsRadio" and "The A-Team" (to name a few) would (and should) agree with me.
posted 03-02-2001 09:56 AM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Indeed, I think Post is one of the top themesters in the industry. If only I could refer you to BAY CITY BLUES, but that one doesn't seem to be collected anywhere. THE ROCKFORD FILES, HILL STREET BLUES, TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY -- I think he's amazing. His incidental music tends to be on the ordinary side, but there seems to be little call for truly evocative underscore in TV today. Took me a while to think of a real "worst," and then it came to me: Sylvester Levay's WEREWOLF. Each episode consisting basically of him leaning on a keyboard for an hour. Repulsive, shapeless droning. The show was awesomely bad to begin with, but imagine Gerald Fried or Fred Steiner or Gil Melle scoring it! Or Robert Cobert, even! Would've pepped it up a bit ...
posted 03-02-2001 10:13 AM PT (US)

HAL 2000 Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by SBD: [ You bite your tongue...right off! Mike Post writes great themes (unless you were talking about the scores; to them, I'm completely indifferent) and you shouldn't bad-mouth him. Anyone that has heard the themes from "Quantum Leap", "NewsRadio" and "The A-Team" (to name a few) would (and should) agree with me.[/B] Uh... no.
posted 03-02-2001 11:50 AM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Ban him, Pete! BAN him!
posted 03-02-2001 12:08 PM PT (US)

Probable Oscar® Winner	I have to say, I'm not terribly fond of Post's work, either
posted 03-02-2001 12:20 PM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	quote: _____________________________________________ originally posted by JJH the only redeeming quality of the Wonder Woman series was Lynda Carter. hubba hubba! _____________________________________________ Be careful JJH....Too much "Hubba Hubba" can make you go blind and insane if you're not careful! Smiley face before hubba hubba = Smiley face after hubba hubba = I rest my case!! [Message edited by Gae on 03-02-2001]
posted 03-02-2001 06:20 PM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	Oh, I've stayed up several nights in the past praying for the premature death of Mike Post, don't get me wrong, but I rather enjoyed his older stuff. Actually, Newsradio is pretty darned catchy, too. But, if he wrote that theme for The Practice............he deserves to die like the pig bitch he is rumored to already be! Shaun
posted 03-02-2001 06:42 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	If it's the current theme, I think it's not Mike Post. Strange to see Marco Beltrami scoring episodes, although that's as prestige a gig as a struggler is likely to get in TV.
posted 03-02-2001 06:45 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Thanks for that info Stephen, good to see the blame doesn't rest heavily on Mr.Scott's shoulders. As for the underscore I only vaguely recall that I remember some of it being pretty good?! p.s. I havent forgotten your CDR
posted 03-03-2001 04:54 AM PT (US)

Richard Oscar® Winner	I'd say the music to Survivor. Not because it's bad music. I quite like it. It's sooooooooooo much like the MV group. BUT, it tries to make the show way too serious for the sort of entertainment it is. I start laughing when I see the part at the end when someone gets voted off the island and they play the music with it. Its far too melodramatic to be taken as seriously as I think they would like me to take it, and that, my fellow film score enthusiasts, is why I feel it is a bad TV score. By no means the worst, but not good in some regards. I would also like to give Seseme Street a mention. Not that I have anything against Children's Television, but I just hate the theme song. Also, after listening to the trailer for Elmo in Grouchland for months last year, and then to have the same loop tape it was on come back at work to Haunt me, I would like to voice my contempt for Elmo. NP: The Thomas Crown Affair (Conti)*/***
posted 03-03-2001 07:20 PM PT (US)

Yimm Oscar® Nominee	FARSCAPE! I know I'm dragging in the sci-fi in to this crop but you have to hear it to believe it - it is just torture for me to sit and listen. And what's worst is that I love the show! But I hate the music especially the opening piece. No, more specially just the opening piece. It's god awful - for a sci-fi too!
posted 03-04-2001 04:13 PM PT (US)

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