I have not seen "Roots", "Band of Brothers" or "From Earth to the Moon" but they are on my list!

Note - Although I am a science fiction fan, I just could not list V - The final battle. It was not that great, LOL.

I miss the Late Friday Night movies that showed on TV from 11pm to 2am. After the movies ended, the TV stations would sign off? Oh, those were the days....

Don

With the exception of HBO's recent multi-part "From Earth to the Moon" and "Band of Brothers," the mini-series has devolved, devalued and deflated into overlong movies-for-television that've been split into two parts to pad the ratings.

ROOTS

NORTH AND SOUTH

SHOGUN

WINDS OF WAR

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Ahhhh....Thank you, Avie! What in the world would I do without you?
CAT

Don

Anyway, this topic has suddenly made me realize that I never sat through any of those things in their entirety, but I did sit through enough to come to the conclusion that the music was great in many of them, even if the movies themselves were..., well, too long.

Let's see now, of the ones you've all mentioned, I particularly like the score for QB VII. A great Goldsmith work, and surely crying out for a more lengthy CD presentation.

JESUS OF NAZARETH - I'm not a Jarre fan, but I remember the main theme from this as being pretty thrilling.

THE MONEYCHANGERS - Great Henry Mancini theme. I like when it turns into that kind of almost Irish jig on trumpet in the middle. Is that the one?

NORTH AND SOUTH - I've got that one on CD. Always thought it was amongst the best that Bill Conti did.

ROOTS - Oh yes, classic Gerald Fried theme, interesting Quincy Jones Africanations.

That reminds me, in Britain at least those mini-series started in about...ooh, 1977, under the umbrella title BEST SELLERS. I seem to recall that CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS was the first broadcast, and I think it may have had Bernstein music, but I'm not sure. I also seem to recall that the umbrella BEST SELLERS had itself a theme, also buy Elmer, though now I'm getting hazy.

And it served to me as an introduction to the name of Morton Stevens.

As for the BEST SELLERS collection, Michel Colombier scored THE RHINEMANN EXCHANGE - I checked the spelling - which I vaguely remember was some kind of spy story, set in an exotic location during WWII.

You've apparently cross-bred Dashiell Hammet's THE D-A-I-N CURSE with Disney's THAT D-A-R-N CAT!

The result of such unnatural tampering is simply too horrible to contemplate; isn't it enough that this kind of thing has already inflicted Africanized "killer" bees on the world and kudzu on Georgia, without the strange and thoroughly incompatible bedfellows of Hammett and Disney producing ungodly bastard offspring?