Mystery Score Clips

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It started in 1984. For seven years fans tuned into "Hunter", a police/detective show with the main characters Rick Hunter and Dee Dee McCall. The first three years were fun and there was some goo plotting, but after a while it started to go downhill, and season six was a pale comparrison of what it once was. Season seven, which is not up so I did not see it, is supposed to have gone downhill in writing and the sets; McCall left at the end of season six.

Mike Post and the late Pete Carpenter scored the first six seasons. During season six additional (credited) scoring was provided by: Frank Denson, Stephen James Taylor, and Jerry Grant.

For season seven, Walter Murphy (another in a long line of popular, known composers who proteged under Post) took over. Uncredited additional scoring from composers like Velton Ray Bunch and Ron Jones (in fact, to or three of the cues in the suites above, I'm almost positive are by Jones).

Suite #1 is seasons one to two.

Suite #2 is seasons three to five.

And the final is season six, including the pieces for when McCall decides to leave and when she actually leaves (the final cue).


There has been no release, which pretty much goes without saying, since there has never been a release of original scoring from all the famous, popular, and well known TV series Post has done.

The subsequent TV movies were bad. For some reason, neither Post nor Murphy returned.
The 2003 revival TV series was TERRIBLE.


The next MSC should interest some people.

Couple more clues before the reveal:

Over 40 years ago. Short documentary film.

Right composer, wrong documentary. "The Incredible World of James Bond" has no original score.


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"Muloorina" (1964)


In a dry unforgiving part of Australia, a man and his wife have set up home and live stock to make their living. Just when it seemed the drought and lack of finances were getting to be too much, things change:
BP is looking for a suitable area to attemp the world land speed record.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cruT46lzPr8

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This is the only [known] non-TV series scoring credit for John Elizalde. You may have seen his name before the end credits of TV series as a music editor and music supervisor. He also scored some TV series, like "The Streets of San Fransico".
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253759/

It's the obscure 1983 TV movie "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever".

If you got some kids and you're even al ittle religious, you might enjoy it a tad or find it a good way to pass time. It's nothing particularly remakrable of striking, though it does have some nice albeit breif scenes.
You'd have to go to DailyMotion.com to find it. The version on Youtube is in poor shape, and the uploader decided he was a music editor and tracked existing music throughout it, often making it annoying, covering up score, and terribly misplaced.

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This is from the 1995 documentary series "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies".

The famous composer is none other than Elmer Bernstein.


The documentary was essentially nothing more than an organized series of scenes and archived interview clips from directors, showing how film evolved and affected Martin, who would narrate and occassionally talk to us alone in a chair in front of a black screen.

I skimmed through some parts, mainly focusing on finding his score. My favorite part is director Frank Capra saying what I want to hear from other directors:

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In honor of Wojciech Kilar, I figured something unreleased by him might be nice. I decided to go with one of the last three films he scored, since there were no reelased of some of his later scores.

It comes from a Polish film called "Revisited" (2009).

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This is from a 1977 television movie called "Panic in Echo Park", about a doctor who finds out there's some kind of outbreak in the area, and he has to deal with people wantitn to hide it, people who don't wan tto deal with it, hospital administration haulting him, and of course a bunch of sick people.

The score is by Johnnie Spence, who died in this fourties. He worked on at least three scores with John Barry, including doing the music to the song "From Russia With Love" (as well as performing on it). You might have seen his name, scoring at least two of the 1970's Spider-Man episodes.

This interesting tidbit was brought up at FSM in 2010:

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The score is from a 1996 movie called "Eden", about a husband a wife and two kids living their life as the wife struggles Multiple Sclerosis and seems to get worse and worse. She behaves oddly sometimes, falls asleep in the car, etc., and she keeps having dreams where she's leaving her body, going further and further.

I wasn't particularly taken with the film. Maybe some of you will enjoy it.


The score is by Brad Fiedel. The conductor was Shirley Walker.

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The year is 1968, the film is "Journey to Shiloh". About seven friends who go to fight in the Civil War, but not all of them make it back. Didn't seem (I skimmed some of it) that good a movie.

The famous actor I said that was in it, was Harrison Ford..


The one-time composer was David Gates.

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This from a 1961 black & white film called "Hand in Hand" about a little boy and little girl who are good friends, but one family is moving away. Only two selections from the film were up, so I can't comment on the film really. It looks good enough.

The score is by Stanley Black.



I have at least a handful of clips planned, with another coming up this hour.

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This is from the 1977 mini series, "Aspen".

I skimmed through most of it, as it didn't really appeal to me. It appears to be a fairly mediocre murder & trial drama, set in Aspen. So, in other words, they used a snow resort to spruce up your run-of-the-mill court drama, for ratings.


The score for the three-part mini series, was co-composed by Tom Scott & Michael Melvoin.
Melvoin passed away like in the last year period, to little fanfare. In fact, I was apparently the only one here who reported it. He has very few scoring credits.
IMDb took my submission from a few weeks ago, and now both composers are credited for the episodes.




Murder and intrigue in a few minutes with the next clip!

This thread is such an odd little echo chamber.

What I've never been able to understand is why Justin simply doesn't rename and repackage the thread into a "Justin's obscure Film and TV Score of the Week", where he talks about his choice with a sound clip. I'm sure that would result in more clicks and even some discussion, unlike this pointless 'quiz' that nobody but himself can relate to.

It's an enigma.

You bunch of combo breakers

It's a game term. Combo, in fighting games, is a series of punches and kicks that take away a lot of "energy" (let's say life) and a combo breaker happens when you block it.