SMALL SCREEN, BIG SCORES: PART THREE

By Scott Bettencourt

ALL MY DARLING DAUGHTERS - Billy Goldenberg
Old-fashioned comedy-drama with Robert Young, Eve Arden, Raymond Massey, and some younger actors too

ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST - Lee Holdridge
PBS remake of Lilian Hellman's prequel to The Little Foxes, with Barry Sullivan and Robert Foxworth

ARTURO UI - Carl Davis
BBC version of the Brecht play, with Nicol Williamson

THE ASTRONAUT - Gil Melle
A double (Monte Markham) is substituted for an astronaut who died on Mars; produced and co-written by Harve Bennett

THE BRAVOS - Leonard Rosenman
Western with George Peppard as a cavalry officer searching for his kidnapped son; directed by Ted Post

THE CEREMONY OF INNOCENCE - Charles Gross

CLIMB AN ANGRY MOUNTAIN - George Duning
Cops chase a fugitive Indian up Mount Shasta

CRAWLSPACE - Jerry Goldsmith
Arthur Kennedy and Teresa Wright discover a disturbed young man living in their crawlspace

THE CROOKED HEARTS - Billy Goldenberg
Con artist Douglas Fairbanks Jr. preys on mature women, including Rosalind Russell and Maureen O'Sullivan

DE SANG FROID - Vladimir Cosma

DETOUR TO NOWHERE - Billy Goldenberg
Pilot movie for the series Banacek, with George Peppard as an insurance investigator

EMERGENCY! - Nelson Riddle
Pilot movie for the series

THE FAMILY RICO - Dave Grusin
Mafia story with Ben Gazzara and Sal Mineo, directed by Paul Wendkos from a Georges Simenon novel

FIREBALL FORWARD - Lionel Newman
World War II action with Ben Gazzara and Ricardo Montalban, written by Patton's Edmund H. North

FOOTSTEPS - Ernest Gold
Richard Crenna as a college football coach; directed by Paul Wendkos, co-written by Alvin Sargent

A FREE WOMAN - Stanley Myers

GETTING AWAY FROM IT ALL - Vic Mizzy
Larry Hagman and Barbara Feldon in a comedy in the Green Acres/Funny Farm vein

THE GLASS HOUSE - Billy Goldenberg
One of the most controversial TV movies of the era, a prison story based on a Truman Capote featuring homosexual rape years before Oz made it a weekly TV occurrence; directed by Tom Gries, featuring Alan Alda, Vic Morrow, Billy Dee Williams and Kristoffer Tabori

A GREAT AMERICAN TRAGEDY - George Duning
Directed by J. Lee Thompson; drama about George Kennedy losing his job -- don't worry, he got to keep his job in the Airport movies

HARDCASE - Patrick Williams
Western with Clint Walker and Stefanie Powers

HIPOTEZA - Wojciech Kilar

THE JUDGE AND JAKE WYLER - Gil Melle
Levinson & Link mystery movie teaming Bette Davis (as a retired judge who runs a private eye agency) and Doug McClure

KILLER BY NIGHT - Quincy Jones
Dr. Robert Wagner battles a diphtheria epidemic, Greg Morris chases a cop killer

LA TETE A L'ENVERS - Michel Colombier

LES ROIS MAUDITS - Georges Delerue

LIEUTENANT SCHUSTER'S WIFE - Gil Melle
Widow Lee Grant tries to clear her murdered policeman husband's name; produced and co-written by Steven Bochco

MAGIC CARPET - Lyn Murray
Susan Saint James finds romance in Rome

THE PEOPLE - Carmine Coppola
Sci-fi drama about a rural community whose residents are actually friendly, reclusive aliens. With Kim Darby and William Shatner (for Star Trek fans, it's a "Miri" reunion), directed by John Korty, produced by Francis Coppola, based on the novels by Zenna Henderson.

PROBE - Dominic Frontiere
Pilot movie for the TV series Search about high-tech globetrotting government agents

PURSUIT - Jerry Goldsmith
Government agent Ben Gazzara tries to stop wealthy fanatic E.G. Marshall from gassing the Republican convention. Michael Crichton's directorial debut, based on his novel (written as John Lange) Binary; fun Goldsmith score (his first for Crichton) in the Escape From the Planet of the Apes vein

THE ROOKIES - Elmer Bernstein
Pilot movie for the TV series

SANDCASTLES - Paul Glass
Ghostly romance with Bonnie Bedelia and Jan-Michael Vincent, directed by Ted Post

THE SCREAMING WOMAN - John Williams
Former mental patient Olivia de Havilland hears the screams of a woman buried alive, but no one believes her. From a Ray Bradbury story, directed by Jack Smight, with a rare Williams TV movie score

SHORT WALK TO DAYLIGHT - Patrick Williams
Disaster movie on a TV scale (but with Albert Whitlock effects) as subway crash survivors make their way to safety

THE SNOOP SISTERS - Jerry Fielding
Pilot movie for the TV series, with Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as mystery writing sisters who solve real mysteries -- basically, Murder They Wrote

THAT CERTAIN SUMMER - Gil Melle
Another breakthrough TV drama from Levinson & Link -- Hal Holbrook leaves his wife (Hope Lange) and child (Scott Jacoby) for Martin Sheen

A VERY MISSING PERSON - Vic Mizzy
Eve Arden as the crime solving ex-schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers, from the mystery novels

THE VICTIM - Gil Melle
Elizabeth Montgomery menaced in her mansion during a blackout

A WAR OF CHILDREN - Jerry Fielding
12:10 on the Bay Cities CD Jerry Fielding Film Music 2; acclaimed drama about the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland, starring Jenny Agutter

THE WEEKEND NUN - Charles Fox
Joanna Pettet as a nun who's also a probation officer; directed by Jeannot Szwarc

THE WOMAN HUNTER - George Duning
Romantic mystery with Barbara Eden and Robert Vaughn set in Mexico, co-written by Brian Clemens

WOMEN IN CHAINS - Charles Fox, Kenyon Hopkins
Lois Nettleton goes undercover as an inmate to investigate prison brutality, but can she get out?

1971/1972 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION

For a series or a single program of a series:

Charles Fox - Love American Style
Billy Goldenberg - Columbo (Lady in Waiting)
Pete Rugolo - The Bold Ones (In Defense of Ellen McKay)

For a special program:

Carl Davis - The Snow Goose
Michel Legrand - Brian's Song
John T. Williams - Jane Eyre

THE ADVENTURES OF DON QUIXOTE - Michel Legrand
Rex Harrison as Quixote, Frank Finlay as Sanco Panza, and A Room With a View's Rosemary Leach as Dulcinea

AND NO ONE COULD SAVE HER - Ron Grainer
Lee Remick looks for her missing husband in Ireland

BLOOD SPORT - Randy Edelman
High school football drama, written and directed by Jerrold Freedman

THE BLUE KNIGHT - Nelson Riddle
William Holden as L.A. beat cop Bumper Morgan, in this adaptation of Joseph Wambaugh's novel

A BRAND NEW LIFE - Billy Goldenberg
1972/1973 Emmy nominee Musical Composition For a Special Program. Middle-aged Cloris Leachman gets pregnant; directorial debut of ace editor (The Graduate, Chinatown) Sam O'Steen

BROCK'S LAST CASE - Charles Gross
Retired N.Y.C. cop Richard Widmark investigates a murder in a Western small town

CALL TO DANGER - Laurence Rosenthal
Feds and a computer genius team up to rescue a Mafia witness; directed by Tom Gries

CAROLA - Billy Goldenberg
PBS drama with Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer, adapted by James Bridges from a Jean Renoir play, directed by Norman Lloyd

THE CAT CREATURE - Leonard Rosenman
Old-fashioned horror story, written by Robert Bloch and directed by Curtis Harrington

CATHOLICS - Carl Davis
Story of Catholic priests set in the near future, written by the acclaimed novelist Brian Moore, starring Trevor Howard, Martin Sheen, Michael Gambon and Five Million Years to Earth's Andrew Kier; released on video as The Conflict

A COLD NIGHT'S DEATH - Gil Melle
Robert Culp and Eli Wallach are scientists investigating a colleague's death at a snowbound lab where primate guinea pigs may hold the secret; all-electronic score by Melle, directed by Jerrold Friedman

THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER - Laurence Rosenthal
Title pretty much explains it all; featuring Shelley Winters, Robert Foxworth, Jonathan Frid, Joseph Cotton, Diane Ladd and Abe Vigoda; directed by Jeannot Szwarc, written by Colin Higgins

DIVORCE HIS, DIVORCE HERS - Stanley Myers
Two part TV-movie about the breakup of a married couple, the first part from the POV of the husband (Richard Burton), the second part from the wife's (Elizabeth Taylor)

DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK - Billy Goldenberg
Kim Darby discovers little creatures living in the walls of her house; another ABC Movie of the Week cult classic

DOUBLE INDEMNITY - Billy Goldenberg
Richard Crenna, Samantha Eggar and Lee J. Cobb in the MacMurray/Stanwyck/Robinson roles; directed by Jack Smight

A DREAM FOR CHRISTMAS - David Rose

DYING ROOM ONLY - Charles Fox
Richard Matheson script with Cloris Leachman as a woman whose husband disappears at a desert diner; if you combine this and Matheson's Duel, you get Jonathan Mostow's Breakdown

AN ECHO OF THERESA - Laurie Johnson

THE EYES HAVE IT - Laurie Johnson

FEMALE ARTILLERY - Frank DeVol
Comedy Western with Dennis Weaver and Ida Lupino

THE 500 POUND JERK - Neal Hefti
Comedy with Alex Karras as a weightlifter

FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY - Gil Melle
One of the finest adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel, and featuring Melle's best score. Screenplay by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, directed by Jack Smight; with Leonard Whiting as Frankenstein, Michael Sarrazin as the monster, James Mason as Dr. Polidori, Jane Seymour as The Bride, John Gielgud as a constable, and Ralph Richardson as the blind man

GENESIS II - Harry Sukman
Unsold Gene Roddenberry pilot with Alex Cord waking up in the future

THE GLASS MENAGERIE - John Barry
2:50 on the Polydor CD The Best of John Barry. The Tennessee Williams play, directed by Anthony Harvey (The Lion in Winter), and starring Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston, Joanna Miles, and Michael Moriarty as the Gentleman Caller

THE GONDOLA - Lyn Murray

THE GREAT AMERICAN BEAUTY CONTEST - Kenneth Wannberg
Drama about a beauty pageant, with Eleanor Parker, Louis Jordan and Farrah Fawcett

HARRY O: SUCH DUST AS DREAMS ARE MADE OF - Billy Goldenberg
First pilot movie for the Harry O series, with David Janssen as a cop-turned-private eye

HAWKINS ON MURDER - Jerry Goldsmith
Score CD on Film Score Monthly; pilot movie for the series Hawkins, with James Stewart as a lawyer; guest starring Bonnie Bedelia, Kate Reid and Robert Webber

HITCHED - Patrick Williams
Comedy Western about a newlywed couple (Sally Field, Tim Matheson) in the old West; directed by Boris Sagal

HONOR THY FATHER - George Duning
Docudrama on the Bonanno crime family, adapted by Lewis John Carlino from the Gay Talese book, directed by Paul Wendkos

HUNTER - Lalo Schifrin
Spies and brainwashing, with John Vernon and Fritz Weaver

INCIDENT AT VICHY - Lyn Murray
Arthur Miller play, directed by Stacy Keach

INCIDENT ON A DARK STREET - Elmer Bernstein
Organized crime drama, with James Olson and William Shatner

ISN'T IT SHOCKING? - David Shire
Dark comedy with Alan Alda as a small-town sheriff investigating the mysterious deaths of elderly residents; written by Lane Slate (They Only Kill Their Masters); another teamup of Yale classmates David Shire and director John Badham

KEY WEST - Frank DeVol
Stephen Boyd as an ex-CIA agent

LA-HAUT, LES QUATRE SAISONS - Georges Delerue

LE LEVER DE RIDEAU - Michel Colombier

LE TEMPS DE VIVRE, LE TEMPS D'AIMER - Michel Legrand

L'EDUCATION SENTIMENTALE - Georges Delerue
Mini-series from the Flaubert classic, with Jean-Pierre Leaud

LINDA - John Cacavas
Stella Stevens in a tale of murderous infidelity, from a John D. MacDonald novel and directed by Jack Smight

THE MAGICIAN - Patrick Williams
Pilot movie for the series, with Bill Bixby as a mystery-solving magician (Fox Mulder was watching an episode of The Magician as a child when his sister was abducted by aliens in The X-Files' backstory)

THE MAN WHO COULD TALK TO KIDS - Fred Karlin
Counselor Peter Boyle tries to help an emotionally disturbed boy

THE MARCUS-NELSON MURDERS - Billy Goldenberg
1972/1973 Emmy nominee for Music, Lyrics and Special Material; true-crime mystery introduced the character of Kojak, played by Telly Savalas; teleplay by Abby Mann, directed by Joseph Sargent

MR. INSIDE/MR. OUTSIDE - Charles Gross
Tony LoBianco and Hal Linden as New York cops

MOLIERE POUR RIRE ET POUR PLEURER

MURDOCK'S GANG - Frank DeVol
Crime drama with Alex Dreier as an ex-lawyer-turned-investigator with a staff of ex-cons

ORDEAL - Patrick Williams
Arthur Hill tries to survive in the desert after being marooned by his wife and her lover

PARTNERS IN CRIME - Gil Melle
A reworking of 1972's The Judge and Jake Wyler, this time with Lee Grant as the ex-judge who forms a private detective agency with an ex-con

POLICE STORY - Jerry Goldsmith
Score CD from Prometheus CD Club; pilot movie for the police anthology series, co-written by Joseph Wambaugh

THE PRESIDENT'S PLANE IS MISSING - Gil Melle
From the Robert Serling novel, not to be confused with Fletcher Knebel's similar Vanished; directed by Daryl Duke (The Silent Partner), starring Buddy Ebsen, Peter Graves, Raymond Massey, Rip Torn

PUEBLO - Laurence Rosenthal
Docudrama with Hal Holbrook as the captain of the U.S. spy ship captured by the North Koreans

THE RED PONY - Jerry Goldsmith
1972/1973 Emmy winner Musical Composition For a Special Program; remake of the John Steinbeck story, with Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara and Ben Johnson

SATAN'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS - Laurence Rosenthal
Of all the ABC Movies of the Week of the era, this one has the best title. With Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Roy Thinnes, Cheryl Ladd; remade in 2000

SAVAGE - Gil Melle
Levinson & Link pilot movie for a never made series about a TV reporter, starring Martin Landau and Barbara Bain; directed by Steven Spielberg!

SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS - Bruce Smeaton
1:58 of score on the ABC Records CD Bruce Smeaton: Film and Television Themes; Australian family drama, remake of a 1939 film (based on a novel)

SHE CRIED MURDER - John Cacavas
Lynda Day George is the murder witness, Telly Savalas is the cop (but not Kojak)

SHIRTS/SKINS - Jerry Fielding
Dark comedy about a group of men whose regular basketball game leads to a series of escalating pranks; written by Bruce Paltrow

THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN - Gil Melle
Pilot movie for the Lee Majors series, but with Martin Balsam as Dr. Rudy Wells and Darren McGavin as a less sympathetic earlier incarnation of Oscar Goldman (here called "Oliver Spencer")

THE SMALL MIRACLE - Ernest Gold
Family drama directed by Jeannot Szwarc

SNATCHED - Randy Edelman
Three rich men's wives are kidnapped

SPELL OF EVIL - Laurie Johnson

STEAMBATH - Lyn Murray
Controversial PBS version of the Bruce Jay Friedman play, starring Bill Bixby and Valerie Perrine

TENAFLY - Gil Melle
Levinson & Link pilot movie for the series, with James McEachin as a black private eye

TERROR ON THE BEACH - Billy Goldenberg
Family menaced by young hoodlums

TRAPPED - Gil Melle
James Brolin is locked in a department store over night and menaced by guard dogs; written and directed by Frank DeFelitta

1972/1973 Emmy nominees:

MUSIC COMPOSITION

For a series or a single program (in the first year of music's use only):

Alexander Courage - Medical Center (Cycle of Peril)
Charles Fox - Love, American Style
Marty Paich - Ironside

For a special program:

Fred Ebb, John Kander - Liza With a Z
Billy Goldenberg - A Brand New Life
Jerry Goldsmith - The Red Pony

Billy Goldenberg was also nominated for Music, Lyrics and Special Material for The Marcus-Nelson Murders

What a phenomenal list. Look at all the great names in film music. Brings back many memories. A lot of stuff I've never heard of or don't remember. This is the kind of thing that makes this website so great.

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