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'The Doll' is a very close second, because of the score and of course, John Lithgow's Emmy Winning performance. However, I've a short story to relate here:
In 1990 I moved to Seattle and for a (very) few months, was working at a Blockbuster Video Store - remember video tapes? At a certain time every evening I'd put on 'The Mission' video tape and it would play on the several overhead tv's around the store. I don't know exactly what the draw was, John Williams propulsive score, the special effects, the dramatic story of the guy trapped in the machine-gun turret on the bottom of the plane, or everything I just mentioned. But every night that I put that tape on, there would always, always be 2-4-6 people viewing the monitors with their necks craned up, just transfixed to the screen. I always got some satisfaction when they'd eventually start browsing again at the end of the episode, and sometimes they'd actually rent the episode too, after asking what it was they just saw.
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Pat Metheny's and Thomas Newman's.
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I've still yet to hear many of them, but certainly "Family Dog". I also consider it one the best Elfman scores.
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Jul 31, 2014 - 11:35 AM
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dogplant
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My favorite "Amazing Stories" score is John Williams' 'The Mission' and Delerue's scores are beautiful, too, especially 'The Doll'. I am also very partial to Thomas Newman's 'Santa '85' although I have never seen the episode.
As for favorite episodes, I enjoyed the Zemeckis episode 'Go to the Head of the Class' which had a fun, prototypical 80s Alan Silvestri score, but I didn't get to see many episodes until years after their release as UK viewers only had a couple of theatrical anthologies and then a spotty VHS release. "Family Dog" was another highlight for what the series did best, in its diversity. When I got to see more of the show, I realized there were some pretty awful clunkers.
The three Intrada albums offered a wonderful cross-section of the music, which in my opinion was the series' strongest point. I posted a similar thread to this one in June 2007, after #3 appeared:
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=42957
Bumper #1 still rules.
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Dec 24, 2017 - 10:13 AM
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Jim Phelps
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I was trying to remember if this was from the 1985 Twilight Zone revival series or Amazing Stories, but it turned out to be the latter:
"Ignored by his self-absorbed, social-climbing parents, 5-year-old Jonah Kelley wanders his lonely, sterile house and then the outside world, searching for someone who will see him, while things and people disappear in his wake."
Favorite Episode: "What If?" Stumbled on this episode some years back, long after it originally aired, but it was so wonderfully autobiographical in some ways. LOL
The incomparable Billy Goldenberg composed the score, and since I'm largely unfamiliar with the series and its music, for now I'll say this was my favorite score of the show.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0511130/
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