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Hands down
Population: Zero by Oliver Nelson (First One Hour Episode)
Also
THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN Pilot (Gil Melle)
Ford A. Thaxton
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SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN. COMPLETE!
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"The Bionic Woman" Parts 1 and 2 are my favorite. But Oliver Nelson's scores in general are great.
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I seem to remember some great music when Austin fights the John Saxon robot, (my uncle used to play an audio copy of it quite a lot) or is it just using music already composed for such sequences? I would imagine the Venus probe fight scenes might be good too. It's a long time since I've seen any SMDM.
Also, am I the only one who quite likes the Dusty Springfield song? I'd like to see that on a disc. I thought it gave it a kind of Bond feel to the show, which I suppose is what they were after for those tv movies at the start.
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Also, am I the only one who quite likes the Dusty Springfield song?
No.
Excellent.
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Most of any episode from the first few seasons, but the score for The Seven Million Dollar Man is f'n amazing. The fight scene when Barney Miller (later Hiller so as not to conflict with the Hal Linden tv series) beats the snot out of a bunch of spies on the side of the road is my favorite piece of SMDM music.
The Pioneers and Eyewitness to Murder are also excellent.
There's a nice piece at the starts of The Thunderbird Connection in year 4 that's pretty great, as we first see the planes just before the opening credits.
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Just looked him up via an internet search and he's got lots of covers of other cues from other series, over at a Soundcloud page:
https://soundcloud.com/stiks1969
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I just rented s. 4 but all the original score is
by J.J. Johnson.
Are the previous 3 seasons all Oliver?
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Thanks!
(Only on this board.... )
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Dec 31, 2019 - 2:55 AM
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Graham Watt
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Yes, above all it would be great to have a selection of the wonderful Oliver Nelson cues. There are some fantastic action pieces throughout the first few seasons, not just generic TV stuff, but long sequences showcasing what sounds to me like Artie Kane (?) on keyboards.
And the Gil Mellé (POR SUPUESTO) for the Pilot Movie (later re-edited to make it part of the "normal" series. That became "The Moon and the Desert", didn't it? Amazing stuff, but it didn't fit with the later Six Buck Man sound template. I love it anyway, por supuesto.
And now a question - There were three feature-length "movies" before the series proper began, is that right? First the one which became "The Moon and the Desert" (the original TV Movie is sometimes referred to, I'm not sure if erroneously, as CYBORG). Then there was WINE, WOMEN AND WAR, scored - I think - by Stu Phillips (?). Then Mellé was back for THE SOLID GOLD KIDNAPPING.
That last one really interests me, because when I saw it (and taped it off the telly in the mid-'70s) it had the Mellé score as written. It's great too, with passages that could be right out of THE ORGANIZATION. And yet when the series went into syndication, that one was re-cut and replaced with an Oliver Nelson score. I think I read in an old thread that the Mexican (?) DVD set (EL HOMBRE NUCLEAR) has the two versions of THE SOLID GOLD KIDNAPPING. Is that right? And is it the only way to hear the Mellé score nowadays?
Actually here's another question - I believe that THE SOLID GOLD KIDNAPPING had the Mellé score jettisoned because by then, in syndication, it jarred with what people had become used to, which was the Oliver Nelson sound. And yet the original Mellé-scored Pilot, and the subsequent Phillips-scored (?) WINE, WOMEN AND WAR retained their original scores. Any more info on this?
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