TOS sound effects in other shows

[Maurice]

dont know how you remembered that but at 1:45 here it is!

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The episode is Bewitched Season 4 Episode 11 "Allergic To Macedonian Dodo Birds"

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• The SFX in question appears at 1:50
• Dr. Bombay says, "I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker" at 10:38
• A variation on the bird suit seen in "The Cage" appears at 20:00 (described here in an old thread)

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

As I recall, a number of TOS sound effects showed up in the science fiction detective series Search (and as I recall, Justman was on the staff of the show).

 

[johnnybear]

My son has a space rifle toy which has multiple sound settings and one of them is a Klingon Disruptor noise!
JB

 

[NCC-73515]

My son has a space rifle toy which has multiple sound settings and one of them is a Klingon Disruptor noise!
JB

My cousin and I used to joke that it sounds like a sneeze XD
How do you know a Klingon has a cold? Wah-YA!-hoo-hoo.

 

[Qonundrum]

"V: The Final Battle" uses it for the Visitor security pass counterfeiting machine (pretend the human was given the machine by the Fifth Column, as I doubt there was any way for Earth technology of the time to recreate with such precision that pass - which also share the same code and not a prefix or-- who cares...) Given how iconic TOS Trek was at that point, the sound effect sticks out rather badly. Considering that's the same network but a different production company, maybe sound effects were licensed out.

 

[Christopher]

Considering that's the same network but a different production company, maybe sound effects were licensed out.

A lot of Star Trek's sound effects were pre-existing anyway; only some were original to the show. And most of those that were original to the show ended up being added to the stock sound libraries used by many different productions over the decades. They weren't exclusive to any one studio or network -- if anything, they would've been associated with sound-editing companies like Glen Glenn, which did ST and thousands of other productions.

The thing to remember is that sound effects were more limited back then, since you didn't have effectively endless computer storage space for digital sound files, but had to store them on physical media like vinyl records or tape reels that took up a fair amount of space. So there was a finite selection of sound effects that tended to be drawn on by countless productions, and newly created sounds tended to get added to the stock libraries and become part of the repertoire from then on. It didn't matter how familiar a sound effect was as long as it fit the bill.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

A lot of Star Trek's sound effects were pre-existing anyway; only some were original to the show. And most of those that were original to the show ended up being added to the stock sound libraries used by many different productions over the decades. They weren't exclusive to any one studio or network -- if anything, they would've been associated with sound-editing companies like Glen Glenn, which did ST and thousands of other productions.

The thing to remember is that sound effects were more limited back then, since you didn't have effectively endless computer storage space for digital sound files, but had to store them on physical media like vinyl records or tape reels that took up a fair amount of space. So there was a finite selection of sound effects that tended to be drawn on by countless productions, and newly created sounds tended to get added to the stock libraries and become part of the repertoire from then on. It didn't matter how familiar a sound effect was as long as it fit the bill.

That all being true, I'm glad Star Trek and the Irwin Allen shows drew on two different sound effect libraries. It kept my fantasy worlds properly separate and distinct.

I think Fox was so big, they had their own sound fx men, and an in-house tape library for that kind of thing. Desilu would be more apt to get sci-fi sound fx from Hollywood's independent contractors, who were free to market their goods all over town.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Piggybacking of @Cutie McWhiskers observation about V: The Final Battle, the weekly series also used the bridge sound effects in a later episode, The Secret Underground. They had a battle computer play not only the beeps and background stuff, but the door whooshes as well. It was like they just got the sound effects CD and laid it over the sound track. When I first saw the episode, I broke out laughing....

 

[Christopher]

Piggybacking of @Cutie McWhiskers observation about V: The Final Battle, the weekly series also used the bridge sound effects in a later episode, The Secret Underground. They had a battle computer play not only the beeps and background stuff, but the door whooshes as well. It was like they just got the sound effects CD and laid it over the sound track. When I first saw the episode, I broke out laughing....

The sound effects album was released in 1988, well after V: The Series ended. Memory Alpha claims it was first released in 1978 on vinyl and reissued on CD in '88, but my '88 LP edition says "Never Before Released" on the front, so I think they're wrong about that. On the other hand, it does say "Copyright 1967, 1968, 1969, 1978, 1988" on the back, so maybe some of its sound effects were in an earlier release?

 

[Ssosmcin]

Yeah, I knew my timing was off, it just sounded like one of those tracks on the CD that had the whole bridge set done up. There were a lot of door whooshes in the mix of that sequence. Either the sound guys whipped it up themselves or they grabbed an assembled tape from somewhere. Considering how “series specific” the V sound effects were (the laser blasts, explosions and visitor ships), the Trek sounds really called attention to themselves and made an already over the top show even more artificial.

 

[diankra]

In the 1980s, Dangermouse made liberal use of the Doctor Who sound effects album, until the BBC complained.

 

[Christopher]

In the 1980s, Dangermouse made liberal use of the Doctor Who sound effects album, until the BBC complained.

I have that album! I think I've heard some of its sounds used in an American cartoon or two, such as the Metebelis III ambience and the staser blast.

Come to think of it, I'm remembering now that my father (who worked at a radio station) once brought home a record from the station's collection with a bunch of sci-fi sound effects on it including the TARDIS whoop, and I made a copy of it on cassette tape. Looking through my old tapes, I find I have one with sounds from Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Hitchhiker's Guide, and something called Earth Search. Unfortunately I haven't had room to connect my tape deck to my audio system since I moved here. I guess I could set it up if I really wanted to listen to a tape, but it'd take some doing. Who knows if it even still works?

I've heard the TARDIS sound effect used in a couple of Japanese Super Sentai shows, particularly Megaranger, which used it for its villains' evil fortress.

 

[diankra]

I have that album! I think I've heard some of its sounds used in an American cartoon or two, such as the Metebelis III ambience and the staser blast.

Come to think of it, I'm remembering now that my father (who worked at a radio station) once brought home a record from the station's collection with a bunch of sci-fi sound effects on it including the TARDIS whoop, and I made a copy of it on cassette tape. Looking through my old tapes, I find I have one with sounds from Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Hitchhiker's Guide, and something called Earth Search. Unfortunately I haven't had room to connect my tape deck to my audio system since I moved here. I guess I could set it up if I really wanted to listen to a tape, but it'd take some doing. Who knows if it even still works?

I've heard the TARDIS sound effect used in a couple of Japanese Super Sentai shows, particularly Megaranger, which used it for its villains' evil fortress.

Earthsearch was a two season radio series of the early 80s, written by Jim Follett, who was responsible for the B7 episodes Dawn of the Gods and Stardrive.
One of the few broadcast sf series not to use ftl while still featuring interstellar travel, so when Challenger returns home with the four surviving members of its 3rd generation crew, decelerating from a hefty fraction of c, a million years have passed back home.

 

[johnnybear]

The Space 1999 sounds used in the episode Another Time, Another Place were also heard in First Men in The Moon a full decade before the episode was made and may have made it's origin in the film The Innocents (1961) I thought I'd get this one in before anyone else mentioned it!
JB

 

[Ssosmcin]

The sounds the Anderson folks used on Space: 1999 as little control panel explosions, usually where someone gets and electric shock or breaks some glass, was used in just about every latter Roger Moore James Bond movie. Sometimes it was hidden well, but other times it really stuck out to me.

It’s in A View to a Kill when Bond leaps into the wedding boat and lands in the cake.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

The sounds the Anderson folks used on Space: 1999 as little control panel explosions, usually where someone gets and electric shock or breaks some glass, was used in just about every latter Roger Moore James Bond movie. Sometimes it was hidden well, but other times it really stuck out to me.

It’s in A View to a Kill when Bond leaps into the wedding boat and lands in the cake.

I didn't know that. A Space: 1999 thing I did catch in the Bond movies was that Sorella desk lamp, especially in Moonraker. And I think it's in The Spy Who Loved Me, or at least a Sorella variant, aboard the tanker.

 

[NCC-73515]

I just heard the TNG shuttle alert in The Philadelphia Experiment XD

 

[Forbin]

Just watched an episode of The Immortal, featuring a scene in a real-life 60s UNIVAC computer room - walls of reel-to-reel tape drives, punchcard readers, typing stations, the word UNIVAC on the equipment cabinets. So futuristic! Anyway, since the only actual sound made in that room was the roaring of cooling fans and hammering of card punchers, they overdubbed TOS bridge sound effects to make it sound cooler.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Just watched an episode of The Immortal, featuring a scene in a real-life 60s UNIVAC computer room - walls of reel-to-reel tape drives, punchcard readers, typing stations, the word UNIVAC on the equipment cabinets. So futuristic! Anyway, since the only actual sound made in that room was the roaring of cooling fans and hammering of card punchers, they overdubbed TOS bridge sound effects to make it sound cooler.

Always great to see another person who actually watches The Immortal!

 

[Forbin]

Always great to see another person who actually watches The Immortal!

I just got it on DVD - I retired in Jan and I need something to watch during lunch every day, so I'm collecting 60s & 70s shows that I either missed or haven't seen in ages. In strange happenstance, I happened to choose Rat Patrol for my breakfast watching, so I'm having an unintentional Chris George festival this month.