Thanks. One thing though: now that I'm home and I've looked it all up, it was just under three and half months from recording music for "Metamorphosis" to its air date, not six months.
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50th Anniversary Rewatch Thread
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Thanks. One thing though: now that I'm home and I've looked it all up, it was just under three and half months from recording music for "Metamorphosis" to its air date, not six months.
"You lied."
"I exaggerated."
Four months, thirteen days, precisely (based on available information). (6/28/67 - 11/10/67)Thanks. One thing though: now that I'm home and I've looked it all up, it was just under three and half months from recording music for "Metamorphosis" to its air date, not six months.
"You lied."
"I exaggerated."
Sold. 
Yeah. That tops anything I've got.
Is Doomsday Machine the BEST TOS score? I'm leaning towards "YES!" these days. There are things that Enemy Within, What Are Little Girls Made Of?, Charlie X, and Amok Time do better. But they don't do all of them at once. DM is just a powerhouse. (Charlie X is the runner up in any case.)
DM gets very high or top marks, no question. I love the way it tells the whole story from start to finish. You know at every moment in the score where you'd be in the episode. I also get that solid narrative sense from "The Paradise Syndrome."
Pushing an episode back doesn't necessarily mean the episode wasn't ready to go and that Duning had a ton of lead time. NBC could have just as easily held it back. Catspaw was intentionally held until Halloween, so that episode was wrapped and in the can way ahead of time as well.
Neil, have you come across any info on how large sections of Duning's "Metamorphosis" score came to be used in the early Mannix episode "The Many Deaths of Saint Christopher"?
Nope. Never seen an episode of Mannix. Sorry.
A quick google search shows it's from 1967 and scored by George Duning so they were written around the same time. This is like Gerald Fried's Mission: Impossible score to an episode titled, "Trek" sounding similar to "Friday's Child".
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Thanks. I would swear they are the same recording. I will have to get hold of the Mannix DVDs and make a comparison... sometime!
Cool, thanks!
50 years ago this week (scrolling down past some review business).
Of general interest to classic TV buffs, The Fugitive will be airing its record-breaking finale on Tuesday...meanwhile in the present, Decades will be airing both parts of the finale along with some other episodes on Tuesday to commemorate the occasion.
Of general interest to classic TV buffs, The Fugitive will be airing its record-breaking finale on Tuesday...meanwhile in the present, Decades will be airing both parts of the finale along with some other episodes on Tuesday to commemorate the occasion.
A week from tonight:
The soundtrack to Mannix was much better than the actual generic show... Lalo Schifrin !
... and here we go again.
On this day, 50 years ago, Star Trek returned for its second season.
"Amok Time", Episode 30, September 15th
Tonight's Episode: The return of Star Trek sees the return of Spock to his shouty, emotional pilot state, prompting the crew of the Enterprise to visit his exotic home planet ofAustralia Vulcan in the hope of finding out what's wrong with him. Following local customs, Kirk gets tricked into entering the Thunderdome with Spock... Two men enter, one man leaves!
On this day, 50 years ago, Star Trek returned for its second season.
"Amok Time", Episode 30, September 15th
Tonight's Episode: The return of Star Trek sees the return of Spock to his shouty, emotional pilot state, prompting the crew of the Enterprise to visit his exotic home planet of
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