The Essential Night Gallery Scores

T. Newman Fan · **Posted:** Mon Jun 19, 2017 12:18 pm

Let's say that we live in a somewhat ideal world where much of the Night Gallery scores exist in good quality sound, and a record label wants to release a 2-disc album consisting of the most interesting segment scores that also do well in capturing the variety of the series' musical expression. With that in mind, my recommendations are the following:

Pilot (Billy Goldenberg)
House With Ghost (Gil Mellé)
The Dead Man (Robert Prince)
A Question of Fear (Paul Glass)
The Phantom Farmhouse (Oliver Nelson)
Green Fingers (Oliver Nelson)
Midnight Never Ends (Oliver Nelson)
The Dark Boy (Ed Sauter)
The Ghost of Sorworth Place (from the score to “Dark Intruder”) (Lalo Schifrin)

sans sense · **Joined:** Sun Oct 14, 2012 2:21 pm **Posts:** 91

I'd have to revisit those episodes, but are they all original compositions? I know I liked alot of the music when it was re-used.
So along with this and the Essential Columbo, how about an Essential Name Of The Game? Or is that a bridge too far?

vinylscrubber · **Posted:** Fri Jun 23, 2017 8:23 am

I'd certainly second a set (or five) of THE NAME OF THE GAME for some choice examples of, primarily, Dave Grusin and Billy Goldenberg, but also Dominic Frontiere, Oliver Nelson, Benny Carter, Pat Williams, Ralph Burns, Robert Prince, Leonard Rosenman (really???), Michel Colombier, and Ralph Ferraro.

I salivate at the thought.

T. Newman Fan · **Posted:** Sat Jun 24, 2017 6:14 pm

There are lots of less popular TV scores that I would like, but these days my wishes are perhaps best kept focused on series with decent marketability.

Night Gallery for horror, Columbo for suspense, The Six Million Dollar Man for action, and The A-Team for pure adrenaline. Magnum P.I. and Quantum Leap are the wildcards.

WorkingWithKnives · **Posted:** Sun Jun 25, 2017 4:26 pm

Night Gallery is what us little punks waited for on Wednesday nights, next day we'd talk about the previous nights episode at school.

:lol:

Douglass Fake · **Joined:** Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:48 pm **Posts:** 2773

Just shows how out of touch I am with all you guys. If I could make absolutely any TV soundtrack appear right now? Yep. It'd be Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law. Elmer Bernstein for the un-initiated. Each episode only boasted a few minutes of original scoring so it's not something most folks would jump at. But I would... even as I watched my label go belly up from the choice.
--Doug

T. Newman Fan · **Posted:** Tue Jun 27, 2017 8:25 pm

WorkingWithKnives · **Posted:** Wed Jun 28, 2017 3:18 pm

T. Newman Fan · **Posted:** Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:38 am

Creature Features is doing a Night Gallery retrospective next month. Hopefully there's an album to coincide with it.

I was extremely disappointed to find out that there was no Frankenstein: The True Story album to go with the event Creature Features held for the film and score months ago.

sans sense · **Joined:** Sun Oct 14, 2012 2:21 pm **Posts:** 91

Speaking of OWEN MARSHALL, here's a lovely little cue by Lyn Murray which was probably just a bridge. The rest of the episode score was okay.

T. Newman Fan · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:48 pm

Some of the less-discussed faves:

bruce marshall · **Joined:** Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:16 pm **Posts:** 775

Silent Snow
Paul Glass

Fugues · **Joined:** Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:23 pm **Posts:** 603

There's an awesome Night Gallery art book offered by Creature Features on Kickstarter. We've already reached the goal. Now we just need the music.

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