John Williams - Time Tunnel: Original Television Soundtrack (The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen, Vol. 4)
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Artist: John WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1997-11-15
Music Label: Gnp Crescendo
Soundtracks:
- The Time Tunnel: Main Title
- To The Tunnel/Tony Enters Machine/Tony's First Trip...
- Tony's Tall Tales/Althea's Attack/Doug's Arrival...
- The Iceberg Cometh/Time Transfer/The Jungle
- In The Battle/Lost Trail/Ann Worried/Michael's Dog/No Signs...
- Doug Duels/Tony Returns/Doug Chased Tony Again/Pal Fight...
- The Time Tunnel: End Title
Music reviews of Time Tunnel: Original Television Soundtrack (The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen, Vol. 4)
Music Review: A SUPERSTAR IN THE MAKING!
Rating: 3 Stars
John Williams was a relative newcomer to film and television scoring when he was signed by Irwin Allen to score "Lost in Space". At that time, he had composed about a dozen scores for some rather obscure titles (such "notable" cinematic endeavors as "Stark Fear" and "Gidget Goes to Rome," for example).
The music for "Lost in Space" proved to be such an integral part of that series first year, it was obvious that the composer's services would be called on again for Allen's third television foray into science fiction. (It must be noted that Allen's first sci-fi series was "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and Williams was not a musical contributor to that show.)
"The Time Tunnel" pilot ("Rendezvous with Yesterday") offered the composer an intriguing challenge. He had to develop music that would accompany an episode that introduced a top-secret time travel device as well as had the lead characters find themselves trapped on the ill-fated ocean liner, Titanic.
The show's theme song is possibly one of the most attention-grabbing thirty-nine seconds in television history. Relying heavy on French horns, percussion, flute, trumpets, and harp, the theme song "counts" down with each section being prominently featured.
The approximate thirty-minute "suite" to the pilot installment does have elements similar to the earlier score to "Lost in Space" and reveals components that the composer would more effectively use in his score to Allen's "Land of the Giants" two years later. Fans of the composer will surely recognize these and should marvel in their "discovery".
One highlight is "The Titanic Trot", a period piece that allows the listener to envision the ship's passengers enjoy a ballroom twirl as the ship heads for a "rendezvous" with a rather large ice cube.
While not as dynamic or memorable as his future work, "The Time Tunnel" does offer a glimpse of what Williams was to become: an Academy Award winner and musical icon in the film industry.
The disc also has George Duning's music for "The Death Merchant". His composition here is rather lackluster and Duning would compose better scores for "Star Trek".
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