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No he is not. To be honest I'm not sure he'd necessarily be in my top 10. There's just so much amazing music out there beyond film scores.

Amazing news! Two more missing Doctor Who episodes have been recovered! Episode 2 of The Underwater Menace, and Episode 3 of Galaxy 4. A real Christmas Present for Doctor Who fans! http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-12-11/doctor-who-two-long-lost-episodes-uncovered

Great quote from Moffatt on his Twitter page: "To clarify: any Doctor Who movie would be made by the BBC team, star the current TV Doctor and certainly NOT be a Hollywood reboot. David Yates, great director, was speaking off the cuff, on a red carpet. You've seen the rubbish I talk when I'm cornered" Now that's extremely promising!

Gilliam is a loudmouth. He always has been. You only have to watch documentaries on the making of his movies, or listen to his audio commentaries to realize that. He is very opinionated and rarely makes anything less than sweeping gestures and overstatements. This aspect of his personality comes through in the uncompromising look and feel of his films, which is a good thing. But it can also make him seem like a bit of a tit sometimes too. His views on the role of movie music are not particularly surprising to me, but in his defense I will say this. Gilliam's films in general all have magnificent scores that really help to sell the bizarre imagery. The subtle but haunting score for Gilliam's hugely misunderstood masterpiece "Tideland" (by Jeff and Mychael Danna) is incredibly effective music. The film's eerie atmosphere owes a huge debt to the score. On that level I completely understand Gilliam's less obvious approach to movie music.

http://www.duttonvoc...p?prod=CDLK4461 After their excellent reissue of Geoff Love's two albums Themes for Super Heroes, and Big Terror Movie Themes earlier this year (combined onto a single CD), Dutton Vocalion has paired two more classic Geoff Love albums for their latest release. Big Suspense Movie Themes, and Big Bond Movie Themes. I know this release may not be of general interest here, but for those of you like me who grew up on these albums (and for whom this was the first time you heard many of these themes) it's a really exciting release. DV is a UK company, but they ship to the US for a reasonable price. I ended up getting charged twenty bucks for the CD and shipping. Well worth it for these classic memories!

I'm loving season 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures, which just came out on DVD. The show has really hit it's stride. I'm halfway through, and just watched the episode "The Death of the Doctor" with Matt Smith and Jo Grant! Really very good episode. Russel T Davis really is a good writer of Who-related stories, no matter what anyone says! He may have written a few duffers, but overall I loved his flair and his sense of humour when he was the Dr Who showrunner.

Not sure that's the direction they'll want to take. The appeal of the early episodes of the Hartnell era, and the Ecclestone revival, is that we see the Doctor very much from the perspective of the companions. He is a mystery, and only through watching the show for several years do we begin to find out important things about his past, his homeworld, and his people. Showing a young first Doctor stealing the Tardis (similar approach to the revamped Star Trek movie series) would remove any sense of mystery and wonder about the character. Pretty much what Pete just said. In fact my whole post has been a bit pointless. Sorry Pete, just agreeing with you there!

If it doesn't tie in to the TV series I'm not all that interested. Why wouldn't they get Matt Smith involved and keep continuity? It could be a completely new story. No need to bore people with endless references to the Doctor's past adventures. Introduce the character to a new movie-going audience through a complete one-off story in which we see The Doctor as a mysterious unknown character about which we know very little. Just make him Matt Smith. Otherwise I completely fail to see the point. Oh yes, money. Jeez. Steef, the RTD revival in 2005 may not have continuously referenced previous stories, but it never blatently contradicted them. The references were certainly there for old-school fans. It was always very obvious to me that Ecclestone was supposed to be the 9th Doctor. I fail to see how a movie and a TV series can work together when they don't share the same continuity. Worse, I think this movie, if it happens, will damage the future of the TV series, and that can't be a good thing.

Anyone else hear a lot of similarities between Gremlins and Heartbeeps? The synthy stuff is really similar.

Verve! Definitely! A bit of Coldplay thrown in, too.

Greg! Welcome back. Haven't seen you in months!

Listened to it a couple of times. Overall it's classic Johnny 60s TV fare. While it's not as good (IMO) as his Lost in Space scores from the same era, there are still plenty of great moments. The main title is terrific, presenting a highly exciting and colourful minute of music with a highly chromatic melody. It's not very hummable, but it's very energetic. Terrific stereo effects in this track. I wonder if this is real stereo, or artificially added by MM? The ostinato string line from the main title functions as an ostinato in several other tracks from the episode's underscore too ("The Cradle Might Rock" for instance). Track 8 "Kathryn Flees" will be of interest to Star Wars fans. It's only 30 seconds long, but the violin music is very reminiscent of several sections of Ben's Death and the Tie Fighter Attack. Great stuff! It has to be said that most of this music is very clearly "atmospheric underscore" as opposed to strident thematic material. For that reason it is less interesting than much of his Irwin Allen scores from the same time (as I mentioned previously). Instead we are treated to lots of eerie marimba plonks and bass "footsteps" music. It's still a lot of fun though. Hardly essential John (or even Johnny) Williams, but it has some rewarding moments for the completist who will be buying it whatever. Track 17 "Chicago Group" is a jazz number showcasing a great organ soloist. I'd love to know who it is. Johnny himself maybe?

Beautiful use of a semicolon.

Mine arrived today. I'll listen to it on the drive to work tomorrow when I get done listening to Vaughan Williams' 7th symphony. Can't wait!

Some Who companions still look great. Lis looked wonderful in the Sarah Jane Adventures. Nicole Bryant (Peri), Mary Tamm (Romana 1), and Wendy Padbury (Zoe) all still look terrific. It'd be fun to see them return in Who at some point. Not all at the same time. That would be weird.

Option 2.

Shipping notice finally! Woohoo.

Well I for one am excited by this release. FSM have always been great at serving up bizarre and often obscure scores no one's even heard of. That makes them exciting to me. Would I have liked a complete Hook? Of course. But this release is something I never would have expected. Something completely new to me. I ordered it the second I saw it (along with Gremlins of course).

Now you're talking. However, if you want to give Pertwee another shot (and Wycket had a good suggestion with Claws of Axos), I can recommend The Sea Devils. It's another attempt at doing a sort of Silurians episode (the Sea Devils are supposed to be marine cousins of the Silurians), but the atmosphere and pacing are MUCH better.

The Brigadier is definitely a comic character, but he works because Nicholas Courtney plays it straight. As a result he became kind of comic relief, but in a rather endearing and sincere way. I don't think it's surprising that the character became a fan favourite both during the Pertwee era and in the decades afterwards until his death earlier this year (he appeared in an episode of Sarah Jane Adventures a couple of years ago). Daemons: I love the build up of supernatural menace throughout the story, but especially in episode 1. We get a feeling of suspense and spookiness without ever really seeing any monsters, all through atmospheric music and a few signposts spinning round! Great! Delgado's master will always be the definitive one for me, though John Simm comes bloody close. BTW, bit of trivia: A viewer actually contacted the BBC after watching the final episode to complain about a church being blown up for the episode. Silly viewer, apparently they couldn't tll it was a model.

I always thought the stilted voice used in TPM was dreadful. Also it really makes no sense. How can any civilization possibly trust a ruler who puts on a fake accent to talk to them? And before you all accuse Queen Elizabeth II of doing it, no she doesn't! That's her normal voice! Watch any episode of Spitting Image and you can see she uses the same voice when she's in bed with her husband!

I ordered mine the day it was announced. I still haven't had a shipping confirmation. Anyone else in this position?

Steef, I admire you doggedly sticking to your exploration of the older stories. I know you're finding them a little hard-going and slow, but please don't give up before you try these couple: Jon Pertwee: The Daemons (it's really creepy and atmospheric) Tom Baker: The Seeds of Doom (my personal favourite, and a cracking story with some really quite horrific moments, provided you cut the BBC effects some slack) Tom Baker: The Pyramids of Mars (A real classic!) Tom Baker: The Deadly Assassin. (Another cracking story) Peter Davison: The Caves of Androzani (Doctor Who at its most bleak and apocalyptic.) My DVD of Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 just shipped from the UK and should be arriving any day now. I never saw these during their original run so I'm really looking forward to it.

My parents mistakenly bought me the double album of The Empire Strikes Back for Christmas 1980 when I was 10. I was really disappointed because I had asked Santa for the single disc version with the narration and dialogue from the movie. Then I actually listened to the album. I was hooked. And 31 years later here I am posting at JWFan.