That score will presumably be contained on Volume Two, so you’ll want to hold onto your 1996 disc until then.Īs with Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, it would be silly to deny that the primary attraction for many collectors is the pilot score by John Williams, or “Johnny Williams” as he was known until the 1970s.
The 1996 disc also contained highlights from George Duning’s score for the episode “The Death Merchant,” one of the last in the show’s single-season run. Presumably, the remaining six episodes will be on Volume Two.īe aware, however, that even though the LLL set features Williams’s full score for the pilot (where the 1996 GNP Crescendo disc contained only highlights), it does not make the previous release entirely redundant. TV shows at the time would often do this, reusing scores from earlier episodes for later ones, once they had a decent-sized toolbox of stock music recorded. The liner notes tell us that only 12 of the show’s 30 episodes actually had original scores recorded.
The set is rounded out with loads of bonus material. We get John Williams’s score to the pilot episode, along with scores from five other episodes – three by Lyn Murray and one each by Paul Sawtell and Robert Drasnin. LLL’s new set is labeled “Volume One,” suggesting more good things to come, but what’s here is already amazing. Now comes their 3-disc set of music from The Time Tunnel. The 1996 release had similarly been a single disc. Then came LLL’s 2020 4-disc set of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Williams scored the main title and pilot of that show, which had previously been represented by a single disc from GNP Crescendo in 1996. Next came LLL’s 2018 4-disc set of music from Allen’s Land of the Giants, which The Roarbots previously reviewed here. The 2015 release was a huge improvement in sound quality over the GNP Crescendo release, and it featured hours of previously unreleased music.
Williams scored the main title and five episodes of that series. However, LLL began to offer definitive editions in 2015, with their colossal 50th anniversary 12-disc Lost in Space megaset. This came after three earlier discs of music from the show, released by GNP Crescendo between 1996-2000. LLL first dipped their toe into Allen’s TV worlds with a 2005 40th anniversary 2-disc set of highlights from his most iconic show, Lost in Space. Fans of “The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen” TV shows, composer John Williams, and 1960s television scoring in general have been thrilled to watch La-La Land Records’ years-long deep dive into rescuing the scores to Allen’s most beloved shows.
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