Space:1999 Year Two Music: From Barry Gray to Derek Wadsworth
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- Опубликовано: 21 апр 2023
- Derek Wadsworth, Composer for the soundtrack of Space:1999 Year Two, discusses his time working on the show - and how he dealt with inevitable comparisons to Barry Gray's season one score.
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Thanks for posting. Very proud of what my father achieved.
A lovely, talented, humble man. Miss him so much.
I honestly love both composers equally for Space: 1999. I cannot choose one over the other.
I play season year two most days as background music when iam getting ready for work! Derek Wadsworth what a gracious man!
Say what you will about Year Two, but Derek is an amazing creator.
Such a gracious and humble man. Always enjoyed his work on Year Two.
Thanks for posting - what a lovely and thoughtful man Derek is
I absolutely love both seasons music year 2 was literally out of this world, pun intended also year 1 wonderful love em both
I think the Music in BOTH Seasons of SPACE:1999 really made it the show it was!
When I saw the first episode of Year Two, I must admit I was disappointed not to hear Barry Gray’s Year One theme, but I soon came to love Derek Wadsworth’s very nearly as much. Very pleased to hear his recollections of his predecessor.
I love the music in both seasons
I always have to laugh when I watch on streaming and it says Skip Intro. This is Space 1999, we do NOT skip intro!
I loved the music for Year Two as much as Year One. It was different but then so was Year Two so it suited the more faster, more action-paced episodes.
I also liked the opening title music to Year Two but if I had to choose it would be Year One's opening for sure as I just liked the more bombastic style plus it was much longer and included clips of the forthcoming episode that made it even more exciting.
I always said, the opening credits of Season 1 Space:1999 were far more exciting than the actual episodes. You'd watch the opening credits, thinking, "Man, this is going to be the most exciting thing ever!" and then the show would turn out to be slow-paced and very methodical.
For Year Two when that main theme hits i always felt here comes some kick ass action. Year 1 was more classical in nature and I loved that opening timpani roll. Both scores suit the season they were composed for.
There wasn't anything wrong with the music score in the 2nd season. But they should have kept the actors that was in the 1st season like Paul , Kano , and Barry Morse. It was the Chemistry of those Characters. And they could have kept to the Mysteriousness of man's being thrust out into The Unknown and the Outer Limits of Space. And being tested to the Limit. And Surviving there trip through The Universe on the Moon base Alpha.
They dumped just about everything that made the show special and unique, and exchanged it for bog-standard, highly Americanised TV sci-fi. The silly rubber monsters, laughably bad plots and forced humour/romance stuff could easily have been from _Buck Rogers_ - it would have been Ok on it;s own, but compared to Year One it was dreadful. In the first year the show had a very unique and special style; it's often criticised for the cold and cerebral plots and characters, but it emphasised the way that a small group of humans were lost in a vast, often very hostile and very alien universe. Year One gave us wonderful stories like _Black Sun_ (with the amazing end sequence), _Dragon's Domain, WarGames, End of Eternity, Testmen tof Arkadia, Infernal Machine, The Troubled Spirit_ ...Year Two gave us rubber monsters, lovesick androids, and rubbish like _The Taybor, All That Glisters, The Rules of Luton_ and so on. We also lost the wonderful Professor Bergman as played by Barry Morse; the main with the tin heart who was so often the voice of gentle humanity. Instead we got the mandatory end of episode joke, the neverending 'comedy' about Verdeschi's beer, and Dr Russel/Koenig mooning over each other, unless it was Tony and Maya...mooning over each other. UGH!
more music please
‘Ahoy Alpha’ in S2 is my favorite.
I think it is incredible them
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Informative part II
Derek did a fine job,. How can anyone follow Barry Gray? A comparison isn't necessary.
Remember the cube was only running at about 30% sorry to niggle. Speaking of niggles renaming the Titan was probably the only thing that bothered me about the finale. She earned her name under Shaw and should have stayed so for him.
Very 1970's the theme for second series
There is no question that the opening theme for Year Two is exciting, energetic and engaging. Full marks for that and in no way a negative on Year One which is marvelous and much loved.
I found the Year Two BGM, the music in the episodes to be thin, to my ear cheap sounding as if there was maybe only two people scoring the session. Maybe that’s not fair of me or maybe it’s an assumption carried over from the overall low-budget look and feel of the second series.
I guess that’s the thing that hits me about Year Two. That OP theme promises SO MUCH in the exact same way the OP theme of Thunderbirds, gets you on the edge of your seat and… well, it’s Year Two. 😅
And that goes to the visuals for the opening. They look like something the NY office of ITC threw together in an afternoon by an intern. There’s a… what, a polish? A professionalism? Something is just missing.
Taking a moment, as an American Anderfan I would like to apologize for the foolishness and short-sightedness of the New York ITC office. I think they were more interested in being ‘creative people’ rather than actually selling the shows and letting the productions just get on with it. Just write good stories with interesting characters and the audience will find it.
But enough. For me the best part of Year Two is the opening theme. These are great video history and well done! 👍