Happy to help when I can... which, sadly, isn't always quite as often as I'd like to...
It has been a terrible year or so in so many ways with the loss of people like Tim, and then the situation where so many amazing people at Network lost their jobs. All very tough.I am so so sad to hear that it got so close to becoming a reality after all these years and that it couldn’t quite make it the distance at the very end.
I know that this was one that Tim wanted doing and certainly Steve picked up the baton and was also doing all he could to get at least the first set - for which we'd had the masters back - out there.
I know that the owner are looking at other options to pursue.I truly hope someone else (La La Land, perhaps?) picks this up and is able to complete it.
Indeed. Not all the material existed, but the fixed breakdown that we had for the first set was as follows:I wasn’t sure all those masters existed anymore, so it’s heartening to me that at least they’re out there somewhere waiting to be released someday… Fingers crossed.
THE AVENGERS - SOUNDTRACK: 1965-1966
Disc 1
1: Opening Titles
2-12: "Too Many Christmas Trees"
13: "The Master Minds" [an episode that had no new music recorded but used one of three 'stock' cues - Theme A]
14-24:"Death at Bargain Prices" [including Theme B]
25-26: "Dial a Deadly Number" [partial score only]
27: "The Cybernauts" [partial score - sadly, only one of the five cues exists; the tape had been physically edited]
28-36: "The Grave-Diggers"
37-46: "The Murder Market" [including Theme C]
47-51: "A Surfeit of H2O" [partial score]
52-63: "Room Without a View"
64: Closing Titles - Short Version
Disc 2
1: Opening Parts ID [i.e. bumper]
2-5: "Two's a Crowd" [partial score]
6-22: "Man-Eater of Surrey Green"
23-40: "Castle De'Ath"
41: Closing Shots ID [i.e bumper]
Disc 3
1: Opening Parts ID
2-15: "The Hour That Never Was" (aka "An Hour to Spare")
16-26: "The Thirteenth Hole"
27-29: "Silent Dust" (aka "Strictly for the Worms") [partial score]
30: Closing Shots ID
Disc 4
1: Opening Parts ID
2-23: "Small Game for Big Hunters"
24-45: "The Girl from Auntie"
46-61: "Quick-Quick Slow Death"
62: Closing Shots ID
Disc 5
1: Opening Parts ID
2-14: "The Danger Makers"
15-29: "A Touch of Brimstone"
30-47: "What the Butler Saw"
48-59: "The House That Jack Built"
60-72: "A Sense of History"
73: Closing Shots ID
Disc 6
1-2: US Prologue
3-13: "How to Suceed... at Murder"
14-27: "Honey for the Prince"
28: Closing Titles - Long Version
29-73: Bonus Tracks: Overlays, Alternate Takes and Sound Effects
For the next two sets, a more approximate track listing ran:
THE AVENGERS - SOUNDTRACK: 1966-1967
Disc 1
1-3: American Ident/Prologue A/Opening Titles
4-23: "The Fear Merchants" [including items of stock music]
24-54: "Escape in Time" [including items of stock music]
55-61: Stock Music [unused library items recorded at first session]
62: American Ident [i.e. bumper]
Disc 2
1: American Ident
2-15: "The Bird Who Knew Too Much" [including items of stock music]
16-34: "From Venus with Love" [including items of stock music]
35-53: "The See-Through Man"
54: American Ident
Disc 3
1: American Ident
2-15: "The Winged Avenger" [including items of stock music]
16-32: "The Living Dead"
33-36: "The Hidden Tiger" [partial score; including items of stock music]
37-43: "Never, Never Say Die" [partial score; including items of stock music]
44-56: "Epic" [including items of stock music]
57: American Ident
Disc 4
1: American Ident
2-5: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station" [partial score]
6-15: "The Superlative Seven" [partial score]
16-25: "The Joker" [partial score]
26-31: "Something Nasty in the Nursery" [partial score]
32-57: "Who's Who???"
58-68: "Death's Door" [partial score]
69: American Ident
Disc 5
1: American Ident
2-9: "Return of the Cybernauts" [partial score]
10-21: "Dead Man's Treasure"
22-31: "The £50,000 Breakfast"
32-41: "You Have Just Been Murdered"
42-44: "The Positive Negative Men" [partial score]
45: American Ident
Disc 6
1: American Ident
2-9: "Murdersville" [partial score]
10-11: "Mission... Highly Improbable" [partial score]
12: Closing Titles - Long Version
13-68: Bonus Tracks: Overlays, Alternate Takes and Sound Effects
THE AVENGERS - SOUNDTRACK: 1967-1968
Disc 1
1: New Mix Main Titles
2-10: "Invasion of the Earthmen"
11-26: "The Forget-Me-Knot"
27-35: "The Curious Case of the Countless Clues"
36-43: "Split!"
44-48: "Get-A-Way!" [partial score]
49: American Ident
Disc 2
1: American Ident
2-15: "Look - (stop me if you've heard this one) But There Were These Two Fellers..."
16: "Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?" [single cue to augment Howard Blake score]
17-38: "Legacy of Death" [last two cues missing]
39-43: "They Keep Killing Steed" [partial score]
44-45: "The Interrogators" [two cues to augment Howard Blake score]
46-59: "The Morning After"
60: New End Titles
61-80: Bonus Tracks: Overlays, Alternate Takes and Sound Effects
There we go. So - keep your fingers crossed. If this does progress any further I have no idea whether I'll be involved or not. Main thing that I hope for is that as much of the material is made commercially available to the audience that wants to hear it in a manner that the owners are happy with.
All the best
Andrew