(NBC TV Movie, 1969;
NBC Primetime, 1970 - 1973)
[aka: "Rod Serling's Night Gallery";
aka: "Four-In-One: Night Gallery";
this series marked famed writer/producer Rod Serling's return to
TV after his legendary unique CBS suspense series "The Twilight
Zone" (1959 - 64) which ran in successful syndication for many
many years afterward. For his next first-run TV series, Mr.
Serling chose to move over to NBC.
The first episode was actually a 1969 made-for-TV movie which
had a Main-Title THEME composed by "Billy" Goldenberg.
"Night Gallery" became one of four rotating NBC mini-series under
the umbrella title "Four-In-One" -- episodes of each mini-series
appeared once every four weeks. Some lasted and become separate
series. The others disappeared. In addition to "Night Gallery", the
other mini-series in "Four-In-One" were "McCloud", "San Francisco
International Airport" and "The Psychiatrist";
For the regular TV series of "Night Gallery", the producers wanted
to take a different modern musical approach. So they contracted
one of the first all-electronic TV THEMEs from Gil Mellé who had
provided the unusual score for the Robert Wise film, "The Andromeda
Strain" the year before. Mellé's THEME was the one most associated
with the series, as hard as it may be to "hum the tune..."
For two seasons, "Night Gallery" was a one-hour series. In the
final 1972 - 73 season, the series was cut back to a half-hour,
and a more traditional THEME was composed by Eddie Sauter who was
a leader of the famed Sauter-Finegan orchestra -- and was one of the
most prestigious big band arrangers.]
Composer: Billy Goldenberg (ASCAP/BMI)
[professional name of William Leon Goldenberg]
1978 Publisher: Leeds Music Corp. (ASCAP)
2000 Publisher: MCA/Northern Music Company, Inc. (ASCAP),
of Los Angeles, CA
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[aka: "Night Gallery";
Writer Gil Mellé was listed in the BMI repertoire database as
"Gilbert Meels"!]
According to the book "Rod Serling's Night Gallery--An After-Hours
Tour" by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson, published in 1999 by Syracuse
University Press...Mellé's Main Title Theme was recorded in his own
electronic music studio using electronic instruments of his own
design -- including the "Elec-Tar", the "Percussotron III", and
the omninously named "Doomsday Machine"]
Composer: Gilbert John ("Gil") Mellé (BMI)
1978 Publisher: [unknown]
2000 Publisher: Universal/Duchess Music Corporation (BMI),
of Los Angeles, CA; and
Duchess Hawaii S/A
c/o Duchess Music,
a div. of MCA Music,
of New York, NY
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Composer: Eddie E. Sauter (ASCAP)
1978 Publisher: Leeds Music Corp. (ASCAP)
2000 Publisher: MCA/Northern Music Company, Inc. (ASCAP),
of Los Angeles, CA
Copyright Date: Nov. 24, 1972; EU 372 550.
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