What were some of your first experiences in scoring TV? In the early 70s I was working for CBS Television in the music department. Though I wasn’t hired as a composer, I did get the opportunity to do a lot of writing, and so my earliest scores came from that time. The first credit I ever had in television for a score was on an episode of GUNSMOKE called...
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Bruce Broughton
In a previous interview published a while ago, you mentioned there were 2 films you would have liked to have done. One was HOWARD THE DUCK. Which was the other one? I wanted to do HOWARD THE DUCK until I saw what it was. I don’t remember the other one. I was being considered for HOWARD THE DUCK and I even got a ticket to meet the producer and...
Bruce Broughton is Lost in Space
When New Line Cinema determined to make a big screen version of the popular ‘60s TV show, LOST IN SPACE, they originally looked to John Williams as a likely candidate to score it. Williams, after all, had scored the original series and composed its memorable theme. When Williams proved not to be available, Jerry Goldsmith was signed...