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The Soundtrack Show

Star Trek the Original Series - the Music (Part III)

The Soundtrack Show

iHeartPodcasts

Film History, Music History, Tv & Film, Music

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Music production on a full season of Star Trek begins! Our first two composers get to work, as Alexander Courage and Fred Steiner start writing and recording music at a frantic pace. We'll hear the rest of Courage's work on season one, and listen to Steiner's amazing contributions to Star Trek's musical vocabulary. We also examine the critical role played by the music editors, as they work to establish and shape the music of season one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Please take your seats. Our show is about to begin.

0:38.8

Desilu's music director, Wilbur Hatch and his five hired composers began recording Star Trek The Original Series

0:47.0

season one in August of 1966.

0:51.4

This is the soundtrack show. Oh, Our composers get to work.

1:35.0

Welcome back to the soundtrack show.

1:37.0

I'm your host David W Collins,

1:39.0

and at long last we are in full production

1:42.0

on the musical scores of the first season of

1:44.3

Star Trek the original series. Our first two hired episodic composers

1:49.8

Alexander Sandy Courage, who also wrote the main theme of Star Trek, thus giving him a music

1:55.2

credit in all 79 episodes of the entire series, and composer Fred Steiner, who has the distinction

2:01.6

of having written the most music for the series overall

2:04.4

began composing music in parallel on their assigned episodes beginning in August of

2:10.2

1966 and looking at the dates the schedule was typical of TV production, a whirlwind of fast-paced

2:17.4

riding and recording, oftentimes scoring an episode just a few weeks before it hit the

2:22.1

airwaves.

2:23.0

The first episode to air, for example, is The Man Trap,

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