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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spooky Owl!" data-source="post: 434770" data-attributes="member: 57984">Music makes so much difference, by the way -- too much, too little, or the wrong score can sink it.This is one of Bruce Broughton's iconic scores for DALLAS. But years later, someone decided there was "too much music" (which can indeed happen) and so much of the score for the closing scenes was removed for the original DVD release and some syndication packages.The music was gone from Ellie coming down the steps in the empty house, sitting down at the dining table, her "I have the rest of my life to listen to you" flashback with Jock (heresy!), and the boys coming in from their search to inform Mama that Daddy was most decidedly dead... All that music eliminated. The score only resuming as JR goes out back to find Jock's medallion in his pocket and get his freeze frame.Fortunately, all that music has been returned to the episode.But it did inform me of what they should have done: the moment is more effective when Miss Ellie wakes up, puts on her robe, and goes downstairs in the silence of the empty house, without music. The score only returning as she goes to sit down at the table. (That's how it ought to have been done originally).Yet another music moment screwed up later: Sue Ellen driving to Holly Harwood's house to catch Holly in bed with JR... The score removed (and presumably since returned).Now, I'm the first one to agree that, especially in series TV, excessive scoring is often used as a lazy, default creative choice. (Don't get me started about DYNASTY, about which executive Doug Cramer bragged that his show had twice the amount of music of an episode of DALLAS --- as if that's an inherently good thing). But the two scenes where the DALLAS music was later removed -- Ellie's final flashback with Jock, and Sue Ellen on her way to Holly's house -- were particularly effective moments, including musically.But perhaps that's why somebody removed them: anything that stands out and gets noticed, especially if it's good and really works, is what gets cut. (The same reason serial killers target children: the kids are so delightful!)Was any John Parker score ever cut? (Although his earlier DALLAS stuff was pretty decent).Apparently, though, that's all been fixed. (Correct me if I'm wrong --- or gaslighting).<img src="https://www.televisionofyore.com/uploads/9/3/0/3/9303799/dallas-s5e13-inside_orig.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 717px" /></blockquote>

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