Score for The Outer Limits season one episode "Controlled Experiment." Music composed and conducted by Dominic Frontiere. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
The extensive use of the harp by Frontiere is ground breaking...…….and gives me so much more appreciation of an instrument that I thought was really one dimensional
Memorable score and another classic episode not needing a monster. The first season for me .growing up in the 1960's, ( I am 65 now) I saw a lot of great classic t v shows but I got to go with the first season. The best of times if you lived growing up loving this show.
From one coming up on 63, scared the bejesus out of me...but would always make you think...later with our special new color TV, Star Trek would make you think more, deeper. Yes, a rich, deep childhood....I wonder how my 22 yr old son will recall his childhood. at our age...hopefully it will be good, hope I did it right for him.
@@AndieBlack13 star trek was o k but , the outer limits was in a class by itself. Limits made us look at ourselves, trek was space adventure, something which was done so much in 1950s science fiction movies.
@@randyacuna3248 Yes, I will admit upon further reflection, Outer Limits was more "cerebral" ...while Star Trek tended towards the action packed theme with a thought provoking ending, as in " Arena". Really two distinct approaches. The music of the two was no-contest, Dominic Frontiere prevailed with new scores virtually everywhere & Star Trek reused their music over & over.
@@AndieBlack13 yes dominic's music in the first season was heart wrenching at times , other times exciting, and so perfectly placed in each episode . Absolutely brilliant.
Of all the episodes on O.L. this is a true blue one. The beginning where the space craft enters and the city at night showing people walking gives a great mood for Dominic Frontier's music. The man knew how to blend in his music. He was a Icon for tv and the movies. RIP and thank you (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!
Dominic Frontiere wasn't your average or routine film & TV musician- in addition to working with Quinn Martin' s first TV series, "THE NEW BREED" in Fall 1961, his relationship with Leslie Stevens and his Daystar Productions company officially started with "STONEY BURKE" for ABC's Fall 1962 season, and when "THE OUTER LIMITS" TV pilot "PLEASE STAND BY" was being filmed in late 1962, Dominic Frontiere was already hard at work creating his eerie scores for the 1963 ABC series. In one of the soundtracks was an exceptional and eerie score using a harp with exceptional and expert precision, and, while Daystar Productions finished "THE OUTER LIMITS" on ABC in early 1965 (where it was replaced by "THE KING FAMILY" variety show) Leslie Stevens and his production company was filming "INCUBUS" (1966) which he also directed, their last production which used the Dominic Frontiere scores from "Controlled Experiment" as the opening theme of this somewhat unique abstract horror picture in which all the dialogue was spoken in Esperanto. Frontiere was also a production associate/associate producer for "THE OUTER LIMITS", a first for a noted film & TV musician, and a member of the Daystar Productions staff. ABC liked Dominic Frontiere's music so much, that the original scores were also used in both "THE FUGITIVE" and "THE RAT PATROL" series, which United Artists also co-produced. again, not many musicians in this business had this kind of superior quality and background that Frontiere had during his impressive reign in the industry!
@@randyacuna3248 "THE KING FAMILY" debuted on January 23, 1965, a week after "THE OUTER LIMITS" final ABC episode, "The Probe" aired on January 16, 1965.
@@MONGOOSE1ful thank you for the accuracy , I was to little to remember the dates, but I remember wondering why is it not showing anymore. To little to understand the rating system. Saturday night at 730 looking forward to the next episode and all of a sudden there's the king family. Ouch!.
I have to agree with you there, Nanoforge1. - Some of the series' sweetest and nostalgic music. Some of it unique to the episode, and other cues were re-used in subsequent episodes. But Frontiere got some good mileage out of his overall portfolio of compositions for the series, and did it so masterfully without being predictably rendundant or repetitious. I think he did stuff with harps virtually no one had yet dreamt of in 1963.
Bear Gunn true indeed. Don't forget, the opening strains of the theme for "The Invaders" was first showcased on an Outer Limits episode. Some of the action music from the episode The Forms Of Things Unknown has it, check it out!
Twilight Zone had Bernard Herrmann, who for a long time I have considered to be my favorite film/TV composer. Outer Limits had Dominic Frontiere, who must have studied under Herrmann or was hugely influenced by him, since Herrmann also liked to use the harp for a lot of his scores, and is almost as good as Herrmann, amazingly enough! But what's interesting is, Herrmann said of his score for Psycho (which interestingly enough was scripted by Joseph Stephano, writer/producer of The Outer Limits) that it was a Black & White score, he used only strings. In this score by Frontiere, he seems to almost do that same thing, in restricting it JUST to harps (except for the intro and some more stuff near the beginning), which is also a string-instrument. Whereas Herrmann used only violins, violas, cellos, and double basses for Psycho, in this score, Frontiere seems to finally settle on only using the harp, with marvelous results!
"Dominic Frontier" also provided the music track on the last season of the Fugitive in color 1966/1967 and Stoney Brook a western any many other tv shows as well as movie sound tracks
+Tony Rodrigues Yes. I'm trying to find the source of the cue used at the end of The Judgement Part II when Lt. Gerard shoots Fred Johnson - I'm presuming that cue to be Frontiere.
Indeed, I also recall when watching the ABC TV series "Rat Patrol" around 1966-67 thinking "Hey! I remember hearing that music on The Outer Limits!". Then seeing Dominic Frontiere's name in the credits confirmed it.
Another La La Land Records Dominic Frontiere boxed set is way overdue. Like the last one, it would be from his circa 1958-62 TV music library, much of which Elizalde pulled from to score Stoney Burke-and none of which was ever issued, except what's heard in the DVD set. I have the cue list and think I know the sources for making the boxed set happen. Let's do it in 2021!
Indeed - so true! Series creator and executive producer Leslie Stevens had to pull this lil' rabbit out of his hat to appease the ABC TV Network Management brass who were incessantly clamoring about this series overrunning production budgets. Many find the repetitive rewind/replays to be fairly irritating. I find the comic repartee between Morse and O'Connor to be quite entertaining. I give Stevens somewhat high marks for conjuring up a low-cost comedic sci-fi episode to appease the Network Brass. Net result - a lil' variety in this anthology, good comic relief, and agreed, a Great OL score.
@@beargunn7820 The score is what stands out most but the episode itself more than holds its own between the superb performances of Barry Morse, Carroll O'Connor, and Grace Lee Whitney. They indeed pulled one out of a hat here.
I read somewhere it was a pilot of sorts, an exploratory episode, a spin-off series, that was going to be pitched...using both Morse and O,conner as the main characters.
I fully agree, Ronald. The Limbo Being surely does qualify as a Bear. The proof of that, in my mind, is that he gave me a good scare the first time I watched it at around age 9. And get a load of the expression on test pilot Jim Darcy's face when he sees him... eyes open wider, mouth drops open... scared enough to leave a roadside flare burning in the hallway to ward him off. Yep, if it looks like a Bear and walks like a Bear, it's probably a Bear. :-) Hey, a guy named Bear Gunn should know a thing or two about Bears, right? I also call into question some of blogger PRINCEONE's other choices of "Bearless" episodes as well: "The Brain of Colonel Barham", the brain itself qualifies arguably as a Bear; "Cry of Silence" has menacing attacking tumbleweeds, boulders and frogs - "thousands of mad frogs!" . And "Production and Decay of Strange Particles" has the plainly visible and menacing atomic energy beings that form inside the radiation suits of the energy plant workers after they die from touching the new and dangerous radioisotope. Them be Bears, folks! Some of his claims were correct, but a good bit of it was nit-picking, too. I also agree with you that it is indeed a lighthearted Comedy. Barry Morse's gustatory reactions to coffee and cigarettes is a real hoot, not to mention his fastidious manner altogether. And Carroll O'Connor's dry wit and familiarity with Earth played well off of Morse's more uptight persona. Good comedy there. And you were right; this episode was the only one done for laughs. Your critics were nit-pickers. Take it from a lifelong fan and devotee of The Outer Limits. - Bear
A rather unusual episode that plays out like a Alfred Hitchcock Presents one. Carroll O'Connor & Barry Morse are aliens performing time-bending experiments in a run-down hotel.
I LOVED THIS TELEVISION SERIES AS A CHILD AND STILL DO !!!! HOWEVER, THIS WAS NOT ONE OF MY BEST LOVED EPISODES DESPITE AN OUTSTANDING CAST !!!! I WAS ABOUT SIX OR SEVEN YEARS OLD WHEN I FIRST SAW "CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT". I WAITED ALL WEEK TO SEE THIS AND WAS HOPEING TO BE SCARED HALF TO DEATH !!!! INSTEAD I FOUND THIS EPISODE AS TERRIFYING AS WATCHING A GLASS OF WATER !!!! BUT I SUPPOSE NOT EVERY EPISODE CAN BE AS CHILLING AS "CORPUS EARTHLING", OR "THE MUTANT" OR "Z-Z-Z-Z OR "THE INVISIBLE ENEMY" OR THAT EPISODE THAT STARRED WARREN STEVENS AS A SCIENTIST TRYING TO DEVELOPE A HORRIBLE WEAPON FOR THESE THREE PRO BASKETBALL PLAYERS DRESSED AS VERY TALL TERRIFYING" ALIEN SOLDIERS OR A DEEPLY EMOTIONAL EPISODE AS "THE INHERITORS" PART ONE AND PART TWO. "THE OUTER LIMITS" IS MY FAVORITE ALL TIME TELEVISION SERIES !!!!
In may of 1978 after my parents my younger brother and myself had found a house to rent wen we came back to the hotel we watched this episode of the outer limits it was the first time I have heard of the outer limits tv show the next day we went back to Spokane to pick up the moving truck that was parked next to my sister,s house then my mom drove the car & my father drove the moving truck And our dog patches was able to live with us & we went back to Everett to move into the house my parents had rented. I wish & mànifest in being able to afford to live in a house again but not go back in time ¬ change history just I want to be able to afford to live in a house & own a house in this time & year of 2020 & up & not go back in time & not change history I love my younger brother,s son & my nephew to stay existing .I love my younger brothers son & my nephew as well.
Can someone help me out with a musical question? At the 5:45 mark in this piece a harp run occurs. I don't think it's a glissando. It seems to be a diminished run. I am trying to understand it but it moves too fast. Can someone explain it to me? In a slow 4 count are these notes 32nd notes? Is it a run of 4 notes that gets repeated at each octave or is it a complete scale? For instance, using C as a reference note, is this line someting like a C-Eb-F#-A repeated in each octave or is more like a C-D-Eb-F-F#-G#-A-B-C that gets repeated in each octave? Thank you.
The only living experts I know who are most intimate with the technical side of DF’s pre-1965 TV music work are Maestro Larry Rapchak wearecontrollingtransmission.blogspot.com/2011/01/musical-spotlight-on-nightmare.html www.northbrooksymphony.org/artistic-leadership-change and Dr. Reba Wissner www.pendragonpress.com/book.php?id=748
Little known actress but had some pretty good parts. She was a band member in a movie called "Some Like it Hot", and my favorite part was yeoman on Star Trek.
Thanks again, I just checked it out and I remember seeing that episode. As a point of interest, the outside scene in the what appears to be abandoned town, is the same set used for the Andy of Mayberry show. You can see the Sheriff's office in the back ground.
OMG! At exactly 8.04 you can hear someone in the background of the recording studio saying "okay"!!! Actually, this recording is so crisp/clear that you can hear the musicians touching their instruments (e.g., bass) in between takes.
You got your bears mixed up,LOL!! "The Premonition" DID have the "Limbo Man"....check..."The Borderland"...hmmm..."The Special One"...wasn't Xenon 6 a monster in humanoid form? Same for "Soldier"...and in THE INHERITORS one doesn't see them. You kind of have a good point....and then,again...not....
I alternate on youtube from my usual youtube talking heads to tv and movie soundtracks like john williams work on lost in space, the various composers on star trek and twilight zone and of course outer limits. Stuff today is too woke, and the music isn't much better.
If you want to know what happens in this episode keep reading.. Its a event that has two endings. The first the woman shoots and kills her cheating husband coming out of a hotel elevating after leaving an affair with mistress. Then for the experiment of a higher source the exact scene happens again only this time something happens whereas she is not able to shoot him and they make up. To the best of my recollection it goes something like that.
What sucks is had the series not been moved from Monday to Saturday, the same mindblowing team led by Stefano and Frontiere may have lasted three or more years. Kinda wonder if they would have been able to keep up the quality. We will never know.
@@marcelmischeaux7256 I like the episode controlled experiment as well. there was an attempt at comedy with the second season episode "Behold Eck"which failed miserably according to all involved. And yes what does suck is the people who don't know the difference between an opinion and a fact
One of the most annoying and preposterous stories I've seen. The (seemingly) endless repetitive scenes of forward and backward time travel is extremely annoying. I had to watch it to the bitter end hoping there would be some salvation but alas there was not. Well, it's over now on Talking Pictures 22/04/2022 and is one to remember for the future - to be avoided!
