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Fred Karlin

Born June 16, 1936 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died March 26, 2004 · aged 67

Frederick James Karlin (June 16, 1936 – March 26, 2004) was an American trumpeter, songwriter, and composer for film and television. Karlin's film scores included The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), The Babymaker (1970), The Little Ark (1972), Westworld (1973), Mixed Company (1974), Mastermind (1976), Futureworld (1976), Greased Lightning (1977), Ravagers (1979), Cloud Dancer (1980), and Strawberry Road (1…

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Westworld

Westworld · 1973

MovieAdventureScience Fiction

Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.

Ike

MovieDramaHistory

Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.

Futureworld

Futureworld · 1976

MovieActionAdventure

Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.

Yours, Mine and Ours

Yours, Mine and Ours · 1968

Yours, Mine and Ours

When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?

The Stalking Moon

The Stalking Moon · 1968

The Stalking Moon

While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sarah Carver, living with the tribe. When Sam learns that she was taken captive by an Indian named Salvaje ten years ago, he attempts to escort Sarah and her half-Native American son to his home in New Mexico. However, it soon becomes clear that Salvaje is hot on their trail.

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981"

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981" · 1981

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981"

MovieDramaTV Movie

Updated version of the Jacqueline Susann best selling 1960's novel shows the lives of three very different women who come to New York City to achieve fame and fortune in show business and get all messed up in the process.

The Spikes Gang

The Spikes Gang · 1974

The Spikes Gang

MovieWesternAction

Three teenage farm boys stumble upon Harry Spikes, a local bandit wounded in a gun battle. While Harry is recuperating, he regales the young men with stories of his exciting past. The adventurous tales inspire them to start a gang of their own. Failing at their first attempt to rob a bank, the boys convince the gruff Spikes to teach them the ways of the desperado.

Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.

Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. · 1977

Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.

MovieDramaTV Movie

Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.

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Westworld

Westworld · 1973

MovieAdventureScience Fiction

Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.

Original Music Composer

Ike

MovieDramaHistory

Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.

Original Music Composer

Futureworld

Futureworld · 1976

MovieActionAdventure

Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.

Original Music Composer

Yours, Mine and Ours

Yours, Mine and Ours · 1968

Yours, Mine and Ours

When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?

Original Music Composer

The Stalking Moon

The Stalking Moon · 1968

The Stalking Moon

While moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sarah Carver, living with the tribe. When Sam learns that she was taken captive by an Indian named Salvaje ten years ago, he attempts to escort Sarah and her half-Native American son to his home in New Mexico. However, it soon becomes clear that Salvaje is hot on their trail.

Original Music Composer

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981"

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981" · 1981

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981"

MovieDramaTV Movie

Updated version of the Jacqueline Susann best selling 1960's novel shows the lives of three very different women who come to New York City to achieve fame and fortune in show business and get all messed up in the process.

Original Music Composer

The Spikes Gang

The Spikes Gang · 1974

The Spikes Gang

MovieWesternAction

Three teenage farm boys stumble upon Harry Spikes, a local bandit wounded in a gun battle. While Harry is recuperating, he regales the young men with stories of his exciting past. The adventurous tales inspire them to start a gang of their own. Failing at their first attempt to rob a bank, the boys convince the gruff Spikes to teach them the ways of the desperado.

Original Music Composer

Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.

Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. · 1977

Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.

MovieDramaTV Movie

Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.

Original Music Composer

Up the Down Staircase

Up the Down Staircase · 1967

Up the Down Staircase

Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.

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Born Innocent

Born Innocent · 1976

MovieDramaTV Movie

A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one care worker sees her potential to rise above her tragic circumstances.

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Lovers and Other Strangers

Lovers and Other Strangers · 1970

Lovers and Other Strangers

MovieComedyDrama

Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. Also, Susan's father is carrying on an affair and her sex starved older sister Wilma is going through her troubles with her husband Johnny. All this is going on while Mike's best friend Jerry is trying to bed the maid of honor, Susan's cousin Brenda.

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Intimate Strangers

Intimate Strangers · 1977

Intimate Strangers

MovieDramaTV Movie

The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.

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The Gift of Love

The Gift of Love · 1978

The Gift of Love

MovieRomanceDrama

Inspired by O. Henry's short story about a young bride and groom, each of whom foolishly--but quite lovingly--sacrifices a treasured possession to buy the perfect Christmas gift for their mate.

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The Sterile Cuckoo

The Sterile Cuckoo · 1969

The Sterile Cuckoo

MovieComedyDrama

Uptight college freshman Jerry Payne finds a carefree friend in zany Pookie. After an awkward meeting on the bus, Pookie quickly works her way into Jerry's life. She makes an unannounced visit to Jerry's campus, and before long annoyance turns to affection, and friendship turns to romance. But with Pookie's increasingly neurotic behavior, how long can this love affair last?

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Ravagers

Ravagers · 1979

MovieScience FictionDrama

In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.

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The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish

The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish · 1977

The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish

MovieDramaHistory

A dramatization of the events leading up to the 1935 assassination of Huey Long, the flamboyant and controversial governor of Louisiana.

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Greased Lightning

Greased Lightning · 1977

Greased Lightning

MovieActionComedy

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.

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The Plutonium Incident

The Plutonium Incident · 1980

The Plutonium Incident

MovieDramaTV Movie

A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril.

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The Death of Richie

The Death of Richie · 1977

The Death of Richie

MovieDramaTV Movie

A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.

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Baby Sister

Baby Sister · 1983

MovieDramaRomance

Sultry college dropout Annie Burroughs moves in with her older sister Marsha and proceeds to break up the relationship between Marsha and her live-in boyfriend David Mitchell so Annie can begin a sensuous love affair and have David all for herself.

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Miracle on Ice

Miracle on Ice · 1981

MovieActionDrama

The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games.

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Bad Ronald

Bad Ronald · 1974

MovieTV MovieDrama

When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.

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Chosen Survivors

Chosen Survivors · 1974

Chosen Survivors

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, nearly two miles below the surface of the Earth. There they learn that a nuclear holocaust is taking place and that they've been "chosen" by computer to survive in the shelter in order to continue the human race. The shelter is designed to allow the people to exist underground comfortably for years, but they are faced with a threat nobody could have predicted: a colony of thousands of bloodthirsty vampire bats finds a way into the shelter and launches a series of vicious attacks where they claim the humans one by one.

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Love Leads the Way: A True Story

Love Leads the Way: A True Story · 1984

Love Leads the Way: A True Story

MovieDramaHistory

Based on the true story of Morris Frank and the first U.S. Seeing Eye Dog, Buddy.

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Inside the Third Reich

Inside the Third Reich · 1982

Inside the Third Reich

A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler’s young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer’s own monograph of the same title.

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Man from Atlantis

Man from Atlantis · 1977

Man from Atlantis

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Atlantis survivor Mark Harris breathes underwater, withstands extreme depth pressures and wields superhuman strength.

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Kaz

SeriesCrimeDrama

Kaz is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1978 to April 22, 1979.

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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald · 1977

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

SeriesDramaCrime

The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.

Original Music Composer

Ike

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

Ike, also known as Ike: The War Years, is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The screenplay by Melville Shavelson is based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and her 1975 autobiography, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair. The series aired from May 3–6, 1979 on ABC. During World War II, General Dwight D. 'Ike' Eisenhower serves as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe. On a personal level, he has an extramarital affair with his driver Kay Summersby.

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The Awakening Land

The Awakening Land · 1978

The Awakening Land

A lusty frontier saga about a pioneer woman and her love for her family, the man she marries, and the land on which she lives, dramatized from Conrad Richter's Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: 'The Trees;' 'The Fields;' and 'The Town.' The series originally aired on NBC in three installments from February 19 to February 21, 1978 and stars Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook.

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Blind Ambition

Blind Ambition · 1979

SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama

The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry · 1978

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

A three-part drama telling the story of a black girl and her family who try to hold onto their land during the Depression.

Music

Dream West

Dream West · 1986

Western locales lend authenticity to a biopic of explorer-politician John Charles Fremont (1813-90), `The Pathfinder', who commanded an expedition to map the Oregon Trail in 1842. The miniseries centers on his interactions with other historical figures, including Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Hart Benton and Kit Carson. Based on a novel by David Nevin.

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