@@georgeolschewski4651 Actually, Filmation scored an entirely new soundtrack for Flash Gordon. Some of it sounds similar but it's all new. However, this cut did appear on Jason of Star Command, Space Academy and numerous other Filmation series.
I always liked that it still sounded like Star Trek but with a VERY smooth and groovy 70s style. Definitely a fantastic and very fitting Soundtrack for the animated Series.
This WAS Saturday mornings for me, age 7 in 1973. As kids we all learned Kirk's middle name of Tiberius from this series. I learned how to draw the USS Enterprise from these too but you had to capture it quickly since VCR's either didn't exist then or they weren't for mere mortals. Oh and the 7. Enterprise Attacked cue at 6:29. As good as anything on the original series.
I *love* that cue. But I believe it's not original to this show but is actually Filmation stock. I've seen a pre-TAS clip of Filmation's space Treasure Island that used it.
I watched this on Saturday mornings growing up and lived not only the show but the music, especially track number 7, "Enterprise Attacked" with the staccato violins.
I remember watching this series on Television. And when I was at the New York Anime Festival 2008 I stopped at one of the discount dealers and I found the Star Trek Animated series on DVD and brought it along other older Anime that they where selling at a Discount.
@@realNom2mooncow Goofy is not the term I'd employ, though ; true, the cartoon format allowed the directors to come up with stories that were a lot more fantasy-oriented than the first series, but I think that TAS still remained very serious and adult-oriented all the same.
Even though this music get re-used over and over in the series, I never get sick of it. It's really slick and groovy. When "Fire Phasers" or "Enterprise Attacked" gets played you know things are going down.
These groovy thumping bass lines, flutes, horns, violins and wah wah guitars have been stuck in my head for decades. I still hum them in my head to this day. I think they calm me and give me comfort. Especially living in these uncertain times. Thank you musicians, and fellow creators of Star Trek The Animated Series. You’re keeping me sane. 🖖🏽😌
Track 7 "The Enterprise Attacked" is a great piece of suspense music, I have not heard it since I saw this series on TV in the 1970's but had it in my head all this time!
I just started watching this again on paramount +. I remember being totally blown away that it even existed in the 70s... even as a kid I was stunned that this would be shown on Saturday mornings. I loved how straight and almost cerebral and professional all the characters are at all times (with Bones being the one to slightly crack to add tension). This in totally stark contrast to all the other Saturday morning pablum. It kind of gave me a sense that whomever was behind all the other programming underestimated young people somehow. So excited to have rediscovered it. And hearing the soundtrack in isolation is just so wonderful.
Simply the best soundtrack for an animated series! Because of the sheer excitement it's creates amongst the audience. One shouldn't argue on it especially when a person happened to be a cult follower of this particular series! 😉 A fan and an admirer from Pakistan.
The New Adventures of Batman is my all time favorite animated version of Batman since that's the version I was introduced to first at the age of 5. One reason the Moon Man is my favorite episode is because the Battle Stations music was heard on it. And I think the Bermuda Rectangle episode had it too. I wish the Battle Stations music had been used more in that series. I know Tarzan Lord of the Jungle used it a lot.
No. 7 HAS to be THE MOST ICONIC piece of music from TAS! I myself wind up humming it from time to time STRAIGHT from memory...it's positively EPIC! 😁😁😁😁
@@SinewRending 1973 for me--as I watched it in my kiddie days when originally broadcast.. It's very memorable. My other favorite that also esp. sticks in the brain is "On the Viewscreen" at 8:47.
@@SinewRending Yes. There have been other efforts to compile ST: TAS music on UA-cam with some additional music not found here. Here's one, my first find for TAS music: ua-cam.com/video/p03jG546GQc/v-deo.html Two tracks come to mind from that link: at 13.00 and 13.44 (there may be others). The second one (13.44) is another favorite of mine. In fact, as I was a kid at the time that music and the one here called "Battle Stations" at 11:24 I think of esp.--from another Filmation production--as Lassie and the Rescue Rangers music, which ran concurrently with ST: TAS from 1973 to 1975, but on ABC (and with Ted Knight from the Mary Tyler Moore show doing the voice of the Rangers' father, Ben Turner). Those two musical pieces, as I recollect it from decades ago, were commonly played on that show more than ST: TAS itself--but the Ray Ellis stuff was used on both. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie%27s_Rescue_Rangers
Strangely, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear that music is a fan made trailer someone did for a project called USS Bonaventure. Seemed like the ship was getting attacked from every angle and there was no escape.
Can you imagine someone who played any of those instruments back then listening to their contribution to this soundtrack? I loved this series as a kid. The opening theme and, "Fire Phasers" were my favorite scores.
Any time I hear this music it takes me right back to Saturday mornings!!! I love the fact that slowly more and more of these stories and characters are being brought into Star Trek cannon!
Oh WOW! You don't even realize how much you miss this music until you haven't heard it for a long time. It is so familiar and iconic! Man, this really takes me back. It really is great score! Ray Elis did a fantastic job. Thank you for sharing this!
7:05 is the one piece that I've been humming to myself ever since I was a kid whenever I find myself in some boring, repetitive task that would be easy to animate, I find myself providing this tune as the appropriate soundtrack.
Grew up watching Filmation shows from late 60s until late 70s but oddly enough I did not watch this animated series. Still I heard many of these underscores on other Filmation shows of this era. Didn’t realize at the time but he was responsible for many of music of first season of late 60s Spider-Man cartoon. Ray Ellis was big part of my youth without knowing it at the time. Right up there with Hoyt Curtin’s music for Hanna-Barbera shows.
The theme tune, the music at 02:26 and 06:30 are the 3 pieces I mostly remember from my childhood when watching the animated series. I thought it was really good considering the animation technology available at that time. :)
I discovered Star Trek through the animated series in 1973 when I was 8 years old. My dad didn't watch the TOS when it was on, so I never knew it existed. Imagine my surprise when I saw "real" Star Trek on TV one afternoon about a year later.
It’s crazy. I remember watching this in 1975 or 76 when I was 5. This was my intro to Star Trek. I haven’t seen this cartoon since then but I remember the music vividly. The one piece that builds slowly and then has the dramatic trumpets I absolutely remember.
It was. Battle Stations was heard on many Filmation shows during the 70's. Tarzan Lord of the Jungle used it a lot. My favorite episode of the New Adventures of Batman used it. The episode was The Moon Man. I only wish the 77 Batman series would have used it more. I've also heard Battle Stations on The Super 7 cartoons, and the animated Shazam as well.
The publisher for the background music that Filmation Associates used was Shermeley Music Publishing effective 1968 when Spencer Raymond and Robert Allen did the amazing background for "FANTASTIC VOYAGE", the ABC Saturday Morning cartoon series that debuted in Fall 1968, produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Ray Ellis, who began composing his music for Filmation was billed under the pseudonym of "Yvette Blais & Jeff Micheals", and throughout most of the 1970s and early 80s, all his and Allen/Raymond's music was used in most of the Filmation shows, while John Marion and Gordon Zahler's scores were exclusively used for the "SUPERMAN/AQUAMAN, and BATMAN" shows in the late 1960s in association with National Periodical Publications TV (now DC Comics) and Ray Ellis began his Filmation music career with "THE ARCHIE SHOW" in 1968, but it was his amazing score for the Grantray-Lawrence and Krantz cartoon series "SPIDER-MAN" for ABC Saturday Mornings in Fall 1967 that was made in Canada.
If you check out of Fantastic Voyage closing credits ua-cam.com/video/SdtzonGdr1o/v-deo.html @ 2 minute 17 second mark that little riff near end of song sounded a lot like one of the musical cues from Spider-Man. The pseudonym of "Yvette Blais & Jeff Micheals" stood for Ellis wife and Jeff and Michael were first names of producer, Norm Prescott's sons.
@@bothamcityrz Agreed. I wish there were soundtracks for the New Adventures of Batman, my all time favorite and for Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle, even though outside their unique main titles, most of their music was shared from these toons. But outside the 1960's DC Super Heroes, I loved the music to those 2 cartoons as well as the live action Shazam, and the animated Lone Ranger, Zorro and Blackstar toons.
RE: "Yvette Blais & Jeff Micheals" Yep. Ray was Yvette (his wife's name). "Jeff Michaels" was Lou Scheimer's Filmation's co-producer Norm Prescott, cojoining the first names of his two sons together for the pseudonym (though, admittedly, his exact role in the music's production with Ellis is unclear to me).
Just proves you can find anything on UA-cam. I recently went through the series on DVD, first time I've watched any of TAS in decades. Brought back a FLOOD of memories. Was too young for the original airings, but caught them whenever I could as an 8-11 year old on Nickelodeon on Sunday mornings during the '80s. Thanks for this!
What great music, I remember every one of these songs like it was yesterday and it wasn't!!! My favorites are #3 Something ahead, #6 Fire Phasers, #7 Enterprise Attacked, #12 Battle Stations, but they're all good! What a great time to be alive, I always knew I was a boy, and teachers weren't evil!
Ah Saturday mornings are not what they used to be ! I'd jump out of bed, walk past my parents room and RUN to the TV to watch Star Trek..I miss those fun times !
It has been 45 years or so since I saw the series as a kid, and I still remember the melodies from the sound track. Theme 7 is probably as iconic as the fight theme from the original series (cf "Amok Time", the duel scene).
I am 55 and watched this series as a kid AND THIS MUSIC STILL STICKS IN MY HEAD. Truly epic, how many animated series do that kind of thing? Absolutely love this.
For its time, this was one of Filmation’s finest work! Fans are still copying its format to this day ( there’s even a segment of ST TNG in this show’s style) 🪐
I really like all of the music from Star Trek: The Animated Series. 6:29 Orion Pirate Captain: "Prepare to surrender your cargo! OR BE DESTROYED!" (my favorite quote from Star Trek: The Animated Series, Season 2 Episode 1 "Pirates of Orion")
The greatest thing about this series it that it was straight up Star Trek adventure and even though it was animated, it was not an insipid cartoon that pandered to the lowest common denominator.
@@Pyrotech56 You're quite right, and they used it on "Shazam!" and "Ark II" as well as on allegedly 'exciting' moments of their (Filmation's) truly awful comedy cartoons of the period as well. I'm more than certain that Ray Ellis got no further royalties from the constant recycling of his compositions at all.
It’s amazing that I remember that piece of music so well. I was maybe 5 when I last saw this. Maybe the music was recycled but I think of on what show. Great music though!
11:21 to 11:56 is my all time favorite Filmation track of all time. I call it the danger theme music. I mostly heard it on Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle the most number of times. I've also heard it on the Brady Kids a time or two. I've heard it on the live action Shazam series. I think I've also heard it on the Super 7 cartoons and Sport Billy. My all time favorite Filmation cartoon is the New Adventures of Batman in 1977. That track was mostly played on the Moon Man (my favorite episode) and a couple of times on the underwater episode The Bermuda Rectangle with Professor Bubbles. I wish the Batman cartoon could have used that track more often. On here, this is the abbreviated version. Too bad we don't have the extended version on here. But out of all Filmation's music scores. This track, which I guess is part of Red Alert is my all time favorite. Thanks for sharing!!
That track is called “Battle Stations”. It’s incomplete though (this is how it was on the CD). The track was originally longer. This is because the original master tapes for TAS are considered lost. When La-La-Land Records released the music for their Star Trek 50th CD, they had to take the music from the mono music stems and that is what you here in the video.
Yes This is Impending Doom from Tarzan the Apeman I had nightmares as a kid and this music played in them. I thought I’d never find it on the internet to hear it in the clear and here it is!!!
This is amazing; I thought the originals were pitched in the bin by Hallmark, or whoever ended up with the archives! A lot of these tracks were repurposed by Filmation throughout the seventies, and but for a couple of original tracks, this could be the soundtrack to Flash Gordon, or Tarzan or Shazam or almost anything until 1983 and He-Man. They really watered down the whiskey. But as overused as they were, this is some solid musical accompaniment. Hearing it again now is reactivating some dormant memories of me, sprawled in front of the family TV like a cat in a sunbeam.
Ray Ellis was supposed to score *He-Man* as well. But since it was being sold into first-run syndication and wasn't a proven property yet, he had jitters about whether or not the show would make it or if he'd get proper royalties, so he backed out. Haim Saban and Shuki Levy taking over on *He-Man* was largely last-minute.
videojomo The original master tapes of the TAS music are still considered lost. The music used in this video was taken from the La La Land Records CD which got the music from the mono music stems from the episodes.
Can't believe that no one yet on UA-cam has done an audio swap of the music cues from an Original Series episode with the Animated Series, or vice versa...
Wouldn't you just love an episode of ST: Lower Decks and ST: The Animated Series crossover story, with this as the incidental music?! Ensigns Boimler and Tendi would be in fan heaven!
I’m sure the guys at Lower Decks are looking at the fan Animated from Gazzelle and thinking to themselves “fcuk yeah we’ve got to do a collaboration (official or otherwise)”
GIANT tribbles. (OK, actually giant colonies of normal-sized tribbles, as it turned out.) ^_^ To be fair, the Klingons had legitimate grievances with Cyrano Jones. Tribbles loose on a planet could mean starvation for the inhabitants, or at least heavy government expenditures to feed the inhabitants until the tribbles were exterminated. And then he made it worse by stealing their genetically-engineered tribble predator. I don't think I could have blamed Kirk if he HAD just handed Jones over to Koloth, along with the glommer.
The Animated Series respected the spirit and vision of the Original...and so did the music. Here's hoping that Ray Ellis is conducting an angelic orchestra in Heaven.
Only watched a handful of episodes of this series, but grew up with the Filmation Treasure Island movie! Love these tracks! Especially, 6:29 and 14:44 ! :)
I remember as a kid this being on in the Summer, along with the. Brady kids, also animated...priceless! Thank you for sharing this! Live long, and prosper!
This is just fantastic! Thanks for posting this. I watched ST:TAS as an older child when it debuted in 1973 and apart from my interest in the episodes, I have always and forever been struck by the show's music, which, as others have noted, is just as comparable of an achievement as The Original Series (I even like the introductory theme music, with its stronger classical music bent, better than The Original Series)
Really? Here I thought that The Original Series was the one with the "stronger classical music bent." Ray Ellis composed a similar but different theme for The Animated Series, with a jazzier, funkier, soulful 70's bent. And no, it's not "better," just different.
@@imfsresidentotaku9699 TOS's theme music has a bit more of that theremin vibe. At least to me. I like the stronger piano and horns of TAS's theme music
@@theattic2569 I sure remember the classic Filmation cartoons and this being one of them. So great growing up during that era when Saturday morning shows were prime.
That exact track I remember from Jason Of Star Command on Saturday mornings!!!!!! It is Fabulous!!! Now if I could just get the score from tarzan the ape man the track called impending doom
5:38 to 6:29 Captain Kirk: [in anger] "I demand an explanation for this unprovoked attack!" Romulan Commander: "Unprovoked? My dear Captain, your ship trespassed into Romulan territory, in defiance of your own treaty. We had no choice but to defend ourselves." Captain Kirk: [protesting] "We came nowhere near Romulan territory. I deny all charges and plan to file a detailed complaint with the Federation." Romulan Commander: "You seem to forget that invasion of Romulan territory is punishable by DEATH." (from "Star Trek: The Animated Series" Season 2, Episode 3 "The Practical Joker")
@@teedup8995 I remember that room. The Holographic Rec Room literally became an interesting and greatly explored, and fascinating concept in many past, present, and current new Star Trek TV Series.
At 6 min 35 sec. to 8 mins. This is the music that has stayed with me all my life . I'm 55 years old.
Classic dramatic Filmation music. They used it in the 80s Flash Gordon animated series too.
Same here I sometimes hum it to myself when I'm working
@@CristySFM1234same here.
@@georgeolschewski4651 Actually, Filmation scored an entirely new soundtrack for Flash Gordon. Some of it sounds similar but it's all new. However, this cut did appear on Jason of Star Command, Space Academy and numerous other Filmation series.
Same here. I love this music. I'm 53 years old. 😊
To all who listen, the spirit of Ray Ellis lives on in his excellent music
Ray Ellis composed some great music for the 60’s Spider-Man cartoon, too!
I think he did a good job at keeping the spirit of the original show while adding his own touch.
Lurker1979 I agree.
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It's uncanny how much this music was the score the my childhood!
YES IN DEED DEFINTLY I KNOW WHAT YOU LOGICAL MEAN ABOUT THAT BEFORE ZINCHO !
I always liked that it still sounded like Star Trek but with a VERY smooth and groovy 70s style. Definitely a fantastic and very fitting Soundtrack for the animated Series.
Ray Eillis has left a very rich reputation and legacy for all time , to be cherished forever
This WAS Saturday mornings for me, age 7 in 1973. As kids we all learned Kirk's middle name of Tiberius from this series.
I learned how to draw the USS Enterprise from these too but you had to capture it quickly since VCR's either didn't exist then or they weren't for mere mortals.
Oh and the 7. Enterprise Attacked cue at 6:29. As good as anything on the original series.
Me too, but I was six! Brings back great memories of being a kid!
I was 10 when it began. LLAP. 🖖
This was also the series that introduced the hollow deck
I *love* that cue. But I believe it's not original to this show but is actually Filmation stock. I've seen a pre-TAS clip of Filmation's space Treasure Island that used it.
I watched this on Saturday mornings growing up and lived not only the show but the music, especially track number 7, "Enterprise Attacked" with the staccato violins.
This show was a good and proper continuation of the original series. It gave us years 4 and 5 of the crew's journey.
I remember watching this series on Television. And when I was at the New York Anime Festival 2008 I stopped at one of the discount dealers and I found the Star Trek Animated series on DVD and brought it along other older Anime that they where selling at a Discount.
It was very goofy though
@@realNom2mooncow But in the best way.
THIS WEEKEND IS THE DEBUT OF TAS 50 YEARS 8TH OF SEPTEMBER 1973|2023 WOW!
@@realNom2mooncow Goofy is not the term I'd employ, though ; true, the cartoon format allowed the directors to come up with stories that were a lot more fantasy-oriented than the first series, but I think that TAS still remained very serious and adult-oriented all the same.
Even though this music get re-used over and over in the series, I never get sick of it. It's really slick and groovy. When "Fire Phasers" or "Enterprise Attacked" gets played you know things are going down.
These groovy thumping bass lines, flutes, horns, violins and wah wah guitars have been stuck in my head for decades. I still hum them in my head to this day. I think they calm me and give me comfort. Especially living in these uncertain times. Thank you musicians, and fellow creators of Star Trek The Animated Series. You’re keeping me sane. 🖖🏽😌
Track 7 "The Enterprise Attacked" is a great piece of suspense music, I have not heard it since I saw this series on TV in the 1970's but had it in my head all this time!
This and Jonny Quest music,....
WOW.....❤❤❤
I just started watching this again on paramount +. I remember being totally blown away that it even existed in the 70s... even as a kid I was stunned that this would be shown on Saturday mornings. I loved how straight and almost cerebral and professional all the characters are at all times (with Bones being the one to slightly crack to add tension). This in totally stark contrast to all the other Saturday morning pablum. It kind of gave me a sense that whomever was behind all the other programming underestimated young people somehow. So excited to have rediscovered it. And hearing the soundtrack in isolation is just so wonderful.
Adding more pop-oriented instruments (electric guitar/bass/trap drum kit) to the orchestra was a great touch--
Simply the best soundtrack for an animated series! Because of the sheer excitement it's creates amongst the audience. One shouldn't argue on it especially when a person happened to be a cult follower of this particular series! 😉 A fan and an admirer from Pakistan.
While I do love this a lot (and have the LaLa Records CD of it) I have to give the soundtrack championship to Space Battleship Yamato/Star Blazers.
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Currently binge watching The New Adventures of Batman and I didn't notice this until now but several episodes reuse cues from this series.
How are you binge watching it? Streaming?
Yeah on iTunes
I also started Space Sentinels today so I’m gonna see if any of these tracks show up there as well
Same with the live action Shazam! And Isis hour
The Shazam and isis both had the same executive producers. They produced TAS, Space Academy, a bunch of cartoons, Ark II, and Jason of Star Command.
The New Adventures of Batman is my all time favorite animated version of Batman since that's the version I was introduced to first at the age of 5. One reason the Moon Man is my favorite episode is because the Battle Stations music was heard on it. And I think the Bermuda Rectangle episode had it too. I wish the Battle Stations music had been used more in that series. I know Tarzan Lord of the Jungle used it a lot.
No. 7 HAS to be THE MOST ICONIC piece of music from TAS! I myself wind up humming it from time to time STRAIGHT from memory...it's positively EPIC! 😁😁😁😁
I do that too, as far back as 1983. It is my favorite.
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1973 for me--as I watched it in my kiddie days when originally broadcast.. It's very memorable. My other favorite that also esp. sticks in the brain is "On the Viewscreen" at 8:47.
@@sail2byzantium There seems to be a piece missing from this collection, however.
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Yes. There have been other efforts to compile ST: TAS music on UA-cam with some additional music not found here. Here's one, my first find for TAS music: ua-cam.com/video/p03jG546GQc/v-deo.html
Two tracks come to mind from that link: at 13.00 and 13.44 (there may be others). The second one (13.44) is another favorite of mine. In fact, as I was a kid at the time that music and the one here called "Battle Stations" at 11:24 I think of esp.--from another Filmation production--as Lassie and the Rescue Rangers music, which ran concurrently with ST: TAS from 1973 to 1975, but on ABC (and with Ted Knight from the Mary Tyler Moore show doing the voice of the Rangers' father, Ben Turner). Those two musical pieces, as I recollect it from decades ago, were commonly played on that show more than ST: TAS itself--but the Ray Ellis stuff was used on both. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie%27s_Rescue_Rangers
Strangely, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear that music is a fan made trailer someone did for a project called USS Bonaventure. Seemed like the ship was getting attacked from every angle and there was no escape.
In my sixties and this is still in my memory banks.
Can you imagine someone who played any of those instruments back then listening to their contribution to this soundtrack? I loved this series as a kid. The opening theme and, "Fire Phasers" were my favorite scores.
Any time I hear this music it takes me right back to Saturday mornings!!! I love the fact that slowly more and more of these stories and characters are being brought into Star Trek cannon!
waited 45 yrs to hear this
Oh WOW! You don't even realize how much you miss this music until you haven't heard it for a long time. It is so familiar and iconic! Man, this really takes me back. It really is great score! Ray Elis did a fantastic job. Thank you for sharing this!
What an amazing career this guy had...
3:22..... that tune always gave me goosebumps. Thanks for the trip back in memory lane!
No problem. Glad you enjoyed it.
Ys😊 it's short but it gave me chills 50yrs ago as well as now.
7:05 is the one piece that I've been humming to myself ever since I was a kid whenever I find myself in some boring, repetitive task that would be easy to animate, I find myself providing this tune as the appropriate soundtrack.
Oh my gosh, ME TOO! LOL!
Agreed! And this music was definitely used for other kids' shows in the 1970s, I just can't think of what!
Me, too!
A lot of his 60s Spider-Man cartoon music is stuck in my head, also!
it's an ear worm for sure lmao
Grew up watching Filmation shows from late 60s until late 70s but oddly enough I did not watch this animated series. Still I heard many of these underscores on other Filmation shows of this era. Didn’t realize at the time but he was responsible for many of music of first season of late 60s Spider-Man cartoon. Ray Ellis was big part of my youth without knowing it at the time. Right up there with Hoyt Curtin’s music for Hanna-Barbera shows.
Ray Ellis created a classic masterpiece. So nostalgic & calming every time I hear it. Thanks for posting it.
The theme tune, the music at 02:26 and 06:30 are the 3 pieces I mostly remember from my childhood when watching the animated series. I thought it was really good considering the animation technology available at that time. :)
I love the Music from the Animated Series of Star Trek!..
I discovered Star Trek through the animated series in 1973 when I was 8 years old. My dad didn't watch the TOS when it was on, so I never knew it existed. Imagine my surprise when I saw "real" Star Trek on TV one afternoon about a year later.
The Eillis dynasty created a brilliant legacy for all to cherish
This soundtrack, along with Johnny Quest and Speed Racer, are the musical scores of my youth. This was a pleasant trip down memory lane. Thank you. 😊
I live close to the old Filmation studio location in Reseda, Calif.
Listening to this, you made an old spacedog cry! Thanks. LLAP
a i I’m glad that you enjoyed it.
#7 , #12, #17....classic filmation music....loved it!
This brings back so many memories. This is one tv score that is in my top 5.
It’s crazy. I remember watching this in 1975 or 76 when I was 5. This was my intro to Star Trek. I haven’t seen this cartoon since then but I remember the music vividly. The one piece that builds slowly and then has the dramatic trumpets I absolutely remember.
I'm pretty sure "Battle Stations" at 11:24 was used in Filmation's Shazam!
It was. Battle Stations was heard on many Filmation shows during the 70's. Tarzan Lord of the Jungle used it a lot. My favorite episode of the New Adventures of Batman used it. The episode was The Moon Man. I only wish the 77 Batman series would have used it more. I've also heard Battle Stations on The Super 7 cartoons, and the animated Shazam as well.
They used it in an episode from season 1 called Doom Buggy
9:40 I don't know what makes this so memorable, but it just is. I hear this in my sleep.
Genuinely think the animated theme is better than the classic TOS theme!
maybe
The publisher for the background music that Filmation Associates used was Shermeley Music Publishing effective 1968 when Spencer Raymond and Robert Allen did the amazing background for "FANTASTIC VOYAGE", the ABC Saturday Morning cartoon series that debuted in Fall 1968, produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Ray Ellis, who began composing his music for Filmation was billed under the pseudonym of "Yvette Blais & Jeff Micheals", and throughout most of the 1970s and early 80s, all his and Allen/Raymond's music was used in most of the Filmation shows, while John Marion and Gordon Zahler's scores were exclusively used for the "SUPERMAN/AQUAMAN, and BATMAN" shows in the late 1960s in association with National Periodical Publications TV (now DC Comics) and Ray Ellis began his Filmation music career with "THE ARCHIE SHOW" in 1968, but it was his amazing score for the Grantray-Lawrence and Krantz cartoon series "SPIDER-MAN" for ABC Saturday Mornings in Fall 1967 that was made in Canada.
I recognize some of these exact tracks being used in "Jason Of Star Command"! example 6:29 to 8:00!
If you check out of Fantastic Voyage closing credits ua-cam.com/video/SdtzonGdr1o/v-deo.html @ 2 minute 17 second mark that little riff near end of song sounded a lot like one of the musical cues from Spider-Man. The pseudonym of "Yvette Blais & Jeff Micheals" stood for Ellis wife and Jeff and Michael were first names of producer, Norm Prescott's sons.
I wish there were a complete collection of Filmation music. All of it was fantastic -- Shazam, Isis, Star Trek, Ark II....
@@bothamcityrz Agreed. I wish there were soundtracks for the New Adventures of Batman, my all time favorite and for Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle, even though outside their unique main titles, most of their music was shared from these toons. But outside the 1960's DC Super Heroes, I loved the music to those 2 cartoons as well as the live action Shazam, and the animated Lone Ranger, Zorro and Blackstar toons.
RE: "Yvette Blais & Jeff Micheals"
Yep. Ray was Yvette (his wife's name). "Jeff Michaels" was Lou Scheimer's Filmation's co-producer Norm Prescott, cojoining the first names of his two sons together for the pseudonym (though, admittedly, his exact role in the music's production with Ellis is unclear to me).
Just proves you can find anything on UA-cam. I recently went through the series on DVD, first time I've watched any of TAS in decades. Brought back a FLOOD of memories. Was too young for the original airings, but caught them whenever I could as an 8-11 year old on Nickelodeon on Sunday mornings during the '80s.
Thanks for this!
What great music, I remember every one of these songs like it was yesterday and it wasn't!!! My favorites are #3 Something ahead, #6 Fire Phasers, #7 Enterprise Attacked, #12 Battle Stations, but they're all good! What a great time to be alive, I always knew I was a boy, and teachers weren't evil!
Ah Saturday mornings are not what they used to be ! I'd jump out of bed, walk past my parents room and RUN to the TV to watch Star Trek..I miss those fun times !
GOOD FOR YOU SON ZINCHO !
❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊❤😂🎉
The que at 15:30 was my favorite. With the Warp Drive Sound FX in the background straining to full power!
The what?
It has been 45 years or so since I saw the series as a kid, and I still remember the melodies from the sound track. Theme 7 is probably as iconic as the fight theme from the original series (cf "Amok Time", the duel scene).
I just remember that music cuz it showed a crab going at it with a butter knife
Don't know why but I love these pieces
I had no idea it was Ray Ellis that composed this, no wonder it’s amazing.
I am 55 and watched this series as a kid AND THIS MUSIC STILL STICKS IN MY HEAD. Truly epic, how many animated series do that kind of thing? Absolutely love this.
I wish this whole soundtrack was on iTunes. I would put it on my Star Trek soundtrack playlist.
For its time, this was one of Filmation’s finest work! Fans are still copying its format to this day ( there’s even a segment of ST TNG in this show’s style) 🪐
I adore this music. There’s something magical about it.
Oh thanks so much for posting this! Been wanting to hear "Battle Stations" again for decades!!! Wish fulfilled!
I really like all of the music from Star Trek: The Animated Series.
6:29 Orion Pirate Captain: "Prepare to surrender your cargo! OR BE DESTROYED!" (my favorite quote from Star Trek: The Animated Series, Season 2 Episode 1 "Pirates of Orion")
The greatest thing about this series it that it was straight up Star Trek adventure and even though it was animated, it was not an insipid cartoon that pandered to the lowest common denominator.
*cough* NuTrek *cough*
No annoying twin kids with a stupid anthropomorphic pet.
It's actually the dramatic theme at 6:26 that I came to hear in this clip. It sounds great remastered.
They also used this in "Jason of Star Command," too!
@@Pyrotech56 You're quite right, and they used it on "Shazam!" and "Ark II" as well as on allegedly 'exciting' moments of their (Filmation's) truly awful comedy cartoons of the period as well. I'm more than certain that Ray Ellis got no further royalties from the constant recycling of his compositions at all.
me too!
It’s amazing that I remember that piece of music so well. I was maybe 5 when I last saw this. Maybe the music was recycled but I think of on what show. Great music though!
My favourite cue. Was heard several times on the New Adventures of Batman too.
I rather like Supplemental Log @ 12:06. Very relaxing.
11:21 to 11:56 is my all time favorite Filmation track of all time. I call it the danger theme music. I mostly heard it on Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle the most number of times. I've also heard it on the Brady Kids a time or two. I've heard it on the live action Shazam series. I think I've also heard it on the Super 7 cartoons and Sport Billy. My all time favorite Filmation cartoon is the New Adventures of Batman in 1977. That track was mostly played on the Moon Man (my favorite episode) and a couple of times on the underwater episode The Bermuda Rectangle with Professor Bubbles. I wish the Batman cartoon could have used that track more often. On here, this is the abbreviated version. Too bad we don't have the extended version on here. But out of all Filmation's music scores. This track, which I guess is part of Red Alert is my all time favorite. Thanks for sharing!!
That track is called “Battle Stations”. It’s incomplete though (this is how it was on the CD). The track was originally longer. This is because the original master tapes for TAS are considered lost. When La-La-Land Records released the music for their Star Trek 50th CD, they had to take the music from the mono music stems and that is what you here in the video.
Some of the Star Trek The Animated Series music cues were also used on the episodes of Sport Billy.
Used in the Shazam live action show whenever kids are in danger and when Captain Marvel is needed...fast.
Yes This is Impending Doom from Tarzan the Apeman I had nightmares as a kid and this music played in them.
I thought I’d never find it on the internet to hear it in the clear and here it is!!!
IT A PITY ABOUT JOANNE CAMERON WHICH WHO HAD STARRED IN THE POWER OF ISIS MAY SHE REST IN PEACE
Battle Stations was a favorite of mine of the Filmation music although it is shortened here.
That and Enterprise Attacked (6:29) is some of my favorite music from this series!
track "enterprise attacked" burned into my mind from childhood
was good to hear it again
Thanks for this upload - brings back many memories 🙂
Oh my goodness. This gem has taken me to far back😐
Today’s challenge: incorporate ST: TAS into some of your favorite action sequences (live, animated, or video game) and post it
6 and 17 are just so epic! The way the score sweeps it's like you're right there with them in the middle of all the action.
Four Tellarites don't like this video. As Sarek of Vulcan said, "Tellarites don't dislike UA-cam videos for reasons, they simply dislike them."
This is amazing; I thought the originals were pitched in the bin by Hallmark, or whoever ended up with the archives!
A lot of these tracks were repurposed by Filmation throughout the seventies, and but for a couple of original tracks, this could be the soundtrack to Flash Gordon, or Tarzan or Shazam or almost anything until 1983 and He-Man. They really watered down the whiskey.
But as overused as they were, this is some solid musical accompaniment. Hearing it again now is reactivating some dormant memories of me, sprawled in front of the family TV like a cat in a sunbeam.
Ray Ellis was supposed to score *He-Man* as well. But since it was being sold into first-run syndication and wasn't a proven property yet, he had jitters about whether or not the show would make it or if he'd get proper royalties, so he backed out. Haim Saban and Shuki Levy taking over on *He-Man* was largely last-minute.
videojomo The original master tapes of the TAS music are still considered lost. The music used in this video was taken from the La La Land Records CD which got the music from the mono music stems from the episodes.
THAAAAAAAAANNNKSSSSS !!! ...FANTASTIC !!!
If some “enterprising” soul were to incorporate this score into Dying Light they would be doing the Almighty’s work
The dissonance in places reminds me of Jerry Goldsmith's Planet of The Apes score--😊
Tracks 12 and 18 I remember hearing on other Filmation shows, including season 1 of the live-action SHAZAM! series.
I love to listen to this wonderfull music while I steer my own little ship through the night... ;-)
I loved the soundtrack and had the tunes burned into my psyche. I especially like SENSOR DATA. Hauntingly beautiful!
Can't believe that no one yet on UA-cam has done an audio swap of the music cues from an Original Series episode with the Animated Series, or vice versa...
Wouldn't you just love an episode of ST: Lower Decks and ST: The Animated Series crossover story, with this as the incidental music?! Ensigns Boimler and Tendi would be in fan heaven!
I’m sure the guys at Lower Decks are looking at the fan Animated from Gazzelle and thinking to themselves “fcuk yeah we’ve got to do a collaboration (official or otherwise)”
There have been a handful of STA Easter eggs in Lower Decks. These always make me giggle with joy.
No
No, they'll just ruin TAS. Just no!
It help to keep the Star Trek family strong and solid as a rock. ERIC HERNS MARIETTA, GEORGIA
Thanks for this music, which is as awesome as the show itself.
16:15 Koloth and Klingons reacting to tribbles on board their battle cruiser lol
GIANT tribbles. (OK, actually giant colonies of normal-sized tribbles, as it turned out.) ^_^
To be fair, the Klingons had legitimate grievances with Cyrano Jones. Tribbles loose on a planet could mean starvation for the inhabitants, or at least heavy government expenditures to feed the inhabitants until the tribbles were exterminated.
And then he made it worse by stealing their genetically-engineered tribble predator.
I don't think I could have blamed Kirk if he HAD just handed Jones over to Koloth, along with the glommer.
Ray Eillis also did the music and cues for Sale Of The Century on NBC ,from 1985 to 1988
Debra Banks That’s right. He also did the background music for the 1967 Spider-Man cartoons (He didn’t do the theme song though).
The Animated Series respected the spirit and vision of the Original...and so did the music.
Here's hoping that Ray Ellis is conducting an angelic orchestra in Heaven.
Very good. Great storytelling! And I think on Saturday mornings.
excelent job i like al track to series
At the 16:56 mark: Standing on the balcony at the castle, that moment you realize you are lord over everything as far as I eye can see...
Top o’ the world, lookin’ down on creation…
Brilliant scoring. It really added more depth to the basic animation
Only watched a handful of episodes of this series, but grew up with the Filmation Treasure Island movie! Love these tracks! Especially, 6:29 and 14:44 ! :)
It would have been nice if Goldsmith had adapted some of these into his his ST-TMP soundtrack.
I did not care much for the cartoon when I was a kid. I watched it a while ago and enjoyed it a lot.
I remember as a kid this being on in the Summer, along with the. Brady kids, also animated...priceless! Thank you for sharing this! Live long, and prosper!
How many of us came here for the theme that begins at 6:30? What a short masterpiece, the music of “Enterprise Attacked”!
It is as memorable an action motif as "Ancient Battle" from "Amok Time."
This is just fantastic! Thanks for posting this. I watched ST:TAS as an older child when it debuted in 1973 and apart from my interest in the episodes, I have always and forever been struck by the show's music, which, as others have noted, is just as comparable of an achievement as The Original Series (I even like the introductory theme music, with its stronger classical music bent, better than The Original Series)
Really? Here I thought that The Original Series was the one with the "stronger classical music bent." Ray Ellis composed a similar but different theme for The Animated Series, with a jazzier, funkier, soulful 70's bent. And no, it's not "better," just different.
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TOS's theme music has a bit more of that theremin vibe. At least to me. I like the stronger piano and horns of TAS's theme music
Great soundtrack!
Must...find..and download...this music!!!
The complete soundtrack was released on CD by La-La Land Records a couple of years back.
@3:22 up really does it for me
And 13:28 is always so moving to my soul.
6:28 - 7:59 is the best!
Same section’s been stuck in my head for almost 50 years!
Yes...wish they use this one today
Now if I could get the music to Lassies Rescue Rangers, life would be complete…
Great music, thank you for doing this.
Fucking hell will Enterprise Attacked ever stop playing in my head?
I loved this show as a kid, especially the music! AWESOME!!!
Exceptional document, thanks for the upload. The section 6:30-8:00 is absolutely stunning.
ItaGramm You’re welcome.
@@theattic2569 I sure remember the classic Filmation cartoons and this being one of them. So great growing up during that era when Saturday morning shows were prime.
Yes, that particular stretch is exceptionally great. That was always the "Uh oh, things just got worse" music.
That exact track I remember from Jason Of Star Command on Saturday mornings!!!!!! It is Fabulous!!! Now if I could just get the score from tarzan the ape man the track called impending doom
Wow the "Battle Stations track here IS the one used for "Impending Doom" on Tarzan the Ape Man!!!!!!!!
5:38 to 6:29 Captain Kirk: [in anger] "I demand an explanation for this unprovoked attack!"
Romulan Commander: "Unprovoked? My dear Captain, your ship trespassed into Romulan territory, in defiance of your own treaty. We had no choice but to defend ourselves."
Captain Kirk: [protesting] "We came nowhere near Romulan territory. I deny all charges and plan to file a detailed complaint with the Federation."
Romulan Commander: "You seem to forget that invasion of Romulan territory is punishable by DEATH." (from "Star Trek: The Animated Series" Season 2, Episode 3 "The Practical Joker")
Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott:"A Cold Bloodied Ambush! I say We give those Heathens a Fight they won't Soon Forget!"
@@marcusjustice6165 I strongly agree.
That episode introduces The Rec Room, that uses Holograms as a place to visit different locations and environments for off duty personnel.
@@teedup8995 I remember that room. The Holographic Rec Room literally became an interesting and greatly explored, and fascinating concept in many past, present, and current new Star Trek TV Series.
#7. Enterprise Attacked is my favorite.