The Wanderer

This 30-minute pilot is interesting for a few good reasons as it brought together two talents who would share a fascinating connection that would echo specifically in the area of film music. The Wanderer would briefly unite Harry Horner, who would go on to have a respected career as a production designer, and Jerry Goldsmith, for whom this would represent one of his first assignments of what would be a prolific and famous body of work. The link between the two is that Horner was the father of James Horner, who would go onto become a famous composer in his own right. Goldsmith notably gave Horner his first taste of the film music business when allowing him access to the scoring stage while recording the music to the 1979 feature, Star Trek The Motion Picture. From then on, not only would Horner succeed Goldsmith in scoring the Star Trek sequels, Wrath of Khan and Search For Spock, but would also score Aliens, the sequel to the Goldsmith-scored original, Alien. For reasons film music enthusiasts still speculate on, the relationship between Goldsmith and Horner later became fractious and cold, and both never spoke to each other again. But the meeting between Goldsmith and Horner Sr is intriguing for the future link between the two.