This music bible was created as a tribute to the music composer and arranger, Mr Derek Wadsworth. He composed and arranged the Space:1999 Year two main themes and almost all the incidental music heard in the 24 one-hour episodes.

Some notes on how this music bible was written :

• For the time index on every episode, I used the NTSC french language versions (dubbed in Canada) of the episodes. In the transfer to NTSC from the PAL master tapes, the length of the episode was shortened (as the 2+5-frames-per-second PAL standard was copied unto a 24-frames-a-second NTSC standard), without any cuts being made in the process. Thus, each episode is about 49 minutes long. The "Dorcons" episode is an exception as the time index was taken from the laser disc english version, which is about 51:30 minutes long. Another exception is the "Bringers of wonder" episode as the time index was calculated from the NSTC version of "Destination: Moonbase Alpha".

• The musical pieces are grouped in 8 sections (Exploration and investigation, Action, Suspense, Closing cues (heard mostly at acts ending), Epilogues, Opening cues (heard mostly as acts opening or as transition music from a scene to another), Drama and Miscellaneous).

• Each musical piece is given an arbitrary title from a episode. Although it is widely known that only five episodes were actually scored (in the other episodes, musical editor Alan Willis choose musical pieces to fit with the moods and actions of what was shown on screen), I decided to name the musical pieces from what I found to be the most appropriate pairing of music and on-screen action in the whole 24 episodes.

• In my opinion, one of Wadsworth's strengths was composing extraordinary closing cues (for the acts ending). Those are mainly regrouped in the Closing cues section of the Music Bible, although some action or suspense pieces were also used on some occasions. Thus, I included in parenthesis the act number a track was used for closing cue. For example, TE 0:44 - 3:33 (0) means this track was used as an act ender for the prologue of the "Exiles" episode, while JTW 16:45 - 16:52 (1) means it was used for the ending of Act One of the "Journey to Where" episode. Every musical cue used for the ending of an epilogue is shown in the Epilogues section.

• When appropriate, some additional information about a specific track has been added.
  For example, as previously said, all the musical pieces were allegedly written specifically for five episodes : The Metamorph, The Exiles, One Moment of Humanity, The Taybor and Space Warp. Nevertheless, some tracks are not included in those five episodes.
  Sometimes, the bootleg CD seems to indicate that a musical piece was written for a specific episode (being included in the episode suite), but was not actually used in the episode.
  In such cases, this information is shown next to the track.

• Some tracks have been recorded in different versions. It happened that the alternate versions were also used in the final editing of episodes. The music bible shown some information on alternate takes.

• When the musical piece is included in the bootleg soundtrack cassette or the bootleg soundtrack CD, the track index is shown.
  As the cassette soundtrack was made available on two audio cassettes, I specified the side and the track index, following the standard 1-1 where the first number means the cassette and side (1 meaning face A of cassette One, 2 meaning face B of cassette One, 3 means Side A of cassette Two…) and the second number means the track index (1 being the first musical piece , 2 being the second …). Thus, 1-31 means the 31^st track on side A of cassette One.
  For the CD soundtrack, sometimes more than one musical piece was included in a " track " on the CD. Thus, 1-3 means the third musical piece included in the first track on the Bootleg CD, while 17-2 means the second musical piece included on the 17^th track.

Return to Space: 1999 Year Two Music Bible

Paul Dorion, February 1999