Re: MIX 106.5 Mix
One of the biggest WOW moments I've ever had listening to radio!
At 1:18/1:19am WMVX played "The Junkman's" theme song, an orchestrated, classical or classical-like music piece. What am I talking about? Let me explain. The very last episode of the 1960s TV series "Lost In Space" was "Junkyard In Space", which was an entire planet used as an intergallactic junkyard for inhabitants of other planets to dump their mostly mechanical junk. It had exceptionally strong magnetic drawing power to pull in metallic junk from space. On the planet was a lone Junkman. First, the Robot was pulled in as he was doing a solo investigative flight in the space pod. The main crew, the Robinson's, flew their main space ship, The Jupiter 2 down to the planet. The key line in the episode comes when the Junkman, appearing outside the Jupiter 2 space ship, tells the crew that "Nothing ever leaves the Junk Planet!" The theme music used occasionally when in the presence of the Junkman (played by Marcel Hilliaire) was the piece played on WMVX. At first I thought it might have been borrowed from a Classical piece as 106.5 has been playing some in their run-up to the new format. However, a little while later, they played the first theme song from "Lost In Space", so now I'm not so sure. I'd like to know the name of the piece and the performers, as a clean version of the piece, sans dialouge from the episode, is on my "want-list".
Extra info only for those interested in the episode: While this episode has the most eye-rolling, worst ending of the entire 3 seasons, overall it is one of the most interesting. "Lost In Space" became a kiddie show. However, this episode is curiously dark, although it doesn't seem to have specifically meant to be so. The dingyness of the set, the fact that much of the episode takes place at night, and the music contribute to this, as does an unnecessary suicide angle that helps ruin the episode at the end. The Junkman is meant to be right in keeping with typical "Lost In Space" kiddie-firendly aliens. Yet, thanks to the music and other elements, he's actually a sad, selfish and a bit creepy of a creature. The music, which was all-new to this episode, is a major contributor to the darkness. A friend believes that as they produced the episode, people involved in different aspects just kind of bought into the creepiness and darkness, and may have done so unconsciously.
