Farewell to Ted Nichols
- Lukas Kendall
- Mar 25
- 1 min read
Ted Nichols has died at the age of 97. Here’s the Hollywood Reporter’s obituary.
He was the music director at Hanna-Barbera from 1964 to 1972—so it was actually Nichols, and not Hoyt Curtin, who wrote those fantastic, jazzy action-adventure themes that I used to love on Saturday morning reruns.
Another one of my faves:
And, of course...
How I wanted to do a CD of this material! But we ran out of time at Warner Bros.
NOTE: Strangely, the YouTube embeds are not loading right now. Well, just go over there and search for Fantastic Four, Young Samson and Birdman themes.
But we did get Jonny Quest done with La-La Land, scored by both Curtin and Nichols. A classic!
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