{"id":2299184,"date":"2026-02-25T11:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2299184"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:49:47","slug":"john-williams-composed-music-for-one-of-the-best-sci-fi-shows-of-the-60s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/john-williams-composed-music-for-one-of-the-best-sci-fi-shows-of-the-60s\/","title":{"rendered":"John Williams Composed Music For One Of The Best Sci-Fi Shows Of The &#8217;60s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The 1960s saw a whole host of hugely successful sci-fi series. &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060028\/\">Star Trek<\/a>&#8221; went on to amass one of the most dedicated fan followings of any major franchise. &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0436992\/\">Doctor Who<\/a>&#8221; eventually became the longest running sci-fi TV series in history. But what many fans might have missed, is that one series from the &#8217;60s landed Hollywood&#8217;s biggest composer to pen its theme tune \u2014 twice over.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0002354\/\">John Williams<\/a> is known for his work such as 1977&#8217;s &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27156887\/\">Star Wars<\/a>,&#8221; 1978&#8217;s &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5950044\/\">Superman<\/a>,&#8221; the &#8220;Indiana Jones&#8221; franchise, &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107290\/\">Jurassic Park<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073195\/\">Jaws<\/a>,&#8221; and many more. However, before he worked with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000184\/\">George Lucas<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000229\/\">Steven Spielberg<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1960s saw a whole host of hugely successful sci-fi series. &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; went on to amass one of the most dedicated fan followings of any major franchise. &#8220;Doctor Who&#8221; eventually became the longest running sci-fi TV series in history. But what many fans might have missed, is that one series from the &#8217;60s landed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2299185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2299184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/John-Williams-Composed-Music-For-One-Of-The-Best-Sci-Fi.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299186,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299184\/revisions\/2299186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2299185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}