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In alphabetical order
Pete Carpenter
Pete Carpenter began his television music career in the 1960's working on series such as Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., and The Andy Griffith Show. He soon started collaborating with Mike Post and worked with him continously composing over 1800 hours of music until his death in 1987. The pair scored T.V. Movies such as the Captain America telefilms, and Dr. Scorpion and many others while hooking up with Stephen J. Cannell to provide themes and scores for many projects including The Rockford Files, Black Sheep Squadron, Tenspeed and Brownshoe, The A-Team, and Riptide just to name a few.
Carpenter was married to actress MayBeth Carr (whose brother was Adventures of Superman director Thomas Carr) and had two children. Two years after his passing, in 1989 the BMI Foundation and Mike Post established the Pete Carpenter Fellowship which gives aspiring television and film composers the chance to work with Post at his studio for several weeks.
Throughout TGAH, viewers were treated to some fabulous music used to great effect in episodes that are very memorable, even almost 30 years later. That in itself, not to mention his long career is testimony to the talent possessed by Carpenter in musical scoring.
Ivan Dixon
Undoubtebly television fans will always remember Ivan Dixon as Sgt. James Kinchloe on the 60's series Hogan's Heroes. However his body of work far surpasses the role he's most famous for. Most proud of his work as an actor in the film Nothing but a Man in which he starred, and as a director of The Spook Who Sat By The Door. Hopefully Dixon realized he had a generation of fans who admired his television directing chores all the way from The Waltons to Quantum Leap.
Dixon had already directed for Stephen J. Cannell, helming episodes of The Rockford Files and Black Sheep Squadron. For TGAH Dixon directed six episodes including the fan favorite Divorce Venusian Style, which spotlights the Ralph/Bill partnership and our first glimpse inside the alien spacecraft. Most of his directing assignments for the show were in the third season, having a capable hand at directing its a shame the series did not have a full order that year.
Sadly Dixon passed away in March 2008.
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