3 - Digest of Victory's Music-Scoring Statistics

Summary

The Victory episodes’ completion order and broadcast sequence are only roughly alike. Bennett's music recording dates reliably establish a completion order for the series, as all that then remained to complete an episode was a few days’ work mixing the sparse SFX and already-recorded narration, and the pair with the music into a final soundtrack; a film laboratory then combined these with the edited footage. Note that EP16 appears here twice: its first completion that was announced in the press, and then the fall 1952 revision. Exact date(s) of EP8's revisions are unknown—but unlike EP16 these didn't involve new scoring and recording by Bennett:

Recording Order

EPs 1–3–2–4–15–[16]–7–10–11–6–5–13–12–9–8–[16]–17–20–14–19– 21–18–22–25–23–24–26

Recording Order, with First Appearances of Each Rodgers Theme

EP1 (SONG-SEAS, SUB, DEATH-DEBRIS)–3 (HAWAII)– 2–4 (MARCH)–15 (D-DAY)–16 (first version, MUSTERING)– 7–10 (TANGO)–11 (FIDDLE-GTR)–6–5–13–12 (CARRIER)– 9–8 (NAPLES-ROME)–16 (revised)–17–20–14–19 (VIC-HYMN)– 21–18–22–25–23–24–26

As mentioned previously, a few Rodgers themes were first heard by viewers in advance of the episode for which they’d been written. D-DAY appeared in the later-completed, but earlier-broadcast EPs 9 and 14; MUSTERING appeared earlier in EPs 7 and 11.

Recording Order, with Bennett's Re-uses From Earlier-Completed Episodes

EPs 1–3–2–4–15–16 (first version)–7–10–11–6–5 had no re-uses.

EP13 had his first re-uses (from EPs 6, 4, 2), followed by EP12 (from EP13), EP9 (from EPs 3, 15), EP8 (from EP3), EP16 (revised). EP17 (from EPs 12, 6—with the EP12 re-use incorporating some EP13 secondhand!), EP20 (from EP2). EP14 had no re-uses, followed by EP19 (from EPs 2, 12, 4). EP21 (from EPs 10, 2). Bennett's all-original EP18 was followed by EP22 (re-uses from EPs 8, 11, 15, 6), EP25 (from EPs 13, 21, 4, 2, 12), EP23 (from EPs 19, 15, 11, 5, 7, 22, 6), and EP24 (re-use from EP12). The concluding EP26 re-used material from EPs 20, 12, 10, 22, 5.