1st place - 24 points

2nd place - 16 points

3rd place - 12 points

4th place - 8 points

5th place - 6 points

6th place - 4 points

7th place - 3 points

8th place - 2 points

 

Here's my list of The Magnificent Eight to get the poll underway:-

 

1. Ennio Morricone (24 points)  

2. John Barry (16 points)

3. Philip Glass (12 points)

4. Hans Zimmer (8 points)

5. Jerry Goldsmith (6 points)

6. Vangelis (4 points)

7. John Williams (3 points)

8. James Horner (2 points)

 

Good luck and may the best composer win!

Barry Gray

Barry Gray is a slight cheat as he was best known for scoring the Gerry Anderson TV shows, but he did score a few movies as well.

The amazing thing about the stars of Thunderbirds is they never seem to get any older, despite the passing of the years.

 

 

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I'm sure Lady Penelope is still a fine looking woman, though her acting could be a bit wooden. Barry Gray was an excellent composer who could have been successful doing movie scores, but maybe the fact that he was known for working on kids shows counted against him. These are three of my favourites by him:

 

 

By the way, did you know that Gabrielle Drake (with the purple hair) in UFO was the sister of Nick Drake?

 

 

No one could rock a silver miniskirt and purple wig combo like Gabrielle did in UFO.

Bernard Herrmann

John Williams

Ennio Morricone

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (he should be on everyone's list; extremely influential film composer)

Charlie Chaplin

Maurice Jarre

Peer Raben

Nino Rota

By the way: The violin concerto of Erich Wolfgang Korngold is the blueprint for the music to hundreds of movies. Listen for yourself:

"UFO" is actually based on "Thunderbirds"; many of the vehicles in "UFO" already appear in "Thunderbirds".

She was good in Crossroads as well 

I was a massive fan of both but I'm not convinced that's true to be honest.

However more fun facts

The Concorde engineers were massive Thunderbirds fans and had calculated (in their spare time!) how TB2 could fly

Space 1999 was originally entitled UFO1999 and intended to be a sequel to the original series. 

The blonde 'hottie' Wanda Ventham who appeared in UFO is the mother of Benedict Cumberbatch

yep including a really interesting Sci-Fi film called Doppelganger (the screenplay was written by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson of course!) 

Ennio Morricone (just for the Clint Eastwood Spaghetti western trilogy , especially The Good, The Bad and The Ugly , surely the best OST of all time)

Jerry Goldsmith (Alien duh!)

Hans Zimmer (so many!)

Vangelis

John Barry

John Carpenter (The Thing is classic for his music and many other 'things'!)

John Williams (mainly for Jaws and Close Encounters)

Mark Isham ( a lot of good stuff)

You have to take what I said with a grain of salt. I did not mean "UFO" was an attempt to redo "Thunderbirds" with real actors. But both have the same producers. And it is true that the same vehicles appear in both, for example the submarine/fighter combo.

Thunderbirds is very serious business to me 

The submarine in Thunderbirds was Thunderbird 4 and was carried to its missions by Thunderbird 2 so I'm not even sure what you were thinking for that one.

Both were chocked full of clever (perhaps even ingenious) ideas. Yes to some extent Gerry Anderson was taking the Thunderbirds thing into live action territory with UFO. 

For it's time it was a terrific sci-fi show and even managed some decent drama element to it at times. My favourite episode included the noted actor George Cole (who later became famous for the hit TV series Minder) who gave away some Moonbase secrets to the Aliens (for reasons I forget now). In order to redeem himself he went out onto the moon surface to use a mobile rocket launcher to bring down one of that UFO's that was intending to exploit a weakness in the Moonbase defences from the intel they got from him. As a result his space suit got punctured and he was left stranded to die. As a kid I remember crying at the end of the episode. Desperately sad stuff.