Inside the Hitchcock-Inspired Score to 'Bones' 200th Episode

When the 200^th episode of Bones aired in December, fans might have momentarily thought they’d tuned into TCM instead of Fox, as the procedural celebrated a decade on the air by transporting the cast 60 years back in time. For no other reason than the sheer fun of it, the hour imagined the cast transported into a glamorous 1950s Alfred Hitchcock comedy-thriller. But if you’re going to pay homage to Hitchcock, it’s a given that you’re also going to have to offer a nod and a wink to Bernard Herrmann — or at least make some effort to recreate a lavish style of suspense-film music that hasn’t been heard much in a half-century...

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(Video, Youtube) BONES Composer Sean Callery Talks Scoring ‘The 200th in the 10th’

BONES’ 200th episode is taking the show to a place it has never gone before: Hollywood in the 1950s. The show dove into the era in “The 200th in the 10th,” with the stars in the appropriate hair/clothes/makeup, and the way the show is shot even resembles some of the more iconic 1950s movies. And, appropriately, the score reflects the time, too, and composer Sean Callery (who has also worked on 24, HOMELAND, and ELEMENTARY) got to do something new for the show — he worked with a live band. I spoke with Callery about working on this episode, and what aspects of the score he’s most excited for fans to hear…

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