Jim Lang is the show's composer. Jim Lang was born and raised just outside Kansas City. Although largely self-taught, he studied music briefly at the Conservatory of Music in Kansas City. He also studied theater at Northwestern University. After acting professionally for several years in Chicago, he served a three year stint as composer and musical director of the Goodman Theater's Free Street Theater Project where he did pioneering work in integrating prerecorded tapes and synthesizers with live musicians and actors. He moved to Los Angeles in 1972 to play in Todd Rundgren's band, and subsequently became involved in film scoring when he was tapped by John Carpenter to collaborate on his Showtime project, "Body Bags."