VA - Television's Greatest Hits - Volume 1 (1986)

This is the disc (originally a double-LP) that started it all, 65 themes from television shows ranging from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s, from, say, Rin-Tin-Tin through Mannix and Mission Impossible. The sound quality is variable -- some of this stuff was taken off of film elements -- and some of it is clever re-records, but it's all very familiar and, in some cases, rather enlightening. Not that there are revelations to be found in much of this, but fans of the late Joe Meek might be interested to know just how much of his production technique and signature sound found its way into the theme music from, say, Fireball XL-5. The producers have included opening and closing themes linked together where that latter add significantly to the material. Popular choices here include The Munsters, The Addams Family, Top Cat, The Flinstones, The Jetsons, Dobie Gillis, My Three Sons, Superman, Bonanza, Branded, Daniel Boone, The Rifleman, Perry Mason, Ironside, Dragnet, 77 Sunset Strip, The Mod Squad, etc.

Tracklist:

1. Edward White - Captain Kangaroo (Puffin’ Billy) (0:51)
2. Roy Shields - The Little Rascals (Good Old Days) (0:57)
3. Hoyt S. Curtin - The Flintstones (1:25)
4. George Tibbles & Ramey Idriss - The Woody Woodpecker Show (0:48)
5. Mack David & Jerry Livingston - Bugs Bunny Overture (This Is It) (1:07)
6. Mack David & Jerry Livingston - Casper, The Friendly Ghost (0:41)
7. Winston Sharpless - Felix The Cat (0:30)
8. Sammy Lerner - Popeye (1:27)
9. William Hanna, Joseph Barbera And Hoyt S. Curtin - Yogi Bear (0:38)
10. William Hanna, Joseph Barbera And Hoyt S. Curtin - Magilla Gorilla (0:44)
11. William Hanna, Joseph Barbera And Hoyt S. Curtin - Top Cat (0:50)
12. William Hanna, Joseph Barbera And Hoyt S. Curtin - The Jetsons (1:40)
13. Barry Gray - Fireball Xl5 (1:26)
14. Robert E. Smith & Edward Kean - Howdy Doody (0:56)
15. Paul Henning - The Ballad Of Jed Clampett (1:16)
16. Paul Henning - Petticoat Junction (1:32)
17. Vic Mizzy - Green Acres (1:08)
18. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans - Mr. Ed (0:55)
19. Jack Marshall - The Munsters (0:47)
20. Vic Mizzy - The Addams Family (1:24)
21. Frank De Vol - My Three Sons (1:02)
22. William Loose & John Seely - The Donna Reed Show (1:00)
23. Melvyn Leonard, Mort Greene & Dave Kahn - Leave It To Beaver (The Toy Parade) (1:23)
24. William Loose & John Seely - Dennis The Menace (1:04)
25. Lionel Newman & Max Shulman - Dobie Gillis (1:17)
26. Sid Ramin & Robert Welles - The Patty Duke Show (1:15)
27. Earle Hagen - The Dick Van Dyke Show (0:42)
28. George Wyle And Sherwood Schwartz - Gilligan’s Island (1:35)
29. Axel Stordahl - Mchale’s Navy (0:30)
30. Hugo Montenegro - I Dream Of Jeannie (Feat. B. Kaye) (0:50)
31. Eliot Daniel - I Love Lucy (1:01)
32. Earle Hagen - The Andy Griffith Show (0:54)
33. Alexander Courage - Star Trek Theme (1:24)
34. John Williams - Lost In Space (1:05)
35. Marius Constant - The Twilight Zone (0:56)
36. Charles‐françois Gounod - Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Trans. By S. Wilson) (0:59)
37. Leon Klatsin - Superman (1:50)
38. Neal Hefti - Batman (1:11)
39. Henry Vars & “by” Dunham - Flipper (1:26)
40. Leonard Rosenman - Combat (0:56)
41. Herschel Burke-Gilbert - The Rifleman (1:08)
42. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans - Bonanza (0:39)
43. Dominic Frontiere - Branded (0:56)
44. I. Taylor & William Lava - F-Troop (1:16)
45. Stanley Keyana - Rin Tin Tin (1:00)
46. Lionel Newman & Vera Matson - Daniel Boone (0:51)
47. Richard Markowitz - The Wild Wild West (1:26)
48. Gioachino Rossini - The Lone Ranger (William Tell Overture) (1:18)
49. Dale Evans - Happy Trails (0:58)
50. Lalo Schifrin - Mission: Impossible (0:55)
51. Jerry Goldsmith - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1:20)
52. Irving Szathmary - Get Smart (0:57)
53. P.F. Sloan & Steve Barri - Secret Agent Man (2:16)
54. Walter Schumann & Miklуs Rуzsa - Dragnet (1:19)
55. Fred Steiner - Perry Mason (1:12)
56. Frank Comstock - Adam-12 (0:50)
57. Bronislau Kaper - The F.B.I. (1:13)
58. Morton Stevens - Hawaii Five-O (1:02)
59. Mack David & Jerry Livingston - 77 Sunset Strip (1:04)
60. Mack David & Jerry Livingston - Surfside 6 (1:13)
61. Quincy Jones - Ironside (0:48)
62. Lalo Schifrin - Mannix (1:28)
63. Earle Hagen - The Mod Squad (1:04)
64. Paul Anka Feat. Johnny Carson - The Tonight Show (Johnny’s Theme) (1:15)
65. Leroy Anderson - The Late Late Show (Syncopated Clock) (0:53)