Track Listing

1. I Love Lucy
2. Dragnet
3. Honeymooners
4. Alfred Hitchcock Presents
5. Leave It to Beaver
6. Peter Gunn
7. 77 Sunset Strip
8. Maverick
9. Flinstones
10. Andy Griffith Show
11. Dick Van Dyke Show
12. Addams Family
13. Gilligan's Island
14. Batman
15. (Theme From) The Monkees
16. Bewitched
17. Mission: Impossible
18. Hawaii Five-O
19. Brady Bunch
20. Sesame Street
21. Tonight Show [Johnny's Theme]
22. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
23. All in the Family: Those Were the Days
24. M*a*s*h: Suicide Is Painless
25. Happy Days
26. Welcome Back, Kotter
27. Jeffersons (Movin' on Up)
28. Taxi
29. Muppet Show
30. Laverne and Shirley (Making Our Dreams Come True)
31. Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not)
32. Dallas
33. Hill Street Blues
34. Miami Vice
35. The Cosby Show
36. Moonlighting
37. Cheers
38. L.A. Law
39. Thirtysomething
40. Simpsons
41. NYPD Blue
42. Mad About You
43. Friends
44. Law and Order
45. Ally McBeal
46. Sex and the City
47. Practice
48. Malcolm in the Middle
49. Alias
50. Six Feet Under

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75840 in Music
• Brand: Tv Guide
• Released on: 2002-10-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: Albanian, Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Album Description
Full Title - TV Guide - 50 All-Time Favorite TV Themes. To commemorate TV Guide's 50th anniversary, Tee Toons and TV Guide present a year-by-year celebration of the greatest television themes from 1953-2002. This definitive compilation covers everything from 'I Love Lucy' to 'Friends'. The CD includes a comprehensive fact-filled bonus booklet featuring the 50 original full color TV Guide covers. TVT Records. 2002.

Customer Reviews

Re-Hashed Tee Vee Toons
This is nothing more than a re-release of many of the same badly remade TV themes from the mid-eighties albums entitled "Tee Vee Toons Presents..." series by TVT Records.

Many of these songs are replicated (horribly) with outdated keyboards and synthisizers. I find it sad that TV Guide would slap it's name on such a horrible compilation album such as this. For some unknown reason, companies that put together TV theme compilations think lovers of TV music won't care that they've included cheap remakes of there favorite theme songs!

If you can't get the original version, than don't put it on the album!

Another pet peeve, is that often times (like in here) they put the lesser popular version of the theme in as well. Example: They have the first season version of the Mary Tyler Moore theme "Love Is All Around". The arrangement and lyrics were different in this version than in the entire rest of the series. It's not the popular version.

People who put these together are not usually fans of TV themes and usually don't know what they are doing. Oh yeah, don't mix the long record version (usually not enough like the original to be recognizable) with the shorter TV versions!

I've said my peace!

Larry Lee Moniz
Hayward, California

Good Idea, but unfortunatley, many NOT original recordings
Contrary to a previous review, many of these themes are remakes.
Just to name a few I Love Lucy, Dragnet, The Honeymooners, Alfred Hitchcock,Bewitched. But there are several that are original, such as Flinstones, Adams Family, Gilligans Island, Monkees, Brady Bunch, Six Feet under, and a few more. So this comp is touch and go. I have been collecting themes for 35 years, and I have never found a comp with ALL ORIGINAL THEMES.

a big disappointment
tv guides 50 greatest themes is a nice package, what with its 50 card set included(i'm referring to the limited box edition) but to me fails in its failure to deliver what it advertises. alot of the early and mid period themes are NOT the original themes used on the tv shows and that is annoying to me. anyone over 35 who has ever seen the particular show the theme is for knows in 2 notes it is a modern rerecording. i don't care if the original themes sound quality isn't perfect, that original is what brings the memory back to the show. i'd like to know the reason these rerecorded "fake " themes are included here and secondly, why is this not stated anywhere here that many of these are not the original songs. i remember buying tvt's(the producer)tv theme albums in 1985 and having had the same letdown then as i do now. seventeen years later, steve gottlieb, the cd's producer, still can't find the original theme songs. if they can't get the rights, don't put them in here. how ridiculous is it to have someone other than batman & robin begin that theme. in my opinion , a full third to a half of the first 25 themes are not original , including i love lucy, dragnet, the andy griffith show, gilligan's island, batman, bewitched, hawaii five-o, mash, mission impossible and the honeymooners. i think tv guide should have monitored this a little better and only let tvt put in original themes. NOT RECOMMENDED.