Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Six Feet Under
2. Sex And The City
3. Ally McBeal
4. Will & Grace
5. Everybody Loves Raymond
6. Frasier
7. Friends
8. Late Show With David Letterman
9. Mad About You
10. Melrose Place
11. Beverly Hills 90210
12. Law & Order
13. Northern Exposure
14. The Simpsons
15. Thirtysomething
16. Full House
17. 21 Jump Street
18. L.A. Law
19. Pee-Wee's Playhouse
20. Perfect Strangers
21. Growing Pains
22. Moonlighting
23. Who's The Boss?
24. Miami Vice
25. Night Court
26. The A-Team
27. St. Elsewhere
28. Cheers
29. Knight Rider
30. Cagney & Lacey
31. The Greatest American Hero
32. Hill Street Blues
33. Dynasty
34. Magnum, P.I.
35. The Facts of Life
36. Diff'rent Strokes
37. WKRP In Cincinnati
38. Taxi
39. Dallas
40. Fantasy Island
41. The Love Boat
42. Soap
43. Eight Is Enough
44. Three's Company
45. Wonder Woman
46. Charlie's Angels
47. The Muppet Show
48. Alice
49. What's Happening!!
50. Laverne & Shirley

Disc 2:

1. One Day At A Time
2. Welcome Back, Kotter
3. Barney Miller
4. Starsky and Hutch
5. S.W.A.T.
6. The Jeffersons
7. Police Woman
8. The Rockford Files
9. Good Times
10. The Six Million Dollar Man
11. M*A*S*H
12. The Waltons
13. Maude
14. Sanford and Son
15. All In The Family
16. The Partridge Family
17. The Odd Couple
18. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
19. Happy Days
20. Sesame Street
21. Love, American Style
22. The Courtship of Eddie's Father
23. The Brady Bunch
24. Scooby-Doo
25. Hawaii Five-O
26. The Banana Splits
27. The Newlywed Game
28. The Dating Game
29. The Monkees
30. Batman
31. I Dream Of Jeannie
32. The Wild Wild West
33. Green Acres
34. Gilligan's Island
35. The Addams Family
36. Bewitched
37. The Jetsons
38. The Dick Van Dyke show
39. The Andy Griffith Show
40. The Flintstones
41. My Three Sons
42. The Twilight Zone
43. Leave It To Beaver
44. Perry Mason
45. The Honeymooners
46. Merrie Melodies
47. Looney Toons
48. Dragnet
49. I Love Lucy
50. The Lone Ranger

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12847 in Music
• Brand: ALL-TIME TOP 100 TV THEMES
• Released on: 2005-08-23
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Soundtrack
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Album Description
America is a huge, diverse country with Yankee home cooking and Tex Mex cuisine. People ski on frozen Vermont mountains and surf the big waves in sun drenched California. One thing that binds it all together is TV. Television is American culture, a common thread that holds it all together on a nightly basis as we assemble around our living rooms to watch our favorite characters and shows.

Twenty years ago, TVT Records was born with its first release, Television's Greatest Hits. Now after having sold millions of its TV theme compilations around the world, America's #1 independent label for the past 4 years running is returning to its roots. In celebration of TVT's 20th Anniversary, it is releasing the ultimate TV collection, All Time Top 100 TV Themes, featuring themes drawn from all the original sources.

Hearing these theme songs consistenly evokes a strong emotional response, pointing to a time when everyone watched the same TV shows again and again. From I Love Lucy and Green Acres to Batman and The Monkees, to Welcome Back Kotter and M*A*S*H to Pee Wee's Playhouse and Twin Peaks to Friends and Six Feet Under, virtually anyone who grew up American watching television is sure to want a nostalgic piece of their shared cultural past.

Customer Reviews

Another "gem" from TVT
WOW! 100 top themes...and all original! Unfortunately, "all original" by TVT standards, can sometimes mean recorded off the TV. I started out hopeful. I thought that maybe they'd actually contacted the studios and replaced a lot of their previously released material (lame covers or bad quality broadcast versions) with "original" source recordings. Aside from a couple of exceptions, the majority was pretty much what you'd expect from TVT. 100 all-time top TV themes, eh? By the looks of it, the top 100 was more a choice of availability than popularity (21 Jump Street?).
Hey TVT, how about spending some time and money and going after the authentic material. How long must we be subjected to yet another release of the "Charlie's Angels" theme with John Forsythe's narration. And what's up with the "Dynasty" theme? What happened to the main horn section? Instead of removing music tracks from a theme, how about removing all those irritating sound effects, like on "Starsky and Hutch", "The A-Team", "Fantasy Island", "MASH" etc. The Batman theme was cool and was original source material. It was nice of Film Score Monthly to do all the leg work since TVT was too lazy to do it for themselves(this version was included on the 1966 Batman movie Soundtrack released a few years ago).
Bottom line, if there are themes on this CD that you must have, then a bad version is better than no version at all. But for serious TV theme collectors, we'll just have to be satisfied with the rare TV soundtrack release from FSM or other such labels and collect the themes one CD at a time.
In response to the other reviewer,...Mr. Lowe, you don't know, Jack! Sound effects and narration on the themes may be fine when you're getting together with your drunken buddies to play "Name That Tune", but serious collectors of television music would prefer CLEAN versions of the themes.

Docked a star for sound quality.
As a fan of TV themes from way back, it's good to hear that in this compilation TVT Records finally went authentic instead of using the many "re-creations" they have issued in the past.

Now, someone needs to introduce those folks to a little bit of technology I like to call an "equalizer". The "classic" themes on this set sound mostly like someone stuck a microphone up to a TV speaker to record them. (Maybe TVT Records found the tape I made of TV themes back in the 60s?) A LOT could have been done to make the songs sound a whole lot better than they do here. And it wouldn't be inauthentic--that shrillness in so many of the old themes was installed to counteract the effect of land line distribution way back when, not because the producers wanted to pierce your ears from the inside.

A couple of inauthentic edits have been applied, too: The Mary Tyler Moore theme has the MTM logo "meow" spliced in, in place of the final note. Cute, but it doesn't work. The Addams Family theme (which suffers from too much noise reduction, btw) and The Jetsons theme have the beginning and ending themes spliced together.

With the older themes, a lot of times TVT has given us the ending theme only, which is going to sound wrong to a lot of people. You won't hear Rod Serling on the Twilight Zone theme. And I don't know what exactly went wrong with the Flinstones theme, but it ain't right.

Nitpicks? Maybe. But TVT Records wants to splash "All Original" on the cover, so I think it's fair to point out these things.

I won't argue over whether these are truly the 100 greatest TV themes. They definitely got some of the good ones. THE greatest TV theme, in my opinion, isn't here, but you can hear it at my web site (see my sig line, above).

Not Perfect, but Very Good
NOTE: This review is for the product titled: All-Time Top 100 TV Themes [SOUNDTRACK]

Like the title says, this dual-disc CD was not perfect, but is very good. This is based on two fronts:

Theme collection: I think its fair to say that no one person could ever compile a comprehensive list of the top 100 theme songs due to selection preferences/bias. Further, its important to note that this is the best THEME songs, not the best shows.

Technical Audio Quality: Some tracks are studio-quality, others seemingly recorded straight off of a VCR. All of the themes are at least acceptible.

I have no regrets purchasing this CD.