TV Guide: 50 All-Time Favorite TV Themes

Morton Stevens | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 2002)
• Original Release Date: September 8, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tvt
• ASIN: B00006JKCX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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83 of 88 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Re-Hashed Tee Vee Toons, November 8, 2004

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Larry Lee Moniz (Hayward, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TV Guide: 50 All-Time Favorite TV Themes (Audio CD)

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Many of these songs are replicated (horribly) with outdated keyboards and synthisizers.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

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Idea, but unfortunatley, many NOT original recordings, July 6, 2004

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Phillip B. Tursky "lakephillip" (Lucerne, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TV Guide: 50 All-Time Favorite TV Themes (Audio CD)

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.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars a big disappointment, December 30, 2002

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F. Burock - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TV Guide: 50 All Time Favorite Themes [Limited edition w/ 50 TV Guide Cover Cards] (Audio CD)

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.