CBS: The First 50 Years (1998)

About this title: This compilation of great TV theme songs boasts some beauties, all with great sound quality. While a few tunes are re-recorded, most are original versions, such as the themes from Captain Kangaroo, Rawhide and All in the Family. Sure, there are some clunkers (the new Cosby Show?) and some historic content you may not want to hear over and over, but the package is fun for the most part. Tim Sheridan, All Music Guide

Tracks:

1. See It Now With Edward R. Murrow [Murrow]
2. I Love You [Daniel/Adamson H.]
3. The Jackie Gleason Show [Gleason]
4. Toast of the Town [The Ed Sullivan Show] [Arthur/Block/Lewis]
5. Holiday for Strings [The Red Skelton Show] [Rose/Gallop]
6. Puffin' Billy [Captain Kangaroo] [White]
7. The Old Trail [Gunsmoke] [Koury/Spencer]
8. Rawhide [Tiomkin/Washington]
9. Wild Wild West [Markowitz]
10. Alfred Hitchcock Presents [Gounod]
11. Perry Mason [Steiner]
12. Route 66 [Riddle]
13. The Twilight Zone [Constant]
14. The Toy Parade [Leave It to Beaver] [Kahn/Leonard/Greene]
15. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis [Shulman/Newman]
16. The Andy Griffith Show [Hagen/Spencer]
17. The Dick Van Dyke Show Theme [Hagen]
18. News Broadcast [First Half-Hour]
19. The Ballad of Jed Clampett [Beverly Hillbillies] [Henning]
20. Gilligan's Island [Schwartz/Wyle]
21. Green Acres [Mizzy]
22. Hogan's Heroes [Fielding]
23. My Three Sons [DeVol]
24. Lost in Space ['67-'68] [Williams]
25. Mission: Impossible [Schifrin]
26. Mannix [Schifrin]
27. Hawaii Five-O [Stevens]
28. Barnaby Jones [Goldsmith]
29. Sixty Minutes [The First]
30. Apollo 11 [Coverage]
31. The Waltons [Goldsmith]
32. Carol's Theme [The Carol Burnett Show] [Hamilton]
33. Dan Rather in Vietnam [Rather]
34. Walter Cronkite's Editorial on Vietnam [Cronkite]
35. Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) [Mandel]
36. Those Were the Days [All in the Family] [Adams/Strouse]
37. Love Is All Around [Mary Tyler Moore Show] [Curtis]
38. Home to Emily [The Bob Newhart Show] [Lorenze Music/Henri]
39. Good Times Theme [Grusin/Bergman/Berg]
40. Movin' on Up [The Jeffersons] [Barry/Dubois]
41. One Day at a Time [Barry/Barry]
42. WKRP in Cincinnati [Opening Theme] [Wells/Wilson]
43. There's a New Girl in Town [Alice] [Bergman/Bergman/Shi]
44. Good Ol' Boys [The Dukes of Hazzard] [Jennings]
45. Dallas [Immel]
46. Knots Landing [Immel]
47. Walter Cronkite's Final Broadcast [Cronkite]
48. Cagney & Lacey [Conti]
49. Murder She Wrote [Addison]
50. Murphy Brown [Closing Theme] [Dorff]
51. Northern Exposure [Schwartz]
52. Chicago Hope [Isham]
53. Promised Land [Lichtman]
54. Walker, Texas Ranger [From Walker, Texas Ranger] [Wilder III/Norris]
55. Everybody Loves Raymond [Marotta/Trotter]
56. Monk's Hat [Cosby] [Cosby/Golson]
57. Late Show With David Letterman [Shaffer]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.