Television's Greatest Hits: 70's and 80's

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Television's Greatest Hits, Volume 3: '70s & '80s
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Compilation album
Released1987
Genre Rock, pop
Label TVT (TVT 1300)
Producer Steven Gottlieb
chronology
Television's Greatest Hits, Volume 2: 65 More TV Themes from the '50s & '60s
(1986)
Television's Greatest Hits, Volume 3: '70s & '80s
(1987)
TeeVee Toons: The Commercials
(1989)

Television's Greatest Hits: 70s & '80s, prefaced with "TeeVee Toons Presents", is a 1987 compilation album of television theme songs released by TVT Records as the third volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series. [1] It was recorded at Studio 900 and mastered at Bernie Grundman Studio. [1] [2]

Contents

The album catalog was later acquired by The Bicycle Music Company. In September 2011, Los Angeles–based Oglio Records announced they were releasing the Television's Greatest Hits song catalog after entering into an arrangement The Bicycle Music Company. A series of 9 initial "6-packs" including some of the songs from the album had been announced for 2011. [3]

Track listing

  1. Sesame Street ("Can You Tell Me How To Get To Sesame Street?")
  2. The Muppet Show
  3. The Alvin Show
  4. Speed Racer ("Go, Speed Racer, Go!")
  5. Mr. Magoo
  6. Inspector Gadget
  7. The Smurfs ("La La Song")
  8. Dastardly & Muttley ("Stop The Pigeon")
  9. Scooby-Doo
  10. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids ("Gonna Have A Good Time")
  11. The Archies
  12. Josie and the Pussycats
  13. Dudley Do-Right
  14. Fractured Fairy Tales
  15. Cheers ("Where Everybody Knows Your Name")
  16. The Bob Newhart Show ("Home To Emily")
  17. The Greatest American Hero ("Believe It Or Not")
  18. Welcome Back, Kotter ("Welcome Back")
  19. Room 222
  20. WKRP In Cincinnati
  21. Taxi ("Angela")
  22. Barney Miller
  23. Three's Company ("Come And Knock On Our Door")
  24. Happy Days
  25. Laverne & Shirley ("Making Our Dreams Come True")
  26. The Facts of Life
  27. Good Times
  28. One Day at a Time ("This Is It")
  29. Gimme a Break!
  30. Maude ("And Then There's Maude")
  31. The Jeffersons ("Movin' On Up")
  32. All In the Family ("Those Were The Days")
  33. Sanford and Son ("The Streetbeater")
  34. Dallas
  35. Dynasty
  36. Knots Landing
  37. L.A. Law
  38. St. Elsewhere
  39. Marcus Welby, M.D.
  40. M*A*S*H ("Suicide Is Painless")
  41. The Waltons
  42. Little House On the Prairie
  43. Hart to Hart
  44. Charlie's Angels
  45. Wonder Woman
  46. The Love Boat
  47. American Bandstand ("Bandstand Boogie")
  48. Solid Gold
  49. Entertainment Tonight
  50. Miami Vice
  51. S.W.A.T.
  52. Baretta ("Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow")
  53. The Streets of San Francisco
  54. Barnaby Jones
  55. Starsky & Hutch ("Gotcha")
  56. The Rookies
  57. Kojak
  58. The A-Team
  59. The Name of the Game
  60. Quincy, M.E.
  61. Hill Street Blues
  62. Simon & Simon
  63. Magnum, P.I.
  64. The Rockford Files
  65. Saturday Night Live [2]

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References

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