Kiwi TV on Vinyl, tape, cd, mp3, aac

There have been a few releases of music related to local TV shows that we know of:

Themes on 45

Not a lot of these:

Albums

Comedy shows

Kid's TV

Miscellaneous

Loxene Gold Disc Awards

Cassettes

Must have been more cassettes from Kiwi TV shows than these.

Television Gold (All Time Favourite TV Themes)

This compilation album is of particular interest as a rare example of NZ songs being showcased alongside the international themes.

Issued in New Zealand by Record Co's in conjunction with TV One, this contained 24 TV Show Theme tunes/songs. It was released on LP and Tape only. Mixed in with some memorable overseas tunes there are a couple of NZ Classics.

• Nadia's Theme (The Young & The Restless) - Roger Williams
• Sutherland's Law - Scottish National Orchestra
• Theme From Rush - Brian May & The A.B.C. Showband
• Sweet Charity (TV1's '79 Olympics theme) - Paul Mauriat & Orch
• Calypso (The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau
• Theme From M*A*S*H - The Mash
• Close to Home - Jack Body
• Family At War - Vaughan Williams 6th Symp
• Coronation Street - Alan Tew
• Chitter Chatter - (Theme from Joe and Koro)
• Hawaii Five-O - Norrie Paramor & Orch
• TV1's 6.30 News 6.30pm News - unknown
• Tonight At Nine (from Prologue to A Hot August Night) [Neil Diamond]
• Hillbilly Child (Theme from Country Calender) - Alan Moorhouse
• The Lotus Eaters - Stavros Xarhakos Orch
• Star Trek Theme - The Inside Startrek Orch
• The Hanged Man - Bullet
• Happy Days - The Silver Studs
• The Sweeney - The Alan Tew Orch
• The New Avengers - Laurie Johnson Orch
• Warship - Band Of H.M. Welsh Guards
• The Pallisers - New Philharmonic Orch
• War And Peace (Czarist National Anthem) - The Band Of H.M. Welsh Guards.

New Zealand Composers On Screen

CD and DVD prepared by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (Investment NZ) in 2005 to promote the work of NZ film composers by showcasing excerpts from a range of films and tv shows.

CD. 

Tracey's theme / Shayne Carter 
Tango / Victoria Kelly 
Insiders Guide to Happiness / David Long 
Drive home / Neil Finn 
Hymn 'nga haere o te wa' / Jonathan Crayford 
Duggan theme / Gareth Farr 
Bits and pieces / Leyton 
Taut, surreal montage/Sad security guard / Mark Austin 
Souvenirs / Peter Scholes 
Equator / Trevor Coleman 
Bill / Plan 9 
The vector file / Bruce Lynch 
Saturn rising / John Charles 
River of life / Graeme Perkins 
Collage / Joost Langeveld 
Skin and bone / Joel Haines 
Morphine / Andrew Thomas 
Out there / Todd Hunter 
Once were warriors / Murray Grindley and Murray McNabb 
Explorers (Oowee) / Dave Dobbyn 
The orchard / Michelle Scullion 
Dolphins of the shadowland / Neville Copland 
Lime juice/ Don McGlashan 
Lovers in gondola / Clive Cockburn 
Flight of the Albatross / Jan Preston 
Epitaph theme / John Gibson 
Channelling baby / Peter Dasent 
Matemate-a-one / James HallGod / Bevan Smith.
The Strip / by Gareth Farr

DVD contains scenes from films produced in New Zealand with music composed by New Zealand composers; it's not clear if it's the same music as the cd.

T.V. Themes for Aussie & Kiwi Kids!

We did make our own versions of Play School and Romper Room and quite a few of the other show on this were screened her but as it all covers this is fairly inessential.

Telethon charity 45s

Marketing Department tie-ins

Occasionally TVNZ seems to have ventured into releases that had only vague or no relationship with shows in an effort to make some money.

Ready to Roll was an obvious excuse to release some chart topper complications so they couldn't really resist putting the logo to use:

But these three don't make any mention of anything on screen:

Christchurch label Golden Editions released a series of compilation albums that had "TVNZ" in their catalogue numbers, but aside from the occasional "seen on TV" label they doesn't seem to have been any direct link to the TV screen.

A slowly growing number the songs mentioned here can be found on music services such as spotify: