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Please forgive me for repetition if you've read this from me on previous Williams threads.
Fred Astaire's presence as host drew me to "Alcoa Premiere" and to audio-recording every show on my Wollensak reel-to-reel. This was when I fell in love with Johnny Williams. Every "Alcoa" installment was like a self-contained movie with its own individual setting, characters and moods, so Williams provided in effect a miniature movie score every week -- romance, drama, suspense, Americana, noir, comedy, you name it, JW rose to the occasion. I can still hum some of those themes. And THAT is the JW TV music I most dream of being made available to the listening public.
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As it turns out, Williams did score the "Woman of Arles" episode of MARKHAM.
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So the only thing I would be interested in there would be individual score episodes from CHECKMATE, some of which depart from the cuts on the existing album.
That's what I meant. But do you know if there is more Irwin Allen stuff that never made it to the CDs? I think all the Lost in Space music is there, but I don't know about the other shows.
Yes, all of Williams' music for LOST IN SPACE, THE TIME TUNNEL and LAND OF THE GIANTS has been released.
So he only did the pilot to Land of the Giants and the two episodes of Time Tunnel? Wow, I assumed he had done more. I wonder what composers did the bulk of them.
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Nope, not letting this thread go untill we've tried to chart everything -- and then some. 
Let's move on to his western-themed shows.
The first show of this kind that he worked on seems to be WAGON TRAIN (1957-1965). According to the FSM guide again, he scored 6 episodes in total spread over several seasons. Three tracks of his are available on the soundtrack LP, but there's still quite a lot of his material that should see the light of day. This entire show also seems to be out on DVD.
Then there's WIDE COUNTRY (1962-1963), which is also out on DVD. To my knowledge, Williams only wrote the theme for this (available on the THEMES TO REMEMBER LP), but please correct me if he did some episode scores as well.
There was a shortlived TV series adaptation of THE COWBOYS (1972) for which Harry Sukman of BONANZA and SALEM'S LOT fame provided the score. He also adapted Williams' theme for the movie as the opening credits, but I haven't heard this myself, nor seen the show. Haven't sought it out since I have some serious issues with the morality of the film (see separate thread). I also don't think it has a video release of any kind. Would be curious to hear if the theme is very different in Sukman's arrangement, though.
Finally, there have been longstanding rumours that he also worked on THE VIRGINIAN (1962-1971), but I haven't found any validity to this.
Would be cool to see a Williams western box, perhaps also adding his feature film scores for THE COWBOYS, THE PLAINSMAN, THE MISSOURI BREAKS, THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING and THE RARE BREED.
Any other western shows I've missed?
My recollection of the Cowboys theme was that it sounded like an edited down version of the film's main title using fewer of the different motives than the film did to make it still come full circle, but the instrumentations all sounded the same or close to the film's recording.
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As it turns out, Williams did score the "Woman or Arles" episode of MARKHAM.
yeah, I would be interested too to know what is your source for that..
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And you know this for sure because ..... ?
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Thor, which is your source for many of these?
i mean about Alcoa premiere:
I saw in FSM issue that they say it's 22 episodes from season 1, and 18 from season 2.
Where did you find that it's 28 + 28?
By the way, I think i can have access to some of these series, so it would be good to know the exact episodes (for the ones you have put a certain number that is).
but that would require a lot of work.
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Ok, i hadn't seen or remembered this.
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One of the Kraft Mystery Theater episodes scored by Williams is (according to imdb) "Breakout" (season 1 episode 4).
have you found Thor the other 2?
According again to FSM, there were 3 episodes scored by Williams.
edit: Sorry, maybe it's wrong eventually. I see imdb lists Williams as the composer for the complete seasons. So we don't know exactly which episodes he scored indeed!
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