I recently finished watching all 12 seasons of My 3 Sons, the last go round I started with the commercial releases of Seasons 1 & 2 then went to my own recordings in the second half of Season 2. Now after the last season 12 episode I'm now watching the series all over again from the beginning but this time I'm watching my own recordings of Seasons 1 & 2.

Wow, what a difference the background music makes in the enjoyment of these shows. From the very much missed melancholy harmonica bits of background music usually to young Chip tender scenes to the classic jaunty very familiar background music that I can't hum here, but I instantly recognize it as soon as it plays, usually in a bright or up moment of the show. I think I remember this same music in Hanna Barbera cartoons.

The music they used in the commercial discs was to put it in one word, awful.:confused: The show was ruined for me without the great background music and replaced with that awful artificial sounding hack noise they played on the commercial discs. Only good thing about the commercial discs is that they are uncut, but I'd rather miss out on 3 minutes of the show and be able to enjoy 22 minutes without once cringing as I did with the commercial discs and their so-called electronica music playing the background.

Of course I'd like to have the original music on the dvd releases, but to me, more importantly, I'd like to have future dvd releases be of complete seasons! I'd like to own all the Bub seasons. don't care about owing the Uncle Charlie seasons.

IMO, the musical score adds so much to a show. My favorite musical score is the one they used on "The Rifleman".

Some shows really had great background music. Rifleman was one, I esp. always liked the tragic sounding very dramatic music would play, usually at the end of a very intense scene. It was perfect to the scenes being shown. They used it sometimes a bit too much though, but it was great.

Other favorite background music shows for me: Adv. of Superman ('50's Reeves series), Wild Wild West, Lost In Space, Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke (b/w years).

It's fun to listen for music that was shared between M3S and Family Affair. Likewise some of the particular sound effects, like "waa waa" when something was botched or went wrong in some way.