Vic Mizzy - Phyllis Diller Show [REMASTERED STEREO] The Pruitts Of Southampton TV Theme Songs 1966 

Vic Mizzy was your go-to for those favorite, jaunty, comedically arranged TV themes you've always loved. After The Addams Family went off the air, that production company moved on to this show ABC's "The Pruitts of Southampton" (1966) - now remastered in sparkling Dyna-Stereo! READ MORE...
Vic Mizzy's music was everywhere, however, today's audiences may only hear his distinctive arrangements and music themes and cues in reruns of The Addams Family and Green Acres.
"The Pruitts Of Southampton" attempted to create a vehicle for stand-up comedienne Phyllis Diller to evolve into the next Lucille Ball.
The first season was called "The Pruitts Of Southampton" - and Vic Mizzy toyed with a new theme on some season enders. When ratings proved real bad, the second season became "The Phyllis Diller Show" with Addams' Family star John Astin taking on a role with Phyllis - and the "CLOSING THEME 2" became the new theme to the second season. The show ran from 1966 to 1967.
Of note, after this show's production, the theme to "The Phyllis Diller Show" would be re-used to the theme of "The Don Rickles Show" - which also didn't last long on television.
Of the many shows Vic Mizzy composed themes for, there are many forgotten ones such as:
Kentucky Jones
Temperatures Rising
Vic Mizzy also scored many Don Knotts comedy films of the 1960s including:
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
The Caper of the Golden Bulls
Did You Hear The One About The Traveling Secretary?
The Spirit Is Willing
The Love God?
Don't Make Waves
How to Frame a Figg
This restoration includes AI music stem tracks re-mixed with the mono source film soundtracks.
From wikipedia:
The Pruitts of Southampton is a situation comedy that aired during the 1966-67 season on the ABC network. The show was based on the novel House Party (1954) by Patrick Dennis. It was ABC's attempt to turn female stand-up comic Phyllis Diller into a sitcom comedienne very much in the wacky style of Lucille Ball.
The program starred Diller as Phyllis Pruitt, and featured Gypsy Rose Lee and Richard Deacon in supporting roles with Diller feeling the series was an inverted version of The Beverly Hillbillies. The show's producers originally sought comic actress Beatrice Lillie in the Diller role. Exteriors of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina were used as the locale.
In 2002, TV Guide ranked it number 20 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list.
Premise
The Pruitts, a supposedly incredibly wealthy family living on Long Island in the Hamptons, have been approached by the Internal Revenue Service about overdue taxes. An audit revealed that the Pruitts were in fact broke. Rather than reveal this fact publicly and cause the economic depression which would presumably result, an improbably charitable IRS allowed them to continue living in their mansion and maintaining the pretensions of great wealth, which was difficult given their reduced circumstances. By mid-season, in order to raise more money, Phyllis Pruitt had opened the mansion to boarders, attracting a "nutty" collection of tenants as well, a group that included Paul Lynde as her hopeless brother, John Astin as her brother-in-law, and Marty Ingels as a handyman.
In the premiere episode, Phyllis Pruitt unsuccessfully tries to roast a turkey in a front-loading washing machine.
Development and history
The show was created by executive producer David Levy, who also served in the same capacity on the ABC television series The Addams Family from 1964 to 1966. When ABC canceled that show in the spring of 1966, a few Addams Family alumni were recruited for the Diller series. Vic Mizzy, who composed the finger-snapping theme song to The Addams Family, composed the musical theme for Diller's show as well.
According to Television magazine, The Pruitts of Southampton finished 77th among the 91 shows rated during the 1966-1967 season. It began the season airing on Tuesdays, opposite The Red Skelton Hour on CBS, which finished second in the ratings.
On January 13, 1967, with the episode "Little Miss Fixit", the program changed its title to The Phyllis Diller Show. John Astin, who played Gomez Addams on The Addams Family, joined the cast the same month, and the show began airing on Fridays. In addition, the series marked a reunion for Astin and Marty Ingels who had starred in the 1962-1963 ABC-TV sitcom, I'm Dickens, He's Fenster.
In the fall of 1968, NBC signed Diller to a weekly variety series hoping that the comedian would have the same kind of success that Carol Burnett had achieved for the rival network CBS. The program, entitled The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show, did poorly in ratings and was canceled after three months.