King of the Hill season 1

This is a list of episodes from the first season of King of the Hill, which aired on Fox from January 12 to May 11, 1997 for 12 episodes.

Production

The showrunners for the season were Mike Judge and Greg Daniels. New episodes of Judge's first animated series Beavis and Butt-Head continued to air on MTV when the first and second seasons of King of the Hill were airing on Fox, with the series eventually wrapping up in November 1997. A Beavis and Butt-Head spin-off titled Daria also premiered on MTV in March 1997, although Judge had no creative involvement with this series, and didn't voice any of the characters like in Beavis and Butt-Head.

The opening sequence utilized digital ink and paint, however, the episodes themselves were still done using traditional cel animation, and they would continue to be animated this way up until the eight season.

Music

Work on the show's background music began in January 1997, the same month that it commenced airing. The show's production company, Judgmental Films, hired seven composers to write the music to the first 13 episodes. Among the seven composers were the band The Refreshments, who also composed the opening and closing themes that appear in every episode. The producers gave each composer one or two episodes to do whilst they were looking for the style that would best suit the program, eventually settling on John O'Connor and Roger Neill. Ron Wasserman, who composed the theme songs for Fox's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and X-Men: The Animated Series, was interested in composing for the show and submitted acoustic guitar music during pre-production, although he would not end up being chosen as one of the initial seven composers on the first season.