Television
Lava was responsible for scores in eleven Road Runner cartoons subcontracted by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises to Format Films in 1965 and '66. The budgets for these cartoons were even tighter still, meaning that only the first one (Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner) had real scored music. The other 10 used a set of generic musical cues, which did not follow the action closely as in other Warner Brothers productions.
He also composed music for 19 of the 124 Pink Panther cartoons (USA, 1964, animation), always based on Henry Mancini's original theme, adapting it to closely follow character action.
Lava co-wrote the theme (with Irving Taylor) and most of the incidental music for the TV series F Troop. Lava also composed the silent-film music for the "bookend" sequences at the beginning and end of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode "Once Upon a Time".
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