Ah, the ‘80s. The decade of decadence. The era of the mass media revolution and music technology evolution. On television, the hair got bigger, makeup got more glammed, pretty people populated more ...

“Where Everybody Knows Your Name” is more a pop hit than it is a TV show theme song. Setting the scene for Cheers, this theme plays less like a trite jingle and more like a viable, radio-friendly song ...

Before streaming queues and skip buttons, theme songs were an essential part of the TV experience. They didn’t just open a show — they set the tone, told a story, and in many cases, became just as ...

Part of that predictability is in the television theme song. See if you can match these corny-but-catchy tunes to the series ...

A couple of months ahead of the premiere of “Matlock” on CBS, I went back and revisited episodes of the original legal drama starring Andy Griffith. It ran from 1986 to 1995 and its case-of-the-week ...

If television shows are a gift, then a good theme song is like the color-coordinated bow on top. Be it jingles made for the show or pre-existing pop songs the producers obtained the rights for, a good ...

‘A Different World,’ ‘The Jeffersons’ and ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ lead our picks for the best Black TV themes. As much as we love modern television, one of the elements we miss most from the ...