A great TV theme song has an almost magical quality. It turns into a portal rather than merely introducing a show. Those ...

Think about all the iconic TV theme songs you can sing by heart...The Jeffersons, Cheers, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air...the list is endless. But for all the earworms and memorable melodies, you’d be ...

Ah, the golden era of television! The 70s and 80s gifted us with theme songs that were as memorable as the shows themselves.

There is a tendency to not think of theme music as a “real” song. Though they are some of the most intrinsic and enduring pieces of music, they aren’t songs we often listen to outside of the show they ...

Something that's been part of TV for a long time is the use of theme songs. You know, just in case people forget what show they're watching or something. They usually appear at the very beginning of ...

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 ...

We hope we don’t sound too “get off our lawn” right now, but they sure don’t make TV and movie theme music like they used to. We still get a few memorable ones here and there, like Alan Silvestri’s ...

Christine is a freelance writer for Collider with two decades of experience covering all types of TV shows and movies spanning every genre. With a particular affinity for dramas, true crime, sitcoms, ...