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 ...

Television theme songs do more than fill the space before a show starts. The best ones become part of the cultural fabric, ...

Some of the best TV theme songs were already hits or great songs that were adapted as a theme song. These are songs that were written for the show, like the retro ones that still slap, but these are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...