Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A great TV theme song has the power to instantly transport us into the world of a show, setting the tone before the first scene ...

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 ...

There’s something almost magical about hearing the first few notes of a TV theme song from your past. It doesn’t just remind you of a show—it brings back where you were sitting, who you watched it ...

Nearly 35 years ago, producers Thomas Miller and Edward Milkis put together a 20-minute presentation to convince ABC that two guest stars on “Happy Days” could be spun off into their own series. They ...

The Grammy-winning singer of an iconic TV theme song is dead at age 86. The Associated Press reports Jack Jones, the crooner best known for television’s “The Love Boat” theme song, died Wednesday ...

In the 1970s, TV theme songs were big business. The opening song from The Rockford Files became one of the biggest radio hits of 1975, and the instrumental Theme From S.W.A.T hit No. 1 on the ...

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 ...

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other arrangements for film and television, died Thursday. He was 93. Schifrin’s son Ryan ...

In 1975, the music charts were dominated by songs about love, rhinestones, and Philadelphia freedom. But a surprise TV theme snuck its way onto the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of the most ...

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 ...

One of the more memorable TV theme songs in recent years comes from Stranger Things. Its theme was composed by Kyle Dixon (left) and Michael Stein, shown here performing at the 2017 ASCAP Screen Music ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. What do Mariah Carey, Ozzy Osbourne, and the Barenaked Ladies have in common? You've probably heard a theme song they performed hundreds of ...