The Cheers theme goes, “Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad you came. You want to be where you can see, our troubles are all the same. You want to be ...

As “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” played, Cheers did not show photographs of the actors. Instead, they listed cast names over artistic likenesses during the theme song. “Main titles were done by ...

It’s often said that the right song can support you for life, but very seldom does anybody write that song. But Gary Portnoy did. He co-wrote a song that not only was a key component of a prime-time ...

With the "Cheers" theme heading into the Final Four of our Theme Song Thunderdome bracket, we spoke to Portnoy (who also sang the theme) this week about how "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" came to ...

Gary Portnoy, who created the Cheers theme song with Judy Hart-Angelo and also performed it, joined CNN's Don Lemon for the special Where Have All the Theme Songs Gone?, where the songwriter revealed ...

Ask yourself why you know the Cheers theme. Not how. Why. You never chose to learn it. You never sat down and studied it. It arrived through a television speaker ...

Michael Walsh is a graduate of the Northern Film school and spends his spare time watching and writing films and TV. Mike lives in Rochdale, England We may be in the golden age of television, but ...