About a decade ago, after Ted Harbert had been accused (wrongly, he says) of killing the television theme song, he put together a tape he called Ted's All-Time Favorite Theme Songs. He still has a few ...

Remember when sitcoms opened with music? How well do you remember the theme songs when you only get one random line?

These days, it feels like TV shows barely have time for a theme song before jumping into the action—sometimes it’s just a quick title card and a few seconds of music, or it's simply nonexistent. But ...

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 ...