The show's theme song, " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs.

The show's theme song, written and performed by Gary Portnoy, and co-written with Judy Hart Angelo, lent its famous refrain, " Where Everybody Knows Your Name ", as the show's tagline.

The show's theme music, a cornet piece, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, reminiscent of northern band music, was written by Eric Spear.

The Blue Men play a short snippet of the show's theme song, and one dons Doraemon's beanie.

Sheb Wooley, one of the original cast members, wrote the show's theme song.

The opening theme, " The Mickey Mouse March ," was written by the show's primary adult host, Jimmie Dodd.

" A Bowler Hat " presents the show's theme, as a samurai gradually becomes more modernized as he sells out to the Westerners.

Throughout the show's run, there was extensive Internet speculation as to whether the theme song and opening credits would be changed.

"', a single based on the show's theme song, reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1997 and remained in the Top 75 for 32 weeks, selling over a million copies.

In December 1997, BBC Worldwide released a CD single from the series, based on the show's theme song, called Teletubbies say " Eh-oh !".

Contributing the single " Boss of Me " as the theme song to the hit television series Malcolm in the Middle, as well as to the show's compilation CD, brought a new audience to the band.

The series, which premiered on October 10, 1992, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident " Iron Chefs " in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient.

* The Balladeer ( voice of Waylon Jennings ) sang and played the Dukes of Hazzard theme song, " Good Ol ' Boys ", and also served as the show's narrator.

For the show's final two seasons, Schoolhouse Rock mainstay Lynn Ahrens ( who composed and performed a few Captain Kangaroo songs herself ) composed a new theme, entitled " Here Comes Captain Kangaroo ".

The second and most famous theme was composed by William Loose: " Bob & Merrill's Theme ", named for Bob Quigley and Merrill Heatter, the show's creators and original co-executive producers.

The theme used in the show's pilot and console game is titled " Flash ", composed by Keith Mansfield, and the series theme is a loosely-based remix composed by Lee Ringuette, but credited to Score Productions.

Before 1987, the show's theme song was the Hank Snow hit " Hello Love ".

Similarly, in a 2002 show airing the weekend after the death of Senator Paul Wellstone, Keillor changed up the format of the show, starting off the show with Wellstone's favorite segment, Guy Noir, skipping even the show's theme song.

The series ' theme song, " Under the Gun ," was written by Randy Newman, who also performed it in the series ' title sequence music video-style in a recording studio, complete with a full backing band and the show's cast ( appearing out of character ) serving as an audience.

Starting in 1973, and changing with each new season, an instrumental version of the show's theme played beneath the narration ; prior to this, a specific musical score played during the corporate credits.

Beginning circa Episode 40, the music changed from a full-length instrumental specific to the corporate credits to an upbeat, marching band-type instrumental version of the show's theme.

These games featured both the show's title logo on the game's packaging and label and the first several notes of the theme song played on the title screen of the games.

The network suffered considerable public embarrassment when it lost the rights to the show's theme music following a protracted lawsuit launched by the song's composer and publishers.

" Burt Ward, who portrayed Robin in the 1960s television show, has also remarked upon this interpretation in his autobiography Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights ; he writes that the relationship could be interpreted as a sexual one, with the show's double entendres and lavish camp also possibly offering ambiguous interpretation.

Throughout the first seven seasons of the series he has a complicated relationship with Lana Lang, as well as his self-perceived guilt over the fact that the meteor shower that killed Lana's parents and created most of the superhumans he fought in the show's first few years was caused by his rocket coming to Earth and dragging pieces of Krypton with it.

Like Brooke, he is uncritical of the show's journalistic tactics ( although in the episode Judge and Jury, he has reservations about their persecution of a priest accused of rape, mainly because he is a lapsed Catholic ); in fact he is usually the confidante of the executive producers, and the one they can trust to do what is needed to get a good story, or to persuade Mike to present a story.

Shearer has been vocal about what he perceives as the show's declining quality.

He has appeared in thirteen episodes since the show's inception in 1989, the most recent being " At Long Last Leave " that aired in February 2012, in which his character makes a cameo speaking appearance.

Since the show's inception in 2000, there has been much turnover among the newscasters, and many guest anchors.

This new serial was created by the producers of Vera Sto Deksi, and it has eclipsed that show's success.

However, the show's purpose today has changed to pure entertainment.

Despite changes in the prop, the TARDIS has become the show's most consistently recognisable visual element.

She has been stated by the show's creators to be Cantonese, and as such, she is bilingual, speaking both English and Cantonese.

The show's setting is a huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark, which has gone off-course.

Much of the show's success has been attributed to its host, Anne Robinson.

" The show's creator Matt Groening has called Smith very similar to Lisa: " Yeardley has strong moral views about her character.

The show's success has led CBS Sports to schedule the Masters Tournament, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and other events leading into 60 Minutes and the rest of the network's primetime lineup, thus ( again, except on the West Coast ) pre-empting the Sunday editions of the CBS Evening News and affiliates ' local newscasts.

While many networks followed the show's success by scheduling other cartoons in the early 1960s, including Scooby-Doo, Where Are You !, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and The Alvin Show, none of these programs survived more than a year ( save Scooby-Doo, which, despite not being a primetime cartoon, has managed to stay afloat for over four decades ).

Although the show's name has always ended with the number " 0 ," the soundtrack album, released in the late 1960s, used the letter " O " instead of the number zero.

The slang expression " Five-O ", meaning police or the presence of police activity in a given area, has been used in New York City and other mainland urban areas since the show's television run.

However, " Repo Men " would turn out to be the character's only appearance in the entire show's run, leading to a legal dispute in the following years over the rights to characters and concepts between Rushing and Warner Brothers, although he remained on good terms with cast and crew and in recent years has made appearances at several fan conventions.

Sometimes, this title is conferred upon a celebrity or notable creator who has lent his or her name to a project to boost its prestige or credibility, as a recognition of newly-acquired industry status, or as a perk to the show's main star or creative force.

YCDTOTV has been occasionally referenced on Robot Chicken, including some of the show's trademark gags, such as locker jokes, Barth's Burgery, and green slime.

Smith and the show's writers worked to give Lisa a more defined personality, and she has developed greatly during the series.

The character is performed by Caroll Spinney, and has been performed by him since the show's first episode.

Towards the end of the series Ares is himself replaced by the evil god, Dahak, who is the main villain in the show's fifth season and sets off a story arc that has Hercules traveling to Sumeria, Norseland and Éire.

In discussion on his web site's forums and various interviews, Wolfe has elaborated that he was released from the production staff after he refused to shift the show's focus more heavily onto Kevin Sorbo's character, Dylan Hunt, by essentially making all of the show's episodes Hunt-centric.