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.

The show's best-known and Sondheim's biggest hit song was almost an afterthought, written several days before the start of out of town tryouts.

* Medabots takes place in the 22nd century ; first mentioned during the show's initial dubbed intro song.

In the premiere show of the final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show on September 10, 2010, Simon surprised Oprah and the audience with a song dedicated to Oprah and her show lasting 25 years ( an update of a song he did for her show's 10th anniversary ).

The show's biggest hit — the song that Rodgers believed " made " Rodgers and Hart — was " Manhattan " sung by Ruth Tester and Allan Gould.

The song was written and composed for the show's performance by another breast cancer survivor, figure skater Dorothy Hamill.

The show's writers admire Grammer's singing voice, and try to include a song for each appearance.

A rare surviving recording of the show's theme song, " When You Travel the Great Lincoln Highway ", survives online.

The show's theme song is " As Long as We've Got Each Other ," which was written and composed by both John Bettis ( Lyrics ) and Steve Dorff ( Music ).

The show's original pilot episode featured a calypso theme song by future film composer John Williams, and different lyrics.

A reminder of the tragedy appears in the opening sequence of the show's first season, when the theme song is played.

In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( DS9 ) episode “ Little Green Men ,” in which the show's regular Ferengi accidentally become the three aliens in Roswell, the humans without translators are unable to understand the Ferengi ( who likewise can not understand the English spoken by the Human observers ) until the Ferengi get their own translators working.

Casey Broadwater of Blu-Ray. com stated that the episode “ is merely so-so entry in the show's annual Halloween anthology ”, while Colin Jacobsson of DVD Movie Guide wrote that, while it “ doesn ’ t present many significant flaws ”, it also “ doesn ’ t ever really shine ”.

Reviewing the episode for the Daily News of New York City before the episode's official broadcast, Eric Mink complimented it for being “ fitfully funny ”, however he added that the episode “ seem short on the pop-culture digs and celebrity skewering that used to put a high gloss on the show's gleaming reputation ”.

Robert Bianco of USA Today called Larry “ the show's most original character ”.

* Ian Freeman ( aka “ Ian Bernard ”) – Having identified himself as a libertarian, an anarcho-capitalist, a free marketeer, and other labels over the course of the show's history, Freeman has settled on voluntaryist in recent years.

" and finally " Hebrews 13: 18 ," a Biblical passage that read, “ Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever .” Lorenz Hart gave voice to the problem some in the theater community had with the show's success, when he wrote these lines for " Manhattan ": " Our future babies we'll take to Abie's Irish Rose -- I hope they'll live to see it close.

Near the end of the series Labyorteaux's character lost his leg, leading to speculation that the actor had in fact lost his leg, but the show's spokesperson, Diane Ekeblad, stated, “ I ’ m happy to report Patrick Labyorteaux has not suffered any injury regarding his leg.

Her other television credits include NYPD Blue ( in a recurring role as reporter Benita Alden during that show's second season ), Northern Exposure, Due South, Oz, The Practice, MTV's The Ben Stiller Show, and a Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of the Anne Tyler novel Saint Maybe.