Cheers (season 1) Super Bowl pre-game segment on January 30, 1983, along with sketches for other NBC shows, including "The A-Team". After efforts to improve the ratings failed, NBC approved production of nine more episodes, and renewed the series for the next season. Before "Where Everybody Knows Your Name", written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo became the show's theme song, "Cheers" producers rejected two of Portnoy's and Hart Angelo's songs. The songwriters had collaborated to provide music for "Preppies" an unsuccessful Broadway musical. When told they could not appropriate "People Like Us", "Preppies"s opening song, the pair wrote "My Kind of
Mike Portnoy of the Portnoy/Sheehan/Kotzen band would be called The Winery Dogs. The album was released in July 2013. Portnoy played drums on Progressive Rock band Bigelf's 2013 album. He has clarified that he was "just helping Damon (Fox, Bigelf frontman)", however, and is not a member of the band. On June 4, 2013, Portnoy announced via Adrenaline Mob's Facebook page that he would be playing only four more shows with the band before departing. Portnoy cited scheduling conflicts that prevented him from being able "to fully commit to the band's future activities at the moment." On March 21, 2015 Mike Portnoy