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
Punky Brewster The theme song for "Punky Brewster" is "Every Time I Turn Around," written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo and sung by Portnoy. NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff named the series after a girl he had a crush on in his own childhood: an older tomboy named Peyton "Punky" Brewster. Before the series aired, NBC tracked her down (by this time, she was married and named Peyton Rutledge) and secured her permission to use her name for the lead character. Rutledge was even hired to do a cameo in one episode as a teacher at Punky's school (in the