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
Ethel Portnoy Kousbroek (1929–2010) in 1951. She raised two children and until 1962 she worked at the UNESCO. She worked for Dutch papers and was published in "Randstad", in the weeklies "Haagse Post" and "Vrij Nederland" and also in the "NRC Handelsblad". The family moved to The Hague in 1970. In the late 1970s Portnoy was one of the editors of the feminist literary journal "Chrysallis". Since 1979, she worked at the journal "Maatstaf". Portnoy debuted as a novelist in 1971 at the age of 44 with the book "Steen en Been". She wrote in English, but considered herself a Dutch writer.