Ah, the 1980s, a time of spandex, synth guitars, and toy advertisements disguised as Saturday morning cartoons meant to entertain a generation of kids all over the world. It's impossible to sum up the ...

Before streaming queues and skip buttons, theme songs were an essential part of the TV experience. They didn’t just open a show — they set the tone, told a story, and in many cases, became just as ...

Flat-screen televisions for sale. Image by Wags05 at English Wikipedia - Own work (CC0 1.0) Flat-screen televisions for sale. Image by Wags05 at English Wikipedia - Own work (CC0 1.0) The music that ...

Our brains are funny things. You could go 30-odd years without seeing a TV show but still instantly know all the words to the intro like you were sitting there watching it yesterday in your jim-jams ...

To fully appreciate the odder aspects of TV-show theme songs–which are often required to be expositions on plot as well as pieces of music–it helps to divorce those themes from the visuals they ...

The 1980s was a boom time for kid’s TV thanks to an FCC deregulation ruling that allowed series based on toy products. All of a sudden, the floodgates were open and soon G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K., ...

If you read Nerdist with any frequency—or you follow me on Twitter—you know that I’ve become rather obsessed with tokusatsu lately. This is the tradition in Japanese film and TV of live-action special ...

Part of that predictability is in the television theme song. See if you can match these corny-but-catchy tunes to the series they belong to in the quiz below. Some songs are written exclusively for ...