Editing Cheers (section)

===Theme song===
{{Main|Where Everybody Knows Your Name}}

[[File:Saturday night in a saloon. Craigville, Minnesota.jpg|thumb|The original version of one of the images used in the opening title sequence.]]
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''{{'}} opening song, the pair wrote another song, "My Kind of People", which resembles "People Like Us" and was intended to satirize "the lifestyle of old decadent old-money [[White Anglo-Saxon Protestant|WASPs]]", but to meet producers' demands, they rewrote the lyrics to be about "likeable losers" in a Boston bar. The show's producers rejected this song, as well. After they read the script of the series pilot, they created another song "Another Day". When Portnoy and Hart Angelo heard that NBC had commissioned thirteen episodes, they created an official theme song "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" and rewrote the lyrics.<ref>{{cite web|archive-date=January 18, 2013|url=http://www.garyportnoy.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118024640/http://www.garyportnoy.com/ |work=GaryPortnoy.com|url-status=live|title=The Story Behind the Cheers Theme}} Click "The Cheers Story".</ref> On syndicated airings of ''Cheers'', the theme song was shortened to make room for additional commercials.