10 TV Shows That Changed Their Theme Song - And Fans Never Forgave It

For fifteen years, an entire generation watched Dawson's Creek and never once heard its real theme song. Nobody made a creative decision about that — a licensing contract from 1998 quietly expired, and the cheapest fix won. That's one of ten times a TV show changed its theme song or its opening credits and the audience never got over it. Some of these were creative calls that missed. Some were budget calls. And four of them came down to contracts nobody read closely enough back when nobody imagined we'd still be watching these shows forty years later. We're covering the sitcom that opened with a real Louis Armstrong recording for exactly five episodes, the Star Trek series that listened to two years of fan complaints and then fixed precisely the wrong thing, the show whose own star sang the theme until somebody replaced her, and the ten seasons of Frank Sinatra that got swapped for a soundalike the moment the show hit streaming. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — The show that spent 15 years with the wrong theme song 01:40 — #10: Happy Days 03:12 — #9: The Facts of Life 04:28 — #8: Growing Pains 06:08 — #7: Family Matters 07:21 — #6: Roseanne 08:33 — #5: Star Trek: Enterprise 10:54 — #4: The Wonder Years 12:46 — #3: Married... with Children 14:05 — #2: Charmed 15:27 — #1: Dawson's Creek 17:01 — Why theme songs hit different Which theme song change are you still annoyed about? Tell me in the comments — I know there are more of these out there. Subscribe for more stories behind the shows you grew up with. New videos every few days. ```