ABCs long-running medical drama,Greys Anatomy, is beginning its seventeenth season on Nov. 12, 2020. Diehard fans are begging for creator Shonda Rhimes and showrunner Krista Vernoff to bring back the intro theme song. They want to know why its missing in the first place.

Creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes remembers fighting with everyone in the editing room over the pilots music forGreys Anatomy.

I put all of that music that you heard in the pilot, she toldBillboard. The guys came in and said, You cant have this music in the show, and they scored the show with this very testosterone-y music that made it sound like an action movie, and the show looked ridiculous.

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At that moment, Rhimes recalls she thought the show was over. However, television executive Betsy Beers came to the rescue. She forced them to change everything back to the original music the creator chose.

But [I was] also watching how a show can become a completely different animal with different kinds of music, Rhimes recalls.

If Rhimes took such great care in choosing the music forGreys Anatomy, fans want to know why the intro theme song no longer plays before each episode. The piece Cosy in the Rocket by Psapp used to play while imagery of steamy moments in a hospital flashed across the screen. However, after the early seasons,Greysdropped the theme song and switched to a brief title flash.

I love the intro, mostly because of the nostalgia I have for the early series, one fan wrote onReddit.

Fans pointed out that they loved it when they brought the theme song back for the 300th episode.

The intro was iconic and a really beautifully filmed piece of the show, another fan added. It would be cool if they used the same song and aesthetic but made a new one for the current cast!

The year thatGreys Anatomylost their 26-second intro, so did many other TV shows, includingDesperate HousewivesandHeroes.

Producers feel, rightly or wrongly, that that interruption, if you will, is going to lose viewers, TV historian Tim Brooks toldToday. I think one of the things that has squeezed themes out is this relentless kind of move toward tightening everything, making it go right from joke to joke, from action to action, from shootout to shootout, so that you wont press the dreaded remote control.

He feels those theme songs are a thing of the past, and we wont see network television bringing them back anytime soon.

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