Editing Family Matters (section)

== Production notes ==
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[[File:Family Matters house in Chicago, 2010.jpg|thumb|right|The ''Family Matters'' house in [[Chicago]] (depicted as the Winslow family home) in 2010. In 2017, the house was demolished and replaced with condos.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170921/lincoln-park/family-matter-house-demotion-torn-down-steve-urkel-winslow-family-jaleel-white-1516-west-wrightwood-avenue/|title='Family Matters' House Will be Demolished, Replaced with Condos|access-date=November 26, 2021|archive-date=November 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126140226/https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170921/lincoln-park/family-matter-house-demotion-torn-down-steve-urkel-winslow-family-jaleel-white-1516-west-wrightwood-avenue/|url-status=dead}}</ref>]]
''Family Matters'' was created by William Bickley and Michael Warren (who also wrote for, and were producers of, parent series ''[[Perfect Strangers (TV series)|Perfect Strangers]]'') and developed by [[Miller-Boyett Productions|Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett]] (who also served as executive producers on ''Perfect Strangers''); all four also served as executive producers of the series. The series was produced by Miller-Boyett Productions, in association with [[Lorimar Television]] who co-produced the show until 1993, when [[Warner Bros. Television]] absorbed Lorimar (a sister company under the co-ownership of [[Time Warner]]).

Starting with season three, the series was also produced by Bickley-Warren Productions. The series was filmed in front of a live studio audience; the Lorimar-produced episodes were shot at Lorimar Studios (later [[Sony Pictures Studios]]) in [[Culver City, California]], while the Warner Bros.-produced episodes were filmed at [[Warner Bros.]] Studios in nearby [[Burbank, California|Burbank]].

The show's original theme was [[Louis Armstrong]]'s "[[What a Wonderful World]]"; it was scrapped after the fifth episode of season one ("Straight A's"), though it was heard only in the pilot episode in syndicated reruns. The second theme, "As Days Go By", written by [[Jesse Frederick]], Bennett Salvay and Scott Roeme and performed by Frederick, was the theme for the majority of the series until 1995. The sixth season's opening credits was last used in the season seven episodes "Talk's Cheap" and "Fa La La La Laagghh", the only two episodes during the final three seasons to feature the theme song (this was heard in season one episodes in [[Freeform (TV channel)|ABC Family]] and [[Broadcast syndication|syndicated]] airings). A longer version of "As Days Go By" was used during the first three seasons, though in syndicated reruns the short version is heard (in ABC Family airings, the long theme was used for all of the episodes during the first three seasons).

''Family Matters'' is set in the same [[fictional universe]] as several other [[TV show]]s related to ABC's [[TGIF (TV programming block)|TGIF]] or [[CBS]]'s [[CBS Block Party|Block Party]]. Before ''Family Matters,'' Harriette Winslow was originally the elevator operator at the ''Chicago Chronicle'' newspaper office in the third and fourth seasons of ''Perfect Strangers.'' ''Family Matters'' was a spin-off series given to this character in 1989. Characters from ''Family Matters'' appeared on other shows, including ''[[Full House]]'', ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', ''[[Step by Step (TV series)|Step by Step]]'' and ''[[Meego (TV series)|Meego]]''.