The title sequence archive
Every opening sequence, season by season.
The forty seconds before a show starts, kept in one place. Some series rebuilt theirs every year; some never moved a frame in two decades. Both tell you something, so both are here — and a season only appears where the sequence actually changed.
Crime opens at night, comedy gets out of the way, and documentary takes its time.
Drama takes its ninety seconds seriously, animation puts the best joke before the first line, sci-fi builds a whole world in forty seconds, and horror does the frightening so the first scene does not have to. Pick one and the whole site changes colour with it.
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All 2618 shows, A–Z →
1 sequence
Stranger Things
Red letters assembling out of the dark in ITC Benguiat, glowing at the edges like a paperback cover left in the sun. An argument that a title sequence can be nothing but type and still do all the work.
- Seasons 1–4
1 sequence
Pluribus
Vince Gilligan's first series after Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, opened in twenty-one seconds of white dots on black that settle into the title and hold nothing else — no cast, no footage, no colour.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Euphoria
No opening sequence as such. Each episode runs a cold open, often one character's history told in narration, and only then cuts to the title card.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Wednesday
Gothic paper-cut animation and a harpsichord, doing in seventy-nine seconds what the Addams Family finger-snap did in eight.
- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequence
The Boys
Superhero iconography rendered as corporate branding and then defaced — the show's whole argument, done in graphics.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Bridgerton
Engraved invitations, wax seals and bees, assembled like a society page being typeset — the gossip sheet that drives the plot, doing the credits.
- Season 1
- Season 2
Rebuilt the most
All 139 that changed →Most series make one opening and run it until the end. These went back and did it again — only 139 of 2618 ever started over, and a few of them never stopped.
11 sequences
American Horror Story
An anthology, so there is no returning sequence to protect: Kyle Cooper builds a new one from scratch every season and the only thing carried across is the lettering. The sixth season is absent below because it went further still and threw the titles out altogether.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 8 more
10 sequences
Doctor Who
Rebuilt for almost every Doctor, and each rebuild invented its own technique — a camera filming its own monitor, light photographed through moving slots, and finally the first computer-generated titles on British television.
- Seasons 1–3
- Seasons 4–6
- Seasons 7–10
- and 7 more
8 sequences
Charmed
Love Spit Love's cover of 'How Soon Is Now?' over the Book of Shadows and three sisters, re-cut every season. It goes further than that, though: the credits were rebuilt whenever the cast of an episode changed, so a season carries several versions rather than one — eight of them in the second year alone.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 5 more
7 sequences
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
An organ sting, a shot of the moon, and then Nerf Herder's surf-punk theme over black-and-white monster-movie footage that bursts into colour. The design never changed in seven years; the fifty seconds behind it were re-cut every one of them.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 4 more
5 sequences
Babylon 5
Five seasons, five openings, and each one changes who is allowed to speak. The monologue passes from the station's first commander to his successor to his second-in-command, then splinters across the whole cast, then stops being a monologue at all.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 2 more
5 sequences
Silicon Valley
An animated Bay Area skyline of tech-company headquarters, rebuilt every season to match who was winning that year. The joke only works because it kept being updated — logos appear, get acquired, and vanish between seasons.
- Season 1
- Season 3
- Season 4
- and 2 more