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The shows that changed their opening titles
139 of 2618 shows here rebuilt their titles at least once, between them accounting for 360 sequences. The other 3056 opened the same way every week for their whole run.
Ordered by how many times each one started over. American Horror Story leads with 11.
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
8 sequences
Doctor Who (2005)
The revival kept the tunnel and the logo and threw out everything else, then carried on rebuilding — clouds, fire, clockwork — with a new arrangement of the same 1963 melody every few years.
- Season 1
- Seasons 2–4
- Seasons 5–6
- 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
Angel
The spinoff takes the parent show's structure and drops the jokes: Darling Violetta's 'Sanctuary' instead of surf-punk, city at night instead of monster movies. Like Buffy, the design holds for five years while the names in front of it keep moving.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 2 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
5 sequences
The Wire
The same song recorded five different ways. Every season re-cuts the images and hands 'Way Down in the Hole' to a new artist, matching the institution that season is about.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 2 more
5 sequences
The X-Files
One sequence held untouched for seven years, then rebuilt twice as the cast turned over. The card at the end is the real trick: it reads 'The Truth Is Out There' most weeks, and something else entirely more than twenty times.
- Seasons 1–7
- Season 8
- Season 9
- and 2 more
4 sequences
Blackadder
Four series, four centuries, and a theme re-orchestrated each time to suit the period — lute, harpsichord, military band.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 1 more
4 sequences
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
A musical comedy that threw away its theme song every year and wrote a new one, each arguing with the last about whether the word in the title is fair.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 1 more
4 sequences
Farscape
A Henson creature workshop pointed at space opera, and an opening that halves in ambition halfway through the run — the narrated version explaining the premise gives way to one that assumes you already know it.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 1 more
4 sequences
Stargate Atlantis
The same franchise moved to another galaxy, and the titles say so — a city rather than a gate, rising out of water instead of standing in a mountain.
- Season 1
- Seasons 2–3
- Season 4
- and 1 more
4 sequences
Stargate SG-1
The gate opening, every week, for ten years — David Arnold's film theme rearranged for television and a sequence that never stopped being about one piece of hardware.
- Season 1
- Season 6
- Season 9
- and 1 more
4 sequences
True Detective
Double-exposure portraits where the landscape is projected onto the people. Every season is reshot from scratch, so the titles change as completely as the cast does.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 1 more
4 sequences
Westworld
Things being manufactured, filmed as though it were tender: a horse and rider printed strand by strand, hands assembled out of white thread, a player piano working the theme out by itself. Rebuilt every season as the show's idea of what is being made changes.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 1 more
4 sequences
Young Sheldon
The Big Bang Theory prequel, narrated by the adult Sheldon it never shows. Its titles are one family portrait in the West Texas hills, reshot every couple of seasons as the children outgrow the last version of it.
- Seasons 1–2
- Seasons 3–4
- Seasons 5–6
- and 1 more
3 sequences
Battlestar Galactica
The only title sequence on this site that reports the plot. Under the Gayatri Mantra and the Cylon text, the American version ends on a count of the surviving human population — a figure recalculated for each episode, so the titles get worse as the show goes on.
- Seasons 1–2
- Season 3
- Season 4
3 sequences
Beast Wars: Transformers
Transformers rebuilt in computer graphics on a fraction of the budget, which is why everybody is an animal.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
3 sequences
The Bill
A London police station shot at ground level, under a rule the programme kept for twenty-seven years: no scene an officer is not present for.
- Season 1
- Season 4
- Season 5
3 sequences
Dark
Faces split and mirrored against themselves, reflected into a second image that is never quite the same person — a show about the same people at four ages, saying so before a word is spoken.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
3 sequences
Earth: Final Conflict
Developed from Gene Roddenberry's notes after his death, and it shows in the titles: benign-looking aliens, civic architecture and a great deal of blue, all arranged to look like a press release rather than an invasion.
- Season 1
- Season 3
- Season 5
3 sequences
The Facts of Life
A girls' boarding school in Peekskill, spun off from Diff'rent Strokes and running three years longer than it.
- Season 1
- Season 7
- Season 8
3 sequences
Fringe
Pseudo-scientific terms floating in coloured fog — and the colour is the plot: the palette changes to tell you which universe or era the episode is set in.
- Season 1
- Season 4
- Season 5
3 sequences
Homeland
Jazz, archive news audio and a child in a lion mask — a fever dream assembled from half a century of American foreign policy, recut every season with that year's crisis in it.
- Season 1
- Season 6
- Season 8
3 sequences
House of the Dragon
The parent show mapped a continent; this one traces a bloodline. Where Game of Thrones built cities, these titles follow blood running through stone channels and a tapestry recording who killed whom.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
3 sequences
The Leftovers
The rare show that threw out a perfectly good title sequence and replaced it with its opposite. One season of grief painted as a Renaissance ceiling, then a complete reversal into snapshots and a country song.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
3 sequences
Lexx
A living insect-shaped ship the size of a planet, introduced with the seriousness of an opera and the budget of a regional theatre. Rebuilt every season, and stranger each time.
- Season 2
- Season 3
- Season 4
3 sequences
Robotech
Three unrelated Japanese series cut together into one American saga, and the opening is where the seam shows: the same theme and the same establishing pan every week, then a different logo card and a different war.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
3 sequences
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Enterprise-D passing the camera at warp while Patrick Stewart reads the mission statement. Stately, slow and completely confident — it takes almost a minute and a half before anything happens, and it never once feels the need to hurry.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Seasons 3–7
3 sequences
Succession
Home video of rich children, degraded and half-legible, cut against helicopter shots of towers they will inherit. Nicholas Britell's piano stumbles deliberately, like something played badly on purpose.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
3 sequences
The Twilight Zone
Three different openings in five seasons, and the one everybody can hum arrived third. Rod Serling narrates the audience into another dimension over abstractions that were, for 1959, genuinely strange television.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Seasons 3–5
3 sequences
The White Lotus
Colonial wallpaper that will not behave — painted paradise curdling into something predatory while the resort's guests are nowhere in it. Rebuilt from scratch for each new location, with a new theme every time.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
3 sequences
The Witcher
No sequence in the usual sense. Each episode opens on its own sigil, drawn together out of liquid silver and shards over black, with the theme beneath it.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
2 sequences
ALF
A sitcom built around a puppet the cast could not see, worked from a trench cut into the set floor.
- Season 1
- Season 3
2 sequences
All My Children
Pine Valley, Agnes Nixon's serial, and the first American soap to put issue storylines in daytime.
- Season 23
- Season 41
2 sequences
Andromeda
Another posthumous Roddenberry premise, opened with a ship, a collapsed republic and a great deal of lens flare.
- Season 1
- Season 3
2 sequences
As the World Turns
The turning globe that gave American daytime its most-copied image, over fifty-four years.
- Season 41
- Season 52
2 sequences
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Seven British builders sharing a hut on a Düsseldorf site, written as a comedy about not being able to find work at home.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Ballykissangel
An English priest posted to a village in Wicklow, and the BBC's most watched Sunday drama of the late nineties.
- Season 1
- Season 6
2 sequences
Batman
Cartoon versions of the cast run at the camera and fight their way through the rogues' gallery, because the budget for that in live action did not exist and the animation is funnier anyway. Neal Hefti's twelve-bar riff has an eight-voice chorus whose entire lyric is the word Batman.
- Seasons 1–2
- Season 3
2 sequences
Big Bad Beetleborgs
Three children granted the powers of their favourite comic by a phasm they let out of a haunted house.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Big Brother (UK)
The eye, and a theme built out of the sound of the house — the format that made surveillance into a light entertainment brand.
- Season 1
- Season 8
2 sequences
Birds of a Feather
Two sisters in Chigwell whose husbands are both in prison.
- Season 1
- Season 10
2 sequences
Blue Peter
The world's longest-running children's programme, opening on a ship in full sail and a hornpipe.
- Season 45
- Season 64
2 sequences
The Bold and the Beautiful
Los Angeles fashion houses, and the most widely watched daytime serial in the world.
- Season 1
- Season 38
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
2 sequences
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Precinct signage and a horn line in twenty-one seconds — a cop show opening with no sirens in it.
- Seasons 1–5
- Seasons 6–8
2 sequences
California Dreams
A Californian high school band, made by the Saved by the Bell producers for the same Saturday morning block.
- Season 1
- Seasons 3–5
2 sequences
Caroline in the City
A Manhattan cartoonist drawing a strip about her own life, and the colourist who is in love with her.
- Season 1
- Season 3
2 sequences
ChuckleVision
Two brothers and a slapstick format that ran for twenty-one series on the strength of one exchange.
- Season 1
- Seasons 17–20
2 sequences
Clueless
The film continued at Bronson Alcott High, with most of the cast replaced and Dionne kept.
- Season 1
- Season 3
2 sequences
The Conners
Roseanne continued without her, after the network cancelled the revival it had just recommissioned.
- Season 1
- Season 5
2 sequences
Coronation Street
The longest-running television soap in the world, opening on rooftops and a cornet ever since 1960.
- Season 1
- Season 31
2 sequences
The Dick Van Dyke Show
A man walking into his own living room and either tripping over the ottoman or stepping neatly around it — two versions shot, and the network alternated them.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
EastEnders
An aerial pull-back over the Thames and the drum that answers it — thirty-two seconds that have barely changed in forty years.
- Season 1
- Season 41
2 sequences
Emmerdale
A Yorkshire Dales farming serial that dropped Farm from its name in 1989 and kept the landscape.
- Season 27
- Season 49
2 sequences
ER
James Newton Howard's theme over sliding doors, gurneys and light — the template every medical drama since has either copied or deliberately avoided.
- Season 1
- Season 10
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
Family Feud
Survey says — two families, a buzzer, and a theme rearranged for every host since Richard Dawson.
- Season 1
- Season 35
2 sequences
Family Guy
A musical number performed by the family about how television used to have values — a sitcom opening from the 1970s, done straight and then undercut.
- Season 1
- Season 10
2 sequences
Futurama
Like The Simpsons, an opening built to differ every week — a new caption under the logo and a different scrap of old cartoon on the screen the ship flies past — wrapped around Christopher Tyng's theme and a crash into a billboard.
- Seasons 1–4
- Seasons 6–7
2 sequences
Game of Thrones
A map that rebuilds itself each week. The clockwork cities shown change with the locations the episode visits, which makes it the rare title sequence carrying actual information.
- Season 1
- Season 8
2 sequences
General Hospital
American daytime's longest-running scripted programme still in production.
- Season 16
- Season 43
2 sequences
Good Omens
An angel and a demon who have both grown too fond of England to let it end, from Pratchett and Gaiman.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Grandstand
Five hours of live sport on a Saturday afternoon, held together by a man at a desk and the teleprinter behind him.
- Season 23
- Season 33
2 sequences
Grange Hill
A London comprehensive school taken seriously, opening on a comic strip and a sausage on a fork.
- Season 1
- Seasons 13–16
2 sequences
The Guardian
A corporate lawyer sentenced to community service in child advocacy, which turns out to be the real job.
- Season 1
- Seasons 2–3
2 sequences
Guiding Light
Seventy-two years on radio and television between them — the longest-running story ever told in any medium.
- Season 44
- Season 51
2 sequences
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
A retired basketball player teaching gym in Oakland and sharing a house with two women he went to school with.
- Season 1
- Seasons 4–5
2 sequences
Home and Away
Summer Bay, still running after nearly forty years, with the opening remade every few seasons.
- Season 1
- Season 38
2 sequences
Hope & Gloria
A talk show producer and a hairdresser sharing a Pittsburgh apartment building.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
House
Anatomical illustration and MRI imagery over Massive Attack's 'Teardrop' — a diagnostic show that opens by looking inside a body rather than at one.
- Season 8
- Season 1
2 sequences
House of Anubis
An English boarding school with an Egyptian secret underneath it, remade by Nickelodeon from a Dutch and Belgian original.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Ink Master
Tattoo artists competing on other people's skin, which raises the stakes over most craft contests.
- Season 2
- Season 5
2 sequences
It's a Living
Waitresses at a restaurant on the thirteenth floor, cancelled by ABC and revived in syndication.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Just Shoot Me!
A fashion magazine staffed by people who should not be near one. The titles start as a full sequence and end as a logo.
- Season 1
- Seasons 3–5
2 sequences
King of the Hill
Four men drinking beer in an alley, and a guitar riff. Thirty-one seconds that tell you the show has no interest in going anywhere.
- Season 1
- Season 14
2 sequences
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Two openings across eleven years: Manhattan shot in tilt-shift so the city reads as a model, then a drone run through the Ed Sullivan Theater and its backstage.
- Seasons 1–6
- Seasons 7–11
2 sequences
Law & Order
The original, and the source of the two-note sting that half of American television has been quoting ever since.
- Season 1
- Season 20
2 sequences
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The franchise's chung-chung and a narrated premise, held for a quarter of a century — the longest-running opening in this catalogue by some distance.
- Season 1
- Season 15
2 sequences
Match of the Day
Barry Stoller's theme, unchanged since 1970, over whatever graphics the decade happens to allow.
- Season 7
- Season 62
2 sequences
McLeod's Daughters
Two half-sisters who inherit a South Australian cattle station and run it with an all-female crew.
- Season 1
- Season 5
2 sequences
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
A schoolgirl who can rewrite reality and has not been told, in an adaptation that first broadcast its episodes deliberately out of order.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Mike & Molly
Two people who meet at an overeaters group on the north side of Chicago.
- Season 1
- Seasons 4–6
2 sequences
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
Two Parisian teenagers who transform into superheroes and spend six seasons not working out who the other one is.
- Season 5
- Season 6
2 sequences
The Morning Show
Broadcast graphics assembling and collapsing — the machinery of a network morning programme, shown as the thing that eats the people in front of it.
- Season 1
- Season 3
2 sequences
Mr. Mercedes
King's retired detective and the man who drove a car into a queue of people looking for work.
- Season 1
- Season 3
2 sequences
My Family
A Chiswick dentist and the relatives he cannot get out of the house, written by a rotating room on the American model.
- Season 3
- Season 6
2 sequences
NCIS
Naval insignia, photographs and a snare roll, refreshed periodically as a cast that has now turned over almost completely came and went.
- Season 10
- Season 1
2 sequences
Neighbours
Ramsay Street across forty years, and a theme song that survived every cast, network and cancellation.
- Season 1
- Season 39
2 sequences
The OA
Famously withheld — the first season put its title card nearly an hour into the first episode, so most viewers met the opening long after the show had started.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Oggy and the Cockroaches
A French cartoon with almost no dialogue in it, which is the reason it sold to nearly every country there is.
- Season 1
- Season 6
2 sequences
One Life to Live
Llanview, and the first American daytime serial written around class and ethnicity rather than around a hospital.
- Season 21
- Season 44
2 sequences
Oz
HBO's first hour-long drama, and the opening that established what the network's title sequences would be for the next twenty years — narrated, tattooed, and entirely unwilling to reassure you.
- Season 1
- Season 4
2 sequences
Ozark
Five glyphs inside the letter O — a boat, a gun, a cross, a bird, a body of water — chosen for the episode they introduce. The title card is a table of contents.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
The novels adapted with their author involved, and titles that run at the end of the episode rather than the start.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Pokémon
The longest-running video-game adaptation on television, and a theme song that outlasted every cast change.
- Season 1
- Season 5
2 sequences
Power Rangers Megaforce
The twentieth-anniversary season, built to reach back through the whole franchise.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
The Price Is Right
"Come on down" — the longest-running game show in American television, opening the same way for fifty years.
- Season 1
- Season 36
2 sequences
Quantum Leap
Narration explaining a premise too complicated to infer, over a theme by Mike Post — the anthology format's problem solved in sixty seconds every week.
- Season 1
- Season 4
2 sequences
Red Dwarf
The last human alive, three million years from Earth, introduced with a mining ship the size of a city and a theme sung over the end of it.
- Season 1
- Season 10
2 sequences
Riviera
A widow discovering what her husband's money was, retitled between seasons as the show moved away from the coast it is named for.
- Season 1
- Season 3
2 sequences
Road to Avonlea
Montgomery's Prince Edward Island stories, made by the CBC with Disney paying half the bill.
- Season 1
- Season 5
2 sequences
Roseanne
A family at a kitchen table, laughing at something you cannot hear, rebuilt for every season across twenty years and a thirty-year gap.
- Season 1
- Season 10
2 sequences
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
Bayside kept and the pupils replaced, for seven seasons rather more than anyone had expected.
- Season 1
- Seasons 6–7
2 sequences
Sesame Street
Children running through a New York street to a song asking how to get there — an opening that has been remade every decade for over fifty years.
- Season 1
- Seasons 24–25
2 sequences
Severance
A man walking through his own head, drawn as a corporate-training diagram that keeps folding back into itself. Oliver Latta's animation, and the best argument in years that a title sequence can be the thesis.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Shadowhunters
Runes burning into skin, and a New York rendered as a warded city.
- Season 1
- Season 3
2 sequences
The Simpsons
The only main title in television built to be different every week: the chalkboard, the saxophone solo and the couch gag all change, so the sequence is a format rather than a film.
- Seasons 1–20
- Season 21
2 sequences
Sons of Anarchy
Leather, chrome and a reaper patch, over a theme re-recorded by a different artist as the club's situation deteriorates.
- Season 1
- Season 7
2 sequences
South Park
A banjo, a cut-paper Colorado town and four boys at a bus stop — re-recorded and re-animated repeatedly across nearly thirty years while staying recognisably the same twenty-nine seconds.
- Season 1
- Season 15
2 sequences
Space: 1999
The most confident opening Gerry Anderson ever made: a burst of brass, then a rapid-fire montage of clips from the episode you are about to watch, so no two broadcasts were identical.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Star Trek
The one that set the shape of every space-opera opening since: a ship crossing the frame, a captain narrating a mission statement, and a melody built to be hummed. Alexander Courage wrote it as a fanfare and a lounge tune at the same time.
- Season 1
- Seasons 2–3
2 sequences
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
A title sequence that starts still and learns to move. The station hangs motionless in the early years; by the war it is surrounded by traffic, which is the whole arc of the show in ninety seconds.
- Seasons 1–3
- Seasons 4–7
2 sequences
Star Trek: Discovery
A complete break from every Trek opening before it — no ship, no narration, just schematic drafting-table renderings of Starfleet hardware assembling and dissolving in empty space, with a pair of hands reaching through it all.
- Seasons 1–2
- Seasons 3–5
2 sequences
Star Trek: Enterprise
The franchise's most argued-over opening: no orchestra, no starfield, but a montage of real human exploration — sailing ships, biplanes, spacesuits — under a soft-rock ballad. Half the audience never forgave it, which is its own kind of achievement.
- Seasons 1–2
- Seasons 3–4
2 sequences
Star Trek: Picard
An opening about memory rather than exploration. Fragments of a life — a vineyard, a Borg cube, a face — resolve out of swirling particles, and only at the very end does it admit it is a Star Trek show.
- Seasons 1–2
- Season 3
2 sequences
Star Trek: Voyager
The most purely beautiful of the Trek openings — Voyager skimming a comet, threading a nebula and sliding past a gas giant while Jerry Goldsmith writes the loneliest theme in the franchise. Nothing about it is in a hurry to get home.
- Seasons 1–3
- Seasons 4–7
2 sequences
The Steve Harvey Show
A funk musician turned high school teacher, in the sitcom that carried The WB's Monday nights for six years.
- Season 1
- Seasons 4–6
2 sequences
The Storyteller
European folk tales retold by John Hurt beside a fire, with Henson's creature shop doing the rest.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Stranger
A prosecutor without emotional affect and the detective who trusts him anyway. Known at home as 비밀의 숲, Secret Forest.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Survivor
The competition format that rebuilt American primetime, and rebuilds its titles for every location.
- Season 1
- Season 50
2 sequences
Todd McFarlane's Spawn
The comic adapted as adult animation, and among the first American cartoons made explicitly for an adult slot.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
Top Gear
Twenty-one seconds of engine noise and a rock riff — a motoring programme that opens like a trailer for itself.
- Season 1
- Season 23
2 sequences
Top of the Pops
Forty-two years of the chart, and a Phil Lynott instrumental called Yellow Pearl for a theme.
- Season 1
- Seasons 18–20
2 sequences
Twin Peaks
A bird, a sawmill blade and a waterfall, over Angelo Badalamenti at a tempo no network would approve today — ninety seconds of a town being described before anyone in it speaks.
- Seasons 1–2
- Season 3
2 sequences
Two Guys and a Girl
A Boston pizza place the series was named after for two seasons and then quietly dropped from the title.
- Season 1
- Seasons 3–4
2 sequences
Tyler Perry's House of Payne
A Georgia fire chief with the rest of his family in the house, and the series that proved syndication could still start a hit.
- Season 1
- Seasons 2–8
2 sequences
The Unit
Delta Force at work and their wives at home on the base, developed for television by David Mamet.
- Season 1
- Season 3
2 sequences
Veronica's Closet
A lingerie magnate whose marriage collapses in public, in one of NBC's Thursday night bets after Seinfeld.
- Season 1
- Season 3
2 sequences
Vinland Saga
Norse violence scored with post-hardcore, and an opening that gets quieter as the series abandons the war it started with.
- Season 1
- Season 2
2 sequences
The Wayans Bros.
Two brothers running a Harlem newsstand, made by the family whose name is over the door.
- Season 1
- Season 3
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
2 sequences
The West Wing
Oil portraits, flags and W.G. Snuffy Walden's brass — an opening that treats the executive branch as a cathedral, which is the show's entire register.
- Season 1
- Season 5
2 sequences
Will & Grace
Thirteen seconds and a piano vamp, from a sitcom confident enough not to explain itself.
- Season 1
- Season 9
2 sequences
Yes, Prime Minister
The sequel that promotes Hacker to Number Ten, and the 2013 revival that recast the whole thing.
- Seasons 1–2
- Season 3
2 sequences
The Young and the Restless
Genoa City, and the daytime ratings leader in America for more than thirty-five consecutive years.
- Season 16
- Season 45
And the ones that never did
3056 shows kept one opening for their entire run. That is not a gap in the catalogue — it is the finding. A single entry covering nine seasons is a claim that nine seasons opened identically.
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