Animation · 1960s
The 1960s account for 21 of the 463 animation shows here, and 21 opening sequences.
CBS carries the most, with seven.
21 shows21 sequences
1 sequence
The Flintstones
The first animated series in American primetime, and the source of a theme that did not arrive until the third season — the first two opened on something else entirely.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Jetsons
The same studio's future to answer its own past, with a theme that names the whole family in about fifteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceScooby-Doo, Where Are You!
A theme that asks the title as a question, over a van and five characters who have been drawn the same way for fifty-five years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSpeed Racer
Mach GoGoGo dubbed into English at speed, and the anime that got there before anyone called it that.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWacky Races
Eleven cars introduced one at a time by a narrator, which is a title sequence that is also the entire premise.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTop Cat
Hanna-Barbera doing Sgt. Bilko with alley cats, in the primetime slot the studio kept trying to hold.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Magic Roundabout
A French stop-motion series that Eric Thompson re-narrated in English without translating the scripts, inventing different characters over the same pictures.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnderdog
A superhero who rhymes, and one of the last title sequences built around its sponsor's product.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Clangers
Knitted creatures on a small planet who speak in swanee whistles, narrated as though it were a nature programme.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAstro Boy
Tezuka's Mighty Atom, the first Japanese television animation series, and the start of the whole industry.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Yogi Bear Show
The supporting character given his own half hour, and a pic-a-nic basket that outlasted the studio.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Herculoids
Alex Toth designs on an alien planet, in the run of Hanna-Barbera action shows that got them banned from Saturday mornings for violence.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDavey and Goliath
A boy and his talking dog, stop-motion, funded by the Lutheran church and animated by the Gumby studio.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Bugs Bunny Show
The prime-time repackaging of the Warner shorts, with an original curtain-raiser animated for television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTrumpton
The Camberwick Green sequel, opening on a town clock and a fire brigade roll-call people still recite.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Archie Show
The cartoon whose fictional band had a real number one single, which is a thing that has happened once.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCamberwick Green
A musical box that opens to reveal whichever character the episode is about — a title sequence that is also the casting.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTennessee Tuxedo and His Tales
A zoo penguin with a walrus and a professor who explains how things work, which made it educational enough to keep.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGeorge of the Jungle
Jay Ward's Tarzan parody, and a theme that warns you about the tree before he hits it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRoger Ramjet
A five-minute cartoon about a pilot who takes a pill for twenty seconds of super strength, drawn as cheaply as that sounds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKimba the White Lion
Tezuka's Jungle Emperor, the first colour Japanese animated series, and a question Disney has been asked about ever since.
- Season 1