ABC (Australia) opening titles
ABC (Australia) accounts for twelve shows here, running from 1959 to the present, and twelve opening title sequences between them.
Mostly comedy — 10 of the 12.
None of them rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.
12 shows · 12 sequences · oldest first
One of these moved between networks during its run and appears under each one.
1 sequence
Mr Squiggle
A marionette from the moon with a pencil for a nose, turning children's scribbles into drawings for forty years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBananas in Pyjamas
Two bananas, three teddy bears and a rat, made by the ABC and sold to eighty countries.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFrontline
A current affairs programme satirised from inside its own newsroom, and the model most workplace mockumentaries since have followed.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Heartbreak High
A Sydney comprehensive, revived by Netflix thirty years later.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSeaChange
A city lawyer moving to a coastal town, and the series that put the phrase into Australian English.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Wiggles
Four early-childhood teachers from Sydney who worked out that a children's band could tour like a rock one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKath & Kim
A mother and daughter in outer-suburban Melbourne, and the most quoted Australian comedy of its decade.
- Season 2
1 sequenceBlue Water High
A surf academy on the northern beaches, with the cast chosen partly for whether they could actually surf.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSpicks and Specks
A music quiz named after a Bee Gees single, and one of the ABC's most watched programmes for a decade.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWe Can Be Heroes
Chris Lilley playing all six finalists for Australian of the Year, in his first series.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSummer Heights High
Chris Lilley playing three pupils and staff at the same school, shot as a documentary.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAngry Boys
The follow-up to Summer Heights High, co-produced with HBO and the BBC and shot on three continents.
- Season 1