BBC Three opening titles
BBC Three accounts for twelve shows here, running from 2001 to the present, and twelve opening title sequences between them.
Mostly comedy — 7 of the 12.
None of them rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.
12 shows · 12 sequences · oldest first
4 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequence
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
Six friends in a Runcorn pub, and the sitcom BBC Three ran for nine series while the critics ignored it.
- Season 9
1 sequenceLittle Britain
A radio series moved to television, narrated as though it were a documentary about a country nobody has heard of.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Mighty Boosh
A stage show that became a radio series that became a television series, and kept the crimping in all three.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Torchwood
The Doctor Who spinoff that wanted to be taken seriously, opening with Cardiff, a rift and a great deal of blue light.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Being Human
A vampire, a werewolf and a ghost sharing a Bristol rental, introduced with the flatness of a house-share advert.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Fades
The unburied dead accumulating in the air above a British town, and a teenager who can see them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBad Education
Jack Whitehall as a teacher less mature than his pupils.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCuckoo
A daughter returning from a gap year married to an American with no discernible occupation.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBluestone 42
A bomb disposal detachment in Helmand, played as a workplace comedy without pretending the work is safe.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIn the Flesh
Cured zombies sent home to the villages that killed them, opened in twelve seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFleabag
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's series, which opens by looking directly at you and skips the formality of a title sequence entirely.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Normal People
Twenty-four seconds and a card, for an adaptation that treats silence as its main instrument.
- Season 1