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CBC accounts for 27 shows here, running from 1952 to the present, and 28 opening title sequences between them.

Comedy leads with nine, then drama with seven.

One rebuilt its titles mid-run: Road to Avonlea, with two distinct sequences.

27 shows · 28 sequences · oldest first

9 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.

Still from the opening titles of Hockey Night in Canada1 sequence

Hockey Night in Canada

1952–CBC / SportsnetDocumentary

A theme so embedded that when the CBC lost the rights to it in 2008 the story led the national news.

  • Season 70
Still from the opening titles of Mr. Dressup1 sequence

Mr. Dressup

1967–1996CBCComedy

A tickle trunk, two puppets and twenty-nine years of the same man drawing on a pad — Canada's answer to Mister Rogers, made by a man who worked on it.

  • Season 19
Still from the opening titles of The Beachcombers1 sequence

The Beachcombers

1972–1990CBCDrama

Log salvage on the British Columbia coast, and the longest-running dramatic series Canadian television has made.

  • Season 14
Still from the opening titles of King of Kensington1 sequence

King of Kensington

1975–1980CBCComedy

A Toronto corner-shop owner in the Kensington Market, and the sitcom a fifth of the country watched.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Degrassi Junior High1 sequence

Degrassi Junior High

1987–1989CBCDrama

The Canadian schools series that cast actual teenagers and let them look like it, and the start of a franchise still running.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Kids in the Hall1 sequence

The Kids in the Hall

1988–1995CBC / HBOComedy

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet playing surf rock over five men in a doorway — a sketch show whose theme became more famous than most of its sketches.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Degrassi High1 sequence

Degrassi High

1989–1991CBCDrama

The Degrassi cast moved up to secondary school, and the point the series stopped softening anything.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Road to Avonlea2 sequences

Road to Avonlea

1990–1996CBCDrama

Montgomery's Prince Edward Island stories, made by the CBC with Disney paying half the bill.

  • Season 1
  • Season 5
Still from the opening titles of The Red Green Show1 sequence

The Red Green Show

1991–2006CHCH-TV / CBCComedy

A lodge of middle-aged Canadian men and the duct tape with which they solve everything.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Royal Canadian Air Farce1 sequence

Royal Canadian Air Farce

1993–2008CBCComedy

A radio sketch troupe of twenty years' standing moved to television, and kept there for fifteen more.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Theodore Tugboat1 sequence

Theodore Tugboat

1993–2001CBCAnimation

Model tugboats in Halifax harbour, narrated for years by Denny Doherty of the Mamas and the Papas.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Little Bear1 sequence

Little Bear

1995–2001CBC / Nick Jr.Animation

Maurice Sendak's drawings animated in no hurry whatever, and about the quietest programme Nick Jr. ever ran.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Da Vinci's Inquest1 sequence

Da Vinci's Inquest

1998–2005CBCCrime

A Vancouver coroner written from the real one, who later became the city's mayor.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Nanalan'1 sequence

Nanalan'

1998–2004CBCAnimation

A puppet toddler spends the day at her grandmother's, filmed at grass height.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Rolie Polie Olie1 sequence

Rolie Polie Olie

1998–2004CBC / Playhouse DisneyAnimation

A world of robots built entirely out of spheres and cylinders, computer-animated in Toronto.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Dragon Tales1 sequence

Dragon Tales

1999–2005PBS Kids / CBCAnimation

Two children who reach a dragon world by reciting a rhyme over a scale they find in a toy box.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Zoboomafoo1 sequence

Zoboomafoo

1999–2001PBS Kids / CBCDocumentary

The Kratt brothers and a leaping lemur, teaching natural history to an audience too young to read.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Heartland1 sequence

Heartland

2007–CBCDrama

A family ranch in Alberta, and the longest-running one-hour drama in Canadian television.

  • Seasons 1–3
Still from the opening titles of Little Mosque on the Prairie1 sequence

Little Mosque on the Prairie

2007–2012CBCComedy

A Muslim congregation renting a prairie church hall, in a sitcom that became Canada's most exported comedy.

  • Season 4
Still from the opening titles of Murdoch Mysteries1 sequence

Murdoch Mysteries

2008–Citytv / CBCCrime

A Toronto detective in the 1890s using methods the era has not invented yet, past twenty seasons.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Being Erica1 sequence

Being Erica

2009–2011CBCDrama

A therapist sending his patient back to her own regrets, one per session.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Republic of Doyle1 sequence

Republic of Doyle

2010–2014CBCCrime

A father-and-son detective agency in St. John's, Newfoundland.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Schitt's Creek1 sequence

Schitt's Creek

2015–2020CBCComedy

A motel sign and a town crest, in the register of a place that has never once considered how its name reads.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Baroness von Sketch Show1 sequence

Baroness von Sketch Show

2016–2021CBCComedy

Four women writing and performing every sketch, with no host, no studio audience and no linking material.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Kim's Convenience1 sequence

Kim's Convenience

2016–2021CBCComedy

A Korean-Canadian family running a Toronto corner shop, adapted from the play by the man who wrote it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Anne with an E1 sequence

Anne with an E

2017–2019CBC / NetflixDrama

Prince Edward Island in stop-motion paper and pressed flowers, over The Tragically Hip.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Frankie Drake Mysteries1 sequence

Frankie Drake Mysteries

2017–2021CBCCrime

Toronto's only female private detective in the 1920s, from the Murdoch Mysteries producers.

  • Season 1