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Fox accounts for 88 shows here, running from 1987 to the present, and 100 opening title sequences between them.

Comedy leads with 28, then sci-fi with 17.

Eight of them rebuilt their titles at least once — most of all The X-Files, with five distinct sequences.

88 shows · 100 sequences · oldest first

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

Still from the opening titles of 21 Jump Street1 sequence

21 Jump Street

1987–1990FoxCrime

Officers young enough to pass for pupils, in one of the four shows Fox launched its network with.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Married... with Children1 sequence

Married... with Children

1987–1997FoxComedy

Sinatra's 'Love and Marriage' over a Chicago family who demonstrably have neither — one of television's earliest deliberately sarcastic openings.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Tracey Ullman Show1 sequence

The Tracey Ullman Show

1987–1990FoxComedy

The sketch show Fox launched its network with, and the one that carried the Simpsons as thirty-second interstitials before they left.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Werewolf1 sequence

Werewolf

1987–1988FoxHorror

One of the four series Fox launched its network with, and the first weekly werewolf on American television.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of America's Most Wanted1 sequence

America's Most Wanted

1988–2013FoxDocumentary

The programme Fox launched itself on, and the one that turned a network into a switchboard.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Alien Nation1 sequence

Alien Nation

1989–1990FoxSci-Fi

The film continued as a series, with a buddy-cop format used to work through immigration and prejudice week by week.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Simpsons2 sequences

The Simpsons

1989–FoxAnimation

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
Still from the opening titles of Beverly Hills, 902101 sequence

Beverly Hills, 90210

1990–2000FoxDrama

Freeze-frames of a cast grinning at the camera over a synth-brass hook — the template every teen drama of the decade copied.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Get a Life1 sequence

Get a Life

1990–1992FoxComedy

A thirty-year-old paperboy still living at home, in a sitcom that got stranger every week.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of In Living Color1 sequence

In Living Color

1990–1994FoxComedy

Graffiti, dance and a Heavy D theme — a sketch show that opened at a volume network television had not previously permitted.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Parker Lewis Can't Lose1 sequence

Parker Lewis Can't Lose

1990–1993FoxComedy

Ferris Bueller as a weekly series, shot on wide lenses with a narrator who never once stops talking.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Herman's Head1 sequence

Herman's Head

1991–1994FoxComedy

A man's four personified impulses arguing inside his skull while the plot happens outside it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Roc1 sequence

Roc

1991–1994FoxComedy

A Baltimore refuse collector and his family, and a season shot live to air on purpose.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Martin1 sequence

Martin

1992–1997FoxComedy

Detroit, a hip-hop bed and a lead who plays most of the supporting cast himself.

  • Seasons 1–2
Still from the opening titles of Melrose Place1 sequence

Melrose Place

1992–1999FoxDrama

The same freeze-frame grammar as its parent show, moved to an apartment complex and given a considerably nastier theme.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Ben Stiller Show1 sequence

The Ben Stiller Show

1992–1993FoxComedy

Thirteen episodes, cancelled, then given an Emmy — the writers' room that produced most of the next decade's American comedy.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Living Single1 sequence

Living Single

1993–1998FoxComedy

Queen Latifah performing the theme over Brooklyn — a sitcom opening sung by one of its own stars.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.1 sequence

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

1993–1994FoxSci-Fi

A bounty hunter in 1893 chasing a device from the future, cancelled after one season and quoted ever since.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The X-Files5 sequences

The X-Files

1993–2002, 2016–2018FoxSci-Fi

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
Still from the opening titles of Party of Five1 sequence

Party of Five

1994–2000FoxDrama

Five siblings and a house, over BoDeans — an opening that establishes an absence rather than a cast.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Critic1 sequence

The Critic

1994–1995ABC / FoxAnimation

Al Jean and Mike Reiss's film critic, made between their Simpsons runs and cancelled by two networks.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of MADtv1 sequence

MADtv

1995–2016FoxComedy

Mad magazine turned into a sketch show, with Alfred E. Neuman in the titles and a cast that changed almost every year.

  • Season 9
Still from the opening titles of Sliders1 sequence

Sliders

1995–2000Fox / Sci-Fi ChannelSci-Fi

A wormhole opening in a San Francisco street, and four people falling into it — the same shot every week for a show about never seeing the same world twice.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Space: Above and Beyond1 sequence

Space: Above and Beyond

1995–1996FoxSci-Fi

Marines fighting an interstellar war, written by two X-Files producers and cancelled after the one season they had planned five of.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Kindred: The Embraced1 sequence

Kindred: The Embraced

1996FoxHorror

Vampire clans running San Francisco as organised crime, cancelled after eight episodes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Millennium1 sequence

Millennium

1996–1999FoxHorror

Chris Carter's other series, opened with the same Mark Snow unease as The X-Files and none of its wit — thirty-four seconds that promise a much worse world.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Ally McBeal1 sequence

Ally McBeal

1997–2002FoxComedy

Vonda Shepard singing over a lawyer walking through Boston — a theme so tied to the show that the singer became a recurring character.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of King of the Hill2 sequences

King of the Hill

1997–FoxAnimation

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
Still from the opening titles of Brimstone1 sequence

Brimstone

1998–1999FoxHorror

A damned detective sent back from hell to recapture a hundred and thirteen escaped souls, cancelled after thirteen episodes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of That '70s Show1 sequence

That '70s Show

1998–2006FoxComedy

The cast singing 'In the Street' from the back of a Vista Cruiser, re-recorded and reshot every season — plus one-off Halloween and Christmas versions.

  • Seasons 1–8
Still from the opening titles of Family Guy2 sequences

Family Guy

1999–FoxAnimation

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
Still from the opening titles of Futurama2 sequences

Futurama

1999–Fox / Comedy Central / HuluAnimation

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
Still from the opening titles of The PJs1 sequence

The PJs

1999–2001Fox / The WBAnimation

Eddie Murphy's stop-motion housing-project comedy, animated in foam rather than drawn.

  • Seasons 1–2
Still from the opening titles of Boston Public1 sequence

Boston Public

2000–2004FoxDrama

David E. Kelley's high school, running alongside his legal series on the same network.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Dark Angel1 sequence

Dark Angel

2000–2002FoxSci-Fi

Post-collapse Seattle in thirty-five seconds, from James Cameron's only substantial television project.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Malcolm in the Middle1 sequence

Malcolm in the Middle

2000–2006FoxComedy

They Might Be Giants' 'Boss of Me' over archive film of chaos — falling, crashing and general misadventure, cut faster than a network comedy usually dares.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Titus1 sequence

Titus

2000–2002FoxComedy

Christopher Titus narrating his own childhood from a white void between scenes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of 241 sequence

24

2001–2010FoxDrama

A ticking clock and a card, and nothing else. For a series whose entire conceit is that time is passing, spending a minute on titles would have been the one unforgivable thing.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Grounded for Life1 sequence

Grounded for Life

2001–2005Fox / The WBComedy

A young Staten Island family, told out of order within each episode.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Temptation Island1 sequence

Temptation Island

2001–2003FoxDocumentary

Unmarried couples separated onto an island of singles, and the format that drew the first serious wave of complaints about American reality television.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Bernie Mac Show1 sequence

The Bernie Mac Show

2001–2006FoxComedy

A comedian raising his sister's three children and turning to camera to explain himself about it.

  • Seasons 3–5
Still from the opening titles of The Lone Gunmen1 sequence

The Lone Gunmen

2001FoxSci-Fi

The X-Files spin-off about its three conspiracy theorists, cancelled after thirteen episodes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Undeclared1 sequence

Undeclared

2001–2002FoxComedy

Judd Apatow's college follow-up to Freaks and Geeks, cancelled after one season.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of American Idol1 sequence

American Idol

2002–Fox / ABCDocumentary

The talent format that ran American primetime for a decade, opening on a spotlight and a logo that spins.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Firefly1 sequence

Firefly

2002FoxSci-Fi

A slide guitar and a weary blues vocal over a spaceship. Sonny Rhodes sings words the show's creator wrote, and the argument of the whole series — that this is a western that happens to be in orbit — is settled before a line of dialogue is spoken.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of That '80s Show1 sequence

That '80s Show

2002FoxComedy

The follow-up to That '70s Show with none of the same characters, gone in thirteen episodes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Arrested Development1 sequence

Arrested Development

2003–2019Fox / NetflixComedy

A ukulele, a narrator, and a family photograph that gets less flattering the longer you look at it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The O.C.1 sequence

The O.C.

2003–2007FoxDrama

Phantom Planet's 'California' over Newport Beach, in thirty-two seconds that sold an entire idea of southern California to a generation.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Tru Calling1 sequence

Tru Calling

2003–2005FoxSci-Fi

A morgue attendant who relives days, opened with the clock imagery the premise requires.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of House2 sequences

House

2004–2012FoxDrama

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
Still from the opening titles of Wonderfalls1 sequence

Wonderfalls

2004FoxComedy

Souvenir figurines that talk, in a Niagara Falls gift shop — Bryan Fuller's first series and a direct ancestor of Pushing Daisies.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of American Dad!1 sequence

American Dad!

2005–Fox / TBSAnimation

A CIA agent singing about his morning routine, in a sequence that varies its final line to suit the episode.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Bones1 sequence

Bones

2005–2017FoxCrime

Skeletal reconstruction rendered as clean laboratory graphics — a procedural that opens on anatomy rather than crime.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Hell's Kitchen1 sequence

Hell's Kitchen

2005–FoxDocumentary

Flames, a skull made of a chef's hat, and Gordon Ramsay shouting — the titles tell you exactly what the hour is.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Point Pleasant1 sequence

Point Pleasant

2005FoxHorror

The devil's daughter washed up in a New Jersey beach town, from the Buffy writers' room.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Prison Break1 sequence

Prison Break

2005–2017FoxDrama

Blueprints and tattoo ink treated as the same document — which, for this show's premise, they are.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of So You Think You Can Dance1 sequence

So You Think You Can Dance

2005–2024FoxDocumentary

The dance contest built to the Idol template by Idol's own producer, and one of the few competition formats to run its production credits over the performance rather than after it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Kitchen Nightmares1 sequence

Kitchen Nightmares

2007–FoxDocumentary

The American Ramsay format, louder than the Channel 4 original it was remade from.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Fringe3 sequences

Fringe

2008–2013FoxSci-Fi

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
Still from the opening titles of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles1 sequence

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

2008–2009FoxSci-Fi

The films continued between the second and third, with Bear McCreary scoring it and Fox cancelling it after two seasons.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Dollhouse1 sequence

Dollhouse

2009–2010FoxSci-Fi

Bodies wiped and rewritten, shown as blank figures being dressed — a premise stated without a word.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Glee1 sequence

Glee

2009–2015FoxComedy

An Ohio show choir, and the series that briefly made network television a singles chart.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Lie to Me1 sequence

Lie to Me

2009–2011FoxCrime

A deception expert reading faces frame by frame, built on the research of the psychologist who consulted on it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Cleveland Show1 sequence

The Cleveland Show

2009–2013FoxAnimation

The Family Guy spin-off, moving Cleveland Brown to Virginia and giving him a theme song about it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Raising Hope1 sequence

Raising Hope

2010–2014FoxComedy

A young father raising a baby with his own parents' help, from the My Name Is Earl creator.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Bob's Burgers1 sequence

Bob's Burgers

2011–FoxAnimation

Three running gags in nineteen seconds — the burger of the day, the shop next door, and the pest-control van — all three rewritten for every single episode.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of New Girl1 sequence

New Girl

2011–2018FoxComedy

Zooey Deschanel and three flatmates, with a theme the cast sings themselves.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Terra Nova1 sequence

Terra Nova

2011FoxSci-Fi

A colony sent eighty-five million years into the past, cancelled after one season for cost.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Mindy Project1 sequence

The Mindy Project

2012–2017Fox / HuluComedy

Mindy Kaling as an obstetrician with a romantic-comedy view of her own life.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Almost Human1 sequence

Almost Human

2013–2014FoxSci-Fi

A detective partnered with an android in 2048, cancelled after thirteen episodes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Brooklyn Nine-Nine2 sequences

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

2013–2021Fox / NBCComedy

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
Still from the opening titles of Sleepy Hollow1 sequence

Sleepy Hollow

2013–2017FoxHorror

Ichabod Crane woken in the present day, with the Horseman following him.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Gotham1 sequence

Gotham

2014–2019FoxCrime

A few seconds of title card: GOTHAM in weathered stone capitals, surfacing out of storm cloud.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Rosewood1 sequence

Rosewood

2015–2017FoxCrime

A private pathologist in Miami working the cases the police have already closed.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Scream Queens1 sequence

Scream Queens

2015–2016FoxHorror

Ryan Murphy's sorority slasher, with a title sequence longer than most of the deaths.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Last Man on Earth1 sequence

The Last Man on Earth

2015–2018FoxComedy

The last man alive, who turns out not to be, and who is not much of a loss to anybody either way.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Wayward Pines1 sequence

Wayward Pines

2015–2016FoxSci-Fi

An Idaho town nobody can leave, from the Blake Crouch novels.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Bordertown1 sequence

Bordertown

2016FoxAnimation

A Seth MacFarlane-produced border comedy, cancelled after one season.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Lucifer1 sequence

Lucifer

2016–2021Fox / NetflixDrama

Eleven seconds and a card, from a procedural that would rather get to the case.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Exorcist1 sequence

The Exorcist

2016–2018FoxHorror

A sequel to the film rather than a remake, which it does not admit until the end of the first season.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Gifted1 sequence

The Gifted

2017–2019FoxSci-Fi

A family on the run in the X-Men world, made while Fox still held the rights.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Orville1 sequence

The Orville

2017–2022Fox / HuluSci-Fi

A ship passing the camera to a full orchestral fanfare, played entirely straight — a comedy whose titles are a sincere love letter to the ones this catalogue opens with.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Bless the Harts1 sequence

Bless the Harts

2019–2021FoxAnimation

A North Carolina family whose matriarch talks to a Jesus only she can see.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of HouseBroken1 sequence

HouseBroken

2021–2023FoxAnimation

A group-therapy circle of neighbourhood pets, run by a poodle who is not qualified.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Cleaning Lady1 sequence

The Cleaning Lady

2022–2025FoxCrime

A Filipino doctor in Las Vegas cleaning for organised crime to pay for her son's treatment.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Animal Control1 sequence

Animal Control

2023–FoxComedy

Municipal animal control officers, in the only workplace sitcom where the supporting cast bites.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Krapopolis1 sequence

Krapopolis

2023–FoxAnimation

Dan Harmon's mythological Greek city, run badly by a family of gods and monsters.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Grimsburg1 sequence

Grimsburg

2024–FoxAnimation

Jon Hamm as a detective in a town where every case is someone he knows.

  • Season 2