NBC opening titles
NBC accounts for 186 shows here, running from 1947 to the present, and 204 opening title sequences between them.
Comedy leads with 81, then drama with 40.
17 of them rebuilt their titles at least once — most of all The Facts of Life, with three distinct sequences.
186 shows · 204 sequences · oldest first
29 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequence
Meet the Press
The longest-running programme in television history, and fifteen seconds of titles to show for seventy-seven years.
- Season 77
1 sequence
The Life of Riley
A radio sitcom moved to television twice, the second time with William Bendix finally allowed to play the part he had on radio.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Colgate Comedy Hour
A live variety hour with a different star each week, made to take the audience off Ed Sullivan.
- Season 4
1 sequenceTruth or Consequences
A radio stunt show that reached television in 1950 and persuaded a New Mexico town to rename itself after it.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Dragnet
Four notes, a badge, and "the story you are about to see is true" — the opening that set the shape of the American police procedural.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Search for Tomorrow
Thirty-five years of American daytime, and the serial that was on air before most of the networks carrying it were.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSky King
An Arizona rancher who catches criminals from a twin-engined aeroplane, out of the radio serial.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFather Knows Best
The Anderson family of Springfield, and the series the phrase came from.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWagon Train
A wagon company crossing to California, and the series Gene Roddenberry pitched Star Trek against.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBonanza
A burning map and four men riding out of it — one of the first title sequences designed to show off colour television, which is precisely why it looks like that.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Bullwinkle Show
Jay Ward's squirrel and moose, which began as Rocky and His Friends and was renamed for the character who talked more.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCar 54, Where Are You?
Two Bronx patrolmen, with a theme that lists everything going wrong in New York and then asks where the car is.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
A curtain, a rainbow arch and an announcer saying the two words — thirty years of the same entrance.
- Season 18
1 sequenceThe Virginian
The first ninety-minute western on American television, and the third longest-running of them all.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAnother World
The first American serial to run an hour, and the first to spin off another serial from itself.
- Season 26
1 sequenceThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Sixties spy graphics and a brass chart, in the register every subsequent spy show either copied or reacted against.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnderdog
A superhero who rhymes, and one of the last title sequences built around its sponsor's product.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDays of Our Lives
"Like sands through the hourglass" — the same sentence, over the same hourglass, for sixty years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGet Smart
A man walking through a corridor of doors that each slam behind him, ending in a phone box that drops him into headquarters. The joke is the length of it.
- Season 3
1 sequenceI Dream of Jeannie
A full animated origin story every week — the bottle, the beach, the astronaut — told in sixty seconds so the episode never has to.
- Season 1
1 sequenceI Spy
Two agents under cover as a tennis player and his trainer, and the first American drama to cast a Black actor as a lead.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Star Trek
The one that set the shape of every space-opera opening since: a ship crossing the frame, a captain narrating a mission statement, and a melody built to be hummed. Alexander Courage wrote it as a fanfare and a lounge tune at the same time.
- Season 1
- Seasons 2–3
1 sequenceThe Monkees
A band assembled for a television series that then became an actual band, with the titles as their first single.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Psychedelic panels opening onto one-liners, cut faster than anything else on 1960s television and directly responsible for the pacing of sketch comedy since.
- Season 3
1 sequenceThe High Chaparral
An Arizona cattle ranch and the Mexican family it marries into, from the producer of Bonanza.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAdam-12
One patrol car, one shift, from the Dragnet producer.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Banana Splits Adventure Hour
Four costumed animals in a rock band, wrapped around cartoons and serials, with a theme that has outlived all of it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceH.R. Pufnstuf
Sid and Marty Krofft's first series, and the reason a generation associates foam costumes with a talking flute.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Night Gallery
Rod Serling walking through a gallery of paintings, each one introducing that week's story — a title sequence rebuilt around new artwork every episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMcCloud
A New Mexico marshal seconded to the NYPD, part of the rotating NBC Mystery Movie wheel.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNBC Nightly News
Fourteen seconds of brass and a rotating globe, which is what a network evening bulletin has been reduced to.
- Season 47
1 sequenceColumbo
Twenty-four seconds, and for much of the run no sequence at all — a series confident enough to open on the murder and let the detective arrive late.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCircle of Fear
An anthology that began as Ghost Story with a host and a hotel, then dropped both and renamed itself halfway through.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEmergency!
Los Angeles County paramedics, made with the fire department's cooperation and credited with popularising the profession.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSanford and Son
Quincy Jones writing a harmonica blues for a junkyard — one of the few sitcom themes composed by someone of that stature.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSigmund and the Sea Monsters
A sea monster thrown out by his family for being unable to frighten anyone, hidden in a beach clubhouse.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStar Trek: The Animated Series
Filmation's Saturday-morning continuation, with most of the original cast back on microphone duty. The theme is Courage's melody rescored for a cartoon orchestra, brighter and quicker than the live-action original.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequence
Land of the Lost
A raft over a waterfall into a closed pocket universe, written by Dorothy Fontana and David Gerrold for Saturday mornings.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLittle House on the Prairie
Three girls running down a hill, one of whom falls — a shot kept in for nine years because it was better than the take where nobody did.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Rockford Files
A telephone rings, an answering machine picks up, and a stranger leaves a message that is usually bad news and occasionally a joke at Rockford's expense. Then the theme starts. The private detective is introduced by the people avoiding him.
- Seasons 1–6
1 sequence
Saturday Night Live
A new cast montage every single season for fifty years — New York at night, the current company photographed in it, and a band playing over the top. The longest-running rotating title sequence on television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceQuincy, M.E.
A Los Angeles medical examiner who investigates, and the ancestor of every forensic procedural since.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSCTV
A sketch show shaped as a fictional television station, which let it parody the whole schedule rather than one programme at a time.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Bionic Woman
The Six Million Dollar Man's spinoff, with the same narrated-reconstruction structure and a better theme.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCHiPs
California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers, filmed almost entirely on freeways.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
A man wrongly accused who goes to live in the mountains with a bear, and NBC's biggest surprise of 1977.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDiff'rent Strokes
Two boys from Harlem adopted by a Park Avenue widower, in the sitcom that turned a nine-year-old's disbelief into a catchphrase.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHolocaust
The miniseries that put the word into everyday use in Germany, where half the country watched it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTaxi
A single cab crossing the Queensboro Bridge to Bob James's electric piano — no cast, no jokes, and an unusually melancholy opening for a comedy.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBuck Rogers in the 25th Century
A disco-scored space opera that opens with a shuttle, a starfield and absolutely no embarrassment about either.
- Season 1
3 sequences
The Facts of Life
A girls' boarding school in Peekskill, spun off from Diff'rent Strokes and running three years longer than it.
- Season 1
- Season 7
- Season 8
1 sequenceShōgun (1980)
The Clavell miniseries that ran five nights and made a genre out of the Western sailor in feudal Japan.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGimme a Break!
Nell Carter keeping house for a widowed police chief, in a sitcom built entirely around her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHill Street Blues
Mike Post's piano over squad cars pulling out into snow — the sequence that taught American drama an opening could be melancholy rather than exciting.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCheers
A minute of hand-tinted engravings and old photographs of strangers drinking, none of them from the show and none of them the cast. The bar you are about to spend eleven years in is introduced as the latest in a very long line of them.
- Seasons 1–11
1 sequenceFame
The film continued at the High School of Performing Arts, with a cast who did their own dancing.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFamily Ties
A family portrait being drawn and redrawn, over a duet about what would happen without you — sixties parents and a Reagan-voting son.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKnight Rider
A narrated premise, a scanning red light and a synth arpeggio — the most efficient piece of eighties television branding after the A-Team's.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLate Night with David Letterman
New York at night shot from a moving car, over a jazz-organ theme — the opening that decided what a late-night talk show looks like.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRemington Steele
A narrated premise about a detective agency with an invented boss, delivered by the woman who invented him.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSilver Spoons
A boy sent to live with the father who never grew up, and the model train he rides through the house.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSt. Elsewhere
A Boston hospital and another Dave Grusin-adjacent piano theme, from the network and era that produced Hill Street Blues and shared its restraint.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMama's Family
A Carol Burnett Show sketch given its own house, dropped by NBC and then run for four more years in syndication.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMiami Vice
Flamingos, jai alai and pastel architecture over Jan Hammer — a title sequence that sold an entire aesthetic and arguably a city.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNight Court
Eighteen seconds of bass guitar and a Manhattan courthouse at night.
- Season 1
1 sequencePunky Brewster
A girl abandoned in a Chicago apartment building and raised by the man who manages it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRiptide
Two Vietnam veterans running a detective agency from a boat, with a helicopter called the Screaming Mimi.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Cosby Show
A family dancing to a new arrangement of the same theme every season — jazz, big band, calypso — which makes it one of the earliest American sitcoms to treat its opening as something to redo annually.
- Season 1
1 sequenceV
Visitor iconography and a red banner, borrowing its design language from twentieth-century propaganda quite deliberately.
- Season 1
1 sequenceV: The Final Battle
The sequel miniseries to V, three nights long, and the point the story stopped being an allegory and became a war.
- Season 1
1 sequence227
A Washington apartment block told almost entirely from its front steps, where most of the cast spends most of the programme.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAmazing Stories
John Williams scoring an animated history of storytelling — cave paintings to campfires to television — for Spielberg's anthology.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Golden Girls
'Thank You for Being a Friend' over four women and a Miami kitchen — a theme so tied to the show that the original songwriter's version is now the obscure one.
- Season 7
2 sequences
ALF
A sitcom built around a puppet the cast could not see, worked from a trench cut into the set floor.
- Season 1
- Season 3
1 sequenceL.A. Law
A car boot slamming on a personalised numberplate, and Mike Post again — the legal drama that defined the form for a decade.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMatlock
Andy Griffith as a defence attorney in a grey suit, nine seasons long.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Hogan Family
A sitcom that changed its name twice while on the air, from Valerie to Valerie's Family to this one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceA Different World
A historically Black college rendered in bold graphic design, with the theme re-recorded by a different artist across the run — Aretha Franklin among them.
- Season 2
1 sequenceGood Morning, Miss Bliss
The series Saved by the Bell was rebuilt out of, with Hayley Mills teaching in Indiana.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Two Dads
A girl left to two men, either of whom might be her father, by a court that declines to establish which.
- Season 1
2 sequences
The Storyteller
European folk tales retold by John Hurt beside a fire, with Henson's creature shop doing the rest.
- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequenceThe Tortellis
Carla's ex-husband and his family moved to Las Vegas, and the shortest-lived thing Cheers produced.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnsolved Mysteries
Robert Stack in a trench coat, a synthesiser and a fog machine — the most frightening thing on American television that was not fiction.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEmpty Nest
The Golden Girls' neighbour given his own house, two grown daughters and a conspicuously large dog.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIn the Heat of the Night
The 1967 film continued as a series, with Carroll O'Connor as the chief.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMidnight Caller
A former policeman taking calls on late-night radio, and one of the first American dramas to write about AIDS.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNoble House
Four nights of Hong Kong boardroom warfare, from the James Clavell novel.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBaywatch
Los Angeles County lifeguards, and at its peak the most-watched television programme on Earth.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFather Dowling Mysteries
A Chicago priest and a nun solving murders, cancelled by NBC and picked up by ABC.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Quantum Leap
Narration explaining a premise too complicated to infer, over a theme by Mike Post — the anthology format's problem solved in sixty seconds every week.
- Season 1
- Season 4
1 sequenceSaved by the Bell
Freeze-frames of six teenagers over a theme about being late — Saturday morning television's most durable export.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Seinfeld
A slap bass figure and a stand-up set — an opening that is literally the comedian's act, which is what the show was sold as.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlossom
A teenager narrating her own life to camera in a house otherwise entirely male, opening on a dance she performs herself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFerris Bueller
The film adapted for television without its star, and remembered mostly for opening with a joke about that.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Law & Order
The original, and the source of the two-note sting that half of American television has been quoting ever since.
- Season 1
- Season 20
1 sequenceNBA on NBC
Roundball Rock, written by John Tesh and hummed into an answering machine because he had no way to record it — the most fondly remembered sports theme in America.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
An entire origin story rapped over an animated title card — the longest opening of its era, cut down substantially after the first season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWings
A Nantucket airline run by two brothers, opened by Schubert.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEerie, Indiana
A boy who works out that his new town is the centre of every strange thing in America.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSisters
Four sisters in Illinois, in a network drama that let all four of them be difficult.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSuper Mario World
The last of the Mario cartoons, made for one autumn after the game of the same name.
- Season 1
2 sequences
California Dreams
A Californian high school band, made by the Saved by the Bell producers for the same Saturday morning block.
- Season 1
- Seasons 3–5
1 sequenceDateline NBC
NBC's newsmagazine, which outlasted every other network attempt at the form by turning into a true-crime hour.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMad About You
A married couple in New York, over a theme that was re-recorded repeatedly and once sung by the show's own stars.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFrasier
A skyline drawn in simple lines while a man sings about tossed salads and scrambled eggs, and declines to explain either.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLate Night with Conan O'Brien
An unknown writer handed the 12.30 slot, and sixteen years to grow into it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSaved by the Bell: The College Years
The Bayside cast moved to a university for one season, in prime time rather than Saturday morning.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
Bayside kept and the pupils replaced, for seven seasons rather more than anyone had expected.
- Season 1
- Seasons 6–7
1 sequenceseaQuest DSV
A submarine, an orchestral fanfare and a narrated mission statement — Spielberg's answer to Star Trek, set downwards.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe John Larroquette Show
A recovering alcoholic managing a bus terminal at night, in a sitcom NBC steadily made lighter against its writers' wishes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEarth 2
Colonists on a planet that turns out to be alive, cancelled on a cliffhanger after twenty-one episodes.
- Season 1
2 sequences
ER
James Newton Howard's theme over sliding doors, gurneys and light — the template every medical drama since has either copied or deliberately avoided.
- Season 1
- Season 10
1 sequence
Friends
A fountain, an umbrella and six people who are not, on any reading of the physics, getting less wet.
- Season 6
1 sequenceViper
A car that converts into an armoured attack vehicle, cancelled by NBC and revived for syndication.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Caroline in the City
A Manhattan cartoonist drawing a strip about her own life, and the colourist who is in love with her.
- Season 1
- Season 3
1 sequenceHang Time
A girl on a boys' high school basketball team, made for the Saturday morning block.
- Season 2
2 sequences
Hope & Gloria
A talk show producer and a hairdresser sharing a Pittsburgh apartment building.
- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequenceJAG
Navy lawyers across ten seasons, and the series NCIS was spun out of.
- Season 9
1 sequenceMinor Adjustments
A child psychologist who is markedly better with other people's children than with his own.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNewsRadio
Thirty seconds of a radio newsroom and a horn riff, from a workplace sitcom that never quite got the audience it deserved.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Single Guy
A novelist whose friends are all married, scheduled by NBC between Friends and Seinfeld and never forgiven for it.
- Season 1
1 sequence3rd Rock from the Sun
Aliens observing suburban Ohio, opened with the brightness of a travel advertisement for a planet.
- Season 6
1 sequenceBoston Common
A Virginian who follows a woman to Boston and takes a job at the university she attends.
- Season 1
1 sequenceProfiler
Crime-scene imagery rendered as a mind reconstructing it — the visual grammar every profiler series has used since.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSomething So Right
A remarried couple with children from three previous marriages between them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSuddenly Susan
A columnist who leaves her fiancé at the altar and then has to write about it every week.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Pretender
A man raised in a laboratory who can become any professional he reads about, running from the people who made him.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFired Up
Two women sacked from a public relations firm who start their own out of a spare room.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Just Shoot Me!
A fashion magazine staffed by people who should not be near one. The titles start as a full sequence and end as a logo.
- Season 1
- Seasons 3–5
1 sequenceSunset Beach
Aaron Spelling's daytime serial, which NBC ran for three years and then replaced with Passions.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnion Square
A New York diner and the people in it, taken off after fifteen episodes.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Veronica's Closet
A lingerie magnate whose marriage collapses in public, in one of NBC's Thursday night bets after Seinfeld.
- Season 1
- Season 3
1 sequenceWorking
A graduate's first office job, narrated by him straight to camera.
- Season 1
1 sequenceJesse
A single mother working in her father's Buffalo bar while training as a nurse.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Will & Grace
Thirteen seconds and a piano vamp, from a sitcom confident enough not to explain itself.
- Season 1
- Season 9
1 sequenceFreaks and Geeks
School photographs taken one at a time, with each cast member visibly hating the process — Joan Jett over the least flattering portraits anyone would agree to.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The franchise's chung-chung and a narrated premise, held for a quarter of a century — the longest-running opening in this catalogue by some distance.
- Season 1
- Season 15
1 sequencePassions
A daytime serial that ran witchcraft, a living doll and an orangutan nurse alongside the usual, and was the last new one American network daytime commissioned.
- Season 1
1 sequenceProvidence
A plastic surgeon returning to Rhode Island, advised by her dead mother.
- Season 1
2 sequences
The West Wing
Oil portraits, flags and W.G. Snuffy Walden's brass — an opening that treats the executive branch as a cathedral, which is the show's entire register.
- Season 1
- Season 5
1 sequenceThird Watch
Police, paramedics and firefighters on the same New York shift, from the ER producers.
- Season 5
1 sequenceThe 10th Kingdom
Ten hours of fairy tale in which Manhattan and the Nine Kingdoms turn out to share a mirror.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCrossing Jordan
A Boston medical examiner who investigates her own cases against instruction.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFear Factor
The Dutch format that asked contestants to eat things, opening on a montage of them regretting it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLaw & Order: Criminal Intent
The franchise entry that follows the criminal rather than the case, and so has to break the format's own rule about not showing you the answer.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Scrubs
Twelve seconds, an X-ray and a guitar — a medical comedy that spends less time on titles than most shows spend on a network ident.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAmerican Dreams
A Philadelphia family in the mid-1960s, built around American Bandstand.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBoomtown
A Los Angeles crime series that told each case from five points of view, and opened with the device stated up front.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLas Vegas
Casino surveillance as an ensemble drama, opening on the Strip at the hour it looks best.
- Season 1
1 sequenceJoey
The Friends spin-off, moving one character to Los Angeles and finding out how much of the show had been the other five.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Apprentice
Manhattan from a helicopter over the O'Jays' For the Love of Money, which is the whole thesis of the programme in one sample.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Biggest Loser
A weight-loss competition whose titles were rebuilt around whichever pairing the season had chosen.
- Season 5
1 sequenceLaw & Order: Trial by Jury
The shortest-lived Law & Order, cancelled after thirteen episodes, covering the half of the format the parent series skipped.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMedium
Patricia Arquette as a consultant to the district attorney who dreams the cases.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Name Is Earl
A petty criminal working through a written list of everything he has done wrong, one item an episode.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Office
Scranton, a car park and a filing cabinet, shot like stock footage for a regional business — twenty-two seconds that promise nothing will happen.
- Season 1
1 sequence30 Rock
Nineteen seconds of Art Deco signage and a brass sting, moving at roughly the speed the show's dialogue does.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFriday Night Lights
Explosions in the Sky over Texas fields and floodlights — a football show whose titles are almost entirely landscape and weather.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Heroes
An eclipse and a card, in twelve seconds. The restraint is the point — a superhero show refusing to open like one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStudio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Sorkin backstage at a sketch show, cancelled after one season while another series took the same premise and survived.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChuck
Consumer electronics and spy hardware cut together at the same speed, for a show that could never decide which it was about — correctly.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLife (2007)
A detective released after twelve years for a crime he did not commit, handed back his badge and a very large settlement.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFear Itself
Masters of Horror moved to a broadcast network and cut to fit it, which is most of what went wrong.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Community
Study-group detritus on a table, in a show that spent six seasons abandoning its own format for whatever genre it fancied that week.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Parks and Recreation
Pawnee's municipal signage and a brass fanfare, pitched at exactly the level of civic pride the show's protagonist has for a mid-sized Indiana town.
- Seasons 1–7
1 sequenceSouthland
Los Angeles patrol work shot like documentary, dropped by NBC and picked up by TNT.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrimm
A Portland detective who can see the creatures the fairy tales were written about, opened in eleven seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Chicago Fire
The first of Dick Wolf's Chicago series, and the one the other two were built out from.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRevolution
Fifteen years after all electricity stopped working, from Eric Kripke and J. J. Abrams.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
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
1 sequenceHannibal
A figure forming out of blood in water, on network television at ten o'clock. Twenty-one seconds, and among the most beautiful things any broadcast network has aired.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Blacklist
Nine seconds and a card. A ten-season network procedural that never once made you wait to get into an episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceA to Z
A romantic comedy that told you in the pilot exactly how many months it would last, and lasted thirteen episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChicago P.D.
The second of Dick Wolf's Chicago series, and the one the crossovers usually run through.
- Season 1
1 sequenceConstantine
The Hellblazer comic adapted, cancelled after thirteen episodes and continued in animation.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlindspot
A woman found in Times Square covered in tattoos that are each a case.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChicago Med
The third Chicago series, sharing a city and a crossover schedule with the other two.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHeroes Reborn
The revival, five years after the original stopped, and one season long.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSuperstore
Big-box retail signage and shelving, shot with the flatness of the fluorescent light the whole show is lit by.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Good Place
Pastel clouds, cartoon signage and a chime — an afterlife rendered as municipal branding, which is the joke the whole series is built on.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThis Is Us
A family photograph and a card, over in nine seconds — restraint from a show that is otherwise not remotely restrained.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTimeless
A stolen time machine chased through American history, cancelled twice and revived once.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChicago Justice
The fourth Chicago series, cancelled after thirteen episodes — the only one Dick Wolf could not make stick.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNew Amsterdam
A public hospital run by a director who keeps asking how he can help.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLaw & Order: Organized Crime
Stabler brought back a decade after leaving Special Victims Unit, into a serialised format the franchise had never used.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSt. Denis Medical
A short-staffed Oregon hospital, filmed as though a documentary crew had turned up and stayed.
- Season 1