Nickelodeon opening titles
Nickelodeon accounts for 70 shows here, running from 1979 to the present, and 72 opening title sequences between them.
Mostly animation — 39 of the 70.
Two of them rebuilt their titles at least once.
70 shows · 72 sequences · oldest first
3 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequence
You Can't Do That on Television
The Ottawa-made sketch show that gave Nickelodeon its slime, and its house style for a decade.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEureeka's Castle
Puppets in a castle carried by a giant, made for the channel's pre-school block before it had one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHey Dude
Teenagers working a dude ranch in Arizona, in one of the first scripted series Nickelodeon made itself.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
A campfire, a handful of powder thrown into it, and a children's anthology that frightened a generation on a Saturday teatime.
- Season 1
1 sequenceClarissa Explains It All
The first Nickelodeon live-action series built around a girl, addressed straight to camera.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Doug
A mouth-percussion theme over a boy walking to school — an opening performed almost entirely with a human voice.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRugrats
Mark Mothersbaugh scoring a baby's-eye view of a living room — the theme is closer to a Devo B-side than to children's television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSalute Your Shorts
Camp Anawanna, and a theme song the campers sing badly on purpose.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Ren & Stimpy Show
Rubber-limbed animation and a jaunty theme, both of which are considerably more unhinged than a children's network should have permitted.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Nickelodeon Guts
Children competing on wires and ramps, and climbing a fake mountain that shed foam.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLegends of the Hidden Temple
A children's game show staged inside a temple, presided over by a talking stone head.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRocko's Modern Life
An Australian wallaby in O-Town, written for children with as much as possible smuggled past them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Adventures of Pete & Pete
Two brothers with the same name in a suburb tuned slightly wrong, scored by Polaris.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAaahh!!! Real Monsters
Monsters at school under a city dump, learning to frighten people as a trade.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAll That
A sketch show for children that launched Kenan Thompson, Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Secret World of Alex Mack
A girl doused in a chemical spill who can turn into a puddle of silver.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlue's Clues
A host talking directly to camera and waiting for an answer, which changed how American preschool television was made.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHey Arnold!
A jazz theme over a city block, for a children's cartoon that treated urban childhood with unusual seriousness.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKaBlam!
An animated anthology framed as a comic book being read, with the hosts drawn on the page.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKenan & Kel
The All That double act given their own series, and "Who loves orange soda?"
- Season 1
1 sequenceSpace Cases
Children lost on an alien ship, co-created by Peter David and Bill Mumy of Lost in Space.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Angry Beavers
Two beaver brothers who have left home and are managing it badly.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Journey of Allen Strange
An alien stranded on Earth and taken in by the family who find him.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAnimorphs
Children who can turn into any animal they touch, from the books that sold sixty million copies.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCatDog
A cat and a dog sharing one body, and a theme song that spends its whole length asking how.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCousin Skeeter
A boy and the puppet cousin who moves in with him, which nobody in the series treats as unusual.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Wild Thornberrys
A wildlife-documentary family whose daughter can talk to the animals they are filming.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRocket Power
Four children in a California beach town who do every extreme sport in sequence.
- Season 1
1 sequence
SpongeBob SquarePants
A sea shanty led by a painted pirate head, in call and response with children — one of the most universally known pieces of television music written this century.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Amanda Show
Amanda Bynes given her own sketch show out of All That, at seventeen.
- Seasons 2–3
1 sequenceAs Told by Ginger
Middle school treated as continuing drama rather than a gag engine, which was unusual for the slot.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDora the Explorer
A bilingual preschool series built on asking the audience questions and leaving room for the answer.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInvader Zim
Gothic-industrial design on a children's network, with a theme that sounds like it was made under duress.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOswald
A blue octopus and his dachshund in a town drawn without a straight line in it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Fairly OddParents
A theme that runs through the entire premise as a checklist, revised several times across sixteen years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChalkZone
A world made of everything ever erased from a blackboard.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
One of the first fully CG series made for American television week to week.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Life as a Teenage Robot
A teenage combat robot who would rather be at school, drawn in hard mid-century angles.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDanny Phantom
A narrated origin sung over the transformation, in the tradition the network had been running since Doug.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDrake & Josh
Two stepbrothers in San Diego, from the All That writers' room.
- Season 4
1 sequenceNed's Declassified School Survival Guide
A middle-school survival manual delivered to camera, one tip per episode.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Four elements demonstrated in turn by four benders, then a narrated history — a world explained completely in about a minute, every week.
- Season 1
1 sequenceZoey 101
A Californian boarding school, with a theme sung by Jamie Lynn Spears.
- Season 2
1 sequenceBack at the Barnyard
Farm animals who behave like people the moment the farmer leaves.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEl Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
A boy from a family of both superheroes and supervillains, who has not chosen yet.
- Season 1
1 sequenceiCarly
A web show made in a Seattle flat, five years before that was an ordinary thing for a teenager to do.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Naked Brothers Band
A mockumentary about a children's rock band, played by two brothers who really were one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Mighty B!
Amy Poehler's Honeybee scout collecting every badge in existence.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBig Time Rush
A manufactured boy band playing a manufactured boy band, which then toured as one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFanboy & Chum Chum
Two boys in superhero costumes they never take off, in one of Nickelodeon's first CG series.
- Season 1
1 sequenceT.U.F.F. Puppy
A dog secret agent, from the creator of The Fairly OddParents.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVictorious
A performing-arts high school, and the series that made Ariana Grande's name.
- Season 1
2 sequences
House of Anubis
An English boarding school with an Egyptian secret underneath it, remade by Nickelodeon from a Dutch and Belgian original.
- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequenceKung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
The DreamWorks films continued weekly, opened in ten seconds of brush-and-ink.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
The CG revival, which kept the 1987 theme's shape and rebuilt everything around it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Legend of Korra
The Avatar sequel, which keeps the four-element structure of its predecessor's opening and moves it into an industrial age.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Power Rangers Megaforce
The twentieth-anniversary season, built to reach back through the whole franchise.
- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequenceSam & Cat
A crossover spin-off pairing characters from iCarly and Victorious.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSanjay and Craig
A boy and his talking snake, drawn in the loosest line Nickelodeon has ever put on air.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn
Quadruplets who share everything including the title, and want to share less of it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHarvey Beaks
A well-behaved bird and the two feral children who are his best friends.
- Season 1
1 sequencePower Rangers Dino Charge
Energems and dinosaur spirits, and the season that ran two years under one name.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Loud House
One boy, ten sisters, and a theme song that has to introduce all eleven of them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWelcome to the Wayne
An apartment building with a secret in every corridor, and children who map it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The turtles redrawn in a hand-animated style closer to a comic than the CG series before it.
- Season 1
1 sequencePower Rangers Beast Morphers
Animal DNA and Grid energy, and the first season made after Hasbro bought the franchise.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Casagrandes
The Loud House spin-off, following the Mexican American family next door into the city.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIt's Pony
A girl whose pony lives in the house and is not remotely house-trained in any sense.
- Season 1
1 sequencePower Rangers Dino Fury
Dinosaur rangers again, sixteen years on, with the first deaf ranger in the franchise.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStar Trek: Prodigy
Made for viewers who had never seen a Star Trek before, and it shows in the best way — the Protostar streaks through bright, candy-coloured space on a theme with more wonder in it than most of the grown-up entries.
- Seasons 1–2