PBS opening titles
PBS accounts for 23 shows here, running from 1968 to the present, and 24 opening title sequences between them.
Comedy leads with eight, then documentary with six.
One rebuilt its titles mid-run: Sesame Street, with two distinct sequences.
23 shows · 24 sequences · oldest first
5 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequence
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Thirty-three years of the same arrival: the door, the cardigan, the shoes, the song.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Sesame Street
Children running through a New York street to a song asking how to get there — an opening that has been remade every decade for over fifty years.
- Season 1
- Seasons 24–25
1 sequenceThe Electric Company
The Children's Television Workshop's reading show for older children, with Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno in the cast.
- Season 1
1 sequenceZoom
A children's programme made entirely of what children sent in, down to the address they had to sing.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Austin City Limits
The longest-running music programme in American television, opening on a painted Austin skyline that is not quite the real one.
- Season 20
1 sequenceReading Rainbow
LeVar Burton reading to children for twenty-three years, and "but you don't have to take my word for it".
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Joy of Painting
Bob Ross finishing a landscape in twenty-six minutes, over thirty-one seasons and a permanent afterlife online.
- Season 29
1 sequenceSquare One TV
Mathematics taught as sketch comedy, including a police procedural parody called Mathnet.
- Season 1
1 sequenceShining Time Station
The American frame built around the Thomas films, with a foot-tall conductor living inside the station wall.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWhere in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
A geography quiz whose house band sang the answers, and which taught a generation of children where Ouagadougou is.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBarney & Friends
A purple dinosaur who appears when children imagine him, and a closing song that became a schoolyard parody format.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Ghostwriter
A ghost that communicates only in written words, and a group of Brooklyn children who solve cases with it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLamb Chop's Play-Along
Shari Lewis and her puppets, and the song that does not end.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBill Nye the Science Guy
Science for children at the speed of a music video, with a theme that shouts the presenter's name.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Magic School Bus
A science teacher who shrinks her class and drives them through the lesson, with Lily Tomlin at the wheel.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWishbone
A Jack Russell terrier imagining himself into classic literature, one novel per episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceArthur
An aardvark in the third grade, in the longest-running animated children's series in American television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCaillou
A four-year-old with no hair and very little patience, adapted from Quebec picture books.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBetween the Lions
A family of lions running a library, in a reading programme built by the people who made Sesame Street.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCyberchase
Three children pulled into a network to stop a villain with mathematics, which is the plot and the curriculum at once.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Vietnam War
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part account, scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAll Creatures Great & Small
The Yorkshire vet stories remade, with a title sequence that is largely just the Dales.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Miss Scarlet and The Duke
A woman who inherits her father's detective agency in Victorian London and declines to sell it.
- Season 1