Sci-Fi Channel opening titles

Sci-Fi Channel accounts for twelve shows here, running from 1988 to 2018, and 25 opening title sequences between them.

Mostly sci-fi — 10 of the 12.

Five of them rebuilt their titles at least once.

12 shows · 25 sequences · oldest first

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

1 sequence

Mystery Science Theater 3000

1988–1999, 2017–2018Comedy Central / Sci-Fi Channel / NetflixComedy

A man and two robots heckling films, whose theme song exists to explain the premise and then says so out loud.

Season 1

1 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

1 sequence

The Outer Limits (1995)

1995–2002Showtime / Sci-Fi ChannelSci-Fi

The revival, which keeps the control-voice conceit and rebuilds the imagery around nineties computer graphics.

Season 1

1 sequence

Poltergeist: The Legacy

1996–1999Showtime / Sci-Fi ChannelHorror

A secret society investigating the supernatural from a San Francisco island house.

Season 1

3 sequences

Lexx

1997–2002Citytv / Sci-Fi ChannelSci-Fi

A living insect-shaped ship the size of a planet, introduced with the seriousness of an opera and the budget of a regional theatre. Rebuilt every season, and stranger each time.

Season 2
Season 3
Season 4

4 sequences

Stargate SG-1

1997–2007Showtime / Sci-Fi ChannelSci-Fi

The gate opening, every week, for ten years — David Arnold's film theme rearranged for television and a sequence that never stopped being about one piece of hardware.

Season 1
Season 6
Season 9
and 1 more

4 sequences

Farscape

1999–2003Sci-Fi ChannelSci-Fi

A Henson creature workshop pointed at space opera, and an opening that halves in ambition halfway through the run — the narrated version explaining the premise gives way to one that assumes you already know it.

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
and 1 more

1 sequence

Taken

2002Sci-Fi ChannelSci-Fi

Spielberg's twenty-hour abduction serial, following three families over fifty years and broadcast across ten consecutive nights.

Season 1

3 sequences

Battlestar Galactica

2004–2009Sci-Fi ChannelSci-Fi

The only title sequence on this site that reports the plot. Under the Gayatri Mantra and the Cylon text, the American version ends on a count of the surviving human population — a figure recalculated for each episode, so the titles get worse as the show goes on.