The CW

37 shows, 40 sequences, oldest first.

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

1 sequence

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

1998–ABC / The CWComedy

Improv games where the points don't matter, opened by a scramble of the cast in freeze-frame.

Season 1

1 sequence

Gilmore Girls

2000–2007The WB / The CWDrama

Carole King's 'Where You Lead' rewritten as a mother-and-daughter duet, over a small Connecticut town in every season at once.

Season 1

1 sequence

Reba

2001–2007The WB / The CWComedy

Reba McEntire as a Houston mother holding a divorce together, with a theme she sings herself.

Season 1

1 sequence

Smallville

2001–2011The WB / The CWSci-Fi

Remy Zero's 'Save Me' over a cast that changed almost completely across ten years, with the credits rebuilt around each departure.

Season 1

1 sequence

All of Us

2003–2007UPN / The CWComedy

A blended family sitcom produced by Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, out of their own circumstances.

Season 1

1 sequence

America's Next Top Model

2003–2018UPN / The CWDocumentary

The format that ran for twenty-four cycles and rebuilt its titles for most of them.

Season 1

1 sequence

One Tree Hill

2003–2012The WB / The CWDrama

Gavin DeGraw's 'I Don't Want to Be' over a small North Carolina town, re-cut every season until the show dropped the sequence entirely.

Seasons 1–4

1 sequence

Veronica Mars

2004–2019UPN / The CW / HuluCrime

The Dandy Warhols over surveillance photographs and a Californian beach town that is much worse than it looks.

Season 1

1 sequence

Everybody Hates Chris

2005–2009UPN / The CWComedy

Chris Rock narrating his own Bed-Stuy adolescence, opened by the family on the stoop.

Season 1

1 sequence

Supernatural

2005–2020The WB / The CWHorror

Fifteen years without an opening title sequence, and fifteen distinct title cards instead — a few seconds of the show's name, restyled from scratch every season to match what that year was about. The shortest main titles on this site, and the ones that changed the most.

Seasons 1–15

1 sequence

90210

2008–2013The CWDrama

Beverly Hills, 90210 restarted for a new decade, keeping the postcode and the zip-code typography.

Season 1

1 sequence

Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight

2008–2009The CWSci-Fi

Kamen Rider Ryuki rebuilt for American Saturday mornings, and the only Kamen Rider to win an Emmy.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Spectacular Spider-Man

2008–2009The CW / Disney XDAnimation

Web-line geometry and a surf-rock horn chart, widely held to be the best Spider-Man adaptation in any medium.

Season 1

1 sequence

The Vampire Diaries

2009–2017The CWHorror

Forty-eight seconds of Mystic Falls in fog, with the cast cards rebuilt every season around a body count that never stopped rising.

Season 1

1 sequence

Life Unexpected

2010–2011The CWDrama

A girl in foster care who finds both her birth parents and asks them to take her back.

Season 1

1 sequence

Nikita

2010–2013The CWDrama

The third screen version of the Besson film, after the 1997 series this catalogue holds as La Femme Nikita.

Season 2

1 sequence

Hart of Dixie

2011–2015The CWDrama

A New York surgeon who inherits half a general practice in Alabama and finds she cannot leave it.

Season 1

1 sequence

Penn & Teller: Fool Us

2011–ITV / The CWDocumentary

Magicians performing one trick each for two men who will say afterwards whether they worked out how it was done.

Season 1

1 sequence

Ringer

2011–2012The CWDrama

A woman who takes over her twin sister's identity and finds it is worse than the one she left.

Season 1

1 sequence

Arrow

2012–2020The CWDrama

A narrated premise delivered every week in the first person, which the entire subsequent CW superhero slate copied verbatim.

Season 1

1 sequence

Reign

2013–2017The CWDrama

Mary, Queen of Scots at the French court, with a deliberately anachronistic soundtrack.

Season 2

1 sequence

The Originals

2013–2018The CWHorror

The Vampire Diaries spinoff, moving the family to New Orleans and giving them a title sequence the parent show never had.

Season 2

1 sequence

Jane the Virgin

2014–2019The CWComedy

A telenovela about a woman inside a telenovela, opened in the form it is parodying and loving at once.

Season 1

1 sequence

The 100

2014–2020The CWSci-Fi

A card and a sting for most of its run, expanding into a full sequence only at the end.

Season 7

1 sequence

The Flash

2014–2023The CWSci-Fi

The same narrated formula as Arrow, delivered faster — which is at least appropriate.

Season 1

4 sequences

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

2015–2019The CWComedy

A musical comedy that threw away its theme song every year and wrote a new one, each arguing with the last about whether the word in the title is fair.