The WB opening titles
The WB accounts for 31 shows here, running from 1993 to 2020, and 50 opening title sequences between them.
Comedy leads with ten, then animation with eight.
Five of them rebuilt their titles at least once — most of all Charmed, with eight distinct sequences.
31 shows · 50 sequences · oldest first
12 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequence
Animaniacs
A patter song with a different closing rhyme every week, sung by three cartoon characters at a tempo no live performer would attempt.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Sister, Sister
Twins separated at birth and reunited in a shopping mall, played by twins.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEarthworm Jim
The game adapted with its own voice cast and most of its absurdity intact.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFreakazoid!
A superhero theme performed at a volume and speed that make the joke before the show has started.
- Season 1
1 sequencePinky and the Brain
A theme that explains the premise as a call and response, ending on the same question every week and never answering it.
- Season 1
2 sequences
The Wayans Bros.
Two brothers running a Harlem newsstand, made by the family whose name is over the door.
- Season 1
- Season 3
1 sequenceUnhappily Ever After
Married… with Children's writers doing it again, with a talking stuffed rabbit only the father can hear.
- Season 1
1 sequence
7th Heaven
A minister, his wife and seven children, in the longest-running family drama in American television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSabrina the Teenage Witch
The Archie Comics witch as a TGIF sitcom, seven seasons across two networks.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSuperman: The Animated Series
The companion to Batman: The Animated Series, and the same trick — a full orchestral score over a sequence that names nothing.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Jamie Foxx Show
A hotel in Los Angeles run by relatives, and the nephew who wants to act instead.
- Season 1
2 sequences
The Steve Harvey Show
A funk musician turned high school teacher, in the sitcom that carried The WB's Monday nights for six years.
- Season 1
- Seasons 4–6
7 sequences
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
An organ sting, a shot of the moon, and then Nerf Herder's surf-punk theme over black-and-white monster-movie footage that bursts into colour. The design never changed in seven years; the fifty seconds behind it were re-cut every one of them.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 4 more
1 sequenceSmart Guy
A ten-year-old skipped ahead to high school, and the two older siblings who have to sit next to him.
- Season 1
8 sequences
Charmed
Love Spit Love's cover of 'How Soon Is Now?' over the Book of Shadows and three sisters, re-cut every season. It goes further than that, though: the credits were rebuilt whenever the cast of an episode changed, so a season carries several versions rather than one — eight of them in the second year alone.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 5 more
1 sequence
Dawson's Creek
Paula Cole over a Massachusetts creek — a theme so tied to the show that its absence from the streaming release became a story in itself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFelicity
J. J. Abrams and Matt Reeves's college drama, opened by a montage that changed as often as its lead's haircut did.
- Season 1
5 sequences
Angel
The spinoff takes the parent show's structure and drops the jokes: Darling Violetta's 'Sanctuary' instead of surf-punk, city at night instead of monster movies. Like Buffy, the design holds for five years while the names in front of it keep moving.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 2 more
1 sequenceBatman Beyond
The same animation house forty years on, trading the orchestral score for industrial percussion and a Gotham that has kept getting worse.
- Season 1
1 sequencePopular
A high school seen from both sides of its social order, from the man who later made Glee.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Roswell
Dido over a New Mexico desert, for a series that treats an alien conspiracy as primarily a problem of adolescence.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe PJs
Eddie Murphy's stop-motion housing-project comedy, animated in foam rather than drawn.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequence
Gilmore Girls
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 sequenceStatic Shock
A hip-hop theme over a Black teenage superhero in Dakota — from the same DC animation house as Batman and Superman, and tonally nothing like either.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrounded for Life
A young Staten Island family, told out of order within each episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceReba
Reba McEntire as a Houston mother holding a divorce together, with a theme she sings herself.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Smallville
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 sequenceEverwood
A New York surgeon moving his family to a Colorado mountain town after his wife's death.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWhat I Like About You
Two sisters sharing a New York flat, named for the Romantics single it opens on.
- Season 1
1 sequence
One Tree Hill
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
Supernatural
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