The WB
31 shows, 50 sequences, oldest first.
12 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequenceAnimaniacs
1993–1998Fox Kids / The WBAnimation
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 sequenceSister, Sister
1994–1999ABC / The WBComedy
Twins separated at birth and reunited in a shopping mall, played by twins.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEarthworm Jim
1995–1996The WBAnimation
The game adapted with its own voice cast and most of its absurdity intact.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFreakazoid!
1995–1997The WBAnimation
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
1995–1998The WBAnimation
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 sequencesThe Wayans Bros.
1995–1999The WBComedy
Two brothers running a Harlem newsstand, made by the family whose name is over the door.
- Season 1
- Season 3
1 sequenceUnhappily Ever After
1995–1999The WBComedy
Married… with Children's writers doing it again, with a talking stuffed rabbit only the father can hear.
- Season 1
1 sequence7th Heaven
1996–2007The WBDrama
A minister, his wife and seven children, in the longest-running family drama in American television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSabrina the Teenage Witch
1996–2003ABC / The WBComedy
The Archie Comics witch as a TGIF sitcom, seven seasons across two networks.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSuperman: The Animated Series
1996–2000The WBAnimation
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
1996–2001The WBComedy
A hotel in Los Angeles run by relatives, and the nephew who wants to act instead.
- Season 1
2 sequencesThe Steve Harvey Show
1996–2002The WBComedy
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 sequencesBuffy the Vampire Slayer
1997–2003The WB / UPNHorror
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
1997–1999The WBComedy
A ten-year-old skipped ahead to high school, and the two older siblings who have to sit next to him.
- Season 1
8 sequencesCharmed
1998–2006The WBHorror
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 sequenceDawson's Creek
1998–2003The WBDrama
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
1998–2002The WBDrama
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 sequencesAngel
1999–2004The WBHorror
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
1999–2001The WBAnimation
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
1999–2001The WBDrama
A high school seen from both sides of its social order, from the man who later made Glee.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRoswell
1999–2002The WB / UPNSci-Fi
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
1999–2001Fox / The WBAnimation
Eddie Murphy's stop-motion housing-project comedy, animated in foam rather than drawn.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequenceGilmore 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 sequenceStatic Shock
2000–2004The WBAnimation
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
2001–2005Fox / The WBComedy
A young Staten Island family, told out of order within each episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceReba
2001–2007The WB / The CWComedy
Reba McEntire as a Houston mother holding a divorce together, with a theme she sings herself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSmallville
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 sequenceEverwood
2002–2006The WBDrama
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
2002–2006The WBComedy
Two sisters sharing a New York flat, named for the Romantics single it opens on.
- Season 1
1 sequenceOne 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 sequenceSupernatural
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