TNT
19 shows, 23 sequences, oldest first.
3 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
5 sequencesBabylon 5
1993–1998Syndication / TNTSci-Fi
Five seasons, five openings, and each one changes who is allowed to speak. The monologue passes from the station's first commander to his successor to his second-in-command, then splinters across the whole cast, then stops being a monologue at all.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Season 3
- and 2 more
1 sequenceWCW Monday Nitro
1995–2001TNTDocumentary
The programme that made Monday nights a ratings war, and lost it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCrusade
1999TNTSci-Fi
The Babylon 5 sequel, cancelled after thirteen episodes before any of them aired in order.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWitchblade
2001–2002TNTSci-Fi
A New York detective bonded to a sentient gauntlet, from the Top Cow comic.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Closer
2005–2012TNTCrime
Kyra Sedgwick's LAPD deputy chief, and the most-watched drama basic cable had at the time.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLeverage
2008–2012TNTCrime
Twenty seconds of heist iconography, in a show that opens each episode with a job already half underway.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMen of a Certain Age
2009–2011TNTDrama
Three friends at the wrong end of their forties, written by Ray Romano and Mike Royce.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSouthland
2009–2013NBC / TNTCrime
Los Angeles patrol work shot like documentary, dropped by NBC and picked up by TNT.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRizzoli & Isles
2010–2016TNTCrime
A Boston detective and a medical examiner, from the Tess Gerritsen novels.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFalling Skies
2011–2015TNTSci-Fi
A resistance militia in occupied Boston, produced by Steven Spielberg, opened in eleven seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMajor Crimes
2012–2018TNTCrime
The Closer continued around Mary McDonnell's captain rather than Kyra Sedgwick's chief.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMob City
2013TNTCrime
Frank Darabont's post-Walking Dead series, on 1940s Los Angeles, cancelled after six episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Last Ship
2014–2018TNTDrama
A destroyer at sea when a pandemic takes the rest of the world.
- Season 2
1 sequenceAnimal Kingdom
2016–2022TNTCrime
The Australian film remade in Southern California, following the same criminal family.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGood Behavior
2016–2017TNTCrime
A thief on parole and the hitman she decides not to turn in.
- Season 1
1 sequenceClaws
2017–2022TNTCrime
A Florida nail salon laundering money for a pill mill, staged in saturated colour throughout.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Alienist
2018–2020TNTCrime
An 1896 New York murder investigation using methods the police do not yet have a word for.
- Season 1
1 sequenceI Am the Night
2019TNTCrime
Patty Jenkins directing a story that runs alongside the Black Dahlia case without being it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSnowpiercer
2020–2024TNT / AMCSci-Fi
The Bong Joon-ho film continued as a series on a train that cannot stop, opened in fourteen seconds.
- Season 1