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UPN accounts for 22 shows here, running from 1994 to 2019, and 31 opening title sequences between them.

Comedy leads with nine, then sci-fi with eight.

Four of them rebuilt their titles at least once — most of all Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with seven distinct sequences.

22 shows · 31 sequences · oldest first

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

Still from the opening titles of Sweet Valley High1 sequence

Sweet Valley High

1994–1997Syndication / UPNDrama

The paperback series about twin sisters, adapted for television with real twins.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Nowhere Man1 sequence

Nowhere Man

1995–1996UPNSci-Fi

A photojournalist whose entire identity is erased between courses of a dinner, over one photograph.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Star Trek: Voyager2 sequences

Star Trek: Voyager

1995–2001UPNSci-Fi

The most purely beautiful of the Trek openings — Voyager skimming a comet, threading a nebula and sliding past a gas giant while Jerry Goldsmith writes the loneliest theme in the franchise. Nothing about it is in a hurry to get home.

  • Seasons 1–3
  • Seasons 4–7
Still from the opening titles of Clueless2 sequences

Clueless

1996–1999ABC / UPNComedy

The film continued at Bronson Alcott High, with most of the cast replaced and Dionne kept.

  • Season 1
  • Season 3
Still from the opening titles of Malcolm & Eddie1 sequence

Malcolm & Eddie

1996–2000UPNComedy

Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Eddie Griffin sharing a Kansas City bar, four years after The Cosby Show ended.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Moesha1 sequence

Moesha

1996–2001UPNComedy

Brandy Norwood as a Los Angeles teenager, and UPN's first real hit.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Sentinel1 sequence

The Sentinel

1996–1999UPNSci-Fi

A detective whose five senses were permanently heightened by eighteen months alone in the jungle.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Buffy the Vampire Slayer7 sequences

Buffy 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
Still from the opening titles of Seven Days1 sequence

Seven Days

1998–2001UPNSci-Fi

A government project that can send one man back exactly seven days, once, to undo a disaster.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Home Movies1 sequence

Home Movies

1999–2004UPN / Adult SwimAnimation

Nineteen seconds, squiggle-drawn, from the series that established the improvised-dialogue style its creator would later bring to Bob's Burgers.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Roswell1 sequence

Roswell

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
Still from the opening titles of The Parkers1 sequence

The Parkers

1999–2004UPNComedy

The Moesha spin-off, with a mother and daughter enrolled at the same community college.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of One on One1 sequence

One on One

2001–2006UPNComedy

A Baltimore sports broadcaster whose teenage daughter moves in with him, and the spine of UPN's comedy block for five years.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Special Unit 21 sequence

Special Unit 2

2001–2002UPNSci-Fi

A Chicago police unit whose caseload is entirely mythological, and which nobody else in the department believes exists.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Star Trek: Enterprise2 sequences

Star Trek: Enterprise

2001–2005UPNSci-Fi

The franchise's most argued-over opening: no orchestra, no starfield, but a montage of real human exploration — sailing ships, biplanes, spacesuits — under a soft-rock ballad. Half the audience never forgave it, which is its own kind of achievement.

  • Seasons 1–2
  • Seasons 3–4
Still from the opening titles of Half & Half1 sequence

Half & Half

2002–2006UPNComedy

Two half-sisters who grew up apart, living in the same San Francisco building as adults.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of All of Us1 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
Still from the opening titles of America's Next Top Model1 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
Still from the opening titles of Eve1 sequence

Eve

2003–2006UPNComedy

The rapper Eve as a Miami fashion designer, in one of the run of sitcoms UPN built its Monday nights on.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Jake 2.01 sequence

Jake 2.0

2003–2004UPNSci-Fi

An NSA computer technician infused with nanites in an accident, and made a field agent because of it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Veronica Mars1 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
Still from the opening titles of Everybody Hates Chris1 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