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USA Network opening titles

USA Network accounts for 25 shows here, running from 1985 to 2021, and 25 opening title sequences between them.

Crime leads with eleven, then drama with five.

None of them rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.

25 shows · 25 sequences · oldest first

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

Still from the opening titles of The Ray Bradbury Theater1 sequence

The Ray Bradbury Theater

1985–1992HBO / USA NetworkSci-Fi

Bradbury adapting himself, introduced each week from an office full of the objects the stories came from.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Silk Stalkings1 sequence

Silk Stalkings

1991–1999CBS / USA NetworkCrime

Palm Beach sex-crimes detectives, and the show that effectively invented USA Network's original programming.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Renegade1 sequence

Renegade

1992–1997Syndication / USA NetworkCrime

A framed policeman on a motorcycle, made for syndication by the people who made The A-Team.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills1 sequence

Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills

1994–1995USA NetworkSci-Fi

Four teenagers given powers by an alien tattoo, in a title that explains the whole programme.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Weird Science1 sequence

Weird Science

1994–1998USA NetworkComedy

The film turned into a series, with the computer-made woman staying on as a regular.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Pacific Blue1 sequence

Pacific Blue

1996–2000USA NetworkCrime

Bicycle police in Santa Monica, pitched by its own network as Baywatch on bikes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of La Femme Nikita1 sequence

La Femme Nikita

1997–2001USA NetworkDrama

Cold blue corridors and electronic music, for a series that treated its agency as an antagonist from the first frame.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of G vs E1 sequence

G vs E

1999–2000USA NetworkHorror

Two agents of the Corps recruiting the dead to fight people who have sold their souls, shot to look like a 1970s exploitation print.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Law & Order: Criminal Intent1 sequence

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001–2011NBC / USA NetworkCrime

The franchise entry that follows the criminal rather than the case, and so has to break the format's own rule about not showing you the answer.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Monk1 sequence

Monk

2002–2009USA NetworkCrime

Randy Newman singing about being obsessive over a detective straightening things — a theme that explains the character faster than the pilot does.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Dead Zone1 sequence

The Dead Zone

2002–2007USA NetworkSci-Fi

The Stephen King adaptation as a weekly series, with a man who reads futures by touch.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The 44001 sequence

The 4400

2004–2007USA NetworkSci-Fi

Four thousand four hundred missing people returned at once, introduced through the photographs of who they were.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Psych1 sequence

Psych

2006–2014USA NetworkCrime

'I Know, You Know' — a theme re-recorded in a different genre for special episodes, which makes it a rare case of a comedy varying its own titles.

  • Season 4
Still from the opening titles of In Plain Sight1 sequence

In Plain Sight

2008–2012USA NetworkCrime

A US marshal running witness protection in Albuquerque.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Royal Pains1 sequence

Royal Pains

2009–2016USA NetworkComedy

A concierge doctor in the Hamptons, in the middle of USA's blue-sky decade.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of White Collar1 sequence

White Collar

2009–2014USA NetworkCrime

Nine seconds. A fedora, a card, and straight into it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Covert Affairs1 sequence

Covert Affairs

2010–2014USA NetworkDrama

A CIA trainee promoted early for reasons she is not told.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Suits1 sequence

Suits

2011–2019USA NetworkDrama

Tailoring, cufflinks and Manhattan glass over Ima Robot's 'Greenback Boogie' — a law firm sold entirely on wardrobe.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Graceland1 sequence

Graceland

2013–2015USA NetworkCrime

Undercover agents from three agencies sharing a confiscated beach house.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Mr. Robot1 sequence

Mr. Robot

2015–2019USA NetworkDrama

There is no title sequence. There is a card, and the card is the whole design — which makes this the rare show whose opening is defined by what it refuses to do.

  • Seasons 1–4
Still from the opening titles of Colony1 sequence

Colony

2016–2018USA NetworkSci-Fi

Occupied Los Angeles under an alien administration nobody has seen, opened in ten seconds.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Sinner1 sequence

The Sinner

2017–2021USA NetworkCrime

An anthology that begins with the crime and spends the season on why.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of The Purge1 sequence

The Purge

2018–2019USA NetworkHorror

The film franchise given two seasons of television, opened in sixteen seconds.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Briarpatch1 sequence

Briarpatch

2019–2020USA NetworkCrime

A Texas border town where the zoo animals have got out, which the series treats as background.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Treadstone1 sequence

Treadstone

2019–2020USA NetworkDrama

The Bourne programme as a series, cancelled after one season.

  • Season 1