YTV opening titles

YTV accounts for seven shows here, running from 1990 to 2006, and nine opening title sequences between them.

Animation leads with three, then comedy with two.

One rebuilt its titles mid-run: Beast Wars: Transformers, with three distinct sequences.

7 shows · 9 sequences · oldest first

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

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

1990–2000Nickelodeon / YTVHorror

A campfire, a handful of powder thrown into it, and a children's anthology that frightened a generation on a Saturday teatime.

1992–2006YTVComedy

A clown and her doll on a couch, with a clock-stretch exercise that gave the programme its shape.

1994–2001YTVAnimation

The first television series animated entirely by computer, and set inside one.

1995–1998Fox Kids / YTVHorror

A briefcase blowing open in a wind that follows a dog down a street — thirty seconds of genuine dread aimed at nine-year-olds.

1996–1999Syndication / YTVAnimation

Transformers rebuilt in computer graphics on a fraction of the budget, which is why everybody is an animal.

1998–1999YTV / Fox FamilyComedy

The 1964 scripts remade almost line for line in Vancouver, thirty-four years afterwards.

2003MTV / YTVAnimation

MTV's computer-animated Spider-Man, set between the first two films and cancelled after thirteen episodes.