Sequences of the 1960s

131 sequences from shows that began in the 1960s. A show’s sequences stay together under the decade it started in, even where the run carried on into the next one.

• 60 Minutes — Season 2317sFan upload dated 3 February 1991, which falls in the twenty-third season counted from the September 1968 launch.
• ABC's Wide World of Sports — Season 2066sArchive upload of the 1980 open; counting a season per year from the April 1961 launch, that is the twentieth.
• Adam-12 — Season 141sFan upload.
• The Addams Family — Seasons 1–2Unchanged across both seasons. Vic Mizzy wrote it and then directed the sequence himself, which is unusual and entirely practical — he wanted the actors' snaps landing exactly on his arrangement rather than near it.
• The Andy Griffith Show — Season 123s'The Fishin' Hole', whistled over the walk to the lake.
• Another World — Season 2635sArchive upload dated 16 March 1989; counting a season per year from the May 1964 launch, that is the twenty-sixth.
• The Archie Show — Season 183sMachine-upscaled fan upload of the 1968 theme.
• Astro Boy — Season 171sFan upload of the first 1963 opening.
• The Banana Splits Adventure Hour — Season 185sMachine-upscaled fan upload of the opening alone; the other copy in circulation runs the closing theme with it.
• Batman — Seasons 1–2The original, drawn in the house style of the comics it came from. A surf-guitar hook over low brass, and a theme so much shorter on words than melody that it charted as a single within two months of the premiere.
• Batman — Season 3Rebuilt when Batgirl arrived for the final year — she is added to the animation, and Billy May writes her a theme of her own rather than folding her into Hefti's. A duo becoming a trio is the kind of change these titles existed to announce.
• The Beverly Hillbillies — Season 174sRestored fan upload.
• Bewitched — Season 154sThe animated opening.
• The Big Match — Season 1No usable clip placed. The one dated result belongs to The Big Match Live, a separate strand ITV started in 1983, so it cannot be attributed to this one.
• The Big Valley — Seasons 1–437sRestored upload. The uploader states this open ran across the whole 1965 to 1969 run.
• The Brady Bunch — Season 169sThe first season's version. The grid was reshot each year as the children grew.
• The Bugs Bunny Show — Season 143sA collector's 16mm print with the audio resynced. Overture, curtain, lights — the theatrical cast introducing itself on a stage, made specifically for the TV show rather than lifted from a short.
• Camberwick Green — Season 183sFan upload.
• Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons — Season 165sPosted by the official Gerry Anderson channel.
• Car 54, Where Are You? — Season 129sFan upload of the first season, 1961.
• The Carol Burnett Show — Season 123sThe 1967 opening.
• Civilisation — Season 1No usable clip verified. The series is posted as complete episodes, which carry the titles inside them and cannot be pointed at.
• The Clangers — Season 162sFan upload.
• Coronation Street — Season 119sFan upload of the first episode's titles, December 1960.
• Coronation Street — Season 3125sFan upload of the 1990 titles. Counting a season per year from the December 1960 launch, that is the thirty-first.
• Crossroads — Season 732sFan upload dated 1970; counting a season per year from the November 1964 launch, that is the seventh.
• Dad's Army — Season 166sPosted by the estate of David Croft, who wrote and produced it — a rights-holder source for a 1968 sitcom. The arrows are the entire war reduced to a diagram, and the joke is that the Home Guard is one of them.
• Danger Man — Season 132sFan upload.
• Dark Shadows — Season 125sThe original black-and-white opening.
• Davey and Goliath — Season 143sFan upload of the 1960 intro.
• Days of Our Lives — Season 131sFan upload of the 1965 opening, from the launch year.
• The Defenders — Season 143sThe opening.
• Department S — Season 169sFan upload.
• The Dick Van Dyke Show — Season 135sThe 1961 opening on its own, in which Van Dyke trips over the ottoman.
• The Dick Van Dyke Show — Season 220sThe 1962 opening, half the length, in which he sidesteps it. The show alternated the two gags for the rest of its run.
• Doctor Who — Seasons 1–349sBernard Lodge's original, made by pointing a camera at its own monitor and filming the feedback — a technique called howlaround. No face, no ship, nothing but the pattern and Delia Derbyshire's realisation of Ron Grainer's theme, built by splicing tape rather than playing an instrument.
• Doctor Who — Seasons 4–645sPatrick Troughton's face is added — the first time a Doctor appears in the titles at all. The howlaround stays, the logo is redrawn, and electronic spangles are mixed over the theme. The change lands partway through season four, in March 1967.
• Doctor Who — Seasons 7–1049sColour arrives, and the howlaround comes with it — red and green flame instead of grey. Pertwee's face replaces Troughton's and a stutter is added to the front of the bassline.
• Doctor Who — Season 1137sLodge abandons howlaround for slit-scan, photographing light through moving slots to build a tunnel, after seeing what 2001 did with it. The diamond logo arrives at the same time.
• Doctor Who — Seasons 12–1747sThe same tunnel rebuilt around Tom Baker, whose face and scarf swim out of the vortex ahead of the TARDIS. Six seasons on one sequence — the longest any version of these titles ever lasted.
• Doctor Who — Season 18John Nathan-Turner replaces Lodge with Sid Sutton, and the journey stops being through time and becomes through space: a starfield, with Baker's face assembling itself out of stars. Peter Howell's synthesiser retires Derbyshire's tape after seventeen years, and the diamond becomes a neon sign.
• Doctor Who — Seasons 19–2144sSame starfield, new Doctor — Peter Davison's face wipes in behind a venetian-blind pattern rather than forming out of the stars.
• Doctor Who — Season 2245sColin Baker's face animates from a frown into a grin, and the neon logo is zoomed and tinted purple. The sequence actually arrives a story early, at the very end of season twenty-one.
• Doctor Who — Season 23The Trial of a Time Lord season. Dominic Glynn's arrangement replaces Peter Howell's for these fourteen episodes and is never used again, which makes it the shortest-lived version of the theme ever broadcast.
• Doctor Who — Seasons 24–2661sThe first computer-generated titles the programme ever had — the TARDIS tumbling inside a bubble, Sylvester McCoy winking at the audience, and Keff McCulloch's arrangement.
• F Troop — Season 177sFan upload.
• The F.B.I. — Season 159sThe opening alone, Efrem Zimbalist Jr against the flag. The other copies are a nine-season montage and an opening-and-closing pair.
• The Flintstones — Season 156sThe first season's opening alone. This is the earlier sequence, before Meet the Flintstones became the theme.
• The Fugitive — Season 1No usable clip kept. The available upload runs the opening and closing themes together rather than the opening alone.
• General Hospital — Season 1619sFan upload. The uploader dates this sequence to 1978 through 1993; counting a season per year from the April 1963 launch, it starts at the sixteenth.
• General Hospital — Season 4350sFan upload dated November 2005; counting a season per year from the April 1963 launch, that is the forty-third.
• George of the Jungle — Season 161sVideotape capture of the 1967 intro.
• Get Smart — Season 355sThe third season's version of the corridor.
• Gilligan's Island — Season 362sRestored fan upload of the third season. The first-season lyric ended with "and the rest"; the professor and Mary Ann were written in by name from the second season on, which makes this one of the earliest documented cases of a title sequence changing because of a credit dispute.
• Green Acres — Season 166sFan upload.
• H.R. Pufnstuf — Season 1110sFan upload.
• Hawaii Five-O — Season 160sThe opening alone, and moving: the wave, the tower and the woman turning on the beach. The copy rejected before was a still image with the closing attached.
• Hee Haw — Season 150sFan upload.
• The Herculoids — Season 154sFan upload of the 1967 intro.
• The High Chaparral — Season 140sRestored upload.
• Hogan's Heroes — Season 148sFan upload of the first season's open. The first search returned an opening-and-closing bundle; a second query found the opening alone.
• Horizon — Season 1No usable clip kept. The one upload of the titles carries no date, and the programme has rebuilt them repeatedly across sixty years.
• I Dream of Jeannie — Season 162sThe animated opening, from the show's own channel.
• I Spy — Season 156sFan upload.
• The Invaders — Season 198sFan upload. The narration states the premise, the stakes and the protagonist's problem in ninety-eight seconds — the Quinn Martin house style at its most complete.
• Ironside — Season 1No usable clip verified. The only result bundles the opening and closing themes into one upload.
• Jackanory — Season 127sFan upload.
• Jeopardy! — Season 1No usable clip found. Searching returns a CBBC children's version of the format rather than the American programme.
• The Jetsons — Season 159sPosted by Warner Bros.' own classics channel, and the opening alone.
• Jonny Quest — Season 1No usable clip kept — the available upload runs the beginning and end credits together rather than the opening alone. The 1996 revival is catalogued separately.
• Kimba the White Lion — Season 146sFan upload of the 1966 English opening.
• Land of the Giants — Season 264sRestored fan upload of the second season's version.
• Lost in Space — Season 154sThe first season's opening, in black and white.
• The Magic Roundabout — Season 124sFan upload.
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Season 143sThe opening.
• Marcus Welby, M.D. — Season 172sThe opening, from a Brazilian channel that archives series titles. No burnt-in Portuguese on the picture, and the closing credits that had been the only result are still what ranks first in English.
• Match of the Day — Season 744sFan upload of the 1970 titles — the season Barry Stoller's theme arrived. Counting a season per football season from 1964/65, that is the seventh.
• Match of the Day — Season 6253sFan upload of the 2025/26 titles; counting a season per football season from 1964/65, that is the sixty-second. Fifty-five years on, the same theme.
• McHale's Navy — Season 121sFan upload.
• Mission: Impossible — Season 250sThe second season's opening at broadcast resolution, with Peter Graves' starring card on it — he joined in that season, which places the clip. The copy rejected before was a 4K upscale.
• Mister Ed — Season 1No usable clip kept — the available upload runs the opening and closing themes together rather than the opening alone.
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood — Season 191sFan upload. The model neighbourhood, the trolley and Rogers changing his jacket — a title sequence that is also the show's entire thesis about routine.
• The Monkees — Season 150sFan upload.
• Monty Python's Flying Circus — Season 141sThe animated opening. The foot descends at the end, which became the programme's emblem.
• The Morecambe & Wise Show — Season 236sThe second series' BBC titles from 1969, split-screen with the names across it. What had been on offer was the closing song performed in full.
• Mr. Dressup — Season 1984sFan upload dated 1985; counting a season per year from the February 1967 launch, that is the nineteenth.
• The Munsters — Season 143sThe first season's opening.
• My Three Sons — Season 123sFan upload of the first season, 1961.
• News at Ten — Season 1No usable clip placed. ITV News posted the current titles themselves but dated them only as new, and the programme has run under three separate incarnations since 1967.
• Night Gallery — Season 132sThe gallery framing. The paintings change each week, so the sequence is a format rather than a fixed film.
• One Life to Live — Season 2137sFan upload dated 1988; counting a season per year from the July 1968 launch, that is the twenty-first.
• One Life to Live — Season 4431sFan upload dated 2011, the final year; counting a season per year from the July 1968 launch, that is the forty-fourth.
• The Outer Limits — Season 169sThe original opening, with the control voice in full.
• Petticoat Junction — Season 163sThe opening on the water tower, at broadcast resolution and faded with it.
• Peyton Place — Season 129sThe opening alone, from a channel that collects television intros.
• The Prisoner — Season 1One sequence for a single seventeen-episode run, and it does the work an entire pilot usually does — by the time the titles finish, the resignation, the abduction and the terms of captivity have all been established. Four episodes depart from it, one of them restaging the whole thing as a Western with McGoohan as a sheriff, which is a liberty a show can only take once its titles are this fixed.
• Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) — Season 146sFan upload.
• Ready Steady Go! — Season 143sFan upload.
• Roger Ramjet — Season 144sFan upload.
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In — Season 3114sThe third season's opening, from the show's own channel.
• The Saint — Season 1No usable clip verified. The only result failed the frame-motion check — a static image with the theme over it.
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! — Season 162sThe 1969 opening credits.
• Sesame Street — Season 1104sThe 1969 opening, from an upload that carries the era's funding credits alongside it as broadcast.
• Sesame Street — Seasons 24–2561sFan upload, labelled by the uploader as the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth seasons, 1992 to 1994. Twenty-three years on, still children running down a street.
• The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour — Season 1No usable clip verified. Searches return the brothers' earlier 1965 sitcom, which is a different programme.
• Speed Racer — Season 170sVideotape capture of the 1967 English intro.
• Sportsnight — Season 2636sFan upload of the 1993 titles; counting a season per year from the 1968 launch, that is the twenty-sixth.
• Star Trek — Season 152sThe first version, with Loulie Jean Norman's wordless soprano floating over Alexander Courage's theme and Shatner's narration ending on 'no man has gone before'. Only Shatner and Nimoy are named in the main titles.
• Star Trek — Seasons 2–360sRe-recorded for season 2 — the soprano vocal is dropped in favour of a punchier brass and organ arrangement, and DeForest Kelley finally joins Shatner and Nimoy in the main title cards.
• Steptoe and Son — Season 127sFan upload of the twenty-seven-second open, found on a second query after the first returned a two-minute soundtrack version of Ron Grainer's "Old Ned".
• Stingray — Season 181sPosted by the official Gerry Anderson channel.
• Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales — Season 131sFan upload of the original opening.
• Thriller (1960) — Season 1No usable clip verified. Every search returns the unrelated 1973 ITV anthology of the same name, which is catalogued separately.
• Thunderbirds — Season 193sPosted by the official Gerry Anderson channel. The sequence is a mission briefing before there is a mission: each craft launches, each pilot is named, and the whole premise is delivered without a line of dialogue.
• Till Death Us Do Part — Season 129sFan upload. With Steptoe and Son this catalogue now holds both British originals and both American remakes — four entries, two formats.
• The Time Tunnel — Season 139sFan upload.
• Tomorrow's World — Season 2946sFan upload of the 1993 titles; counting a season per year from the July 1965 launch, that is the twenty-ninth.
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Season 1861sFan upload dated 1979; counting a season per year from Carson's October 1962 start, that is the eighteenth.
• Top Cat — Season 142sPosted by Warner Bros. from the complete-series release.
• Top of the Pops — Season 123sFan upload of the 1964 titles, from the launch year — seventeen years before the Phil Lynott theme arrived.
• Top of the Pops — Seasons 18–2021sFan upload. The uploader dates this version to 1981 through 1983; counting a season per year from the 1964 launch, those are the eighteenth to twentieth.
• Trumpton — Season 163sFan upload.
• Ultraman — Season 1No usable clip verified. The only result carries burnt-in English subtitles over the original sequence.
• Underdog — Season 159sFan upload of the original 1964 intro with the sponsor card left in.
• University Challenge — Season 128sFan upload.
• The Virginian — Season 146sThe first season's opening theme alone, in place of the bundle.
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea — Season 1No usable clip verified. The only result collects all four seasons' openings into one upload.
• Wacky Races — Season 176sFan upload of the 1968 intro.
• The Wild Wild West — Season 151sThe first season's opening.
• World of Sport — Season 2073sFan upload of the 1984 titles; counting a season per year from the 1965 launch, that is the twentieth.
• The Yogi Bear Show — Season 188sFan upload of the 1961 intro.

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