Sequences of the 1980s

291 sequences from shows that began in the 1980s. A show’s sequences stay together under the decade it started in, even where the run carried on into the next one.

• 'Allo 'Allo! — Season 177sPosted by the David Croft estate.
• The $50,000 Pyramid — Season 123sOff air in April 1981: the board lit and the set empty.
• 21 Jump Street — Season 161sFan upload of the first season's credits, from a classic-television archive channel.
• 227 — Season 159sFan upload of the first season's opening.
• 3-2-1 Contact — Season 1No usable clip placed. The one upload covers 1983 to 1986, and the series did not run a season a year, so it cannot be attributed.
• The A-Team — Season 1No usable clip verified. The best-ranked result is attached to a 2010 DVD re-release rather than being the broadcast sequence, and runs longer than the opening does.
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Seasons 1–248sFan upload. Sidney Paget's original Strand illustrations under Patrick Gowers's theme. Granada kept the same sequence when the show was renamed The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Casebook and The Memoirs — only the wordmark changed.
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Season 165sThe opening sequence.
• Airwolf — Season 159sThe opening.
• Alas Smith and Jones — Season 123sFan upload of the first series' theme.
• ALF — Season 162sArchive upload of the first season's credits.
• ALF — Season 359sThe third season's, which is a different sequence rather than a recut of the first.
• Alien Nation — Season 1109sRestored upload of the 1989 credits.
• Amazing Stories — Season 163sThe opening.
• America's Funniest Home Videos — Season 148sFan upload of the 1989 opening.
• America's Most Wanted — Season 115sFan upload of the 1988 open, from the launch year.
• American Gladiators — Season 147sFan upload of the intro. The alternatives are a joke edit and four years of themes collected together.
• Anpanman — Season 170sPosted by VAP's official music channel as the television-length opening.
• Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin — Season 145sFan upload.
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet — Season 162sFan upload of the first series' titles.
• Auf Wiedersehen, Pet — Season 273sThe second series', from a themes channel.
• Automan — Season 178sPosted by Shout! Studios, who hold the series.
• Babar — Season 165sDrawn as the books are, with the palace and the green suit.
• Bananaman — Season 124sFan upload.
• Baywatch — Season 1113sPosted by the series' own official channel, remastered. Cancelled by NBC after one season and revived in syndication, where it ran another decade.
• Beast King GoLion — Season 1112sThe logo assembled in gold and red, then staff credits, off tape.
• Beetlejuice — Season 165sPosted by Shout! Studios from the complete-series release.
• The Bill — Season 131sFrom a channel that collects nothing but this programme's titles. Dated to the 1984–85 series, which the episode list confirms is the first.
• The Bill — Season 453sThe 1988 titles, which the episode list places as the fourth series.
• The Bill — Season 525sThe 1989 titles, half the length of the previous year's. The same year the run went from 48 episodes to 104.
• Birds of a Feather — Season 142sFan upload from a titles-only channel.
• Birds of a Feather — Season 1037sFan upload dated 2014 — the tenth series, made by ITV sixteen years after the BBC's ninth.
• A Bit of Fry & Laurie — Season 238sThe second series' street sequence, which the uploader names.
• Blackadder — Season 140sThe medieval original, and the odd one out: shot on location, scored for lute and recorder, and played completely straight over illuminated-manuscript lettering.
• Blackadder — Season 241sElizabethan, and the point at which the show found its shape. The theme is rearranged for harpsichord and viol, and the credits move indoors to portrait miniatures.
• Blackadder — Season 340sRegency. The same melody again on fortepiano and strings, over engravings — a century on and a class down, with Blackadder now the servant.
• Blackadder — Season 440sThe trenches, as a military march on snare and brass. The joke of the arrangement stops being a joke here, which is the whole of what the final series does.
• The Bold and the Beautiful — Season 136sFan upload of the 1987 credits, from the launch year.
• The Bold and the Beautiful — Season 3842sFan upload dated October 2024; counting a season per year from the March 1987 launch, that is the thirty-eighth.
• Boon — Season 572sThe fifth series' titles, from a themes channel. The better-ranked copy is an upscale.
• Bosom Buddies — Season 1104sFan upload of the intro. Longer than a sitcom opening usually runs, but title footage the whole way through.
• Boys from the Blackstuff — Season 1No usable clip found. Searching returns Scully, a different Bleasdale series; searching the character returns the famous scenes. The titles survive in full-episode uploads, which is not something this catalogue can point at.
• BraveStarr — Season 175sFan upload.
• Bread — Season 137sThe Boswells one at a time, which is the whole of the sequence.
• Brideshead Revisited — Season 153sThe opening titles.
• Brookside — Season 135sFan upload of the first series' titles, machine-upscaled to 1080p by the uploader.
• Brush Strokes — Season 133sThe first series' titles, from the pub rather than the paintwork.
• Bullseye — Season 137sFan upload.
• Button Moon — Season 125sFan upload.
• Byker Grove — Season 1130sFan upload dated 1999; counting a series per year from the 1989 launch, that is the eleventh.
• Cagney & Lacey — Season 275sThe second season's opening credits.
• Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future — Season 192sNinety-two seconds of cast cards and hardware, which is the length these syndicated action series ran to.
• The Care Bears Family — Season 160sFan upload, dated by the uploader to 1985.
• Casualty — Season 2733sFan upload dated 2012; counting a series per year from the September 1986 launch, that is the twenty-seventh.
• Catchphrase — Season 135sFan upload of the opening alone; the other copy in circulation runs the closing titles with it.
• Charles in Charge — Season 157sFan upload of the intro. An old low-resolution posting, but the name cards are legible and it is not a closing bundle.
• Cheers — Seasons 1–11Unchanged across all eleven seasons, which is the more remarkable half: a sitcom that ran a decade and replaced most of its leads never once updated its opening, because the opening was never about them. Castle/Bryant/Johnsen assembled it from archive — books, private collections, historical societies — and Gary Portnoy's theme does the introducing instead.
• China Beach — Season 191sFan upload of the first season's credits. Ninety seconds, because the sequence runs the length of the song.
• The Chronicles of Narnia — Season 138sThe name lit gold over the lion, from the first serial.
• ChuckleVision — Season 132sFan upload.
• ChuckleVision — Seasons 17–2020sFan upload, labelled by the uploader as series seventeen to twenty — the rare case where the series numbers are stated outright rather than counted from a year.
• Coach — Season 129sPosted by Antenna TV, who rerun the series.
• Cops — Season 1No usable clip kept. The available upload runs the opening and closing credits together; of the two intro-only copies, one is an affiliate recording with a CW4 promotion bar across the picture and the other carries a Bandicam watermark.
• The Cosby Show — Season 166sOne season's version. The theme was re-arranged and the dance restaged for each of the eight.
• Count Duckula — Season 185sFan upload.
• Countdown — Season 137sThe 1982 opening titles.
• A Country Practice — Season 166sFan upload.
• Countryfile — Season 2434sFan upload dated 2011; counting a season per year from the 1988 launch, that is the twenty-fourth.
• Cover Up — Season 168sCast portraits lit against black, off tape.
• Crimewatch — Season 1No usable clip placed. A copy has resurfaced since the earlier one was taken down, but it is dated 1987 against an entry filed at the 1984 launch, and there is nothing to say the titles were unchanged between the two.
• Danger Mouse — Season 134sFan upload from a nostalgia archive channel.
• Dear John — Season 139sThe letter and the face, which is the whole premise in two shots.
• Degrassi High — Season 142sThe pupils shot in the corridor, cut to the theme.
• Degrassi Junior High — Season 142sRestored fan upload from the DVD master.
• Dekalog — Season 1No usable clip verified. The one upload of the opening found has since been taken down, and no replacement has surfaced under the Polish czolowka either.
• Dempsey and Makepeace — Season 147sCast cards naming the parts as well as the actors.
• Designing Women — Season 676sThe sixth season's opening credits, from Shout! Studios.
• A Different World — Season 265sThe second season's version, after the show was retooled and its opening rebuilt.
• Doogie Howser, M.D. — Seasons 1–461sFan upload. Mike Post's theme over the cast in the hospital — the tune long outlived the show. Remade thirty years later as Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.
• Dragon Ball — Season 1106sFan upload of the first opening, Makafushigi Adventure, with the production credits still over it.
• Dragon Ball Z — Season 1No usable clip kept — the available upload is a 60fps remaster rather than the broadcast picture.
• DuckTales — Season 161sPosted by a Disney Television Animation news account. Replaced an upload that still exists but has had embedding disabled since it was added here.
• Dungeons & Dragons — Season 169sFan upload.
• Dynasty — Season 191sThe first season's opening.
• EastEnders — Season 132sFan upload of the original 1985 titles, from the launch year.
• EastEnders — Season 4128sPosted by EastEnders themselves as the new 2025 credits; counting a season per year from the February 1985 launch, that is the forty-first. Forty years on, the same aerial pull-back over the same river.
• Edge of Darkness — Season 1No usable clip kept. Searching returns The Edge of Night, an American soap opera from 1976, which also fails the moving-picture check. Naming Kamen's score returns the serial itself, but only as complete episodes.
• Elvira's Movie Macabre — Season 498sThe card in its art-nouveau frame. Runs 98 seconds because it carries on into the couch monologue, and is placed at season four because the upload names the episode.
• Empty Nest — Season 154sFan upload of the intro.
• The Equalizer (1985) — Season 163sFan upload from a cult-television channel, covering the 1985 to 1989 run.
• Eureeka's Castle — Season 169sStitched fabric and appliqué, which is the whole design language of the programme.
• Ever Decreasing Circles — Season 137sFan upload.
• Faerie Tale Theatre — Season 130sFan upload. The oldest Showtime original in the catalogue.
• Falcon Crest — Season 170sThe first season's opening credits.
• The Fall Guy — Season 1106sFan upload of the first season's open.
• Fame — Season 160sPosted by a channel that archives nothing but this series.
• Family Matters — Season 192sThe opening credits.
• Family Ties — Season 161sThe animated-portrait version of the credits.
• Father Dowling Mysteries — Season 172sCast cards over the parish, off tape.
• Fireman Sam — Season 171sFan upload of the 1987 opening.
• Fraggle Rock — Season 166sPosted by The Jim Henson Company.
• Freddy's Nightmares — Season 149sFan upload.
• French and Saunders — Season 128sThe BBC Two opening titles, dated by the uploader to 9 March 1987. Something of the titles has been posted after all; it took naming the broadcaster to find it.
• Friday the 13th: The Series — Season 147sThe series' own titles, over the antique shop, with a producer's name card on them. Carries a horror site's watermark in the corner. The film still takes the first two results.
• Fridays — Season 158sCast names in signature script over the company at leisure.
• Full House — Season 1The opening credits and theme.
• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero — Season 162sFan upload of the first season, 1985.
• Galactica 1980 — Season 170sCast cards over stock footage of the pyramids.
• Gimme a Break! — Season 162sThe cast cards over the household, Howard Morton's among them.
• The Golden Girls — Season 742sThe final seasons' version of the credits.
• Good Morning, Miss Bliss — Season 141sFan upload of the 1988 intro.
• Great Railway Journeys — Season 133sFan upload of the 1980 opening, from the first run.
• The Greatest American Hero — Season 195sPosted by Crackle, who stream the series. Their branding sits in both lower corners throughout.
• Growing Pains — Season 161sPosted by Warner Bros.' own classics channel rather than by a fan.
• Hale and Pace — Season 122sThe first series' titles, from a themes channel. Two searches were needed — the first returned only shorts compilations.
• Hammer House of Horror — Season 146sRestored upload.
• Hardcastle and McCormick — Season 194sNinety-four seconds, which is what an hour-long action series opened with in 1983.
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe — Season 173sThe opening, with the transformation narrated in full.
• Head of the Class — Season 167sFan upload of the intro. The alternative carries a streaming service's bug throughout.
• Hey Dude — Season 152sEach of the cast framed inside a horseshoe.
• Hi-de-Hi! — Season 145sPosted by the David Croft estate.
• Highway to Heaven — Season 1No usable clip verified. The only result bundles the opening and closing themes into one upload, the remaster alters the picture, and the copy labelled as season five carries a blurred rectangle over the corner where a watermark was and shows no credits at all.
• Hill Street Blues — Season 182sThe opening credits.
• The Hitchhiker — Season 170sFan upload of the 1983 credits.
• The Hogan Family — Season 174sFan upload of the intro from the seasons it carried this title.
• Hollywood Squares — Season 149sThe revival's own open rather than the 1966 NBC run's, dated by its uploader to the first two seasons.
• Home and Away — Season 175sFrom an archive channel devoted to this programme's titles. Labelled the third set used in 1988, the launch year.
• Home and Away — Season 3850sFan upload of the 2025 titles. The sequence has been rebuilt many times; this is the current one rather than the original.
• Howards' Way — Season 177sSailing, and nothing but sailing, for over a minute.
• In the Heat of the Night — Season 161sThe 1988 series' first season, found once the query carried the year and the lead actor. The Jewison film still ranks above it on the title alone.
• Inspector Gadget — Season 177sRemastered fan upload of the 1983 opening.
• Inspector Morse — Season 1No usable clip kept. The best-ranked upload is explicitly the closing titles rather than the opening.
• It's a Living — Season 159sThe first season's cast cards, off a rerun channel.
• It's a Living — Season 241sThe second season, retitled Making a Living and starring Louise Lasser, off air with a New York station's caption along the bottom.
• It's Garry Shandling's Show — Season 184sThe theme without the lyric captions laid over it.
• Jake and the Fatman — Season 158sFan upload of the intro.
• Jem and the Holograms — Season 147sPosted by Shout! Studios, who hold the series.
• The Joy of Painting — Season 2934sThe painters and the oversized brush. Placed at season 29 because the upload dates it to 1993 rather than to the 1983 opening.
• Just the Ten of Us — Season 158sCast cards around the table, off tape with a rerun channel's bug.
• Kate & Allie — Season 155sFan upload of the opening credits.
• The Kids in the Hall — Season 154sThe first season's intro.
• Kids Incorporated — Season 186sPosted by the series' own archive channel. Labelled widescreen, but the picture inside the frame is the original 4:3.
• Kidsongs — Season 1No usable clip found. The best-ranked upload carries the theme over two minutes of close-ups with no title or credit anywhere in it.
• Kimagure Orange Road — Season 1No usable clip found. Both openings on YouTube carry something added to the frame: a distributor's watermark on one, karaoke lyrics burned into the other.
• Knight Rider — Season 190sThe original opening, from NBC.
• Knightmare — Season 136sFan upload of the first series' intro.
• L.A. Law — Season 1100sThe opening titles.
• Late Night with David Letterman — Season 176sThe opening.
• Life Goes On — Season 1126sFan upload of the pilot's opening. Two minutes, because it runs the whole of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.
• Life with Lucy — Season 170sThe hardware store and the goose, off tape.
• The Littles — Season 194sFan upload.
• The Living Planet — Season 158sFan upload.
• Lonesome Dove — Season 1126sThe opening credits.
• M.A.S.K. — Season 1No usable clip kept. The one upload is an extended cut of the theme rather than the sequence as broadcast.
• MacGyver — Season 172sThe pilot's opening credits.
• Magnum, P.I. — Season 165sThe opening theme.
• Maid Marian and her Merry Men — Season 1No usable clip kept. One upload runs the opening and ending together; the other is the end credits alone.
• Mama's Family — Season 140sFan upload of the intro.
• Married... with Children — Season 1157sEvery version collected. The footage under the song was re-cut repeatedly across eleven seasons.
• Matlock — Season 171sFan upload.
• Matt Houston — Season 187sEighty-seven seconds of cast cards in hot lettering, off tape.
• Max Headroom — Season 161sThe series' opening. Earlier attempts returned the Cinemax talk show that shares the character instead.
• Metal Mickey — Season 168sFan upload.
• Miami Vice — Season 163sThe opening credits.
• Midnight Caller — Season 160sThe studio and the city outside it, which is the whole geography of the programme.
• Miss Marple — Season 1No usable clip kept. The main title is posted as music over a paperback cover, and the only moving copy bundles the opening with the closing.
• Monsters — Season 149sFan upload of the 1988 intro.
• Moonlighting — Season 177sThe opening credits.
• Mother and Son — Season 1No usable clip kept. Both searches return a videotape's front matter rather than the programme's titles.
• Mr. Belvedere — Season 195sFan upload dated September 1989. The alternative collects every opening in the run into one file.
• MTV Unplugged — Season 116sFan upload.
• Muppet Babies — Season 163sFan upload of the first version of the 1984 opening.
• Murder, She Wrote — Season 147sThe opening credits.
• Murphy Brown — Season 142sOne instance of a sequence whose music was swapped weekly for a different Motown track.
• My Little Pony 'n Friends — Season 133sFan upload of the 1986 opening.
• My Two Dads — Season 157sFan upload of the opening credits.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 — Season 190sFan upload of the Joel-era open. The lyric rewrites itself across the run — the host's name changes when Mike Nelson takes over, and the Netflix revival rewrites it again — but no clean upload of those later versions has been verified.
• Neighbours — Season 134sFan upload of the very first episode's titles from 1985 — the earliest version of a sequence that ran, redesigned, for four decades.
• Neighbours — Season 3936sFan upload of the 2023 credits, made for the revival after the series had been cancelled once. Counting a season per year from 1985, that is the thirty-ninth.
• The New Adventures of He-Man — Season 161sArmour and visors rather than the loincloth, which is the whole point of the redesign.
• Newhart — Season 146sFound by searching the character and the inn rather than the title, which had always returned The Bob Newhart Show instead. Steven Kampmann's name card confirms it is this series.
• Newsnight — Season 136sFan upload. The uploader dates it to the 1980s — the programme's first decade — rather than to a year.
• Night Court — Season 118sThe opening credits.
• Nightline — Season 187sThe 1980 premiere, which dates it to the season this entry is filed at. ABC News over the crescent moon and the city skyline; the clip then carries on into Koppel's opening from the Washington newsroom, so it runs 87 seconds for a much shorter sequence.
• Noble House — Season 1118sCast portraits set into bronze portholes over red.
• North and South — Season 1201sRestored fan upload of Book One's first episode. Three and a half minutes of credits — the longest sequence in this catalogue, and a fair measure of what event television thought it was owed in 1985.
• Only Fools and Horses — Season 143sThe opening titles, from a 2021 HD restoration.
• Out of This World — Season 166sClips framed and floated through a starfield.
• Pee-wee's Playhouse — Season 192sFan upload.
• Perfect Strangers — Season 1101sThe opening credits, from a 35mm remaster.
• Pigeon Street — Season 156sFan upload.
• Pingu — Season 111sFan upload of the 1986 opening.
• Police Squad! — Season 167sFan upload of the intro.
• Postman Pat — Season 192sFan upload.
• Press Gang — Season 134sFan upload.
• Press Your Luck — Season 176sFan upload of the opening, carrying a retro-television site's watermark in the corner.
• Punky Brewster — Season 171sThe 1984 original, with the name painted across the screen, in place of the 2021 revival's titles and the funding-credits parody that had been ranking above it.
• Quantum Leap — Season 1113sThe first season's opening credits, without the closing theme attached — which the previously available upload had.
• Quantum Leap — Season 475sThe later version, re-cut and with the narration trimmed once the premise no longer needed explaining at length.
• Rainbow Brite — Season 160sFan upload.
• The Ray Bradbury Theater — Season 131sFan upload of the first season's open.
• Reading Rainbow — Season 148sFan upload of the 1983 original open.
• The Real Ghostbusters — Season 178sMachine-upscaled fan upload.
• Red Dwarf — Season 159sThe first series' credits, 1988 — the model shot and the Howard Goodall theme before either was rebuilt.
• Red Dwarf — Season 1042sThe series X titles, from the show's later revival run on Dave.
• Reilly, Ace of Spies — Season 164sReilly's face dissolved over the liner, with the starring card across it.
• Remington Steele — Season 168sThe opening, with the narration establishing the deception.
• Riptide — Season 197sFan upload.
• Robin of Sherwood — Season 157sFan upload of the first season's credits.
• Robotech — Season 192sThe Macross Saga. A slow pan across a ruined landscape in a film-strip frame, then the SDF-1, the Veritech fighters and a pilot's helmet — all of it drawn from Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the first of the three shows folded into Robotech.
• Robotech — Season 291sThe Masters. Identical theme and identical opening pan, so the change announces itself in two places: the logo card gains a subtitle, and every frame after it is re-cut from Southern Cross footage.
• Robotech — Season 3The New Generation. The third logo card, and Invid-era footage throughout — the last of the three source series, and the only one whose opening most American viewers met without ever knowing it had another name.
• Roseanne — Season 146sThe 1988 original — the kitchen table, the laugh, and the shot the revival below restages.
• Roseanne — Season 1037sThe 2018 revival's version, which restages the original table shot with the same cast three decades older.
• Round the Twist — Season 150sPosted by the Australian Children's Television Foundation, who made it.
• The Ruth Rendell Mysteries — Season 149sWexford's face resolving out of a dot screen, from the 1988 titles.
• Santa Barbara — Season 1No usable clip placed. The undated upload cannot be assigned against titles that were rebuilt across the run, the copy that does say 1984 is a phone filming a tablet with the case still in shot, and the remaining one is the Spanish broadcast for TVE1 rather than NBC's.
• Saved by the Bell — Season 164sThe first season's intro.
• Scarecrow and Mrs. King — Season 172sFan upload.
• Seinfeld — Season 183sThe opening as broadcast. The bass line was re-performed for individual episodes rather than reused as a fixed recording.
• Sherlock Holmes (1984) — Season 147sFan upload of the Granada titles.
• Shining Time Station — Season 131sFan upload of the opening.
• Shōgun (1980) — Season 120sFan upload. Twenty seconds against the 2024 version's ninety-nine, on the same novel.
• Silver Spoons — Season 163sFan upload of the first season's theme.
• SilverHawks — Season 179sRemastered fan upload.
• Simon & Simon — Season 164sRestored fan upload.
• The Simpsons — Seasons 1–2090sThe original standard-definition opening, used for two decades.
• The Simpsons — Season 2190sRebuilt in high definition and widescreen — new artwork throughout, and Springfield gains detail the old frame had no room for.
• The Singing Detective — Season 149sThe opening.
• Sledge Hammer! — Season 154sFan upload of the intro.
• Small Wonder — Seasons 1–264sFan upload covering the two seasons that share it. The alternative collects every opening and closing at once.
• Solid Gold — Season 160sFan upload.
• Spenser: For Hire — Season 187sThe cast introduced in scene, Boston behind them.
• Spitting Image — Season 127sFan upload of the original theme.
• Square One TV — Season 147sFan upload.
• Square Pegs — Season 160sThe name embroidered across the back of a jacket.
• St. Elsewhere — Season 186sThe first season's opening.
• Star Search — Season 149sUndated fan upload of the opening. The set and hair place it in the middle 1980s rather than the first season.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Season 197sThe original cut, using the four-foot Enterprise-D miniature. Jerry Goldsmith's Motion Picture theme is joined to Alexander Courage's fanfare, and Stewart updates the narration to 'where no one has gone before'. Gates McFadden is in the cast cards.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Season 296sSame footage, shorter crew — the cast cards drop from eight to seven with Denise Crosby and Gates McFadden both gone. Diana Muldaur was offered a place in the titles as Doctor Pulaski and turned it down, so the season's new doctor is billed as a special guest star instead and never appears here.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Seasons 3–7107sRebuilt for season 3 around the new six-foot Enterprise-D model, which reads far sharper in the close passes, with a re-recorded and brighter arrangement of the theme. McFadden returns to the cast cards and the sequence stays put for the rest of the run.
• Star Wars: Droids — Season 163sCel animation of the pair, off tape.
• Stig of the Dump — Season 125sThe pit itself, with the author credited over it.
• The Storyteller — Season 132sThe storyteller's own face in close-up before the dog interrupts him.
• The Storyteller — Season 231sGreek Myths, three years later and made for HBO, which swaps the fireside for statuary.
• Superbook — Season 187sFan upload of the 1981 intro.
• Superboy — Season 140sFlight over the causeway, off tape.
• SuperTed — Season 148sFan upload.
• T. J. Hooker — Season 189sRestored fan upload.
• Takeshi's Castle — Season 115sFan upload of the animated open, carrying a rebroadcast channel's watermark in the corner.
• Tales from the Crypt — Season 182sThe title sequence.
• Tales from the Darkside — Season 176sFan upload. The inversion of the image is the whole idea: the same daylight world, seen from the other side.
• Talking Heads — Season 1No usable clip found — no result matched, which for a series of monologues with minimal framing may mean there is little to find.
• thirtysomething — Season 166sThe first season's opening alone. A season 4 copy runs the same 66 seconds, so only this one is claimed.
• This Morning — Season 157sThe first titles, from October 1988: the dock itself, with photographs dropped into it.
• Thomas & Friends — Season 131sFan upload of the original 1984 intro. The better-ranked result is a fan-made custom version.
• Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends — Season 177sFan upload of the complete original opening.
• The Thorn Birds — Season 1117sFan upload. Nearly two minutes — the miniseries convention of running the full cast over the theme before anything happens.
• Thundarr the Barbarian — Season 167sFan upload of the 1980 credits.
• ThunderCats — Season 178sThe original opening, without upscaling and without the closing theme attached.
• Too Close for Comfort — Season 161sFan upload of the 1980 intro. The same channel's other posting collects every version at once.
• The Tortellis — Season 163sCast names spun up on a slot machine.
• Tour of Duty — Season 190sFan upload of the opening. The sharper copy has Korean name cards burned in under the English ones.
• The Tracey Ullman Show — Season 149sFan upload from a videotape, filed by the uploader against an episode code.
• Transformers — Season 1No usable clip found. The available upload states in its own title that it has been AI upscaled, which makes it a reconstruction rather than the broadcast picture.
• The Trap Door — Season 152sFan upload.
• The Tripods — Season 145sFan upload.
• TUGS — Season 160sThe name across the waterline as the boats pass.
• The Twilight Zone (1985) — Season 153sThe 1985 opening.
• Unsolved Mysteries — Season 1112sFan upload dated 1988, from the first full season.
• V — Season 188sThe series' opening credits.
• V: The Final Battle — Season 154sCast cards over the resistance footage, Marc Singer first.
• A Very Peculiar Practice — Season 143sAn illustrated landscape of figures walking toward a burning heart, closer to Bosch than to a title sequence.
• Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV — Season 122sThe 1985 titles, the figure at the microphone framed inside the lattice. Naming the channel and the year got past the ITV period drama Victoria that had been taking the query.
• Voltron: Defender of the Universe — Season 187sThe opening theme, from Universal Kids.
• War of the Worlds — Season 189sFan upload of the first season's credits.
• Webster — Season 161sFan upload of the opening title.
• Werewolf — Season 125sFan upload.
• What's Happening Now!! — Season 160sCast cards in the kitchen, off tape.
• Who's the Boss? — Season 171sThe opening credits.
• Willo the Wisp — Season 126sFan upload.
• The Winds of War — Season 181sFan upload from a themes channel.
• Wiseguy — Season 176sFan upload. A producer's name card in it confirms the sequence; a small channel watermark sits in the corner.
• A Woman of Substance — Season 142sFan upload from a themes channel. The alternative is a streaming service's first eight minutes.
• The Wonder Years — Season 156sThe opening credits and theme.
• Yes Minister — Seasons 1–344sFan upload. Scarfe's pen-and-ink Hacker, Sir Humphrey and Bernard animate line by line over Ronnie Hazlehurst's theme.
• Yes, Prime Minister — Seasons 1–2The BBC run kept the Gerald Scarfe caricature format of Yes Minister with new drawings for the promotion. No usable clip of it alone has been found — every upload searched was either the parent series' titles or an episode rip.
• Yes, Prime Minister — Season 332sThe 2013 Gold revival's open, which drops the caricatures entirely for live-action Westminster. Fan upload.
• You Rang, M'Lord? — Season 151sDrawn cast cards in deco lettering, a footman pouring beside each name.
• The Young Ones — Season 137sFan upload.
• The Young Riders — Season 172sCast portraits in torn frames. The uploader writes 4K in the title, but the picture carries film grain rather than upscaling.

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