60 Minutes

Name: 60 Minutes
Genre: Documentary

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A stopwatch and a ticking sound, and nothing else — the shortest argument any programme has made for its own title.

60 Minutes kept one opening title sequence, 17 seconds long, across season 23.

At 17 seconds, it opens well under the 37-second median for documentary sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on CBS in 1968, when Candid Camera, Guiding Light and As the World Turns were also on the network.

The opening titles

17s

Fan upload dated 3 February 1991, which falls in the twenty-third season counted from the September 1968 launch.

1964–2006BBC OneDocumentary

Forty-two years of the chart, and a Phil Lynott instrumental called Yellow Pearl for a theme.

1962–ITV / BBC TwoDocumentary

College Boy by Derek New, and a split screen that has stacked two teams on top of each other since 1962.

1965–2003BBC OneDocumentary

Live demonstrations of things that did not work yet, opening on graphics that promised they would.

1963–1966ITVDocumentary

"The weekend starts here" — the British pop programme that put the Beatles, the Stones and Motown on the same stage.

1965–1985ITVDocumentary

ITV's answer to Grandstand, which is remembered now almost entirely for the wrestling at four o'clock.

1968–1997BBC OneDocumentary

The midweek sports programme, and the strand most of British sports broadcasting learned its trade on.