A Question of Sport
1970–2023BBC OneDocumentary
The longest-running sports quiz on television, with a picture board and a what-happened-next round.
A Question of Sport kept one opening title sequence, 38 seconds long, across season 20.
It arrived on BBC One in 1970, when Grandstand, This Is Your Life and Top of the Pops were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 20
38sFan upload of the 1989 titles; counting a season per year from the 1970 launch, that is the twentieth.
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