Adam-12
One patrol car, one shift, from the Dragnet producer.
Adam-12 opens with a main title sequence of 41 seconds.
It arrived on NBC in 1968, when Truth or Consequences, Another World and Search for Tomorrow were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
41sFan upload.
More crime opening titles from the 1960s
2 sequences
Batman
Cartoon versions of the cast run at the camera and fight their way through the rogues' gallery, because the budget for that in live action did not exist and the animation is funnier anyway. Neal Hefti's twelve-bar riff has an eight-voice chorus whose entire lyric is the word Batman.
- Seasons 1–2
- Season 3
1 sequenceHawaii Five-O
The wave, the zoom onto the hotel balcony, and one of the four or five most recognisable television themes ever recorded.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe F.B.I.
Nine seasons made with the Bureau's cooperation and its approval of every script, from the Quinn Martin production line.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRandall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
A private investigator and his dead partner, who only he can see, in a white suit.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Office
Scranton, a car park and a filing cabinet, shot like stock footage for a regional business — twenty-two seconds that promise nothing will happen.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The franchise's chung-chung and a narrated premise, held for a quarter of a century — the longest-running opening in this catalogue by some distance.
- Season 1
- Season 15