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American Pickers

2010–HistoryDocumentary

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Two dealers driving across America buying things out of other people's barns.

American Pickers opens with a main title sequence of 56 seconds.

At 56 seconds, it opens well above the 37-second median for documentary sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on History in 2010, when Ice Road Truckers was also on the network.

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The opening titles

Season 1

56s

Fan upload from a television archive channel.

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