Another World

Name: Another World
Genre: Drama

1964–1999NBCDrama

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The first American serial to run an hour, and the first to spin off another serial from itself.

Another World kept one opening title sequence, 35 seconds long, across season 26.

At 35 seconds, it opens well under the 50-second median for drama sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on NBC in 1964, when Truth or Consequences, Search for Tomorrow and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson were also on the network.

The opening titles

35s

Archive upload dated 16 March 1989; counting a season per year from the May 1964 launch, that is the twenty-sixth.

1960–ITVDrama

The longest-running television soap in the world, opening on rooftops and a cornet ever since 1960.

1965–NBCDrama

"Like sands through the hourglass" — the same sentence, over the same hourglass, for sixty years.

1964–1968NBCDrama

Sixties spy graphics and a brass chart, in the register every subsequent spy show either copied or reacted against.

1965–1969CBSDrama

An animated frontier vignette that pauses on four panels of a comic strip — a western opening built like a title card for a serial.

1962–1971NBCDrama

The first ninety-minute western on American television, and the third longest-running of them all.

1968–2012ABCDrama

Llanview, and the first American daytime serial written around class and ethnicity rather than around a hospital.