Austin City Limits
1974–PBSDocumentary
The longest-running music programme in American television, opening on a painted Austin skyline that is not quite the real one.
Austin City Limits kept one opening title sequence, 35 seconds long, across season 20.
It arrived on PBS in 1974, when Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, The Electric Company and Zoom were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 20
35sFan upload, labelled by the uploader as the twentieth season, 1995.
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