ChuckleVision
Two brothers and a slapstick format that ran for twenty-one series on the strength of one exchange.
ChuckleVision rebuilt its titles: two distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1, 17, 18, 19 and 20, running between 20 and 32 seconds.
It arrived on BBC One in 1987, when A Question of Sport, Grandstand and This Is Your Life were also on the network.
Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; ChuckleVision did so once.
All 2 opening title sequences
Season 1
32sFan upload.
Seasons 17–20
20sFan upload, labelled by the uploader as series seventeen to twenty — the rare case where the series numbers are stated outright rather than counted from a year.
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