Civilisation
Kenneth Clark on Western art, and the series colour television in Britain was launched to justify.
One opening sequence is catalogued for Civilisation, covering season 1.
It arrived on BBC Two in 1969, when The Morecambe & Wise Show was also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
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More documentary opening titles from the 1960s
2 sequencesTop of the Pops
Forty-two years of the chart, and a Phil Lynott instrumental called Yellow Pearl for a theme.
- Season 1
- Seasons 18–20
1 sequenceUniversity Challenge
College Boy by Derek New, and a split screen that has stacked two teams on top of each other since 1962.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTomorrow's World
Live demonstrations of things that did not work yet, opening on graphics that promised they would.
- Season 29
1 sequenceReady Steady Go!
"The weekend starts here" — the British pop programme that put the Beatles, the Stones and Motown on the same stage.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWorld of Sport
ITV's answer to Grandstand, which is remembered now almost entirely for the wrestling at four o'clock.
- Season 20
1 sequenceSportsnight
The midweek sports programme, and the strand most of British sports broadcasting learned its trade on.
- Season 26