Clarkson's Farm

Name: Clarkson's Farm
Genre: Documentary

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Jeremy Clarkson farming a thousand Cotswold acres badly, and the year-shaped structure the titles borrow from.

Clarkson's Farm opens with a main title sequence of 90 seconds.

At 90 seconds, it opens well above the 37-second median for documentary sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on Prime Video in 2021, when The Grand Tour, Bosch and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel were also on the network.

The opening titles

90s

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