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Columbo

1971–2003NBCABCCrime

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Twenty-four seconds, and for much of the run no sequence at all — a series confident enough to open on the murder and let the detective arrive late.

Columbo opens with a main title sequence of 24 seconds.

At 24 seconds, it opens well under the 47-second median for crime sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on NBC in 1971, when One Life to Live, All My Children and The Bugs Bunny Show were also on the network.

1 sequence3rd most looked up of 151 in the 1970s
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The opening titles

Season 1

24s

The 1975 opening. The show frequently ran with a plain card instead.

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