Countryfile

Name: Countryfile
Genre: Documentary

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Sunday evening rural affairs, and one of the most watched factual programmes in Britain.

Countryfile kept one opening title sequence, 34 seconds long, across season 24.

It arrived on BBC One in 1988, when A Question of Sport, Grandstand and This Is Your Life were also on the network.

The opening titles

34s

Fan upload dated 2011; counting a season per year from the 1988 launch, that is the twenty-fourth.

1987–2002NBCDocumentary

Robert Stack in a trench coat, a synthesiser and a fog machine — the most frightening thing on American television that was not fiction.

1983–2006PBSDocumentary

LeVar Burton reading to children for twenty-three years, and "but you don't have to take my word for it".

1988–2013FoxDocumentary

The programme Fox launched itself on, and the one that turned a network into a switchboard.

1989–MTVDocumentary

Sixteen seconds and an acoustic guitar — a format whose whole argument is in the title card.

1986–ITVDocumentary

Say what you see, and a golden robot called Mr Chips who was the reason anyone watched.

1980–1988SyndicationDocumentary

The weekly chart countdown as a dance routine, with its own troupe named after it.