Dora the Explorer
2000–2019NickelodeonAnimation
A bilingual preschool series built on asking the audience questions and leaving room for the answer.
Dora the Explorer opens with a main title sequence of 54 seconds.
It arrived on Nickelodeon in 2000, when Rugrats, All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark? were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
54sPosted by Nickelodeon's own animation channel, and the opening alone.
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