Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
2003–2020ABCDocumentary
A family's house rebuilt in a week, opening on the bus that is about to move.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition kept one opening title sequence, 44 seconds long, across season 3.
It arrived on ABC in 2003, when One Life to Live, All My Children and Schoolhouse Rock! were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 3
44sFan upload of the third season's open, cut to So Much by O.A.R.
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