Handy Manny
2006–2011Playhouse DisneyAnimation
A bilingual repairman whose tools talk, and the programme that taught a generation of American children their first Spanish.
Handy Manny opens with a main title sequence of 73 seconds.
At 73 seconds, it opens well above the 58-second median for animation sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Playhouse Disney in 2006, when Bear in the Big Blue House was also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
73sThe tools introduced one at a time, from the broadcaster's own channel.
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