Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
The reboot, which keeps the 1968 theme almost note for note and rebuilds the wave and the zoom around it in high definition.
Hawaii Five-0 (2010) opens with a main title sequence of 32 seconds.
At 32 seconds, it opens well under the 47-second median for crime sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on CBS in 2010, when Candid Camera, As the World Turns and Murphy Brown were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
32sThe revival's opening. Added under its own name because it is what searching for the 1968 original returns.
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