Home and Away

Name: Home and Away
Genre: Drama

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Summer Bay, still running after nearly forty years, with the opening remade every few seasons.

Home and Away rebuilt its titles: two distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1 and 38, running between 50 and 75 seconds.

At 75 seconds at its longest, it opens well above the 50-second median for drama sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on Seven Network in 1988, when A Country Practice was also on the network.

Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; Home and Away did so once.

All 2 opening title sequences

75s

From an archive channel devoted to this programme's titles. Labelled the third set used in 1988, the launch year.

50s

Fan upload of the 2025 titles. The sequence has been rebuilt many times; this is the current one rather than the original.

1985–BBC OneDrama

An aerial pull-back over the Thames and the drum that answers it — thirty-two seconds that have barely changed in forty years.

1989–2001NBC / SyndicationDrama

Los Angeles County lifeguards, and at its peak the most-watched television programme on Earth.

1989CBSDrama

Basil Poledouris scoring a cattle drive from Texas to Montana — the miniseries that proved the western was not finished after all.

1985–2025Seven / Ten (Australia)Drama

Ramsay Street across forty years, and a theme song that survived every cast, network and cancellation.

1987–CBSDrama

Los Angeles fashion houses, and the most widely watched daytime serial in the world.

1982–1986NBCDrama

A narrated premise, a scanning red light and a synth arpeggio — the most efficient piece of eighties television branding after the A-Team's.