Inside No. 9
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's anthology, every episode set somewhere numbered nine, opened in seventeen seconds by a brass hare.
Inside No. 9 opens with a main title sequence of 17 seconds.
At 17 seconds, it opens well under the 38-second median for comedy sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on BBC Two in 2014, when Talking Heads, Robot Wars and Never Mind the Buzzcocks were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
17sFan upload. The hare ornament appears somewhere in every episode, so the title sequence is also a set of instructions for watching.
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