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1 sequence'Allo 'Allo!
1982–1992BBC OneComedy
A French café in occupied France, from the same writer as Dad's Army twenty years on.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe $50,000 Pyramid
1981SyndicationDocumentary
One year of the Pyramid format at its highest stake, between the $20,000 and $25,000 versions.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe 100
2014–2020The CWSci-Fi
A card and a sting for most of its run, expanding into a full sequence only at the end.
- Season 7
1 sequenceThe 10th Kingdom
2000NBCSci-Fi
Ten hours of fairy tale in which Manhattan and the Nine Kingdoms turn out to share a mirror.
- Season 1
1 sequence11.22.63
2016HuluSci-Fi
King's time-travel novel as eight hours, in which the past resists being changed and pushes back.
- Season 1
1 sequence12 Monkeys
2015–2018SyfySci-Fi
The Terry Gilliam film expanded into four seasons of time travel that actually resolves.
- Season 1
1 sequence12 oz. Mouse
2005–2020Adult SwimAnimation
Drawn deliberately badly in flat colour, and the show that pushed hardest at what the block would broadcast.
- Season 1
1 sequence13 Reasons Why
2017–2020NetflixDrama
Thirteen tapes left behind by a girl who has died, addressed one to each person she holds responsible.
- Season 1
1 sequence1899
2022NetflixSci-Fi
From the makers of Dark, and it shows: mirrored imagery and a ship's geometry folding back on itself, over a slowed cover of 'White Rabbit'.
- Season 1
1 sequence19 Kids and Counting
2008–2015TLCDocumentary
An Arkansas family of twenty-one, and the programme TLC built a decade of its schedule around.
- Season 1
1 sequence2 Broke Girls
2011–2017CBSComedy
Two waitresses in Williamsburg saving towards a cupcake business, with the running total printed on screen at the end of every episode.
- Season 1
1 sequence21 Jump Street
1987–1990FoxCrime
Officers young enough to pass for pupils, in one of the four shows Fox launched its network with.
- Season 1
1 sequence227
1985–1990NBCComedy
A Washington apartment block told almost entirely from its front steps, where most of the cast spends most of the programme.
- Season 1
1 sequence24
2001–2010FoxDrama
A ticking clock and a card, and nothing else. For a series whose entire conceit is that time is passing, spending a minute on titles would have been the one unforgivable thing.
- Season 1
1 sequence3 Body Problem
2024–NetflixSci-Fi
Three suns and a countdown, rendered as physics rather than drama — the orbital problem of the title animated until it stops looking solvable.
- Season 1
1 sequence3%
2016–2020NetflixSci-Fi
Netflix's first Brazilian original: a selection process that lets three in a hundred cross to the other side.
- Season 1
1 sequence30 Rock
2006–2013NBCComedy
Nineteen seconds of Art Deco signage and a brass sting, moving at roughly the speed the show's dialogue does.
- Season 1
1 sequence3rd Rock from the Sun
1996–2001NBCComedy
Aliens observing suburban Ohio, opened with the brightness of a travel advertisement for a planet.
- Season 6
1 sequenceThe 4400
2004–2007USA NetworkSci-Fi
Four thousand four hundred missing people returned at once, introduced through the photographs of who they were.
- Season 1
1 sequence60 Minutes
1968–CBSDocumentary
A stopwatch and a ticking sound, and nothing else — the shortest argument any programme has made for its own title.
- Season 23
1 sequence6teen
2004–2010TeletoonAnimation
Six sixteen-year-olds working in the same shopping centre, from the Total Drama creators.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe 7D
2014–2016Disney XDAnimation
The seven dwarfs before Snow White, animated in a rubber-hose style by Tom Ruegger's team.
- Season 1
1 sequence7th Heaven
1996–2007The WBDrama
A minister, his wife and seven children, in the longest-running family drama in American television.
- Season 1
1 sequence8 Out of 10 Cats
2005–Channel 4Comedy
A panel show about opinion polls, which spawned a Countdown crossover more popular than either parent.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe 8 Show
2024NetflixDrama
Eight contestants paid by the second in a building where the higher floors earn more.
- Season 1
1 sequence8 Simple Rules
2002–2005ABCComedy
A father guarding his daughters, and the sitcom that had to keep going after John Ritter died during its second season.
- Season 1
1 sequence9-1-1: Nashville
2025–ABCDrama
The third 9-1-1, moving the format to Tennessee, with the franchise's siren-and-dispatch open rebuilt in country.
- Season 1
1 sequence90210
2008–2013The CWDrama
Beverly Hills, 90210 restarted for a new decade, keeping the postcode and the zip-code typography.
- Season 1
1 sequenceÆon Flux
1991–1995MTVAnimation
Peter Chung's assassin, drawn in a style nothing else on television had, and killed off at the end of most early episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceÉtoile
2025Prime VideoDrama
Two ballet companies swapping their best dancers across the Atlantic, from the Gilmore Girls writers.
- Season 1