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Numbers and symbols account for 30 of the 2,618 shows here, with 30 opening title sequences from 1968 to the present.
Six of them are filed here rather than under their first word, because an index ignores a leading "The" or "A" — The 100, The 4400 and The 8 Show among them.
30 shows30 sequences
1 sequence
'Allo 'Allo!
A French café in occupied France, from the same writer as Dad's Army twenty years on.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The $50,000 Pyramid
One year of the Pyramid format at its highest stake, between the $20,000 and $25,000 versions.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The 100
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
Ten hours of fairy tale in which Manhattan and the Nine Kingdoms turn out to share a mirror.
- Season 1
1 sequence11.22.63
King's time-travel novel as eight hours, in which the past resists being changed and pushes back.
- Season 1
1 sequence12 Monkeys
The Terry Gilliam film expanded into four seasons of time travel that actually resolves.
- Season 1
1 sequence
12 oz. Mouse
Drawn deliberately badly in flat colour, and the show that pushed hardest at what the block would broadcast.
- Season 1
1 sequence
13 Reasons Why
Thirteen tapes left behind by a girl who has died, addressed one to each person she holds responsible.
- Season 1
1 sequence1899
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
An Arkansas family of twenty-one, and the programme TLC built a decade of its schedule around.
- Season 1
1 sequence2 Broke Girls
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 sequence
21 Jump Street
Officers young enough to pass for pupils, in one of the four shows Fox launched its network with.
- Season 1
1 sequence227
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
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 sequence
3 Body Problem
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 sequence
3%
Netflix's first Brazilian original: a selection process that lets three in a hundred cross to the other side.
- Season 1
1 sequence30 Rock
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
Aliens observing suburban Ohio, opened with the brightness of a travel advertisement for a planet.
- Season 6
1 sequenceThe 4400
Four thousand four hundred missing people returned at once, introduced through the photographs of who they were.
- Season 1
1 sequence60 Minutes
A stopwatch and a ticking sound, and nothing else — the shortest argument any programme has made for its own title.
- Season 23
1 sequence6teen
Six sixteen-year-olds working in the same shopping centre, from the Total Drama creators.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe 7D
The seven dwarfs before Snow White, animated in a rubber-hose style by Tom Ruegger's team.
- Season 1
1 sequence7th Heaven
A minister, his wife and seven children, in the longest-running family drama in American television.
- Season 1
1 sequence8 Out of 10 Cats
A panel show about opinion polls, which spawned a Countdown crossover more popular than either parent.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe 8 Show
Eight contestants paid by the second in a building where the higher floors earn more.
- Season 1
1 sequence8 Simple Rules
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
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
Beverly Hills, 90210 restarted for a new decade, keeping the postcode and the zip-code typography.
- Season 1
1 sequenceÆon Flux
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
Two ballet companies swapping their best dancers across the Atlantic, from the Gilmore Girls writers.
- Season 1