E
The letter E accounts for 59 of the 2,618 shows here, with 65 opening title sequences from 1948 to the present.
Eleven of them are filed here rather than under their first word, because an index ignores a leading "The" or "A" — The Expanse, The Empress and The Ed Sullivan Show among them.
Five rebuilt their opening titles mid-run, Earth: Final Conflict most of all with three sequences.
59 shows65 sequences
1 sequence
Early Edition
A man who receives tomorrow's newspaper today, delivered by a cat.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Earth 2
Colonists on a planet that turns out to be alive, cancelled on a cliffhanger after twenty-one episodes.
- Season 1
3 sequences
Earth: Final Conflict
Developed from Gene Roddenberry's notes after his death, and it shows in the titles: benign-looking aliens, civic architecture and a great deal of blue, all arranged to look like a press release rather than an invasion.
- Season 1
- Season 3
- Season 5
1 sequence
Earthworm Jim
The game adapted with its own voice cast and most of its absurdity intact.
- Season 1
2 sequences
EastEnders
An aerial pull-back over the Thames and the drum that answers it — thirty-two seconds that have barely changed in forty years.
- Season 1
- Season 41
1 sequenceEcho
The Hawkeye villain given her own series and a title sequence woven out of Choctaw history.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Ed Sullivan Show
Twenty-three years of Sunday nights, and the stage the Beatles and Elvis were introduced to America from.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEd, Edd n Eddy
Wobbling outlines and a scat vocal, drawn deliberately so that every line shakes — the last major American cartoon animated entirely by hand on paper.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEek! The Cat
A purple cat whose motto is that it never hurts to help, in a series built entirely on disproving it.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Eerie, Indiana
A boy who works out that his new town is the centre of every strange thing in America.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEight Is Enough
A newspaper columnist with eight children, and a theme song that counts them.
- Season 1
1 sequence
El Chavo del Ocho
A boy living in a barrel in a Mexico City tenement, and the most watched Spanish-language series ever made.
- Seasons 4–6
1 sequenceEl Ministerio del Tiempo
A secret Spanish government department policing doors into the country's own history.
- Season 1
1 sequence
El Señor de los Cielos
A narco drama loosely built on Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and Telemundo's longest-running original.
- Season 2
1 sequenceEl Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
A boy from a family of both superheroes and supervillains, who has not chosen yet.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Electric Company
The Children's Television Workshop's reading show for older children, with Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno in the cast.
- Season 1
1 sequenceElementary
Holmes and a female Watson in New York, opened by a Rube Goldberg machine assembling itself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceElena of Avalor
A crown princess ruling a Latin American-inspired kingdom before she is old enough to be queen.
- Season 1
1 sequenceElite
Eleven seconds of school crest and bass drop. The shortest opening on this site that still manages to be about class.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEllen
A Los Angeles bookshop owner, in the sitcom whose fourth season changed what American television would say out loud.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Ellen DeGeneres Show
Nineteen years of daytime, opening on a host dancing her way in through the audience.
- Seasons 1–3
1 sequenceElsbeth
The Good Wife's oddest lawyer given a Columbo format of her own, and nine seconds to introduce it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceElvira's Movie Macabre
A horror host wrapped around public-domain films, and the character that outlasted every film she introduced.
- Season 4
1 sequenceEmergency!
Los Angeles County paramedics, made with the fire department's cooperation and credited with popularising the profession.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Emily in Paris
Paris as a postcard rack — every landmark in order, photographed exactly as the show's protagonist would photograph them.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Emmerdale
A Yorkshire Dales farming serial that dropped Farm from its name in 1989 and kept the landscape.
- Season 27
- Season 49
1 sequenceThe Emperor's New School
The Emperor's New Groove continued as a school comedy, with the film's narrator still interrupting.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEmpire Falls
Richard Russo adapting his own novel about a Maine mill town that has already lost.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Empress
Habsburg portraiture and court embroidery, arranged so the jewellery reads as restraint rather than wealth.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEmpress Ki
A Goryeo woman who becomes empress of the Yuan court, across fifty-one episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEmpty Nest
The Golden Girls' neighbour given his own house, two grown daughters and a conspicuously large dog.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe End of the F***ing World
Sixties pop over two teenagers on a road trip that is going to end badly — an opening that is much sweeter than anything it introduces.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEndeavour
The Morse prequel, which quotes Pheloung's Morse-code motif in its own theme without repeating it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe English
Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer crossing 1890 Wyoming, and — for this catalogue — the single most disruptive title in the whole project.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEnlightened
Nature footage of the sort used in wellness videos, played entirely straight — which becomes the joke the moment the show starts.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEntourage
Los Angeles from a moving car, and Jane's Addiction — an opening that is essentially an advertisement for the lifestyle the show is about.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEpisodes
Two British writers watching their sitcom be remade badly in Los Angeles, with Matt LeBlanc as himself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Equalizer (1985)
A retired intelligence officer advertising his services in the classifieds, scored by Stewart Copeland the year after the Police stopped.
- Season 1
2 sequences
ER
James Newton Howard's theme over sliding doors, gurneys and light — the template every medical drama since has either copied or deliberately avoided.
- Season 1
- Season 10
1 sequenceErased
A man sent back to his own childhood to prevent a murder, opened with the cold blue of a Hokkaido winter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Eric André Show
A talk-show set destroyed by its own host before the first guest arrives — an opening that is demolished and rebuilt every episode.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Euphoria
No opening sequence as such. Each episode runs a cold open, often one character's history told in narration, and only then cuts to the title card.
- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequenceEureeka's Castle
Puppets in a castle carried by a giant, made for the channel's pre-school block before it had one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEureka
Twelve seconds of small-town Americana with the physics quietly wrong in the background.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEve
The rapper Eve as a Miami fashion designer, in one of the run of sitcoms UPN built its Monday nights on.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEven Stevens
Shia LaBeouf as the youngest of three in a Sacramento family.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEver Decreasing Circles
Richard Briers after The Good Life, running every committee in his cul-de-sac.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEverwood
A New York surgeon moving his family to a Colorado mountain town after his wife's death.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEverybody Hates Chris
Chris Rock narrating his own Bed-Stuy adolescence, opened by the family on the stoop.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Everybody Loves Raymond
A brass sting and a family photograph, in forty-eight seconds that promise nothing more complicated than what you are about to get.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEvil
Religious iconography and clinical diagrams intercut, so that possession and psychiatry are presented with equal weight — which is the show's entire method.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Exorcist
A sequel to the film rather than a remake, which it does not admit until the end of the first season.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Expanse
Orbital mechanics as graphic design — stations, ships and the Belt drawn as engineering schematics rather than spectacle.
- Season 1
1 sequenceExtracurricular
A model student funding his own tuition by running a criminal enterprise after school.
- Season 1
1 sequenceExtraordinary Attorney Woo
An autistic lawyer at a Seoul firm, and the biggest word-of-mouth hit Korean television had that year.
- Season 1
1 sequenceExtrapolations
Climate data drawn as landscape — thirty-five seconds of a graph becoming a coastline.
- Season 1
1 sequenceExtreme Makeover: Home Edition
A family's house rebuilt in a week, opening on the bus that is about to move.
- Season 3
1 sequenceEyes of Wakanda
Wakandan agents across four periods of history, opened by a hand-drawn sequence unlike anything else Marvel has put on television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceEZ Streets
Paul Haggis's crime drama, cancelled in nine episodes and cited ever since as an ancestor of the prestige era.
- Season 1