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108 shows115 sequences
1 sequenceG vs E
1999–2000USA NetworkHorror
Two agents of the Corps recruiting the dead to fight people who have sold their souls, shot to look like a 1970s exploitation print.
- Season 1
1 sequenceG.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
1985–1986SyndicationAnimation
A toy line turned into a war cartoon where nobody is ever hit, and a theme that spells the acronym out.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGalactica 1980
1980ABCSci-Fi
The fleet reaching Earth at last, on a tenth of the original's budget and for ten episodes.
- Season 1
2 sequencesGame of Thrones
2011–2019HBODrama
A map that rebuilds itself each week. The clockwork cities shown change with the locations the episode visits, which makes it the rare title sequence carrying actual information.
- Season 1
- Season 8
1 sequenceGame On
1995–1998BBC TwoComedy
Three flatmates and an agoraphobic landlord, recast in the middle and carried on regardless.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGangs of London
2020–Sky Atlantic / AMC+Crime
A London crime empire after its head is killed, directed with the fight choreography of a feature.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGargoyles
1994–1997DisneyAnimation
A thousand years of stone, narrated with the gravity of a Shakespearean prologue — which given how much of the cast came from Star Trek, it very nearly is.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGarth Marenghi's Darkplace
2004Channel 4Comedy
A title sequence pretending to be a lost 1980s horror series, complete with the production faults the conceit requires.
- Season 1
2 sequencesGeneral Hospital
1963–ABCDrama
American daytime's longest-running scripted programme still in production.
- Season 16
- Season 43
1 sequenceGenerator Rex
2010–2013Cartoon NetworkAnimation
A boy who can rebuild his own limbs into machines, in a world where nanites turned everything else monstrous.
- Season 1
1 sequenceA Gentleman in Moscow
2024Showtime / Paramount+Drama
A count sentenced to house arrest in a Moscow hotel for thirty years, from the Amor Towles novel.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGentleman Jack
2019–2022BBC One / HBODrama
Anne Lister's coded diaries dramatised by Sally Wainwright, with Suranne Jones addressing the camera directly.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGeordie Shore
2011–2025MTVDocumentary
Jersey Shore relocated to Newcastle, and the format that gave British reality its next decade.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGeorge & Tammy
2022ShowtimeDrama
George Jones and Tammy Wynette, with both leads singing their own recordings.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950–1958CBSComedy
A sitcom in which the husband watches the rest of the episode on a television in his study and comments on it — thirty years before anyone called that postmodern.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGeorge Lopez
2002–2007ABCComedy
A Los Angeles factory manager and the family around him, and the longest-running American sitcom led by a Latino cast.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGeorge of the Jungle
1967ABCAnimation
Jay Ward's Tarzan parody, and a theme that warns you about the tree before he hits it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGet a Life
1990–1992FoxComedy
A thirty-year-old paperboy still living at home, in a sitcom that got stranger every week.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Get Down
2016–2017NetflixDrama
The South Bronx in 1977, where disco is ending and hip hop has not been given a name yet.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGet Smart
1965–1970NBC / CBSComedy
A man walking through a corridor of doors that each slam behind him, ending in a phone box that drops him into headquarters. The joke is the length of it.
- Season 3
1 sequenceGhost Adventures
2008–Travel ChannelDocumentary
Three men locking themselves overnight inside buildings they believe are haunted.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Ghost and Molly McGee
2021–2023Disney ChannelAnimation
A relentlessly positive girl and the ghost whose curse bound him to her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGhost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
2002–2005AnimaxAnimation
Yoko Kanno again, this time with Origa singing in Russian over cybernetic bodies being assembled — a sequence that treats the human form as hardware.
- Season 2
1 sequenceGhost Whisperer
2005–2010CBSHorror
Jennifer Love Hewitt talking to the dead in a small Maryland town.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGhosts
2019–2023BBC OneComedy
The Horrible Histories troupe as the dead of one country house, opened by all of them at once.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGhostwriter
1992–1995PBSDrama
A ghost that communicates only in written words, and a group of Brooklyn children who solve cases with it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Gifted
2017–2019FoxSci-Fi
A family on the run in the X-Men world, made while Fox still held the rights.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Gilded Age
2022–HBODrama
Gold leaf, marble and needlework assembling into Fifth Avenue interiors — new money buying its way into an old frame, told entirely through surfaces.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGilligan's Island
1964–1967CBSComedy
A theme song that narrates the entire premise, names every castaway, and was rewritten after the first season to stop leaving two of them out.
- Season 3
1 sequenceGilmore Girls
2000–2007The WB / The CWDrama
Carole King's 'Where You Lead' rewritten as a mother-and-daughter duet, over a small Connecticut town in every season at once.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
2016NetflixComedy
Four ninety-minute films returning to Stars Hollow nine years on, one for each season of the year.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGimme a Break!
1981–1987NBCComedy
Nell Carter keeping house for a widowed police chief, in a sitcom built entirely around her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGinny & Georgia
2021–NetflixDrama
A mother of thirty and a daughter of fifteen, and the fifteen years between them nobody will explain.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequenceGintama
2006–2021TV TokyoAnimation
Samurai comedy in an alien-occupied Edo, and one of the longest lists of distinct opening sequences in television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGirl from Nowhere
2018–2021GMM 25 / NetflixHorror
A girl who transfers into a different school every episode and exposes what it is hiding.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGirl Meets World
2014–2017Disney ChannelComedy
The Boy Meets World sequel, following the next generation of the same family.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Girlfriend Experience
2016–2021StarzDrama
Steven Soderbergh's anthology, each season a different woman and a different arrangement.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGirls5eva
2021–2024Peacock / NetflixComedy
A one-hit girl group reassembling in their forties, opened by their own hit.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Glades
2010–2013A&ECrime
A Chicago detective exiled to Florida, working murders he keeps being told are not his.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGladiators
1992–2000ITVDocumentary
Contenders ready, gladiators ready — a Saturday-night format built entirely out of its own catchphrases.
- Seasons 1–8
1 sequenceGlee
2009–2015FoxComedy
An Ohio show choir, and the series that briefly made network television a singles chart.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Glory
2022–2023NetflixDrama
A go board, scar tissue and winter light — the revenge plot laid out as a game with pieces already placed.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGLOW
2017–2019NetflixComedy
A 1980s syndication opening played completely straight — chrome type, freeze-frames and spandex, as though the show inside it were the wrestling programme rather than a series about making one.
- Seasons 1–3
1 sequenceGoblin
2016–2017tvNDrama
A nine-hundred-year-old immortal looking for the bride who can end him. Known abroad as Guardian: The Lonely and Great God.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGodfather of Harlem
2019–2021EpixCrime
Bumpy Johnson out of prison in 1963 and finding Harlem taken, with Malcolm X across the street.
- Season 4
1 sequenceGodless
2017NetflixDrama
The frontier shot as landscape photography and left to sit — no montage, no faces, just weather crossing New Mexico for over a minute.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGogglebox
2013–Channel 4Documentary
People watching television, filmed watching television, which turned out to be the format of the decade.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGoing Straight
1978BBC OneComedy
Fletcher out of prison and trying to stay out, six episodes after Porridge finished.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGokusen
2002–2008NTVComedy
A yakuza heir teaching maths at a school for delinquents.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Goldbergs
2013–2023ABCComedy
Adam Goldberg's own 1980s home videos turned into a sitcom about making them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Golden Girls
1985–1992NBCComedy
'Thank You for Being a Friend' over four women and a Miami kitchen — a theme so tied to the show that the original songwriter's version is now the obscure one.
- Season 7
1 sequenceThe Golden Palace
1992–1993CBSComedy
The Golden Girls minus one, running a Miami hotel for a single season before CBS stopped.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGoliath
2016–2021Prime VideoDrama
Billy Bob Thornton as a lawyer working out of a Santa Monica bar.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGomorrah
2014–2021Sky Atlantic ItaliaCrime
Naples and the Camorra, shot in concrete and sodium light with no romance permitted anywhere in it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGood Behavior
2016–2017TNTCrime
A thief on parole and the hitman she decides not to turn in.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGood Cop
2012BBC OneCrime
A Liverpool response officer who stops waiting for the system to work.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Good Doctor
2017–2024ABCDrama
An autistic surgical resident, adapted from the Korean series of the same name.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Good Fight
2017–2022CBS All Access / Paramount+Drama
Office furniture, law books and televisions exploding in slow motion, one after another, to an orchestral swell — a legal drama blowing up its own set every week.
- Season 2
1 sequenceA Good Girl's Guide to Murder
2024–BBC iPlayerCrime
A sixth-former who reopens a closed murder case as her school project and will not put it down.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Good Life
1975–1978BBC OneComedy
A couple turning their Surbiton garden into a smallholding, next door to neighbours who would rather they did not.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Good Lord Bird
2020ShowtimeDrama
John Brown's raid told by a boy he mistakes for a girl, opened in the idiom of a nineteenth-century woodcut.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGood Luck Charlie
2010–2014Disney ChannelComedy
A teenager filming video diaries for her baby sister, which is the framing device and the title.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGood Morning, Miss Bliss
1987–1989NBC / Disney ChannelComedy
The series Saved by the Bell was rebuilt out of, with Hayley Mills teaching in Indiana.
- Season 1
2 sequencesGood Omens
2019–2026Amazon Prime Video / BBC TwoComedy
An angel and a demon who have both grown too fond of England to let it end, from Pratchett and Gaiman.
- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequenceThe Good Place
2016–2020NBCComedy
Pastel clouds, cartoon signage and a chime — an afterlife rendered as municipal branding, which is the joke the whole series is built on.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGood Times
1974–1979CBSComedy
A Chicago housing project and a gospel-inflected theme whose lyrics nobody has ever fully agreed on.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Good Wife
2009–2016CBSDrama
Chicago legal iconography in thirty-nine seconds, from the network drama most often argued to be the best of its era.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequenceGood Witch
2015–2021Hallmark ChannelDrama
A film series turned into a returning one, about a woman whose neighbours are never quite sure about her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Goodies
1970–1982BBC TwoComedy
Three men on a trandem who will do anything, anytime — sketch comedy shot like a silent film.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGoodness Gracious Me
1998–2001BBC TwoComedy
A radio sketch show that transferred to television and gave British comedy going for an English one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGoodnight Sweetheart
1993–1999BBC OneComedy
A man who finds a London alley that leads back to 1940 and keeps a wife in each decade.
- Seasons 1–6
1 sequenceGoosebumps
1995–1998Fox Kids / YTVHorror
A briefcase blowing open in a wind that follows a dog down a street — thirty seconds of genuine dread aimed at nine-year-olds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGotham
2014–2019FoxCrime
The city before the character — architecture, rain and corruption, with the costume kept firmly off screen.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrace & Favour
1992–1993BBC OneComedy
The Are You Being Served? staff inheriting a country manor, with most of the original cast.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrace and Frankie
2015–2022NetflixComedy
Two women whose husbands leave them for each other, and who then have to live together.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrace Under Fire
1993–1998ABCComedy
Brett Butler as a single mother working at an oil refinery, in a sitcom built on her stand-up.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGraceland
2013–2015USA NetworkCrime
Undercover agents from three agencies sharing a confiscated beach house.
- Season 2
1 sequenceGran Hotel
2011–2013Antena 3Drama
A 1905 luxury hotel and the disappearance of a chambermaid, from the team who went on to make Velvet and Cable Girls.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrand Designs
1999–Channel 4Documentary
One self-build per episode, opening on drawings that assemble themselves into the house you are about to watch fail to be finished on time.
- Season 20
2 sequencesGrandstand
1958–2007BBC OneDocumentary
Five hours of live sport on a Saturday afternoon, held together by a man at a desk and the teleprinter behind him.
- Season 23
- Season 33
2 sequencesGrange Hill
1978–2008BBC OneDrama
A London comprehensive school taken seriously, opening on a comic strip and a sausage on a fork.
- Season 1
- Seasons 13–16
1 sequenceGravity Falls
2012–2016Disney Channel / Disney XDAnimation
A cipher hidden in the last second of every opening, so the title sequence is itself a puzzle the audience was expected to solve across two seasons.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrease: Rise of the Pink Ladies
2023Paramount+Drama
The Pink Ladies four years before the film, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Great
2020–2023HuluComedy
Catherine's rise told as farce, and billed on screen as an occasionally true story.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Great British Bake Off
2010–BBC Two / Channel 4Documentary
Bunting, a tent and a xylophone — twenty seconds of deliberate gentleness, and one of the most effective pieces of format branding on British television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreat Expectations
2011BBC OneDrama
The Dickens novel in three parts, with Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreat Railway Journeys
1980–1999BBC TwoDocumentary
A writer and a railway line, one country per episode, in the strand that gave Michael Palin his second career.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreat Teacher Onizuka
1999–2000Fuji TVAnimation
A former biker gang leader who becomes a teacher for the wrong reasons and stays for the right ones.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Greatest American Hero
1981–1983ABCSci-Fi
A schoolteacher handed a flying suit by aliens who lost the instruction manual in the first episode and never found it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreek
2007–2011ABC FamilyComedy
Fraternity and sorority life at a fictional Ohio university, taken seriously enough to run four seasons.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreen Acres
1965–1971CBSComedy
A duet in which husband and wife argue about the move the series is built on, sung directly to camera.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreen Eggs and Ham
2019–2022NetflixAnimation
Fifty Seuss words expanded into two seasons, animated with more craft than the premise suggests.
- Season 2
1 sequenceGreen Lantern: The Animated Series
2011–2013Cartoon NetworkAnimation
The first fully CG DC series, cancelled after one season when its toy line failed.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreen Wing
2004–2007Channel 4Comedy
A hospital comedy shot with speed-ramped transitions between every scene, which the titles establish first.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrey's Anatomy
2005–ABCDrama
Twenty-seven seconds of surgical instruments and a guitar figure, from a series that has now outlived most of the shows that copied it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
2001–2007Cartoon NetworkAnimation
Two children who win the Grim Reaper in a limbo contest and keep him as a friend.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrimm
2011–2017NBCHorror
A Portland detective who can see the creatures the fairy tales were written about, opened in eleven seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrimsburg
2024–FoxAnimation
Jon Hamm as a detective in a town where every case is someone he knows.
- Season 2
1 sequenceGrotesquerie
2024FXHorror
Ryan Murphy's detective series about a series of killings that read as tableaux.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrounded for Life
2001–2005Fox / The WBComedy
A young Staten Island family, told out of order within each episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrowing Pains
1985–1992ABCComedy
A Long Island psychiatrist who moved his practice into the house so his wife could go back to reporting.
- Season 1
2 sequencesThe Guardian
2001–2004CBSDrama
A corporate lawyer sentenced to community service in child advocacy, which turns out to be the real job.
- Season 1
- Seasons 2–3
1 sequenceGuardians of the Galaxy
2015–2019Disney XDAnimation
The team animated after the first film, in the same eleven-second house style as the rest of the block.
- Season 1
2 sequencesGuiding Light
1952–2009CBSDrama
Seventy-two years on radio and television between them — the longest-running story ever told in any medium.
- Season 44
- Season 51
1 sequenceGullak
2019–SonyLIVComedy
A lower-middle-class family in a small north Indian town, narrated by their piggy bank.
- Season 4
1 sequenceGuns & Gulaabs
2023NetflixCrime
A 1990s opium town played as comedy, from the Gunjan Saxena directors.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGurren Lagann
2007TV TokyoAnimation
A mecha series whose opening escalates as fast as the show does, and which by the end is operating at a scale the first episode could not have suggested.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGyeongseong Creature
2023–2024NetflixHorror
Occupied Seoul in 1945, and what the occupiers are keeping in the hospital basement.
- Season 1