G
The letter G accounts for 107 of the 2,618 shows here, with 114 opening title sequences from 1950 to the present.
24 of them are filed here rather than under their first word, because an index ignores a leading "The" or "A" — The Gilded Age, The Good Doctor and The Great British Bake Off among them.
Seven rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.
107 shows114 sequences
1 sequence
G vs E
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 sequence
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
A toy line turned into a war cartoon where nobody is ever hit, and a theme that spells the acronym out.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Galactica 1980
The fleet reaching Earth at last, on a tenth of the original's budget and for ten episodes.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Game of Thrones
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 sequence
Game On
Three flatmates and an agoraphobic landlord, recast in the middle and carried on regardless.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Gangs of London
A London crime empire after its head is killed, directed with the fight choreography of a feature.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGargoyles
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
A title sequence pretending to be a lost 1980s horror series, complete with the production faults the conceit requires.
- Season 1
2 sequences
General Hospital
American daytime's longest-running scripted programme still in production.
- Season 16
- Season 43
1 sequenceGenerator Rex
A boy who can rebuild his own limbs into machines, in a world where nanites turned everything else monstrous.
- Season 1
1 sequence
A Gentleman in Moscow
A count sentenced to house arrest in a Moscow hotel for thirty years, from the Amor Towles novel.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGentleman Jack
Anne Lister's coded diaries dramatised by Sally Wainwright, with Suranne Jones addressing the camera directly.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Geordie Shore
Jersey Shore relocated to Newcastle, and the format that gave British reality its next decade.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGeorge & Tammy
George Jones and Tammy Wynette, with both leads singing their own recordings.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
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
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
Jay Ward's Tarzan parody, and a theme that warns you about the tree before he hits it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGet a Life
A thirty-year-old paperboy still living at home, in a sitcom that got stranger every week.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Get Down
The South Bronx in 1977, where disco is ending and hip hop has not been given a name yet.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGet Smart
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
Three men locking themselves overnight inside buildings they believe are haunted.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Ghost and Molly McGee
A relentlessly positive girl and the ghost whose curse bound him to her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGhost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
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
Jennifer Love Hewitt talking to the dead in a small Maryland town.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGhosts
The Horrible Histories troupe as the dead of one country house, opened by all of them at once.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGhostwriter
A ghost that communicates only in written words, and a group of Brooklyn children who solve cases with it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Gifted
A family on the run in the X-Men world, made while Fox still held the rights.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Gilded Age
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
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 sequence
Gilmore Girls
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
Four ninety-minute films returning to Stars Hollow nine years on, one for each season of the year.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGimme a Break!
Nell Carter keeping house for a widowed police chief, in a sitcom built entirely around her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGinny & Georgia
A mother of thirty and a daughter of fifteen, and the fifteen years between them nobody will explain.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequenceGintama
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
A girl who transfers into a different school every episode and exposes what it is hiding.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGirl Meets World
The Boy Meets World sequel, following the next generation of the same family.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGirls5eva
A one-hit girl group reassembling in their forties, opened by their own hit.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Glades
A Chicago detective exiled to Florida, working murders he keeps being told are not his.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGladiators
Contenders ready, gladiators ready — a Saturday-night format built entirely out of its own catchphrases.
- Seasons 1–8
1 sequenceGlee
An Ohio show choir, and the series that briefly made network television a singles chart.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Glory
A go board, scar tissue and winter light — the revenge plot laid out as a game with pieces already placed.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGLOW
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
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
Bumpy Johnson out of prison in 1963 and finding Harlem taken, with Malcolm X across the street.
- Season 4
1 sequenceGodless
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
People watching television, filmed watching television, which turned out to be the format of the decade.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGoing Straight
Fletcher out of prison and trying to stay out, six episodes after Porridge finished.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGokusen
A yakuza heir teaching maths at a school for delinquents.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Goldbergs
Adam Goldberg's own 1980s home videos turned into a sitcom about making them.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Golden Girls
'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
The Golden Girls minus one, running a Miami hotel for a single season before CBS stopped.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGoliath
Billy Bob Thornton as a lawyer working out of a Santa Monica bar.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGomorrah
Naples and the Camorra, shot in concrete and sodium light with no romance permitted anywhere in it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGood Behavior
A thief on parole and the hitman she decides not to turn in.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGood Cop
A Liverpool response officer who stops waiting for the system to work.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Good Doctor
An autistic surgical resident, adapted from the Korean series of the same name.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Good Fight
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
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
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
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
A teenager filming video diaries for her baby sister, which is the framing device and the title.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGood Morning, Miss Bliss
The series Saved by the Bell was rebuilt out of, with Hayley Mills teaching in Indiana.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Good Omens
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
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
A Chicago housing project and a gospel-inflected theme whose lyrics nobody has ever fully agreed on.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Good Wife
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
A film series turned into a returning one, about a woman whose neighbours are never quite sure about her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Goodies
Three men on a trandem who will do anything, anytime — sketch comedy shot like a silent film.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGoodness Gracious Me
A radio sketch show that transferred to television and gave British comedy going for an English one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGoodnight Sweetheart
A man who finds a London alley that leads back to 1940 and keeps a wife in each decade.
- Seasons 1–6
1 sequenceGoosebumps
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 sequence
Gotham
A few seconds of title card: GOTHAM in weathered stone capitals, surfacing out of storm cloud.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrace & Favour
The Are You Being Served? staff inheriting a country manor, with most of the original cast.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrace and Frankie
Two women whose husbands leave them for each other, and who then have to live together.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrace Under Fire
Brett Butler as a single mother working at an oil refinery, in a sitcom built on her stand-up.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGraceland
Undercover agents from three agencies sharing a confiscated beach house.
- Season 2
1 sequenceGran Hotel
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
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 sequences
Grandstand
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 sequences
Grange Hill
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
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
The Pink Ladies four years before the film, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Great
Catherine's rise told as farce, and billed on screen as an occasionally true story.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Great British Bake Off
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
The Dickens novel in three parts, with Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreat Railway Journeys
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
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
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
Fraternity and sorority life at a fictional Ohio university, taken seriously enough to run four seasons.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreen Acres
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
Fifty Seuss words expanded into two seasons, animated with more craft than the premise suggests.
- Season 2
1 sequenceGreen Lantern: The Animated Series
The first fully CG DC series, cancelled after one season when its toy line failed.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGreen Wing
A hospital comedy shot with speed-ramped transitions between every scene, which the titles establish first.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Grey's Anatomy
Twenty-six 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
Two children who win the Grim Reaper in a limbo contest and keep him as a friend.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrimm
A Portland detective who can see the creatures the fairy tales were written about, opened in eleven seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrimsburg
Jon Hamm as a detective in a town where every case is someone he knows.
- Season 2
1 sequenceGrotesquerie
Ryan Murphy's detective series about a series of killings that read as tableaux.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrounded for Life
A young Staten Island family, told out of order within each episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGrowing Pains
A Long Island psychiatrist who moved his practice into the house so his wife could go back to reporting.
- Season 1
2 sequences
The Guardian
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
The team animated after the first film, in the same eleven-second house style as the rest of the block.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Guiding Light
Seventy-two years on radio and television between them — the longest-running story ever told in any medium.
- Season 44
- Season 51
1 sequenceGullak
A lower-middle-class family in a small north Indian town, narrated by their piggy bank.
- Season 4
1 sequenceGuns & Gulaabs
A 1990s opium town played as comedy, from the Gunjan Saxena directors.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGurren Lagann
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
Occupied Seoul in 1945, and what the occupiers are keeping in the hospital basement.
- Season 1