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The letter I accounts for 59 of the 2,618 shows here, with 61 opening title sequences from 1951 to the present.

Seven of them are filed here rather than under their first word, because an index ignores a leading "The" or "A" — The Idol, The Institute and The IT Crowd among them.

Two rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.

59 shows61 sequences

Still from the opening titles of I Am the Night1 sequence

I Am the Night

2019TNTCrime

Patty Jenkins directing a story that runs alongside the Black Dahlia case without being it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of I Am Weasel1 sequence

I Am Weasel

1997–2000Cartoon NetworkAnimation

The Cow and Chicken spin-off, with a theme that is mostly the title said repeatedly.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of I Dream of Jeannie1 sequence

I Dream of Jeannie

1965–1970NBCComedy

A full animated origin story every week — the bottle, the beach, the astronaut — told in sixty seconds so the episode never has to.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of I Love Lucy1 sequence

I Love Lucy

1951–1957CBSComedy

A satin heart on a cigarette-brand backdrop — a title card that exists because the sponsor paid for it, and which outlived the sponsor by seventy years.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of I Spy1 sequence

I Spy

1965–1968NBCDrama

Two agents under cover as a tennis player and his trainer, and the first American drama to cast a Black actor as a lead.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of I, Claudius1 sequence

I, Claudius

1976BBC TwoDrama

A snake crossing a Roman mosaic — one image, held for forty-five seconds, and among the most efficient title sequences ever made.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of I'll Be Gone in the Dark1 sequence

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

2020HBODocumentary

Michelle McNamara's search for the Golden State Killer, finished by other people after she died.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!1 sequence

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

2002–ITVDocumentary

Celebrities in an Australian jungle, and one of the few formats whose titles are remade from scratch every series.

  • Season 24
Still from the opening titles of I'm Alan Partridge1 sequence

I'm Alan Partridge

1997–2002BBC TwoComedy

A theme with all the brass of a chat show its subject is no longer allowed to host, over a Travel Tavern car park.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of I'm Dying Up Here1 sequence

I'm Dying Up Here

2017–2018ShowtimeDrama

The 1970s Los Angeles stand-up scene, produced by Jim Carrey.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of iCarly1 sequence

iCarly

2007–2012NickelodeonComedy

A web show made in a Seattle flat, five years before that was an ordinary thing for a teenager to do.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Ice Road Truckers1 sequence

Ice Road Truckers

2007–2017HistoryDocumentary

Haulage across frozen lakes in the Northwest Territories, opening on the ice doing what the ice does.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of An Idiot Abroad1 sequence

An Idiot Abroad

2010–2012Sky1Documentary

Karl Pilkington sent to the wonders of the world by two people enjoying it more than he is.

  • Season 3
Still from the opening titles of The Idol1 sequence

The Idol

2023HBODrama

Studio lighting, mirrors and pop-star iconography, presented without irony.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Impractical Jokers1 sequence

Impractical Jokers

2011–truTVComedy

Four friends daring each other in public, with a hidden-camera open that ran unchanged for nine seasons.

  • Seasons 1–9
Still from the opening titles of In Living Color1 sequence

In Living Color

1990–1994FoxComedy

Graffiti, dance and a Heavy D theme — a sketch show that opened at a volume network television had not previously permitted.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of In Plain Sight1 sequence

In Plain Sight

2008–2012USA NetworkCrime

A US marshal running witness protection in Albuquerque.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of In the Flesh1 sequence

In the Flesh

2013–2014BBC ThreeHorror

Cured zombies sent home to the villages that killed them, opened in twelve seconds.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of In the Heat of the Night1 sequence

In the Heat of the Night

1988–1995NBC / CBSCrime

The 1967 film continued as a series, with Carroll O'Connor as the chief.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of In the Night Garden...1 sequence

In the Night Garden...

2007–2009CBeebiesComedy

Two minutes of a boat, a sleeping child and a narrator naming everything in the garden, before a programme designed to send that child to sleep.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of In Treatment1 sequence

In Treatment

2008–2021HBODrama

Nineteen seconds and a chair. For a show that is entirely two people talking in one room, the titles decline to leave it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Inbetweeners1 sequence

The Inbetweeners

2008–2010E4Comedy

Twenty-one seconds of school corridor, with no attempt to make any of the four look like someone you would want to be.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Incredible Hulk1 sequence

The Incredible Hulk

1977–1982CBSSci-Fi

A narrated origin, a green transformation, and a piano coda so sad it became the show's real signature — though that plays over the closing credits, not these.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Industry1 sequence

Industry

2020–HBODrama

Twenty-two seconds of type and glass. A trading-floor show whose opening is over before you have settled, which is roughly how the job is depicted.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Infinity Train1 sequence

Infinity Train

2019–2021Cartoon Network / HBO MaxAnimation

A train of endless carriages, each its own world, with a nine-second open that refuses to explain any of it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Inhumans1 sequence

Inhumans

2017ABCSci-Fi

A cancelled film released as a series and shot partly for IMAX, in the least loved thing Marvel Television made.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Ink Master2 sequences

Ink Master

2012–2018SpikeDocumentary

Tattoo artists competing on other people's skin, which raises the stakes over most craft contests.

  • Season 2
  • Season 5
Still from the opening titles of Insecure1 sequence

Insecure

2016–2021HBOComedy

Twenty-one seconds of South Los Angeles and a beat, changing its track from season to season while the shape of the thing stays identical.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Inside Amy Schumer1 sequence

Inside Amy Schumer

2013–2022Comedy CentralComedy

A sketch show with stand-up and street interviews between, and eleven seconds to get into it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Inside Job1 sequence

Inside Job

2021–2022NetflixAnimation

Conspiracy iconography assembled into a corporate onboarding video — every hidden-world cliché filed and badged.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Inside No. 91 sequence

Inside No. 9

2014–2024BBC TwoComedy

Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's anthology, every episode set somewhere numbered nine, opened in seventeen seconds by a brass hare.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Inspector Gadget1 sequence

Inspector Gadget

1983–1986SyndicationAnimation

A Peter Sellers impression with helicopter arms, and a theme that is In the Hall of the Mountain King with the serial numbers filed off.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Inspector George Gently1 sequence

Inspector George Gently

2007–2017BBC OneCrime

A Northumberland detective in the 1960s, and a series that uses the decade for its politics rather than its clothes.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of The Institute1 sequence

The Institute

2025MGM+Sci-Fi

Stephen King's facility for children with abilities, who are told they are there to help.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Interview with the Vampire1 sequence

Interview with the Vampire

2022–AMCHorror

Anne Rice adapted as a long interview, with an opening that lasts twenty-two seconds and does not waste one of them.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Into the Badlands1 sequence

Into the Badlands

2015–2019AMCDrama

Ink-wash landscapes and weaponry, drawn in the style of the wuxia films the series is built from.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Invader Zim1 sequence

Invader Zim

2001–2006NickelodeonAnimation

Gothic-industrial design on a children's network, with a theme that sounds like it was made under duress.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Invaders1 sequence

The Invaders

1967–1968ABCSci-Fi

A Quinn Martin series about one man who knows and cannot prove it, narrated in the second person.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Invasion1 sequence

Invasion

2021–Apple TV+Sci-Fi

Geometry spreading across the globe like frost, seen from far enough away that no one on the ground is visible.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Inventing Anna1 sequence

Inventing Anna

2022NetflixDrama

Fashion-magazine layout and Manhattan gloss, assembled with the confidence of something that cannot afford itself.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Invincible1 sequence

Invincible

2021–Prime VideoAnimation

A title card that gets progressively more blood-spattered as the season goes on — the show's escalation, tracked in one graphic.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Iris1 sequence

Iris

2009KBS2Drama

A secret agent thriller shot across five countries, and the most expensive Korean drama made to that point.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Irma Vep1 sequence

Irma Vep

2022HBODrama

Olivier Assayas remaking his own film as a series about remaking a film, with silent-era titles to match.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Iron Chef1 sequence

Iron Chef

1993–1999Fuji TVDocumentary

A cookery contest staged as a martial-arts tournament, presided over by a man in a gold cape.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Iron Chef America1 sequence

Iron Chef America

2005–2018Food NetworkDocumentary

The Fuji format remade in a Food Network kitchen, with the man in the gold cape replaced by a chairman.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Iron Fist1 sequence

Iron Fist

2017–2018NetflixDrama

The last of the four Defenders series, and the one that completes the set here.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Ironheart1 sequence

Ironheart

2025Disney+Sci-Fi

An MIT student building her own armour, and nine seconds to introduce her.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Island1 sequence

Island

2022–2023TVINGSci-Fi

Jeju as the ground of a long fight between demons and the people bound to stop them.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of It (1990)1 sequence

It (1990)

1990ABCHorror

Two nights on ABC, and the reason a generation of viewers will not stand near a storm drain.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of It Ain't Half Hot Mum1 sequence

It Ain't Half Hot Mum

1974–1981BBC OneComedy

A Royal Artillery concert party in wartime India, and the Croft series that has aged worst.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The IT Crowd1 sequence

The IT Crowd

2006–2013Channel 4Comedy

Eight-bit pixel art and a chiptune, for a basement full of people nobody upstairs wants to think about.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of It: Welcome to Derry1 sequence

It: Welcome to Derry

2025HBOHorror

The King adaptation's prequel series, set in the 1960s cycle.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of It's a Living2 sequences

It's a Living

1980–1989ABC / SyndicationComedy

Waitresses at a restaurant on the thirteenth floor, cancelled by ABC and revived in syndication.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia1 sequence

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

2005–FX / FXXComedy

Photographs of Philadelphia over a jaunty public-domain waltz, with the episode's absurd title card dropped into the middle of it.

  • Seasons 2–4
Still from the opening titles of It's Garry Shandling's Show1 sequence

It's Garry Shandling's Show

1986–1990ShowtimeComedy

A sitcom whose theme song is about being a sitcom theme song, six years before The Larry Sanders Show.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of It's Okay to Not Be Okay1 sequence

It's Okay to Not Be Okay

2020tvNDrama

A psychiatric carer and a children's author, told through illustrated fairy tales between episodes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of It's Pony1 sequence

It's Pony

2020–2022NickelodeonAnimation

A girl whose pony lives in the house and is not remotely house-trained in any sense.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Itaewon Class1 sequence

Itaewon Class

2020JTBCDrama

An ex-convict opening a bar in Itaewon to ruin the company that ruined his father.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Ivor the Engine1 sequence

Ivor the Engine

1959–1977ITV / BBC OneAnimation

A Welsh locomotive who wants to sing in the choir, drawn in pencil and cut out by hand.

  • Season 1