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59 shows61 sequences
1 sequenceI Am the Night
2019TNTCrime
Patty Jenkins directing a story that runs alongside the Black Dahlia case without being it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceI Am Weasel
1997–2000Cartoon NetworkAnimation
The Cow and Chicken spin-off, with a theme that is mostly the title said repeatedly.
- Season 1
1 sequenceI 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
1 sequenceI 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
1 sequenceI 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
1 sequenceI, 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
1 sequenceI'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
1 sequenceI'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
1 sequenceI'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
1 sequenceI'm Dying Up Here
2017–2018ShowtimeDrama
The 1970s Los Angeles stand-up scene, produced by Jim Carrey.
- Season 1
1 sequenceiCarly
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
1 sequenceIce Road Truckers
2007–2017HistoryDocumentary
Haulage across frozen lakes in the Northwest Territories, opening on the ice doing what the ice does.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAn Idiot Abroad
2010–2012Sky1Documentary
Karl Pilkington sent to the wonders of the world by two people enjoying it more than he is.
- Season 3
1 sequenceThe Idol
2023HBODrama
Studio lighting, mirrors and pop-star iconography, presented without irony.
- Season 1
1 sequenceImpractical Jokers
2011–truTVComedy
Four friends daring each other in public, with a hidden-camera open that ran unchanged for nine seasons.
- Seasons 1–9
1 sequenceIn 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
1 sequenceIn Plain Sight
2008–2012USA NetworkCrime
A US marshal running witness protection in Albuquerque.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIn the Flesh
2013–2014BBC ThreeHorror
Cured zombies sent home to the villages that killed them, opened in twelve seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIn the Heat of the Night
1988–1995NBC / CBSCrime
The 1967 film continued as a series, with Carroll O'Connor as the chief.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIn 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
1 sequenceIn 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
1 sequenceThe 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
1 sequenceThe 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
1 sequenceIndustry
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
1 sequenceInfinity 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
1 sequenceInhumans
2017ABCSci-Fi
A cancelled film released as a series and shot partly for IMAX, in the least loved thing Marvel Television made.
- Season 1
2 sequencesInk Master
2012–2018SpikeDocumentary
Tattoo artists competing on other people's skin, which raises the stakes over most craft contests.
- Season 2
- Season 5
1 sequenceInsecure
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
1 sequenceInside Amy Schumer
2013–2022Comedy CentralComedy
A sketch show with stand-up and street interviews between, and eleven seconds to get into it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInside Job
2021–2022NetflixAnimation
Conspiracy iconography assembled into a corporate onboarding video — every hidden-world cliché filed and badged.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInside 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
1 sequenceInspector 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
1 sequenceInspector 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
1 sequenceThe Institute
2025MGM+Sci-Fi
Stephen King's facility for children with abilities, who are told they are there to help.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInterview 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
1 sequenceInto the Badlands
2015–2019AMCDrama
Ink-wash landscapes and weaponry, drawn in the style of the wuxia films the series is built from.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInvader Zim
2001–2006NickelodeonAnimation
Gothic-industrial design on a children's network, with a theme that sounds like it was made under duress.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Invaders
1967–1968ABCSci-Fi
A Quinn Martin series about one man who knows and cannot prove it, narrated in the second person.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInvasion
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
1 sequenceInventing Anna
2022NetflixDrama
Fashion-magazine layout and Manhattan gloss, assembled with the confidence of something that cannot afford itself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInvincible
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
1 sequenceIris
2009KBS2Drama
A secret agent thriller shot across five countries, and the most expensive Korean drama made to that point.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIrma Vep
2022HBODrama
Olivier Assayas remaking his own film as a series about remaking a film, with silent-era titles to match.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIron Chef
1993–1999Fuji TVDocumentary
A cookery contest staged as a martial-arts tournament, presided over by a man in a gold cape.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIron 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
1 sequenceIron Fist
2017–2018NetflixDrama
The last of the four Defenders series, and the one that completes the set here.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIronheart
2025Disney+Sci-Fi
An MIT student building her own armour, and nine seconds to introduce her.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIsland
2022–2023TVINGSci-Fi
Jeju as the ground of a long fight between demons and the people bound to stop them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIt (1990)
1990ABCHorror
Two nights on ABC, and the reason a generation of viewers will not stand near a storm drain.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIt 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
1 sequenceThe 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
1 sequenceIt: Welcome to Derry
2025HBOHorror
The King adaptation's prequel series, set in the 1960s cycle.
- Season 1
2 sequencesIt'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
1 sequenceIt'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
1 sequenceIt'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
1 sequenceIt's Okay to Not Be Okay
2020tvNDrama
A psychiatric carer and a children's author, told through illustrated fairy tales between episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIt's Pony
2020–2022NickelodeonAnimation
A girl whose pony lives in the house and is not remotely house-trained in any sense.
- Season 1
1 sequenceItaewon Class
2020JTBCDrama
An ex-convict opening a bar in Itaewon to ruin the company that ruined his father.
- Season 1
1 sequenceIvor 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