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The letter J accounts for 45 of the 2,618 shows here, with 46 opening title sequences from 1962 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 Jetsons, The Jeffersons and The Jinx among them.

One rebuilt its opening titles mid-run: Just Shoot Me!, with two sequences.

45 shows46 sequences

Still from the opening titles of Jabberjaw1 sequence

Jabberjaw

1976–1978ABCAnimation

A drumming shark in an underwater band, which is Scooby-Doo restaged in 2076 with Curly Howard's voice.

  • Season 1
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Jack Ryan

2018–2023Prime VideoDrama

Satellite imagery, intercepted signals and maps — an analyst's view of the world rather than a field agent's.

  • Season 2
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Jackanory

1965–1996BBC OneDrama

One actor, one chair, one book read aloud for fifteen minutes — the least televisual idea the BBC ever ran for thirty years.

  • Season 1
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Jackie Chan Adventures

2000–2005Kids' WBAnimation

Jackie Chan as an archaeologist hunting talismans, with the real Chan answering fan questions at the end of each episode.

  • Season 1
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JAG

1995–2005NBC / CBSDrama

Navy lawyers across ten seasons, and the series NCIS was spun out of.

  • Season 9
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Jake 2.0

2003–2004UPNSci-Fi

An NSA computer technician infused with nanites in an accident, and made a field agent because of it.

  • Season 1
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Jake and the Fatman

1987–1992CBSCrime

A Hawaii prosecutor and his investigator, spun out of a single episode of Matlock.

  • Season 1
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Jamie and the Magic Torch

1976–1979ITVAnimation

A torch that opens a hole in the bedroom floor down a helter-skelter into Cuckoo Land.

  • Season 1
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The Jamie Foxx Show

1996–2001The WBComedy

A hotel in Los Angeles run by relatives, and the nephew who wants to act instead.

  • Season 1
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Jane the Virgin

2014–2019The CWComedy

A telenovela about a woman inside a telenovela, opened in the form it is parodying and loving at once.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Jay Jay the Jet Plane1 sequence

Jay Jay the Jet Plane

1998–2005PBS KidsAnimation

Talking aeroplanes at a small airfield, made first on video and later for television.

  • Season 1
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Jeeves and Wooster

1990–1993ITVComedy

Wodehouse played by Fry and Laurie, who had spent the previous decade writing sketches together.

  • Season 1
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The Jeffersons

1975–1985CBSComedy

'Movin' On Up' over a family arriving at a Manhattan apartment — a theme that functions as a plot summary and a thesis at once.

  • Season 1
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Jem and the Holograms

1985–1988SyndicationAnimation

A record executive with a holographic alter ego, and a series that stopped for a music video every episode.

  • Season 1
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Jeremiah

2002–2004ShowtimeSci-Fi

J. Michael Straczynski's series about a world where everyone over puberty died fifteen years ago.

  • Season 1
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Jericho

2006–2008CBSDrama

Thirteen seconds and a mushroom cloud on the horizon, seen from a Kansas town that has no idea what happened.

  • Season 1
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Jericho (2016)

2016ITVDrama

A shanty town thrown up under a Victorian railway viaduct in Yorkshire, and ITV's attempt at a British western.

  • Season 1
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Jersey Shore

2009–2012MTVDocumentary

Eight housemates in Seaside Heights, and the most watched series MTV has ever had.

  • Season 1
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Jesse

1998–2000NBCComedy

A single mother working in her father's Buffalo bar while training as a nurse.

  • Season 1
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Jessica Jones

2015–2019NetflixCrime

Purple watercolour bleeding across Hell's Kitchen while a noir trumpet plays — the colour of the villain seeping into every frame before he is named.

  • Seasons 1–3
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Jesus of Nazareth

1977RAI / ITVDrama

Zeffirelli's six-hour life of Christ, cast so deeply that the titles are mostly name cards.

  • Season 1
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The Jetsons

1962–1963ABCAnimation

The same studio's future to answer its own past, with a theme that names the whole family in about fifteen seconds.

  • Season 1
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Jewel in the Palace

2003–2004MBCDrama

A kitchen servant who rises to be the king's physician, and the drama that carried Korean television across Asia.

  • Season 1
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003–ABCComedy

ABC's late-night hour, opening on a Hollywood Boulevard that the show films on the pavement outside.

  • Season 23
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The Jinx

2015–2024HBODocumentary

Andrew Jarecki's Robert Durst films, opened by a sequence that tells you nothing and implies everything.

  • Season 1
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Joan of Arcadia

2003–2005CBSDrama

A teenager who talks to God, introduced by a Joan Osborne song that asks what if God were one of us — the rare case of a theme predating and defining the premise.

  • Season 1
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Joey

2004–2006NBCComedy

The Friends spin-off, moving one character to Los Angeles and finding out how much of the show had been the other five.

  • Season 1
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John Adams

2008HBODrama

The thirteen colonies' flags and founding documents animated into a single banner, over a fife-and-drum theme.

  • Season 1
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John from Cincinnati

2007HBODrama

David Milch's surfing series, cancelled after one season and still argued about.

  • Season 1
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The John Larroquette Show

1993–1996NBCComedy

A recovering alcoholic managing a bus terminal at night, in a sitcom NBC steadily made lighter against its writers' wishes.

  • Season 1
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Johnny Bravo

1997–2004Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A pompadour, a bass riff and a character who has never once been correct about anything.

  • Season 1
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Johnny Test

2005–2014Kids' WB / Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A boy who lets his scientist sisters test inventions on him in exchange for whatever he wants that week.

  • Season 1
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Josie and the Pussycats

1970–1971CBSAnimation

An Archie Comics spin-off built around a band, with records released under the characters' names.

  • Season 1
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The Journey of Allen Strange

1997–2000NickelodeonSci-Fi

An alien stranded on Earth and taken in by the family who find him.

  • Season 1
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The Joy of Painting

1983–1994PBSDocumentary

Bob Ross finishing a landscape in twenty-six minutes, over thirty-one seasons and a permanent afterlife online.

  • Season 29
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Judge Judy

1996–2021SyndicationDocumentary

Small claims heard by a former family court judge who lets almost nobody finish a sentence.

  • Season 1
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Judging Amy

1999–2005CBSDrama

A family court judge and her social worker mother, built from the creator's own mother's career.

  • Season 1
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Jujutsu Kaisen

2020–MBS / TBSAnimation

Eve's 'Kaikai Kitan' over animation that keeps breaking its own frame — one of the sequences that made the studio's reputation.

  • Season 1
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Julia

2022–2023HBO MaxDrama

Butter, copper pans and a test kitchen — cooking shot the way the era's own television shot it, with none of the modern gloss.

  • Season 1
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Jumong

2006–2007MBCDrama

The founding of Goguryeo across eighty-one episodes, and one of the largest audiences Korean television has held.

  • Season 1
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Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

2020–2022NetflixAnimation

Six children on Isla Nublar during the events of the 2015 film, which nobody comes to collect.

  • Season 1
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Just Shoot Me!

1997–2003NBCComedy

A fashion magazine staffed by people who should not be near one. The titles start as a full sequence and end as a logo.

  • Season 1
  • Seasons 3–5
Still from the opening titles of Just the Ten of Us1 sequence

Just the Ten of Us

1988–1990ABCComedy

The Growing Pains teacher spun off with eight children of his own.

  • Season 1
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Justice League

2001–2006Cartoon NetworkAnimation

An orchestral fanfare and seven heroes introduced in sequence, from the same production team as Batman: The Animated Series and with the same refusal to condescend.

  • Season 1
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Justified

2010–2015FXCrime

Kentucky hills and hip-hop — Gangstagrass over holler country, which should not work and entirely does.

  • Season 6