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The letter K accounts for 48 of the 2,618 shows here, with 49 opening title sequences from 1965 to the present.

Six of them are filed here rather than under their first word, because an index ignores a leading "The" or "A" — The King of Queens, The Killing and The Killing (US) among them.

One rebuilt its opening titles mid-run: King of the Hill, with two sequences.

48 shows49 sequences

Still from the opening titles of KaBlam!1 sequence

KaBlam!

1996–2000NickelodeonAnimation

An animated anthology framed as a comic book being read, with the hosts drawn on the page.

  • Season 1
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Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight

2008–2009The CWSci-Fi

Kamen Rider Ryuki rebuilt for American Saturday mornings, and the only Kamen Rider to win an Emmy.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Kamikaze1 sequence

Kamikaze

2021HBO MaxDrama

A Danish teenager who survives the plane crash that kills her family and spends her inheritance trying not to feel it.

  • Season 1
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Kate & Allie

1984–1989CBSComedy

Two divorced friends sharing a Greenwich Village apartment and bringing up their children in it together.

  • Season 1
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Kath & Kim

2002–2007ABC (Australia)Comedy

A mother and daughter in outer-suburban Melbourne, and the most quoted Australian comedy of its decade.

  • Season 2
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The Keepers

2017NetflixDocumentary

The unsolved killing of a Baltimore nun, and what her former pupils found when they investigated it themselves fifty years on.

  • Season 1
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Keeping Up Appearances

1990–1995BBC OneComedy

Hyacinth Bucket, pronounced Bouquet, and the relatives she would rather nobody met.

  • Season 1
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Keeping Up with the Kardashians

2007–2021E!Documentary

Fourteen years of a family photograph rebuilt every season, and ten seconds to do it in.

  • Season 1
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Kenan & Kel

1996–2000NickelodeonComedy

The All That double act given their own series, and "Who loves orange soda?"

  • Season 1
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Kevin Spencer

1999–2005The Comedy NetworkAnimation

A Canadian animated series about a chain-smoking sociopath and his parents, drawn as crudely as it is written.

  • Season 4
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Key & Peele

2012–2015Comedy CentralComedy

Twenty-six seconds and two names, from a sketch show that spent its budget on the sketches.

  • Season 1
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Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil

2010–2012Disney XDAnimation

A boy in a stunt suit treating an ordinary suburb as a series of ramps.

  • Season 1
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Kickin' It

2011–2015Disney XDComedy

A martial arts dojo in a shopping centre, and the longest-running live-action comedy Disney XD made.

  • Season 3
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Kidding

2018–2020ShowtimeDrama

Jim Carrey as a children's television presenter coming apart, directed by Michel Gondry.

  • Season 1
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The Kids in the Hall

1988–1995CBC / HBOComedy

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet playing surf rock over five men in a doorway — a sketch show whose theme became more famous than most of its sketches.

  • Season 1
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Kids Incorporated

1984–1994Syndication / Disney ChannelComedy

A band of children playing covers in a converted warehouse, and where Fergie and Jennifer Love Hewitt both started.

  • Season 1
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Kiff

2023–Disney ChannelAnimation

An optimistic squirrel and her deadpan bunny best friend in a town that indulges neither.

  • Season 1
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Kill la Kill

2013–2014MBSAnimation

Trigger's first series, cut at a speed that leaves the title cards behind.

  • Season 1
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The Killing

2007–2012DR1Crime

Copenhagen in the dark and the rain, over twenty-nine seconds that established the visual language of an entire decade of Nordic crime drama.

  • Season 1
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The Killing (US)

2011–2014AMC / NetflixCrime

The American remake of Forbrydelsen, moving the rain from Copenhagen to Seattle and keeping everything else.

  • Season 1
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Killing Eve

2018–2022BBC America / BBC OneCrime

Hand-drawn ink over a chase across Europe, in the register of a fashion illustration rather than a thriller.

  • Season 1
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Killjoys

2015–2019SyfySci-Fi

Fourteen seconds, a logo and a bass hit — a bounty-hunter show with no interest in explaining itself first.

  • Season 1
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Kim Possible

2002–2007Disney ChannelAnimation

'Call Me, Beep Me' over split-screen spy graphics — a theme so tied to the show that Disney rerecorded it for the live-action film and was widely told not to.

  • Season 1
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Kim's Convenience

2016–2021CBCComedy

A Korean-Canadian family running a Toronto corner shop, adapted from the play by the man who wrote it.

  • Season 1
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Kimba the White Lion

1965–1967Fuji TVAnimation

Tezuka's Jungle Emperor, the first colour Japanese animated series, and a question Disney has been asked about ever since.

  • Season 1
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Kindred: The Embraced

1996FoxHorror

Vampire clans running San Francisco as organised crime, cancelled after eight episodes.

  • Season 1
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King of Kensington

1975–1980CBCComedy

A Toronto corner-shop owner in the Kensington Market, and the sitcom a fifth of the country watched.

  • Season 2
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The King of Queens

1998–2007CBSComedy

A delivery driver, his wife and her father in Rego Park, nine seasons long.

  • Season 1
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King of the Hill

1997–FoxAnimation

Four men drinking beer in an alley, and a guitar riff. Thirty-one seconds that tell you the show has no interest in going anywhere.

  • Season 1
  • Season 14
Still from the opening titles of Kingdom1 sequence

Kingdom

2019–2021NetflixHorror

Joseon-era ink painting turning plague-ridden — court robes and mountains overrun by figures that do not move like the living.

  • Season 2
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Kipper

1997–2000ITVAnimation

Mick Inkpen's dog animated at the pace of the picture books, which is to say slowly and on purpose.

  • Season 1
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Kitchen Nightmares

2007–FoxDocumentary

The American Ramsay format, louder than the Channel 4 original it was remade from.

  • Season 1
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Knight Rider

1982–1986NBCDrama

A narrated premise, a scanning red light and a synth arpeggio — the most efficient piece of eighties television branding after the A-Team's.

  • Season 1
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Knightmare

1987–1994ITVSci-Fi

A blindfolded child walked through a bluescreen dungeon by teammates who can see it — the first television format built on a video game's logic.

  • Season 1
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Knots Landing

1979–1993CBSDrama

A cul-de-sac shot from above, with the neighbours' houses laid out like a diagram of everyone's business.

  • Season 1
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Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge

1994–1995BBC TwoComedy

The radio chat show moved to television, opening on a title sequence that is itself the character's idea of a good one.

  • Season 1
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Kodoku no Gurume

2012–TV TokyoDrama

A salesman eating alone in a different restaurant each week, narrating his own meal. Known abroad as Solitary Gourmet.

  • Season 1
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Kojak

1973–1978CBSCrime

New York in the seventies, a lollipop, and a brass theme that has aged considerably better than the decade around it.

  • Season 1
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker

1974–1975ABCHorror

A reporter whistling in a car park, and a premise established in twenty-six seconds — the direct ancestor of The X-Files, as Chris Carter has said repeatedly.

  • Season 1
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KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!

2016–Tokyo MXAnimation

An isekai where the hero's party is uniformly useless and the show knows it.

  • Season 1
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Krapopolis

2023–FoxAnimation

Dan Harmon's mythological Greek city, run badly by a family of gods and monsters.

  • Season 1
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Kruk

2018–2021Canal+ PolandCrime

A Białystok detective returning to the town he grew up in, with a subtitle that translates as whispers are heard after dark.

  • Season 1
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Krypto the Superdog

2005–2006Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Superman's dog on Earth without him, living with a boy in suburban Metropolis.

  • Season 1
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Krypton

2018–2019SyfySci-Fi

Superman's grandfather two hundred years before the planet dies, which the audience already knows it will.

  • Season 1
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The Krypton Factor

1977–1995ITVDocumentary

A general knowledge round, an assault course and a mental agility test, opening on a rotating wireframe grid that was expensive in 1977.

  • Season 1
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Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness

2011–2016NickelodeonAnimation

The DreamWorks films continued weekly, opened in ten seconds of brush-and-ink.

  • Season 1
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Kuroko's Basketball

2012–2015Mainichi BroadcastingAnimation

A basketball player whose entire skill is being unnoticeable.

  • Season 1
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Kyle XY

2006–2009ABC FamilySci-Fi

A teenager found in the woods with no memory and no navel, which is the whole first episode's mystery in one detail.

  • Season 1