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KaBlam!

1996–2000NickelodeonAnimation

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

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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.

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Kamikaze

2021HBO MaxDrama

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

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Kate & Allie

1984–1989CBSComedy

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

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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.

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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.

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Keeping Up Appearances

1990–1995BBC OneComedy

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

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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.

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Kenan & Kel

1996–2000NickelodeonComedy

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Kidding

2018–2020ShowtimeDrama

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

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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.

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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.

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Kiff

2023–Disney ChannelAnimation

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

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Kill la Kill

2013–2014MBSAnimation

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Kindred: The Embraced

1996FoxHorror

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

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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.

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The King of Queens

1998–2007CBSComedy

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

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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.

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Kingdom

2019–2021NetflixHorror

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

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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.

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Kitchen Nightmares

2007–FoxDocumentary

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.