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The letter L accounts for 122 of the 2,618 shows here, with 129 opening title sequences from 1949 to the present.

35 of them are filed here rather than under their first word, because an index ignores a leading "The" or "A" — The Last of Us, The Legend of Vox Machina and The Leftovers among them.

Five rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.

122 shows129 sequences

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The L Word

2004–2009ShowtimeDrama

A circle of women in West Hollywood, and a theme song that lists what the show is about out loud.

  • Season 1
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L.A. Law

1986–1994NBCDrama

A car boot slamming on a personalised numberplate, and Mike Post again — the legal drama that defined the form for a decade.

  • Season 1
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La Casa de las Flores

2018–2020NetflixComedy

A Mexico City florist family and the second family the father has been keeping.

  • Season 1
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La Femme Nikita

1997–2001USA NetworkDrama

Cold blue corridors and electronic music, for a series that treated its agency as an antagonist from the first frame.

  • Season 1
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La Reina del Sur

2011–2023TelemundoCrime

Arturo Pérez-Reverte's Sinaloan trafficker, remade in English by USA Network as Queen of the South.

  • Season 1
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Lady Dynamite

2016–2017NetflixComedy

Maria Bamford's series about Maria Bamford, structured across three timelines and opened in fifteen seconds.

  • Season 1
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Lady in the Lake

2024Apple TV+Crime

Two women in 1960s Baltimore, one investigating and one already dead.

  • Season 1
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Laguna Beach

2004–2006MTVDocumentary

Real teenagers filmed like a drama, and the format most of MTV's next decade was built on.

  • Season 1
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Lamb Chop's Play-Along

1992–1995PBSComedy

Shari Lewis and her puppets, and the song that does not end.

  • Season 1
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Land of the Giants

1968–1970ABCSci-Fi

Irwin Allen's last 1960s series, about a suborbital flight stranded on a world of giants.

  • Season 2
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Land of the Lost

1974–1976NBCSci-Fi

A raft over a waterfall into a closed pocket universe, written by Dorothy Fontana and David Gerrold for Saturday mornings.

  • Season 1
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Landman

2024–Paramount+Drama

West Texas oil patch, filmed with the same proprietorial eye Yellowstone brings to Montana.

  • Season 1
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Lark Rise to Candleford

2008–2011BBC OneDrama

Flora Thompson's hamlet and its market town, adapted into four years of BBC Sunday evenings.

  • Season 1
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The Larry Sanders Show

1992–1998HBOComedy

A talk-show opening for a talk show that does not exist, performed with total conviction by a band and an announcer who are also characters.

  • Season 1
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Las Vegas

2003–2008NBCDrama

Casino surveillance as an ensemble drama, opening on the Strip at the hour it looks best.

  • Season 1
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Last Chance U

2016–2023NetflixDocumentary

Junior college football players with one season left to be recruited, and a marching-band cue for a theme.

  • Season 1
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The Last Dance

2020ESPN / NetflixDocumentary

Archive footage cut to a hip-hop bed, treating a basketball season as a heist film.

  • Season 1
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The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

2022Apple TV+Drama

Samuel L. Jackson given a drug that returns his memory for thirty days.

  • Season 1
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The Last Kingdom

2015–2022BBC America / NetflixDrama

Earth, ash and iron assembling into a map of a divided England, with the borders shifting as the seasons go on.

  • Season 1
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The Last Man on Earth

2015–2018FoxComedy

The last man alive, who turns out not to be, and who is not much of a loss to anybody either way.

  • Season 1
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The Last of Us

2023–HBODrama

Cordyceps growing across a map — mould spreading through a continent in time-lapse until the shapes it leaves behind resolve into two figures. Gustavo Santaolalla's guitar, carried over from the game.

  • Season 1
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The Last Panthers

2015Sky AtlanticCrime

A jewel heist across Europe, opening on the title track of Blackstar — the last title music David Bowie wrote.

  • Season 1
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Last Resort

2012–2013ABCDrama

A submarine crew who refuse an order and declare an island sovereign, cancelled after thirteen episodes.

  • Season 1
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The Last Ship

2014–2018TNTDrama

A destroyer at sea when a pandemic takes the rest of the world.

  • Season 2
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Last Tango in Halifax

2012–2020BBC OneDrama

Two people who were sweethearts at school meeting again in their seventies, and the families that have accumulated since.

  • Season 1
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The Last Thing He Told Me

2023Apple TV+Crime

A houseboat, a marina and water — a disappearance introduced by the place the missing man left behind.

  • Season 1
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

2014–HBOComedy

A weekly half-hour whose animated globe-and-newsprint open has run essentially unchanged for a decade.

  • Season 1
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993–2009NBCComedy

An unknown writer handed the 12.30 slot, and sixteen years to grow into it.

  • Season 1
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Late Night with David Letterman

1982–1993NBCComedy

New York at night shot from a moving car, over a jazz-organ theme — the opening that decided what a late-night talk show looks like.

  • Season 1
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Late Show with David Letterman

1993–2015CBSComedy

Letterman moved to CBS and to a theatre on Broadway, which the titles put on screen every night for twenty-two years.

  • Season 1
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015–2026CBSComedy

Two openings across eleven years: Manhattan shot in tilt-shift so the city reads as a model, then a drone run through the Ed Sullivan Theater and its backstage.

  • Seasons 1–6
  • Seasons 7–11
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Laverne & Shirley

1976–1983ABCComedy

A skipping chant and two women walking through Milwaukee — the Happy Days spinoff that outrated its parent.

  • Season 1
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Law & Order

1990–NBCCrime

The original, and the source of the two-note sting that half of American television has been quoting ever since.

  • Season 1
  • Season 20
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001–2011NBC / USA NetworkCrime

The franchise entry that follows the criminal rather than the case, and so has to break the format's own rule about not showing you the answer.

  • Season 1
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Law & Order: Organized Crime

2021–NBC / PeacockCrime

Stabler brought back a decade after leaving Special Victims Unit, into a serialised format the franchise had never used.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit2 sequences

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999–NBCCrime

The franchise's chung-chung and a narrated premise, held for a quarter of a century — the longest-running opening in this catalogue by some distance.

  • Season 1
  • Season 15
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Law & Order: Trial by Jury

2005–2006NBCCrime

The shortest-lived Law & Order, cancelled after thirteen episodes, covering the half of the format the parent series skipped.

  • Season 1
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Law & Order: UK

2009–2014ITVCrime

American scripts reshot in London with the two-part structure intact, and the chung-chung kept.

  • Season 6
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The Lawrence Welk Show

1951–1982ABC / SyndicationDocumentary

Champagne music, bubbles in the titles, and thirty-one years of the same band leader counting in.

  • Season 1
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Lazarus

2025Adult SwimAnimation

Shinichirō Watanabe's series with action by Chad Stahelski, opened to Kamasi Washington.

  • Season 1
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Lazor Wulf

2019–2021Adult SwimAnimation

A wolf with a laser bolted to his back, in fourteen seconds of open.

  • Season 1
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The League

2009–2015FX / FXXComedy

A fantasy football league and the friendships it slowly destroys.

  • Season 1
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The League of Gentlemen

1999–2017BBC TwoHorror

Royston Vasey, a local shop, and a radio series that arrived on television already knowing exactly what it looked like.

  • Season 1
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The Leftovers

2014–2017HBODrama

The rare show that threw out a perfectly good title sequence and replaced it with its opposite. One season of grief painted as a Renaissance ceiling, then a complete reversal into snapshots and a country song.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
  • Season 3
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Legacies

2018–2022The CWHorror

The third series in the Vampire Diaries line, set at a boarding school for the supernatural.

  • Season 1
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The Legacy

2014–2017DR1 (Denmark)Drama

Four siblings fighting over an artist mother's estate. Arvingerne at home.

  • Season 1
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The Legend of Korra

2012–2014NickelodeonAnimation

The Avatar sequel, which keeps the four-element structure of its predecessor's opening and moves it into an industrial age.

  • Season 1
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The Legend of the Blue Sea

2016–2017SBSDrama

A mermaid and a con artist, reincarnated from a Joseon folk tale into modern Seoul.

  • Season 1
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Legend of the Seeker

2008–2010SyndicationDrama

Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth novels, from the Hercules and Xena producers.

  • Season 1
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The Legend of Vox Machina

2022–Prime VideoAnimation

The first Critical Role campaign animated as a series, with a proper broadcast title sequence to go with it.

  • Season 1
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Legends of the Hidden Temple

1993–1995NickelodeonDocumentary

A children's game show staged inside a temple, presided over by a talking stone head.

  • Season 1
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Legends of Tomorrow

2016–2022The CWSci-Fi

Thirteen seconds, by a show that worked out earlier than its siblings that the narrated premise was a joke worth dropping.

  • Season 5
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Legion

2017–2019FXSci-Fi

Noah Hawley's series about a man who cannot trust his own perception, with title design to match.

  • Season 1
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Lessons in Chemistry

2023Apple TV+Drama

Laboratory glassware and 1950s kitchen surfaces filmed identically, so the science and the domesticity become the same set of tools.

  • Season 1
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Letterkenny

2016–2023CraveComedy

A cold open, a card, and back out — a rural Ontario comedy that spends as little time on formalities as its characters would.

  • Season 1
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Leverage

2008–2012TNTCrime

Twenty seconds of heist iconography, in a show that opens each episode with a job already half underway.

  • Season 1
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Lexx

1997–2002Citytv / Sci-Fi ChannelSci-Fi

A living insect-shaped ship the size of a planet, introduced with the seriousness of an opera and the budget of a regional theatre. Rebuilt every season, and stranger each time.

  • Season 2
  • Season 3
  • Season 4
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Lie to Me

2009–2011FoxCrime

A deception expert reading faces frame by frame, built on the research of the psychologist who consulted on it.

  • Season 1
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Life (2007)

2007–2009NBCCrime

A detective released after twelve years for a crime he did not commit, handed back his badge and a very large settlement.

  • Season 1
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The Life & Times of Tim

2008–2012HBOAnimation

A man in New York whose every conversation makes his situation worse, drawn as simply as possible.

  • Season 1
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The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams

1977–1978NBCDrama

A man wrongly accused who goes to live in the mountains with a bear, and NBC's biggest surprise of 1977.

  • Season 1
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Life Goes On

1989–1993ABCDrama

The first American series built around a lead actor with Down syndrome, opening on the Beatles.

  • Season 1
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Life in Pieces

2015–2019CBSComedy

One family across four short stories an episode, told out of order and cut together at the end.

  • Season 1
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The Life of Riley

1949–1958NBCComedy

A radio sitcom moved to television twice, the second time with William Bendix finally allowed to play the part he had on radio.

  • Season 1
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Life on Earth

1979BBC TwoDocumentary

The series that invented the modern natural history film, and the template for everything Attenborough made afterwards.

  • Season 1
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Life on Mars

2006–2007BBC OneSci-Fi

A Manchester detective wakes in 1973 and cannot establish whether he is mad, in a coma, or back in time — the show's own summary, delivered as narration.

  • Season 1
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Life on Mars (US)

2008–2009ABCSci-Fi

The American remake of the BBC series, opening on 1973 New York and the Bowie song both versions are named for.

  • Season 1
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Life Unexpected

2010–2011The CWDrama

A girl in foster care who finds both her birth parents and asks them to take her back.

  • Season 1
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Life with Louie

1995–1998Fox KidsAnimation

Louie Anderson's Wisconsin childhood animated, with his own father as the character the show turns on.

  • Season 1
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Life with Lucy

1986ABCComedy

Lucille Ball's last series, pulled after eight episodes of a thirteen-episode order.

  • Season 1
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The Light in Your Eyes

2019JTBCDrama

A woman who can turn back time and ages a lifetime doing it, which the series does not explain until it has to.

  • Season 1
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Lilyhammer

2012–2014NRK1 / NetflixCrime

Netflix's first original commission, and an opening that plays a New Jersey mobster in rural Norway entirely straight.

  • Season 1
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Limitless

2015–2016CBSSci-Fi

The film's premise as a procedural, opened by Prologue in twenty-two seconds of chemical bloom.

  • Season 1
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The Lincoln Lawyer

2022–NetflixCrime

Connelly's defence attorney working out of the back seat of a car, brought to television a decade after the film.

  • Season 1
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Line of Duty

2012–2021BBC Two / BBC OneCrime

Redaction as a design language — evidence bags, case files and blocks of black covering the parts you are not cleared for.

  • Season 1
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Little America

2020–2022Apple TV+Drama

Half-hour films about immigrants to the United States, each based on a real person.

  • Season 1
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Little Bear

1995–2001CBC / Nick Jr.Animation

Maurice Sendak's drawings animated in no hurry whatever, and about the quietest programme Nick Jr. ever ran.

  • Season 1
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Little Britain

2003–2006BBC Three / BBC OneComedy

A radio series moved to television, narrated as though it were a documentary about a country nobody has heard of.

  • Season 1
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Little Dorrit

2008BBC OneDrama

Dickens serialised across fourteen parts, opened by ink and engraving that assemble the Marshalsea.

  • Season 1
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The Little Drummer Girl

2018BBC One / AMCDrama

Park Chan-wook directing le Carré, in the most controlled colour palette on television that year.

  • Season 1
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Little Fires Everywhere

2020HuluDrama

Two mothers in a planned Ohio suburb, and the house that is already burning down in the first scene.

  • Season 1
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Little House on the Prairie

1974–1983NBCDrama

Three girls running down a hill, one of whom falls — a shot kept in for nine years because it was better than the take where nobody did.

  • Season 1
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Little Mosque on the Prairie

2007–2012CBCComedy

A Muslim congregation renting a prairie church hall, in a sitcom that became Canada's most exported comedy.

  • Season 4
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Little Women

2017BBC OneDrama

Alcott in three parts, with a title sequence made of cut paper and pressed flowers.

  • Season 1
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The Littles

1983–1985ABCAnimation

Six-inch people with tails living inside the walls, from the John Peterson books.

  • Season 1
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Liv and Maddie

2013–2017Disney ChannelComedy

Dove Cameron playing identical twins with opposite lives.

  • Season 1
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Live

2018tvNDrama

Beat officers at a Seoul substation, from the writer of the Reply series.

  • Season 1
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The Living Planet

1984BBC OneDocumentary

The Life on Earth sequel, on habitats rather than lineages, opening on the planet doing the sorting.

  • Season 1
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Living Single

1993–1998FoxComedy

Queen Latifah performing the theme over Brooklyn — a sitcom opening sung by one of its own stars.

  • Season 1
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Locke & Key

2020–2022NetflixHorror

Keys turning in locks that open onto rooms which should not exist, drawn from the comic's own conceit.

  • Season 1
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Lodge 49

2018–2019AMCComedy

A Long Beach fraternal lodge and a man who joins it looking for something he cannot name.

  • Season 1
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Logan's Run

1977–1978CBSSci-Fi

The film continued as a series, running fourteen episodes before CBS stopped it.

  • Season 1
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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

1993–1997ABCSci-Fi

Superman rewritten as a workplace romance, on the principle that Clark is the real man and the cape is the costume.

  • Season 1
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Loki

2021–2023Disney+Sci-Fi

Bureaucratic typography and timeline diagrams — a superhero series whose titles are styled after an office that manages history.

  • Season 1
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The Lone Gunmen

2001FoxSci-Fi

The X-Files spin-off about its three conspiracy theorists, cancelled after thirteen episodes.

  • Season 1
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The Lone Ranger

1949–1957ABCDrama

Rossini's William Tell overture attached so firmly to a masked rider that the music has never fully got free of it.

  • Season 1
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Lonesome Dove

1989CBSDrama

Basil Poledouris scoring a cattle drive from Texas to Montana — the miniseries that proved the western was not finished after all.

  • Season 1
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Long Story Short

2025NetflixAnimation

Raphael Bob-Waksberg's family comedy, which jumps decades between scenes and uses its titles to say so.

  • Season 1
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Long Way Round

2004Sky OneDocumentary

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman riding from London to New York the long way, and the map that opens each leg.

  • Season 1
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Loot

2022–Apple TV+Comedy

Extreme wealth drawn as a cheerful animated inventory — yachts, jets and foundations, arranged like a toy catalogue.

  • Season 1
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

2022–Prime VideoDrama

Sand and iron filings moving into Chladni patterns under sound — a title sequence built by playing music at a physical surface rather than animating it.

  • Season 1
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Los Espookys

2019–2022HBOComedy

Handmade horror props filmed lovingly and badly on purpose — fake blood, rubber and fog, exactly the standard the characters work to.

  • Season 1
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Lost

2004–2010ABCDrama

One word, drifting slowly out of the dark towards the camera, over a low tone that is barely a piece of music. Fifteen seconds, no cast, no footage — the cheapest main title of any network drama of its size, and the most imitated.

  • Seasons 1–6
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Lost Girl

2010–2016Showcase / SyfySci-Fi

A succubus choosing neither Fae court, in one of Canada's longest-running genre exports.

  • Season 1
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Lost in Space

1965–1968CBSSci-Fi

John Williams, decades before anyone was calling him that, writing a fanfare for a family stranded in a jelly-mould spaceship.

  • Season 1
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The Lost Room

2006Sci-Fi ChannelSci-Fi

A motel room that stopped existing in 1961 and left its contents behind as objects with impossible properties.

  • Season 1
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Lou Grant

1977–1982CBSDrama

The Mary Tyler Moore Show character moved into an hour-long newspaper drama — the only American series to make that jump.

  • Season 1
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The Loud House

2016–NickelodeonAnimation

One boy, ten sisters, and a theme song that has to introduce all eleven of them.

  • Season 1
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The Loudest Voice

2019ShowtimeDrama

Roger Ailes and the building of Fox News, one episode per significant year.

  • Season 1
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Louie

2010–2015FXComedy

A man walking to a comedy club and eating a slice of pizza, singing his own theme — fifty-two seconds with no jokes in them.

  • Season 1
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Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

1998–2000BBC TwoDocumentary

Theroux embedding himself with American subcultures and letting the awkwardness do the work.

  • Season 1
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Love & Death

2023HBO MaxCrime

Suburban Texas in the early eighties — lawns, church halls and kitchen counters filmed with the flatness of a case file.

  • Season 1
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The Love Boat

1977–1987ABCComedy

A cruise ship with a new guest cast every week, introduced by name in the titles.

  • Season 3
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Love, Death + Robots

2019–NetflixAnimation

Three icons — a heart, a skull, a robot — recombined every episode to declare which of the three that instalment is going to be. The shortest possible statement of an anthology's rules.

  • Season 1
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Lovecraft Country

2020HBOHorror

Twelve seconds — a card, a horn stab, and straight into an episode that will not be the same genre as the last one.

  • Season 1
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Lovely Runner

2024tvNDrama

A fan travelling back fifteen years to stop her favourite singer's death.

  • Season 1
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Low Winter Sun

2013AMCCrime

The British two-parter remade in Detroit and stretched to ten episodes, cancelled after one season.

  • Season 1
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Lucifer

2016–2021Fox / NetflixDrama

Eleven seconds and a card, from a procedural that would rather get to the case.

  • Season 1
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Luck

2011–2012HBODrama

Milch and Michael Mann at a racetrack, ended after one season when horses died during production.

  • Season 1
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Luke Cage

2016–2018NetflixCrime

Harlem projected onto a man's skin — brownstones, crowds and streets mapped across a body that cannot be marked. The one Marvel Netflix opening that is about a place rather than a mood.

  • Seasons 1–2
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Luther

2010–2019BBC OneCrime

Massive Attack's 'Paradise Circus' over a city at night, with a detective who is already losing before the episode starts.

  • Season 1
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The Lying Game

2011–2013ABC FamilyDrama

Twins separated at birth swapping places, from the author of Pretty Little Liars.

  • Season 1