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69 shows71 sequences
1 sequenceThe Naked Brothers Band
2007–2009NickelodeonComedy
A mockumentary about a children's rock band, played by two brothers who really were one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Naked Director
2019–2021NetflixDrama
Toru Muranishi and the 1980s Japanese adult video industry.
- Season 2
1 sequenceNanalan'
1998–2004CBCAnimation
A puppet toddler spends the day at her grandmother's, filmed at grass height.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNancy Drew
2019–2023The CWCrime
The teenage detective relocated to a haunted Maine town.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Nanny
1993–1999CBSComedy
Cartoon animation narrating how a woman from Flushing ended up in a Manhattan townhouse — a premise delivered entirely in the titles.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNarcos
2015–2017NetflixCrime
Archive photographs, surveillance stills and evidence shots of the real Medellín cartel, cut to Rodrigo Amarante's 'Tuyo' — a bolero written to sound like something Escobar's father would have played.
- Seasons 1–3
1 sequenceNarcos: Mexico
2018–2021NetflixCrime
The parent show's archive-and-evidence method moved north — Guadalajara and Sinaloa in period photography, with the same documentary flatness.
- Seasons 1–3
1 sequenceNaruto
2002–2007TV TokyoAnimation
Nine openings across five years, each announcing a new arc — and the first is the one an entire generation can still hum.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNaruto Shippuden
2007–2017TV TokyoAnimation
Twenty distinct openings across a decade, changed roughly every cour — one of the largest rotations of title sequences any series has produced.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNash Bridges
1996–2001CBSCrime
Don Johnson in San Francisco with a yellow Barracuda, after Miami Vice.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNathan For You
2013–2017Comedy CentralComedy
Twenty-seven seconds of business-advice-show graphics, delivered with the flatness that makes everything after it land.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNBA on NBC
1990–2002NBCDocumentary
Roundball Rock, written by John Tesh and hummed into an answering machine because he had no way to record it — the most fondly remembered sports theme in America.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNBC Nightly News
1970–NBCDocumentary
Fourteen seconds of brass and a rotating globe, which is what a network evening bulletin has been reduced to.
- Season 47
2 sequencesNCIS
2003–CBSCrime
Naval insignia, photographs and a snare roll, refreshed periodically as a cast that has now turned over almost completely came and went.
- Season 10
- Season 1
1 sequenceNCIS: Hawai'i
2021–2024CBSCrime
The first NCIS led by a woman, and eleven seconds of titles to say so.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNCIS: Los Angeles
2009–2023CBSCrime
The first NCIS spin-off, fourteen seasons of undercover work.
- Season 5
1 sequenceNCIS: New Orleans
2014–2021CBSCrime
The franchise moved to a city with a soundtrack, which the titles spend all twenty-one seconds on.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNCIS: Origins
2024–CBSCrime
Gibbs in 1991, twenty-one years before the parent series began.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNCIS: Sydney
2023–Paramount+ / Network 10Crime
The first NCIS made outside America, with an Australian and American team sharing a desk.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNed's Declassified School Survival Guide
2004–2007NickelodeonComedy
A middle-school survival manual delivered to camera, one tip per episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Neighborhood
2018–2026CBSComedy
A relentlessly friendly Midwestern family moving into a Black neighbourhood in Pasadena, and the man next door who would rather they had not.
- Season 8
2 sequencesNeighbours
1985–2025Seven / Ten (Australia)Drama
Ramsay Street across forty years, and a theme song that survived every cast, network and cancellation.
- Season 1
- Season 39
1 sequenceNeo Yokio
2017–2018NetflixAnimation
Ezra Koenig's magistocrat comedy, animated in Japan and pitched somewhere nobody has located since.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNeon Genesis Evangelion
1995–1996TV TokyoAnimation
Ninety seconds cut faster than the eye resolves, with whole frames of text and diagram flashed for one frame each. Yoko Takahashi's theme is bright, major-key J-pop laid over imagery that is doing nothing of the kind, and the mismatch is the point rather than an accident.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNever Have I Ever
2020–2023NetflixComedy
Mindy Kaling's high-school series, narrated by John McEnroe for reasons the titles do not explain.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNever Mind the Buzzcocks
1996–2015BBC TwoComedy
A music panel game whose identity parade round outlasted most of the acts standing in it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe New Addams Family
1998–1999YTV / Fox FamilyComedy
The 1964 scripts remade almost line for line in Vancouver, thirty-four years afterwards.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe New Adventures of He-Man
1989–1990SyndicationAnimation
He-Man moved off Eternia into space, with a redesigned cast and almost none of the original's iconography.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe New Adventures of Old Christine
2006–2010CBSComedy
A divorced mother whose former husband's new girlfriend is also called Christine, which is where the title comes from.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNew Amsterdam
2018–2023NBCDrama
A public hospital run by a director who keeps asking how he can help.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNew Girl
2011–2018FoxComedy
Zooey Deschanel and three flatmates, with a theme the cast sings themselves.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe New Look
2024Apple TV+Drama
Couture construction shown as engineering — pattern, thread and seam assembling a silhouette, by Imaginary Forces.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe New Pope
2020HBO / Sky AtlanticDrama
Nuns dancing in front of a neon crucifix to a house track, for two and a half minutes, entirely straight-faced. Paolo Sorrentino's sequel keeps the sequence that made the first series notorious and makes it longer.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNew Tricks
2003–2015BBC OneCrime
Retired detectives reopening cold cases, with a theme song sung by Dennis Waterman about the premise.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNewhart
1982–1990CBSComedy
The Vermont inn sitcom, and the source of what is still widely held to be the best final scene in American television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNewsnight
1980–BBC TwoDocumentary
The BBC's late analysis programme, opening on a rotating globe of headlines rather than a presenter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNewsRadio
1995–1999NBCComedy
Thirty seconds of a radio newsroom and a horn riff, from a workplace sitcom that never quite got the audience it deserved.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Newsroom
2012–2014HBODrama
Broadcast news history as a procession of anchors, presses and control rooms, scored by Thomas Newman with more reverence than the show it introduces ever quite earns.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Next Step
2013–2025Family ChannelDrama
A dance studio filmed as a documentary about itself, which ran for twelve years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNickelodeon Guts
1992–1995NickelodeonDocumentary
Children competing on wires and ramps, and climbing a fake mountain that shed foam.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn
2014–2018NickelodeonComedy
Quadruplets who share everything including the title, and want to share less of it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNielegalni
2018Canal+ PolandCrime
A Polish intelligence unit whose members do not officially exist.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Night Agent
2023–NetflixDrama
Surveillance geometry and a ringing phone, built out of the one object the whole premise hangs on.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNight Court
1984–1992NBCComedy
Eighteen seconds of bass guitar and a Manhattan courthouse at night.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNight Gallery
1969–1973NBCHorror
Rod Serling walking through a gallery of paintings, each one introducing that week's story — a title sequence rebuilt around new artwork every episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Night Manager
2016–2025BBC One / AMCDrama
Le Carré's arms dealer and the hotelier sent in after him, opened by weapons assembling out of luxury.
- Season 2
1 sequenceThe Night Of
2016HBOCrime
New York at night from inside a cab, the city sliding past in sodium light, cut so that nothing quite resolves — which is the state of the evidence for the entire series.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNightline
1980–ABCDocumentary
A late bulletin that began as nightly updates on the Iran hostage crisis and outlived the crisis by forty-five years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNikita
2010–2013The CWDrama
The third screen version of the Besson film, after the 1997 series this catalogue holds as La Femme Nikita.
- Season 2
1 sequenceNine Perfect Strangers
2021–HuluDrama
Wellness-retreat imagery filmed until it turns sinister — smoothies, mountains and breathing exercises, all slightly too still.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNinja Turtles: The Next Mutation
1997–1998Fox KidsSci-Fi
The live-action Turtles made by the Power Rangers producers, and the one that added a fifth.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNip/Tuck
2003–2010FXDrama
A mannequin being marked up for surgery, over a pop song — cosmetic work presented as retail, which is the show's position on it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNo Offence
2015–2018Channel 4Crime
Paul Abbott's Manchester police series, opened in eighteen seconds by Peter Anderson Studio.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNoble House
1988NBCDrama
Four nights of Hong Kong boardroom warfare, from the James Clavell novel.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNoel's House Party
1991–1999BBC OneComedy
Saturday night from a fictional house in Crinkley Bottom, and the programme that dropped celebrities into gunge on purpose.
- Season 2
1 sequenceNoggin the Nog
1959–1965BBC OneAnimation
Norse sagas drawn from the Lewis chessmen, narrated in the register of a bedtime story about a war.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Norm Show
1999–2001ABCComedy
Norm Macdonald as a hockey player struck off and sentenced to social work.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNormal People
2020BBC Three / HuluDrama
Twenty-four seconds and a card, for an adaptation that treats silence as its main instrument.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNorsemen
2016–2020NRK1 / NetflixComedy
Viking iconography played with total sincerity by a comedy shot twice, in Norwegian and English, on the same sets.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNorth and South
1985–1994ABCDrama
Two West Point friends on opposite sides of the Civil War, over a Bill Conti march.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNorthern Exposure
1990–1995CBSComedy
A moose walking through an empty Alaskan town, which is the entire opening and remains one of television's best jokes about scale.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNOS4A2
2019–2020AMCHorror
Christmas ornaments and a vintage car rendered as threat — a sequence that makes tinsel frightening.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNot Going Out
2006–BBC OneComedy
Lee Mack's flat-share sitcom, written joke-first and the longest-running British studio comedy still in production.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNot the Nine O'Clock News
1979–1982BBC TwoComedy
The sketch show that launched Rowan Atkinson and Mel Smith, opening on a parody of the bulletin it was scheduled against.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNowhere Man
1995–1996UPNSci-Fi
A photojournalist whose entire identity is erased between courses of a dinner, over one photograph.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNTSF:SD:SUV::
2011–2013Adult SwimComedy
A procedural parody whose title is an acronym joke that never resolves, opened in fourteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNumb3rs
2005–2010CBSCrime
An FBI agent and his mathematician brother, with the equations drawn over the city in the titles.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNurse Jackie
2009–2015ShowtimeComedy
Hospital corridors and pills, filmed with the brightness of a pharmaceutical advertisement.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNYPD Blue
1993–2005ABCCrime
Mike Post's theme over a New York shot with the handheld looseness that got the show its reputation before anyone had seen an episode.
- Season 1