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The letter N accounts for 69 of the 2,618 shows here, with 71 opening title sequences from 1959 to the present.

15 of them are filed here rather than under their first word, because an index ignores a leading "The" or "A" — The Night Manager, The Night Agent and The Nanny among them.

Two rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.

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Still from the opening titles of The Naked Brothers Band1 sequence

The Naked Brothers Band

2007–2009NickelodeonComedy

A mockumentary about a children's rock band, played by two brothers who really were one.

  • Season 1
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The Naked Director

2019–2021NetflixDrama

Toru Muranishi and the 1980s Japanese adult video industry.

  • Season 2
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Nanalan'

1998–2004CBCAnimation

A puppet toddler spends the day at her grandmother's, filmed at grass height.

  • Season 1
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Nancy Drew

2019–2023The CWCrime

The teenage detective relocated to a haunted Maine town.

  • Season 1
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The 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
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Narcos

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
Still from the opening titles of Narcos: Mexico1 sequence

Narcos: 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
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Naruto

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
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Naruto 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
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Nash Bridges

1996–2001CBSCrime

Don Johnson in San Francisco with a yellow Barracuda, after Miami Vice.

  • Season 1
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Nathan 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
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NBA 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
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NBC 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
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NCIS

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
Still from the opening titles of NCIS: Hawai'i1 sequence

NCIS: Hawai'i

2021–2024CBSCrime

The first NCIS led by a woman, and eleven seconds of titles to say so.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of NCIS: Los Angeles1 sequence

NCIS: Los Angeles

2009–2023CBSCrime

The first NCIS spin-off, fourteen seasons of undercover work.

  • Season 5
Still from the opening titles of NCIS: New Orleans1 sequence

NCIS: New Orleans

2014–2021CBSCrime

The franchise moved to a city with a soundtrack, which the titles spend all twenty-one seconds on.

  • Season 1
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NCIS: Origins

2024–CBSCrime

Gibbs in 1991, twenty-one years before the parent series began.

  • Season 1
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NCIS: Sydney

2023–Paramount+ / Network 10Crime

The first NCIS made outside America, with an Australian and American team sharing a desk.

  • Season 1
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Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

2004–2007NickelodeonComedy

A middle-school survival manual delivered to camera, one tip per episode.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Neighborhood1 sequence

The 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
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Neighbours

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
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Neo Yokio

2017–2018NetflixAnimation

Ezra Koenig's magistocrat comedy, animated in Japan and pitched somewhere nobody has located since.

  • Season 1
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Neon 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
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Never Have I Ever

2020–2023NetflixComedy

Mindy Kaling's high-school series, narrated by John McEnroe for reasons the titles do not explain.

  • Season 1
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Never Mind the Buzzcocks

1996–2015BBC TwoComedy

A music panel game whose identity parade round outlasted most of the acts standing in it.

  • Season 1
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The New Addams Family

1998–1999YTV / Fox FamilyComedy

The 1964 scripts remade almost line for line in Vancouver, thirty-four years afterwards.

  • Season 1
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The 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
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The 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
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New Amsterdam

2018–2023NBCDrama

A public hospital run by a director who keeps asking how he can help.

  • Season 1
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New Girl

2011–2018FoxComedy

Zooey Deschanel and three flatmates, with a theme the cast sings themselves.

  • Season 1
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The New Look

2024Apple TV+Drama

Couture construction shown as engineering — pattern, thread and seam assembling a silhouette, by Imaginary Forces.

  • Season 1
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The 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
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New Tricks

2003–2015BBC OneCrime

Retired detectives reopening cold cases, with a theme song sung by Dennis Waterman about the premise.

  • Season 1
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Newhart

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
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Newsnight

1980–BBC TwoDocumentary

The BBC's late analysis programme, opening on a rotating globe of headlines rather than a presenter.

  • Season 1
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NewsRadio

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
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The 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
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The Next Step

2013–2025Family ChannelDrama

A dance studio filmed as a documentary about itself, which ran for twelve years.

  • Season 1
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Nickelodeon Guts

1992–1995NickelodeonDocumentary

Children competing on wires and ramps, and climbing a fake mountain that shed foam.

  • Season 1
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Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn

2014–2018NickelodeonComedy

Quadruplets who share everything including the title, and want to share less of it.

  • Season 1
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Nielegalni

2018Canal+ PolandCrime

A Polish intelligence unit whose members do not officially exist.

  • Season 1
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The Night Agent

2023–NetflixDrama

Surveillance geometry and a ringing phone, built out of the one object the whole premise hangs on.

  • Season 1
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Night Court

1984–1992NBCComedy

Eighteen seconds of bass guitar and a Manhattan courthouse at night.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Night Gallery1 sequence

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
Still from the opening titles of The Night Manager1 sequence

The 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
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The 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
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Nightline

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
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Nikita

2010–2013The CWDrama

The third screen version of the Besson film, after the 1997 series this catalogue holds as La Femme Nikita.

  • Season 2
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Nine Perfect Strangers

2021–HuluDrama

Wellness-retreat imagery filmed until it turns sinister — smoothies, mountains and breathing exercises, all slightly too still.

  • Season 1
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Ninja 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
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Nip/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
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No Offence

2015–2018Channel 4Crime

Paul Abbott's Manchester police series, opened in eighteen seconds by Peter Anderson Studio.

  • Season 1
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Noble House

1988NBCDrama

Four nights of Hong Kong boardroom warfare, from the James Clavell novel.

  • Season 1
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Noel'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
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Noggin 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
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The Norm Show

1999–2001ABCComedy

Norm Macdonald as a hockey player struck off and sentenced to social work.

  • Season 1
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Normal People

2020BBC Three / HuluDrama

Twenty-four seconds and a card, for an adaptation that treats silence as its main instrument.

  • Season 1
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Norsemen

2016–2020NRK1 / NetflixComedy

Viking iconography played with total sincerity by a comedy shot twice, in Norwegian and English, on the same sets.

  • Season 1
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North and South

1985–1994ABCDrama

Two West Point friends on opposite sides of the Civil War, over a Bill Conti march.

  • Season 1
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Northern 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
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NOS4A2

2019–2020AMCHorror

Christmas ornaments and a vintage car rendered as threat — a sequence that makes tinsel frightening.

  • Season 1
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Not 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
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Not 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
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Nowhere Man

1995–1996UPNSci-Fi

A photojournalist whose entire identity is erased between courses of a dinner, over one photograph.

  • Season 1
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NTSF:SD:SUV::

2011–2013Adult SwimComedy

A procedural parody whose title is an acronym joke that never resolves, opened in fourteen seconds.

  • Season 1
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Numb3rs

2005–2010CBSCrime

An FBI agent and his mathematician brother, with the equations drawn over the city in the titles.

  • Season 1
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Nurse Jackie

2009–2015ShowtimeComedy

Hospital corridors and pills, filmed with the brightness of a pharmaceutical advertisement.

  • Season 1
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NYPD 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