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The letter O accounts for 61 of the 2,618 shows here, with 66 opening title sequences from 1952 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 Office, The Orville and The O.C. among them.

Five rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.

61 shows66 sequences

Still from the opening titles of The O.C.1 sequence

The O.C.

2003–2007FoxDrama

Phantom Planet's 'California' over Newport Beach, in thirty-two seconds that sold an entire idea of southern California to a generation.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of O.J.: Made in America1 sequence

O.J.: Made in America

2016ESPNDocumentary

Nearly eight hours on one trial and a century of Los Angeles, opened in sixteen seconds because there is no time to spare.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The OA2 sequences

The OA

2016–2019NetflixSci-Fi

Famously withheld — the first season put its title card nearly an hour into the first episode, so most viewers met the opening long after the show had started.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of The Oath1 sequence

The Oath

2018–2019CrackleCrime

A gang made up of serving police officers, opened by Imaginary Forces.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Obi-Wan Kenobi1 sequence

Obi-Wan Kenobi

2022Disney+Sci-Fi

Ten years into the exile on Tatooine, with the character and the actor both back after seventeen years.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Occupation1 sequence

Occupation

2009BBC OneDrama

Three soldiers from one Manchester regiment and the years after Basra.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Occupied1 sequence

Occupied

2015–2020TV2 NorgeDrama

A Norwegian political thriller about a soft occupation, opened with the calm of a corporate annual report.

  • Season 1
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October Faction

2020NetflixHorror

Two monster hunters whose teenage children do not know what the family business is.

  • Season 1
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Octonauts

2010–CBeebiesAnimation

A crew of animals working out of an underwater base, each episode built around a real marine species.

  • Season 1
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The Odd Couple

1970–1975ABCComedy

A narrated premise about two divorced men sharing an apartment, delivered in the tone of a public information film.

  • Season 2
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Odd Squad

2014–PBS KidsComedy

Child agents investigating mathematical strangeness, played entirely deadpan.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Odyssey 51 sequence

Odyssey 5

2002ShowtimeSci-Fi

Five astronauts sent back five years to prevent the destruction of Earth, cancelled after one season.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Offer1 sequence

The Offer

2022Paramount+Drama

The making of The Godfather, opened in the visual language of the film it is about.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Office1 sequence

The Office

2005–2013NBCComedy

Scranton, a car park and a filing cabinet, shot like stock footage for a regional business — twenty-two seconds that promise nothing will happen.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Oggy and the Cockroaches2 sequences

Oggy and the Cockroaches

1998–France 3Animation

A French cartoon with almost no dialogue in it, which is the reason it sold to nearly every country there is.

  • Season 1
  • Season 6
Still from the opening titles of Oh, Doctor Beeching!1 sequence

Oh, Doctor Beeching!

1995–1997BBC OneComedy

A branch-line station waiting to be closed by the Beeching cuts, from the writers of Hi-de-Hi!

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes1 sequence

OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes

2017–2019Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A hero-supply plaza run as a beat-em-up, with the video game's grammar kept in the titles.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Oktoberfest 19001 sequence

Oktoberfest 1900

2020ARDDrama

A Nuremberg brewer trying to force his way into Munich's festival, and the family he spends to do it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Old Grey Whistle Test1 sequence

The Old Grey Whistle Test

1971–1988BBC TwoDocumentary

The serious music programme to Top of the Pops' singles chart, with a harmonica riff and a star-kicker cartoon.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Olive Kitteridge1 sequence

Olive Kitteridge

2014HBODrama

Coastal Maine in muted colour, at the pace of a woman who has decided not to be pleased about anything.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of On Becoming a God in Central Florida1 sequence

On Becoming a God in Central Florida

2019ShowtimeDrama

Kirsten Dunst working her way up a pyramid scheme that destroyed her family.

  • Season 1
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Once Upon a Time

2011–2018ABCDrama

A card hidden inside the episode's own imagery — the title appears somewhere in the opening scene rather than over a sequence, in a different place every week.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of One Day at a Time1 sequence

One Day at a Time

2017–2020Netflix / PopComedy

The Norman Lear sitcom remade around a Cuban American family, with the 1975 theme rerecorded by Gloria Estefan.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of One Foot in the Grave1 sequence

One Foot in the Grave

1990–2000BBC OneComedy

Victor Meldrew, forcibly retired at sixty and furious about everything since.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of One Life to Live2 sequences

One Life to Live

1968–2012ABCDrama

Llanview, and the first American daytime serial written around class and ethnicity rather than around a hospital.

  • Season 21
  • Season 44
Still from the opening titles of One on One1 sequence

One on One

2001–2006UPNComedy

A Baltimore sports broadcaster whose teenage daughter moves in with him, and the spine of UPN's comedy block for five years.

  • Season 1
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One Piece

1999–Fuji TVAnimation

The longest-running opening rotation in television — more than twenty distinct sequences over a quarter of a century, each announcing a new arc.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of One Piece (2023)1 sequence

One Piece (2023)

2023–NetflixDrama

The live-action adaptation builds its opening from the crew's own belongings — maps, hats, weapons — rather than restaging the anime's.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of One Punch Man1 sequence

One Punch Man

2015–TV TokyoAnimation

A screaming rock track and animation of enormous ambition, for a hero who wins every fight in one hit and is bored by it.

  • Season 1
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One Step Beyond

1959–1961ABCHorror

An anthology that claimed every story was true, a year before The Twilight Zone said the opposite.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of One Tree Hill1 sequence

One Tree Hill

2003–2012The WB / The CWDrama

Gavin DeGraw's 'I Don't Want to Be' over a small North Carolina town, re-cut every season until the show dropped the sequence entirely.

  • Seasons 1–4
Still from the opening titles of Only Connect1 sequence

Only Connect

2008–BBC Four / BBC TwoDocumentary

A quiz whose easiest round asks what four things have in common, and whose hardest does not admit there is a connection at all.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Only Fools and Horses1 sequence

Only Fools and Horses

1981–2003BBC OneComedy

A theme sung by the show's own writer, explaining the premise in verse — and one of the very few British sitcom openings to have charted.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Only Murders in the Building1 sequence

Only Murders in the Building

2021–HuluComedy

The Arconia drawn as a cutaway illustration with the residents inside it, redrawn each season as the building's secrets change.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Only Way Is Essex1 sequence

The Only Way Is Essex

2010–ITV2Documentary

Structured reality built around a group of Essex friends, and the format most British television copied afterwards.

  • Season 2
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Only When I Laugh

1979–1982ITVComedy

Three men in a hospital ward who are not especially ill, and the registrar who cannot discharge them.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Open All Hours1 sequence

Open All Hours

1976–1985BBC OneComedy

Ronnie Barker again, this time behind a corner-shop till with a faulty cash register.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Orange Is the New Black1 sequence

Orange Is the New Black

2013–2019NetflixDrama

Extreme close-ups of real formerly incarcerated women's faces — eyes, mouths, tattoos — cut to Regina Spektor. Not one of them is a cast member, which is the point.

  • Seasons 1–7
Still from the opening titles of The Originals1 sequence

The Originals

2013–2018The CWHorror

The Vampire Diaries spinoff, moving the family to New Orleans and giving them a title sequence the parent show never had.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Orphan Black1 sequence

Orphan Black

2013–2017Space / BBC AmericaSci-Fi

One face fracturing into many, which is both the premise and a fair description of what Tatiana Maslany was asked to do every week.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Orville1 sequence

The Orville

2017–2022Fox / HuluSci-Fi

A ship passing the camera to a full orchestral fanfare, played entirely straight — a comedy whose titles are a sincere love letter to the ones this catalogue opens with.

  • Season 1
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Os Normais

2001–2003TV GloboComedy

A Rio couple narrating their own relationship to camera, in the sitcom that reset Brazilian television comedy.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Osbournes1 sequence

The Osbournes

2002–2005MTVDocumentary

Ozzy Osbourne singing Crazy Train as a lounge number over a title card done in gold leaf, which is the joke the whole series runs on.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Oswald1 sequence

Oswald

2001–2003NickelodeonAnimation

A blue octopus and his dachshund in a town drawn without a straight line in it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Our Girl1 sequence

Our Girl

2013–2020BBC OneDrama

An army medic on tour, in a drama that recast its lead and kept going.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Our Miss Brooks1 sequence

Our Miss Brooks

1952–1956CBSComedy

Eve Arden as a high-school English teacher, in a radio transfer that ran on both media at once.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Ouran High School Host Club1 sequence

Ouran High School Host Club

2006Nippon TVAnimation

A scholarship student mistaken for a boy and conscripted into the school's host club.

  • Season 1
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Out of This World

1987–1991SyndicationComedy

A girl with an alien father who can stop time by touching her fingertips together.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Outcasts1 sequence

Outcasts

2011BBC OneSci-Fi

A human settlement on Carpathia five years after Earth stopped answering.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Outer Limits1 sequence

The Outer Limits

1963–1965ABCSci-Fi

The control-voice narration that takes over your television set — a premise so effective that the sequence is better remembered than most of the episodes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Outer Limits (1995)1 sequence

The Outer Limits (1995)

1995–2002Showtime / Sci-Fi ChannelSci-Fi

The revival, which keeps the control-voice conceit and rebuilds the imagery around nineties computer graphics.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Outlander1 sequence

Outlander

2014–StarzDrama

'The Skye Boat Song' rewritten for a woman instead of a prince, over standing stones and Highland weather — and re-recorded in a new style each season to match wherever the story has been dragged.

  • Season 1
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Outnumbered

2007–2016BBC OneComedy

Two parents and three children, with the children's dialogue largely improvised.

  • Season 1
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Outrageous Fortune

2005–2010TV3Comedy

A West Auckland crime family whose matriarch decides, when her husband goes to prison, that the rest of them will go straight.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Outsider1 sequence

The Outsider

2020HBOHorror

Twenty seconds of smeared, doubled imagery — a face that will not resolve into one face, which is the entire mystery stated up front.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Over the Garden Wall1 sequence

Over the Garden Wall

2014Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Nineteenth-century American illustration and a wax-cylinder recording, for a miniseries that spends ten episodes pretending to be much older than it is.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Overlord1 sequence

Overlord

2015–AT-XAnimation

A player left inside a shut-down game as his own undead avatar, playing the villain straight.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Owl House1 sequence

The Owl House

2020–2023Disney ChannelAnimation

A human girl apprenticed to a witch on the Boiling Isles.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Oz2 sequences

Oz

1997–2003HBOCrime

HBO's first hour-long drama, and the opening that established what the network's title sequences would be for the next twenty years — narrated, tattooed, and entirely unwilling to reassure you.

  • Season 1
  • Season 4
Still from the opening titles of Ozark2 sequences

Ozark

2017–2022NetflixCrime

Five glyphs inside the letter O — a boat, a gun, a cross, a bird, a body of water — chosen for the episode they introduce. The title card is a table of contents.

  • Season 1
  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Ozzy & Drix1 sequence

Ozzy & Drix

2002–2004Kids' WBAnimation

The film Osmosis Jones continued as a series, with a white blood cell and a cold pill policing a teenager's body.

  • Season 1