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The letter U accounts for 32 of the 2,618 shows here, with 33 opening title sequences from 1959 to the present.

Six of them are filed here rather than under their first word, because an index ignores a leading "The" or "A" — The Undoing, The Uncanny Counter and The Underground Railroad among them.

One rebuilt its opening titles mid-run: The Unit, with two sequences.

32 shows33 sequences

Still from the opening titles of UFO1 sequence

UFO

1970–1971ITVSci-Fi

Anderson's first live-action series, set in a 1980 that never arrived, with purple wigs and a Barry Gray theme.

  • Season 1
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Ugly Betty

2006–2010ABCComedy

Fashion-magazine collage and a poncho, in twelve seconds.

  • Season 1
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Ultimate Spider-Man

2012–2017Disney XDAnimation

Spider-Man trained by S.H.I.E.L.D., opened in eleven seconds flat.

  • Season 1
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Umbre

2014–2019HBO RomaniaCrime

A Bucharest debt collector holding two lives apart, in HBO Europe's Romanian production. The title means Shadows.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt1 sequence

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

2015–2019NetflixComedy

A woman released after fifteen years in a bunker, who moves to New York on the strength of it.

  • Season 1
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The Uncanny Counter

2020–2023OCNSci-Fi

Demon hunters working out of a noodle restaurant.

  • Season 1
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Uncle Grandpa

2013–2017Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Everyone's uncle and everyone's grandpa, travelling in an RV that is also a tiger.

  • Season 1
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Undeclared

2001–2002FoxComedy

Judd Apatow's college follow-up to Freaks and Geeks, cancelled after one season.

  • Season 1
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Under the Banner of Heaven

2022FX on HuluCrime

A Utah detective losing his own faith while investigating a killing committed inside it.

  • Season 1
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Under the Dome

2013–2015CBSSci-Fi

A Stephen King novel stretched across three summers, and eleven seconds of a town under glass.

  • Season 1
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Underbelly

2008–2013Nine NetworkCrime

Australian organised crime, a different true story each season.

  • Season 1
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Underdog

1964–1967NBC / CBSAnimation

A superhero who rhymes, and one of the last title sequences built around its sponsor's product.

  • Season 1
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The Underground Railroad

2021Prime VideoDrama

Barry Jenkins's miniseries, opened with portraiture that holds on faces long enough to become uncomfortable.

  • Season 1
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The Undoing

2020HBOCrime

A child's drawing of a family, animated and slowly disassembled, over Nicole Kidman singing 'Dream a Little Dream of Me'.

  • Season 1
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Unforgettable

2011–2016CBSCrime

A detective who remembers every day of her life except the one that matters.

  • Season 1
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Unforgotten

2015–ITVCrime

Two detectives working cold cases old enough that the suspects have built whole lives since.

  • Season 1
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Unhappily Ever After

1995–1999The WBComedy

Married… with Children's writers doing it again, with a talking stuffed rabbit only the father can hear.

  • Season 1
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Unicorn: Warriors Eternal

2023Adult SwimAnimation

Genndy Tartakovsky's reincarnated heroes in an alternate nineteenth century, animated on a hand-painted look.

  • Season 1
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Unikitty!

2017–2020Cartoon NetworkAnimation

The Lego Movie character given her own kingdom and a great deal more sugar.

  • Season 1
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Union Square

1997–1998NBCComedy

A New York diner and the people in it, taken off after fifteen episodes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Unit2 sequences

The Unit

2006–2009CBSDrama

Delta Force at work and their wives at home on the base, developed for television by David Mamet.

  • Season 1
  • Season 3
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United States of Tara

2009–2011ShowtimeComedy

Diablo Cody's series about a woman with dissociative identity disorder, whose titles introduce every alter.

  • Season 1
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University Challenge

1962–ITV / BBC TwoDocumentary

College Boy by Derek New, and a split screen that has stacked two teams on top of each other since 1962.

  • Season 1
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Unorthodox

2020NetflixDrama

A young woman leaving a Satmar community in Williamsburg for Berlin.

  • Season 1
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UnREAL

2015–2018LifetimeDrama

The production office of a dating format, written by someone who had worked in one.

  • Seasons 1–2
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Unsolved Mysteries

1987–2002NBCDocumentary

Robert Stack in a trench coat, a synthesiser and a fog machine — the most frightening thing on American television that was not fiction.

  • Season 1
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Unsolved Mysteries (2020)

2020–NetflixDocumentary

The revival, which keeps the original's silhouette and drops its host.

  • Season 1
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The Untouchables

1959–1963ABCCrime

Walter Winchell narrating over Prohibition Chicago at a clip that makes the whole thing sound like a news bulletin — which was the intention.

  • Season 1
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The Upper Hand

1990–1996ITVComedy

Who's the Boss? remade for ITV, and one of the few American formats that worked coming the other way.

  • Season 1
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Upstairs, Downstairs

1971–1975ITVDrama

The Edwardian household drama that Downton Abbey is, by its own creator's admission, a direct descendant of.

  • Season 1
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Upstart Crow

2016–2020BBC TwoComedy

Ben Elton's Shakespeare sitcom, written in the shape of the plays it mocks.

  • Season 1
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Urban Gothic

2000–2001Channel 5Horror

A British horror anthology made for late night on a channel three years old, and nastier than anything the BBC would have run.

  • Season 1