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33 shows34 sequences
1 sequenceUFO
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
1 sequenceUgly Betty
2006–2010ABCComedy
Fashion-magazine collage and a poncho, in twelve seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUltimate Spider-Man
2012–2017Disney XDAnimation
Spider-Man trained by S.H.I.E.L.D., opened in eleven seconds flat.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUmbre
2014–2019HBO RomaniaCrime
A Bucharest debt collector holding two lives apart, in HBO Europe's Romanian production. The title means Shadows.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Umbrella Academy
2019–2024NetflixSci-Fi
Comic-panel graphics and a brass sting, introducing seven siblings by number rather than name.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnbreakable 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
1 sequenceThe Uncanny Counter
2020–2023OCNSci-Fi
Demon hunters working out of a noodle restaurant.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUncle Grandpa
2013–2017Cartoon NetworkAnimation
Everyone's uncle and everyone's grandpa, travelling in an RV that is also a tiger.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUndeclared
2001–2002FoxComedy
Judd Apatow's college follow-up to Freaks and Geeks, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnder the Banner of Heaven
2022FX on HuluCrime
A Utah detective losing his own faith while investigating a killing committed inside it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnder the Dome
2013–2015CBSSci-Fi
A Stephen King novel stretched across three summers, and eleven seconds of a town under glass.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnderbelly
2008–2013Nine NetworkCrime
Australian organised crime, a different true story each season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnderdog
1964–1967NBC / CBSAnimation
A superhero who rhymes, and one of the last title sequences built around its sponsor's product.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Underground Railroad
2021Prime VideoDrama
Barry Jenkins's miniseries, opened with portraiture that holds on faces long enough to become uncomfortable.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe 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
1 sequenceUnforgettable
2011–2016CBSCrime
A detective who remembers every day of her life except the one that matters.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnforgotten
2015–ITVCrime
Two detectives working cold cases old enough that the suspects have built whole lives since.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnhappily 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
1 sequenceUnicorn: Warriors Eternal
2023Adult SwimAnimation
Genndy Tartakovsky's reincarnated heroes in an alternate nineteenth century, animated on a hand-painted look.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnikitty!
2017–2020Cartoon NetworkAnimation
The Lego Movie character given her own kingdom and a great deal more sugar.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnion Square
1997–1998NBCComedy
A New York diner and the people in it, taken off after fifteen episodes.
- Season 1
2 sequencesThe 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
1 sequenceUnited States of Tara
2009–2011ShowtimeComedy
Diablo Cody's series about a woman with dissociative identity disorder, whose titles introduce every alter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUniversity 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
1 sequenceUnorthodox
2020NetflixDrama
A young woman leaving a Satmar community in Williamsburg for Berlin.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnREAL
2015–2018LifetimeDrama
The production office of a dating format, written by someone who had worked in one.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequenceUnsolved 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
1 sequenceUnsolved Mysteries (2020)
2020–NetflixDocumentary
The revival, which keeps the original's silhouette and drops its host.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe 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
1 sequenceThe 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
1 sequenceUpstairs, Downstairs
1971–1975ITVDrama
The Edwardian household drama that Downton Abbey is, by its own creator's admission, a direct descendant of.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUpstart Crow
2016–2020BBC TwoComedy
Ben Elton's Shakespeare sitcom, written in the shape of the plays it mocks.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUrban 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