V
41 shows43 sequences
1 sequenceV
1984–1985NBCSci-Fi
Visitor iconography and a red banner, borrowing its design language from twentieth-century propaganda quite deliberately.
- Season 1
1 sequenceV Wars
2019NetflixHorror
A thawing glacier releasing a pathogen that turns some of the infected into vampires, from the Jonathan Maberry comics.
- Season 1
1 sequenceV: The Final Battle
1984NBCSci-Fi
The sequel miniseries to V, three nights long, and the point the story stopped being an allegory and became a war.
- Season 1
1 sequenceV.I.P.
1998–2002SyndicationCrime
Pamela Anderson fronting a celebrity protection agency she is unqualified to run, played for the joke.
- Season 1
1 sequenceValkyrien
2017NRK1Drama
A doctor running an illegal clinic in a disused Oslo underground station.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Vampire Diaries
2009–2017The CWHorror
Forty-eight seconds of Mystic Falls in fog, with the cast cards rebuilt every season around a body count that never stopped rising.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVan Helsing
2016–2021SyfyHorror
A descendant of the vampire hunter waking into an America the vampires already hold.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVanderpump Rules
2013–BravoDocumentary
The staff of a Los Angeles restaurant, most of whom would rather be famous than employed.
- Season 12
1 sequenceVeep
2012–2019HBOComedy
Fourteen seconds of seal, fanfare and a card. The brevity is the joke — an office with all the pomp of the presidency and none of the power.
- Seasons 1–7
1 sequenceVeggieTales
1993–2015SyndicationAnimation
Bible stories told by vegetables, made on desktop computers in Chicago before any studio would have paid for it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVelvet
2014–2016Antena 3Drama
A 1950s Madrid couture house, and the seamstress and the heir who grew up in it together.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVelvet Colección
2017–2019Movistar+Drama
The Velvet sequel, moving the fashion house from Madrid to Barcelona in 1967.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Venture Bros.
2003–2018Adult SwimAnimation
Jonny Quest's adventure-cartoon grammar played straight and then left to rot for fifteen years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVera
2011–ITVCrime
Northumberland coast and moorland in twenty seconds, with no detective visible in any of it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVeronica Mars
2004–2019UPN / The CW / HuluCrime
The Dandy Warhols over surveillance photographs and a Californian beach town that is much worse than it looks.
- Season 1
2 sequencesVeronica's Closet
1997–2000NBCComedy
A lingerie magnate whose marriage collapses in public, in one of NBC's Thursday night bets after Seinfeld.
- Season 1
- Season 3
1 sequenceA Very English Scandal
2018BBC OneDrama
Russell T Davies and Stephen Frears on the Thorpe affair, opened in the graphic register of a 1970s political cartoon.
- Season 1
1 sequenceA Very Peculiar Practice
1986–1992BBC TwoDrama
A campus medical practice used as a way of writing about what was happening to universities.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Vicar of Dibley
1994–2020BBC OneComedy
Dawn French as the first woman priest in a village that expected a man.
- Season 2
1 sequenceVice Principals
2016–2017HBOComedy
A school crest and a sting, over in twelve seconds — the institutional dignity the two leads spend the series destroying.
- Season 2
1 sequenceVicious
2013–2016ITVComedy
Two actors who have lived together for fifty years, insulting each other in front of a studio audience.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVictor and Valentino
2019–2022Cartoon NetworkAnimation
Two half-brothers in a Mesoamerican village where the folklore is real and mostly annoyed with them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVictoria
2016–2019ITVDrama
The young queen's first years, opened by a jewelled monogram assembling itself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVictoria Wood: As Seen on TV
1985–1987BBC TwoComedy
Sketches, songs at a piano, and the soap parody Acorn Antiques, which outlived the programme around it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVictorious
2010–2013NickelodeonComedy
A performing-arts high school, and the series that made Ariana Grande's name.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Vietnam War
2017PBSDocumentary
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part account, scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVigil
2021–2023BBC OneCrime
A death aboard a Trident submarine, investigated by a detective who cannot leave the boat.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVikings
2013–2020HistoryDrama
Bodies sinking through water over Fever Ray's 'If I Had a Heart' — a history-channel drama with a title sequence better than its remit.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVikings: Valhalla
2022–2024NetflixDrama
The Vikings sequel, set a century later, and made for a different service than the one that cancelled the parent.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVincenzo
2021tvNCrime
An Italian-Korean consigliere returning to Seoul, opened in the grammar of a mafia film.
- Season 1
2 sequencesVinland Saga
2019–NHK General TVAnimation
Norse violence scored with post-hardcore, and an opening that gets quieter as the series abandons the war it started with.
- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequenceVinyl
2016HBODrama
Record sleeves, needles and 1970s New York cut at the speed of the drug the show is about. One season only, so the titles outlived the series by a fortnight.
- Season 1
1 sequenceViper
1994–1999NBC / SyndicationCrime
A car that converts into an armoured attack vehicle, cancelled by NBC and revived for syndication.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVirgin River
2019–NetflixDrama
A nurse practitioner who answers an advertisement for a job in a Californian mountain town.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Virginian
1962–1971NBCDrama
The first ninety-minute western on American television, and the third longest-running of them all.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Vision of Escaflowne
1996TV TokyoAnimation
A schoolgirl pulled into a war between a hidden planet and an empire, scored throughout for full orchestra.
- Season 1
1 sequenceViva La Bam
2003–2005MTVComedy
Bam Margera staging elaborate stunts against his own parents, in the Jackass spin-off MTV built around a single house in Pennsylvania.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVlad
2019–2021Pro TVCrime
A Romanian crime series about a man returning to Bucharest to find who killed his brother.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVoltron: Defender of the Universe
1984–1985SyndicationAnimation
Five lions forming a robot, explained by narration because the animation alone could not carry it — and the sequence is better for the commitment.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Vow
2020–2022HBODocumentary
NXIVM told largely through footage its own members shot while they were still inside it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVR Troopers
1994–1996Fox KidsSci-Fi
The Power Rangers formula applied to virtual reality, using footage from three different Japanese series at once.
- Season 1