V
The letter V accounts for 41 of the 2,618 shows here, with 43 opening title sequences from 1962 to the present.
Nine of them are filed here rather than under their first word, because an index ignores a leading "The" or "A" — The Vampire Diaries, The Venture Bros. and The Vicar of Dibley among them.
Two rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.
41 shows43 sequences
1 sequence
V
Visitor iconography and a red banner, borrowing its design language from twentieth-century propaganda quite deliberately.
- Season 1
1 sequence
V Wars
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
The sequel miniseries to V, three nights long, and the point the story stopped being an allegory and became a war.
- Season 1
1 sequence
V.I.P.
Pamela Anderson fronting a celebrity protection agency she is unqualified to run, played for the joke.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Valkyrien
A doctor running an illegal clinic in a disused Oslo underground station.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Vampire Diaries
A short title card: the name in gold serif lettering rising over a fogbound road at night, then alone on black.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVan Helsing
A descendant of the vampire hunter waking into an America the vampires already hold.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Vanderpump Rules
The staff of a Los Angeles restaurant, most of whom would rather be famous than employed.
- Season 12
1 sequence
Veep
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 sequence
VeggieTales
Bible stories told by vegetables, made on desktop computers in Chicago before any studio would have paid for it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVelvet
A 1950s Madrid couture house, and the seamstress and the heir who grew up in it together.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVelvet Colección
The Velvet sequel, moving the fashion house from Madrid to Barcelona in 1967.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Venture Bros.
Jonny Quest's adventure-cartoon grammar played straight and then left to rot for fifteen years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVera
Northumberland coast and moorland in twenty seconds, with no detective visible in any of it.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Veronica Mars
The Dandy Warhols over surveillance photographs and a Californian beach town that is much worse than it looks.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Veronica's Closet
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
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
A campus medical practice used as a way of writing about what was happening to universities.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Vicar of Dibley
Dawn French as the first woman priest in a village that expected a man.
- Season 2
1 sequenceVice Principals
A school crest and a sting, over in twelve seconds — the institutional dignity the two leads spend the series destroying.
- Season 2
1 sequenceVicious
Two actors who have lived together for fifty years, insulting each other in front of a studio audience.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVictor and Valentino
Two half-brothers in a Mesoamerican village where the folklore is real and mostly annoyed with them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVictoria
The young queen's first years, opened by a jewelled monogram assembling itself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVictoria Wood: As Seen on TV
Sketches, songs at a piano, and the soap parody Acorn Antiques, which outlived the programme around it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVictorious
A performing-arts high school, and the series that made Ariana Grande's name.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Vietnam War
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part account, scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVigil
A death aboard a Trident submarine, investigated by a detective who cannot leave the boat.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVikings
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
The Vikings sequel, set a century later, and made for a different service than the one that cancelled the parent.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVincenzo
An Italian-Korean consigliere returning to Seoul, opened in the grammar of a mafia film.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Vinland Saga
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
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
A car that converts into an armoured attack vehicle, cancelled by NBC and revived for syndication.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Virgin River
A nurse practitioner who answers an advertisement for a job in a Californian mountain town.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Virginian
The first ninety-minute western on American television, and the third longest-running of them all.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Vision of Escaflowne
A schoolgirl pulled into a war between a hidden planet and an empire, scored throughout for full orchestra.
- Season 1
1 sequenceViva La Bam
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
A Romanian crime series about a man returning to Bucharest to find who killed his brother.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVoltron: Defender of the Universe
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
NXIVM told largely through footage its own members shot while they were still inside it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceVR Troopers
The Power Rangers formula applied to virtual reality, using footage from three different Japanese series at once.
- Season 1