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1 sequenceThe X Factor
2004–2018ITVDocumentary
Simon Cowell's format after Pop Idol, opening on a spotlight sweep and a fanfare rebuilt every few series.
- Season 1
5 sequencesThe X-Files
1993–2002, 2016–2018FoxSci-Fi
One sequence held untouched for seven years, then rebuilt twice as the cast turned over. The card at the end is the real trick: it reads 'The Truth Is Out There' most weeks, and something else entirely more than twenty times.
- Seasons 1–7
- Season 8
- Season 9
- and 2 more
1 sequenceX-Men '97
2024–Disney+Animation
The 1992 series' opening rebuilt shot for shot in modern animation — a revival that understood the titles were the thing people actually remembered.
- Season 1
1 sequenceX-Men: The Animated Series
1992–1997Fox KidsAnimation
A guitar riff, a name card per character, and nothing else — the most efficient superhero roll-call ever animated, and the reason the 2024 revival copied it exactly.
- Season 1
1 sequenceXena: Warrior Princess
1995–2001SyndicationDrama
A narrated mythological premise and a war cry, from the spinoff that comprehensively outgrew Hercules.
- Season 1
1 sequenceXiaolin Showdown
2003–2006Kids' WBAnimation
Four apprentice monks collecting artefacts, in a series that borrows its fight grammar from wuxia rather than from superheroes.
- Season 1