Living Single
Queen Latifah performing the theme over Brooklyn — a sitcom opening sung by one of its own stars.
Living Single opens with a main title sequence of 46 seconds.
It arrived on Fox in 1993, when America's Most Wanted, The X-Files and Beverly Hills, 90210 were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
46sThe first season's intro.
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