Man Down
Greg Davies as a teacher whose life is a sustained emergency, with Rik Mayall as his father.
Man Down opens with a main title sequence of 25 seconds.
At 25 seconds, it opens well under the 38-second median for comedy sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Channel 4 in 2013, when Time Team, Peep Show and Top Boy were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
25sMarionettes of the cast on visible strings, collapsing and being hauled upright again by a hand that enters the frame. Stop-motion, animated by Shane Barrell for Baby Cow.
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