Muppet Babies
The Muppets as toddlers in a nursery, spun out of a dream sequence in The Muppets Take Manhattan.
Muppet Babies opens with a main title sequence of 63 seconds.
It arrived on CBS in 1984, when Candid Camera, Guiding Light and As the World Turns were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
63sFan upload of the first version of the 1984 opening.
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