NCIS: Origins
Gibbs in 1991, twenty-one years before the parent series began.
NCIS: Origins opens with a main title sequence of 11 seconds.
At 11 seconds, it opens well under the 47-second median for crime sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on CBS in 2024, when Blue Bloods, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and S.W.A.T. (2017) were also on the network.
The opening titles
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