Neighbours
1985–2025SevenTen (Australia)Drama
Ramsay Street across forty years, and a theme song that survived every cast, network and cancellation.
Neighbours rebuilt its titles: two distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1 and 39, running between 34 and 36 seconds.
At 36 seconds at its longest, it opens well under the 50-second median for drama sequences in this catalogue.
Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; Neighbours did so once.
All 2 opening title sequences
Season 1
34sFan upload of the very first episode's titles from 1985 — the earliest version of a sequence that ran, redesigned, for four decades.
Season 39
36sFan upload of the 2023 credits, made for the revival after the series had been cancelled once. Counting a season per year from 1985, that is the thirty-ninth.
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2 sequences
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- Season 1
- Season 41
1 sequence
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Los Angeles County lifeguards, and at its peak the most-watched television programme on Earth.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLonesome Dove
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- Season 1
2 sequences
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Los Angeles fashion houses, and the most widely watched daytime serial in the world.
- Season 1
- Season 38
1 sequenceKnight Rider
A narrated premise, a scanning red light and a synth arpeggio — the most efficient piece of eighties television branding after the A-Team's.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDynasty
Gold lettering, oil money and an orchestral theme played with no irony whatsoever — the decade's idea of wealth, stated in ninety seconds.
- Season 1