Pocoyo
A Spanish preschool series played out on plain white, with no scenery at all to compete with the four-year-old and the narrator who argues with him.
Pocoyo opens with a main title sequence of 62 seconds.
It arrived on La 2 in 2005, when Miffy and Friends was also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
62sArchive upload of the intro, dated 2008 by the channel that posted it.
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