Ready Steady Go!
1963–1966ITVDocumentary
"The weekend starts here" — the British pop programme that put the Beatles, the Stones and Motown on the same stage.
Ready Steady Go! opens with a main title sequence of 43 seconds.
It arrived on ITV in 1963, when The Sooty Show, Ivor the Engine and Danger Man were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
43sFan upload.
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2 sequences
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- Season 1
- Seasons 18–20
1 sequenceUniversity Challenge
College Boy by Derek New, and a split screen that has stacked two teams on top of each other since 1962.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTomorrow's World
Live demonstrations of things that did not work yet, opening on graphics that promised they would.
- Season 29
1 sequenceWorld of Sport
ITV's answer to Grandstand, which is remembered now almost entirely for the wrestling at four o'clock.
- Season 20
1 sequenceSportsnight
The midweek sports programme, and the strand most of British sports broadcasting learned its trade on.
- Season 26
2 sequences
Match of the Day
Barry Stoller's theme, unchanged since 1970, over whatever graphics the decade happens to allow.
- Season 7
- Season 62