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Roswell

1999–2002The WBUPNSci-Fi

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Dido over a New Mexico desert, for a series that treats an alien conspiracy as primarily a problem of adolescence.

Roswell opens with a main title sequence of 46 seconds.

At 46 seconds, it opens well under the 58-second median for sci-fi sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on The WB in 1999, when 7th Heaven, Charmed and Sabrina the Teenage Witch were also on the network.

1 sequence120th most looked up of 409 in the 1990sIMDb ↗
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The opening titles

Season 1

46s

The first season's opening credits.

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