Schoolhouse Rock!
Three-minute songs about grammar and arithmetic dropped between Saturday morning cartoons, and remembered longer than the cartoons.
Schoolhouse Rock! opens with a main title sequence of 12 seconds.
At 12 seconds, it opens well under the 58-second median for animation sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on ABC in 1973, when One Life to Live, All My Children and The Bugs Bunny Show were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
12sFan upload.
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