Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
MTV's computer-animated Spider-Man, set between the first two films and cancelled after thirteen episodes.
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series opens with a main title sequence of 31 seconds.
At 31 seconds, it opens well under the 58-second median for animation sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on MTV in 2003, when The Real World, Clone High and The Big Comfy Couch were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
31sFan upload of the intro. The alternative is an extended remix of the theme.
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