Talking Heads

Name: Talking Heads
Genre: Drama

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Alan Bennett's monologues, each a single person speaking to camera for half an hour, and among the most studied scripts in British television.

One opening sequence is catalogued for Talking Heads, covering season 1.

It arrived on BBC One in 1988, when A Question of Sport, Grandstand and This Is Your Life were also on the network.

1 sequence

The opening titles

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1985–BBC OneDrama

An aerial pull-back over the Thames and the drum that answers it — thirty-two seconds that have barely changed in forty years.

1989–2001NBC / SyndicationDrama

Los Angeles County lifeguards, and at its peak the most-watched television programme on Earth.

1989CBSDrama

Basil Poledouris scoring a cattle drive from Texas to Montana — the miniseries that proved the western was not finished after all.

1985–2025Seven / Ten (Australia)Drama

Ramsay Street across forty years, and a theme song that survived every cast, network and cancellation.

1987–CBSDrama

Los Angeles fashion houses, and the most widely watched daytime serial in the world.

1982–1986NBCDrama

A narrated premise, a scanning red light and a synth arpeggio — the most efficient piece of eighties television branding after the A-Team's.