The Bold and the Beautiful
Los Angeles fashion houses, and the most widely watched daytime serial in the world.
The Bold and the Beautiful rebuilt its titles: two distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1 and 38, running between 36 and 42 seconds.
It arrived on CBS in 1987, when Candid Camera, Guiding Light and As the World Turns were also on the network.
Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; The Bold and the Beautiful did so once.
All 2 opening title sequences
Season 1
36sFan upload of the 1987 credits, from the launch year.
Season 38
42sFan upload dated October 2024; counting a season per year from the March 1987 launch, that is the thirty-eighth.
More drama opening titles from the 1980s
2 sequences
EastEnders
An aerial pull-back over the Thames and the drum that answers it — thirty-two seconds that have barely changed in forty years.
- Season 1
- Season 41
1 sequence
Baywatch
Los Angeles County lifeguards, and at its peak the most-watched television programme on Earth.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLonesome Dove
Basil Poledouris scoring a cattle drive from Texas to Montana — the miniseries that proved the western was not finished after all.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Neighbours
Ramsay Street across forty years, and a theme song that survived every cast, network and cancellation.
- Season 1
- Season 39
1 sequenceKnight Rider
A narrated premise, a scanning red light and a synth arpeggio — the most efficient piece of eighties television branding after the A-Team's.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDynasty
Gold lettering, oil money and an orchestral theme played with no irony whatsoever — the decade's idea of wealth, stated in ninety seconds.
- Season 1