The Jetsons
The same studio's future to answer its own past, with a theme that names the whole family in about fifteen seconds.
The Jetsons opens with a main title sequence of 59 seconds.
It arrived on ABC in 1962, when The Bugs Bunny Show, ABC's Wide World of Sports and American Bandstand were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
59sPosted by Warner Bros.' own classics channel, and the opening alone.
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