The Lone Ranger
Rossini's William Tell overture attached so firmly to a masked rider that the music has never fully got free of it.
The Lone Ranger opens with a main title sequence of 59 seconds.
The opening titles
Season 1
59sRestored fan upload of the long version of the opening. Found on a second query after the first returned an opening-and-closing bundle.
More drama opening titles from the 1940s
1 sequence
Grey's Anatomy
Twenty-six seconds of surgical instruments and a guitar figure, from a series that has now outlived most of the shows that copied it.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Twin Peaks
A bird, a sawmill blade and a waterfall, over Angelo Badalamenti at a tempo no network would approve today — ninety seconds of a town being described before anyone in it speaks.
- Seasons 1–2
- Season 3
1 sequence
The Rookie
A five-second card: THE ROOKIE in tall white capitals over a row of Los Angeles palms against a hazy blue sky, and the episode is under way.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Dancing with the Stars
The American Strictly, which runs two seasons a year and rebuilds its titles for most of them.
- Season 10
1 sequence
Scrubs
Twelve seconds, an X-ray and a guitar — a medical comedy that spends less time on titles than most shows spend on a network ident.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Modern Family
Fourteen seconds of family photographs sliding into place, and a card. Nothing else.
- Season 1