The Tomorrow People
Children evolving telepathy in a Thames Television series remade twice since.
The Tomorrow People opens with a main title sequence of 56 seconds.
It arrived on ITV in 1973, when The Sooty Show, The Big Match and Rainbow were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
56sFan upload of the 1973 original. Found while searching for the 2013 CW remake, which remains uncatalogued — the search returned the ancestor instead of the descendant.
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