Torchwood
2006–2011BBC ThreeBBC OneSci-Fi
The Doctor Who spinoff that wanted to be taken seriously, opening with Cardiff, a rift and a great deal of blue light.
Torchwood opens with a main title sequence of 26 seconds.
At 26 seconds, it opens well under the 58-second median for sci-fi sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on BBC Three in 2006, when A Question of Sport, Grandstand and Top of the Pops were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
26sThe first series' titles, later dropped almost entirely as the show moved to shorter serialised runs.
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