What's your favorite movie/serie/TV show opening credit ?

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For me, it's the 2000's television news opening from the belgian TV named "La Une". It rocks and brings back memories.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6A5eNd5ZKpQ

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The expanse

I've had that song stuck in my head for FOUR YEARS NOW. And I'm pretty fine with it.

I absolutely love The Expanse intro -- I always let it play for the incredible song and started to notice all the changing visuals to match the progression in the show as a result.

DuckTales is one of those opening songs that I sing along with because I know the lyrics. The Expanse is one of those opening songs that I sing along with despite not knowing any of the lyrics at all.

I have a few:

  • Babylon 5 : The opening monologue and music score was amazing every time. Definitely an older vibe with this one with flashing images of the cast up as it progressed, but it was very good.
  • Westworld Season 1 : I think it was mainly the same for later seasons with slight variations. The simple piano tune building for the whole intro was beautiful and while watching back to back would absolutely let it run maybe every other episode, or every third.
  • Eureka Season 1 : The score by Mothersbaugh and quirky art is really fun and conveys the definite style of the show.

The Better Call Saul Open Intro is very iconic and it looks cool too, i suggest checking it off

From my childhood and adolescence: a lesser-known show called The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Fresh Prince, X-Files

Anime choices: Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Hellsing

21st century: Sopranos, Game of Thrones (I almost didn't want to, but the music never let us down)

3 more...

Firefly.

Yeah, it's sappy, but somehow catchy, too.

Mal's a sad, sad, sad, sad, sad man. He's got a sad yet defiant song.

Tv series:
Memorable and really enjoyable: 24 (Jack "fucking" Bauer FTW) and Alias (the J.J. Abrams vehicle)
Favourite: Cowboy Bebop (the anime obviously)
Beautiful score: The Expanse

I love the Alias theme, takes me back to the days of watching it one episode a week, some of those episodes were cliff hangers! I really need a rewatch now

ditto .. shame only the "HD" version is on streaming platforms .. I missed the boat on the rambaldi box set .. I'd very much like to own the series in 1080p on BD. if it were ever to be released it would be a day 1 purchase for me

Probably the wire or sopranos, they feel very iconic and nostalgic to me.

Gotta be Futurama or Bojack Horseman. I'm truly a sucker for the intro sequences that change as a series go on.

Upvoted for Bojack Horseman. Intro constantly updates to reflect the storyline and the theme song slaps.

Cowboy Bebop was the first thing that came to mind, but now I'm wondering how many modern shows actually have banger intros that we all automatically skip.

Star Trek Voyager
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Returned (Original French version)

I'm pretty sure Buffy's intro is the reason why I like rock.

When someone says "check out my sound system", that's how I check it out 😂

The opening song and credit sequence for Succession always got me SO HYPE.

The part after the bridge where the kids are riding on the elephant, and the piano part comes back in and strikes three times instead of two... chills every time.

Game of Thrones always fascinated me. I'm a huge fan of models and the thing always seemed like a giant one.

Catchiest: Adventure Time
Memorable: Game of Thrones (are /r/freefolk here yet?)
Favourite: Futurama - watched every single one for the different slogans and classic cartoon clips

I like the intro to TruBlood more than the show itself.

ditto but that's not a big achievement .. show went downhill pretty fast .. only kept watching for the uber smexy Deborah Ann Woll as Jessica

Nothing recent that I can think of, so you get the kid-me version:

The BBC Chronicles of Narnia series from the late 1980s:

https://invidious.0011.lt/watch?v=4lPZ6YmqXjA

The Legend of Prince Valiant - 1990s

https://invidious.0011.lt/watch?v=v87iwPlNBcY

Gargoyles - 1990s

https://invidious.0011.lt/watch?v=ygrEVnrg3Ic

Gummi Bears - no not that one - the good one. The 1980s one sung by Joseph Williams from Toto (also singing voice of adult Simba in the original Lion King - which is a thing I didn't in any way just find out when checking his name. Nope.)

https://invidious.0011.lt/watch?v=yYZH7B498gE

Best intro song? FIrefly.

Stuck in my head forever (and still amazing 30 years later)? 90's X-Men intro.

Polar opposite shows, but I always sing along to the opening of The Sopranos and Ted Lasso.

It will always be TNG for me, but all the Star Trek shows have great intros IMO.

SPACE

The final frontier...

The opening to Black Sails fucking slaps. I usually skip intros after a few episodes, but I almost never skip the Black Sails intro.

The theme from Sherlock along with Holmes' little "the game is on" leimotif were pretty great.

Same with the driving beat from the Arrow title card — in fact I'm a big fan of Blake Newly in general, but it's the track "Setting Up the Lair" from the first season that plays most of my favourite elements.

But the title sequence that stands out best for me is the 2010 version of the Doctor Who theme. The music from that season in particular has always hit me hard, but all of Murray Gold's work on the show was phenomenal.

The "Mad Men" opening credit scene was so fresh and original when it first came out. Along with a killer theme song.

Fargo

It‘s not a classic opening credits but that’s what makes it so great. With many other shows the intro gets boring quickly.

The Rockford Files! That phone rings then it's just 2 minutes of unmitigated joy

I always get goosebumps when watching opening titles of Polish science magazine Sonda, from the 80s.

Here's a bit of an unusual answer. The TV show Corner Gas is a Canadian comedy set in small town Saskatchewan. I grew up in a small town in Saskatchewan, so loved the show (it's also objectively very funny). It's a show I watched a lot as a kid, probably more times than anything. And that was all before the ages of being able to skip intros, so the iconic theme song (which references a very popular joke about Saskatchewan) was heard a lot.

Mostly I think I'm just nostalgic about it. I really hated growing up in a rural area and the show was literally the only one I had at the time that felt local (Sask isn't exactly a well known place).

In Jojo's Bizzare Advanture, once the season's villain has revealed their ability, the opening will be slightly altered to include it in a way that make the opening's cryptic nature suddenly make sense. Also, I love that by the end of a season, you suddenly realized that the opening was basically a giant spoiler that includes all key plot points, but you simply didn't notice until you actually watched the corresponding episodes.

Magical secret powers where revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic sword and said BY THE POWER OF REVERB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The opening for the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime (Ready Steady Go by L’Arc-En-Ciel) is burned into my mind forever. For some reason it makes me cry a little bit now.

When you walk through the garden

You gotta watch your back

Well, I beg your pardon

Walk the straight and narrow track

MacGyver (1985)

As soon as I read this, the song started playing automatically in my head. Along with most of the visual sequences, and Richard Dean Anderson's smile.

there's simply so much awesome content .. this question was 1 of, if not the hardest to ask .. and yes ..thanks for the reminder of this amazing tune .. it never went away in my head but it's not to be humming it again :P