![]() We then offered a handy guide to whether we feel you should WATCH these XL sequences most every time, or if you should frankly lunge for that “SKIP INTRO” button. But for every overly serious expounding on circles or silo machinery, you might get a jaunty gem that truly rocks.īelow, the TVLine staff brainstormed many of the longest opening credits on current, non-cancelled series, ranked from shortest (at least 60 seconds) to longest. The advent of cable but more so streaming - a platform without ads (□) and without structured running times - returned to producers the option, at least, of indulging (and ohhhh, how some have indulged) in longer, sometimes-laborious opening credits. ![]() The almighty Lost, for example, only gave you a 14-second, floating logo! The Fall Guy (set to a title track crooned by star Lee Majors himself), Dallas, Happy Days and Dynasty are but a handful of examples whose opening credits easily broke a minute-and-a-half in length, while the full (and eventually truncated) Twin Peaks opening ran 2 minutes, 40 seconds!īut then… but then the number of commercial minutes being sold per hour grew, and the first place that TV producers went to reclaim their lost storytelling time was through the trimming, if not chopping, of opening credits. Opening title sequences used to regularly be long and leisurely, trotting out the names and/or faces of cast members, punctuated by glimpses of their fictional world. They were long… and then got really short… and then got extra-long again! ![]() A funny thing happened with TV show opening credits over the decades.
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