# TV shows with narrated intro sequences **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282 "2009-10-19T03:27:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/21 "2009-10-19T12:13:57Z")
[Monkey!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHQTTq0dFT4) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/22 "2009-10-19T12:30:47Z")
[_Charlie’s Angels_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW_daBHfjag) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/23 "2009-10-19T12:30:59Z")
**Bosom Buddies** “When we first moved to New York, we found an apartment…dirt cheap.” ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/24 "2009-10-19T12:36:12Z")
_Pushing Daisies_ often did. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/25 "2009-10-19T13:32:41Z")
Didn’t Buffy in the first season or so have a Giles voiceover that explained the show? ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/26 "2009-10-19T13:47:22Z")
Michael Westen explains what being burned as a spy means at the beginning of each episode of “Burn Notice”. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/27 "2009-10-19T13:50:45Z")
Jack Webb always had a voice-over at the top of “Dragnet”. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/28 "2009-10-19T13:53:36Z")
> [@Monkey\_Chews](#): > > [Monkey!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHQTTq0dFT4) What the hell is that? ---
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/29 "2009-10-19T14:07:31Z")
This is my boss, Jonathan Hart - a self-made millionaire. He’s quite a guy. This is Mrs. H. She’s gorgeous. She’s one lady who knows how to take care of herself. By the way, my name is Max. I take care of both of them, which ain’t easy; 'cause when they met… it was murder! Narration by a character from _Hart to Hart_. ---
**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/30 "2009-10-19T14:10:15Z")
SOAP had both a narrrated open, “This is the story of two sisters…” and a recap “Confused? You won’t be, after this epsiode of…” ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/31 "2009-10-19T14:13:02Z")
Just about every episode of _Magnum, P.I._ started with a voice-over by Magnum, explaining some little tidbit about being a detective, or just about life in general. But if differed from episode to episode, and was more about the episode than the show in general, so I don’t know if it “counts” for what you are looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/32 "2009-10-19T14:48:52Z")
“And now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It’s Arrested… Development.” ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/33 "2009-10-19T14:56:58Z")
Older Sci-Fi geeks should remember this short lived series from the late 70s. **The Fantastic Journey** > [@](#): > > Lost in the Devil’s Triangle, trapped in a dimension with beings from the future and other worlds, a party of adventurers journey through zones of time back to their own time. Varian, a man from the 23rd century, possessing awesome powers; from 1977; Fred, a young doctor just out of medical school; Scott Jordan, the thirteen-year-old son of a famous scientist; Liana, daughter of an Atlantean father and an extraterrestrial mother; and Jonathan Willaway, a rebel scientist from the 1960s. Together they face the frightening unknown on… The Fantastic Journey. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/34 "2009-10-19T15:00:30Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > What the hell is that? It’s [Monkey Magic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series))! Woo-ooh! ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/35 "2009-10-19T15:04:32Z")
The first couple of seasons of “NUMB3RS” had a voiceover by Charlie Eppes talking about how we all use math in our daily lives all the time, but it wasn’t really an explanation of the premise of the show. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/36 "2009-10-19T15:07:02Z")
The _Untouchables_…The voice over was almost as famous as the main character or lead actor. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/37 "2009-10-19T15:11:12Z")
Lots of old TV shows: \*\*The Fugitive The Invaders Mr. Terrific I Dream of Jeannie\*\* (for a while, anyway) \*\*The Adventures of Superman Coronet Blue The Prisoner\*\* (sorta: “Where am I?” “In the Village”) **Star Trek** , fer cryin’ out loud \*\*The Twilight Zone The Outer Limits \*\* ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/38 "2009-10-19T15:17:05Z")
I seem to remember that at the beginning of the TV show that starred Tony Curtis and Roger Moore, _The Persuaders_, there was a voice over (I think by Curtis himself) on how these two very different individuals got together. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/39 "2009-10-19T15:18:00Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Didn’t Buffy in the first season or so have a Giles voiceover that explained the show? “In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.” Interestingly enough, the first couple of episodes have the narration delivered by some anonymous woman. Then Giles picks it up a little ways into season one. ---
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282/40 "2009-10-19T15:40:39Z")
**Quantum Leap** “…Dr. Sam Becket stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished…” First season of **Remington Steel** “…want to know a deep, dark secret? The great detective Remington Steel? He doesn’t exist…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-with-narrated-intro-sequences/514282.md?page=3)