This guy, Daniel Kanemoto, made his own titles for The Walking Dead on AMC, long before the first episode debuted. He’s a professional designer, that’s why they’re so good. I prefer them to the official ones, which are nice enough but are more on the creepy side rather than fun.
The titles for Dallas were pretty good.
Nah, too ominous. This is better.
Kicks ass.
Pretty much everything Digital Kitchen has ever done kicks ass: House, Six Feet Under,Dexter, Nip/tuck, The Company…they’ve been nominated for Outstanding Main Title design more than a dozen times.
The Tomorrow People was a superb childrens TV series that ran for several years in the 70s, about youngsters developing mental powers like telepathy and teleportation. The theme was quite freaky and very different from anything else around on 5 o’clock weekdays TV.
Also Blake’s Seven, late 70’s adult low-budget sci-fi created by Terry Nation. NB If you love old low-budget Doctor Who and you’ve never seen this, I recommend you try and check it out.
More modern…Scrapped Princess is a 2003 anime series. I’m not a huge anime fan, but this series IMO is a standard scenario and standard characters that just happened to achieve a great synergy with the artwork and most particularly the music. I have this theme on my MP3 player as a mood booster.
It’s kind of in vogue around here to hate The Simpsons these days, but that opening is nothing less than brilliant. There is so much detail there, it’s the only opening I’ve ever gone back to watch in slo-mo in order to catch everything. The chalkboard and couch gags are icing on the cake.
The newer high-def version kicks it all up a notch; whether it’s an improvement is debatable.
I’m another that’s completely squicked out by the Dexter opening - it’s what my DVR’s 30 second FF button was invented for.
Big Bang Theory in a horrible earworm. We race to FF that one, too.
All of Seth McFarland’s openings are annoying as hell.
I loved the Sopranos opening enough to buy the CD and damn near wear it out. True Blood, too.
I’ve always bee a sucker for Survivor’s opening. I love the color saturation and the graphics. I was really surprised that they used the first season’s music this season, even though a Nicaraguan version had been recorded. Odd decision, that…
No ‘House’? With that perfect music? (Though it always annoyed me there was an old-timey anatomy illustration behind everyone’s name (nerves for Cuddy, spine for Chase), but Cameron got a film clip of boats on a river! They couldn’t find a sepia tinted illustration of a heart for her?)
HBO did two my favorites:
Carnival
Rome
Cold Case
Miami Vice
The Muppet Show
Carnivorousplant’s House of Horrors
Twilight Zone
Blue’s Clues
The problem some fans have with the opening theme to Enterprise was that it wasn’t specifically composed for the show. It’s a re-work of a Dianne Warren-penned song which Rod Stewart recorded for the end credits of the film “Patch Adams.”
Rod’s recording of it here. Faith of the Heart
I like the song myself. In fact I prefer Stewart’s recording to that of Russell Watson, who performed it for the theme.
I realize that “Faith of the Heart” was not specifically composed for the the series. But nonetheless it just perfectly captures the basic idea. It’s as if they picked the song first and wrote the series bible around it.
I really liked the intro to The Pacific.
Anyone else here remember Arnie? It ran in the early 1970s. Herschel Bernardi as a blue-collar dock worker who makes the big time by being promoted to white-collar upper management. That had a good opening each week showing his promotion, and when he shows up for his first day with his new suit and briefcase, his buddy rides him in on the forklift.
Some of my favorite include All in the Family, Wild, Wild, West and Hawaii Five-O. I’m really glad they kept basically the same intro with the new show.
What I liked about the openings to Six Feet Under were the vignettes of that week’s “special guest corpse”. I especially liked it when it was a curve ball: an old lady on a hospital bed with a ventilator may ‘survive’ the opening scene while her nurse choked to death on a Fig Newton or whatever. When I find myself in an awkward situation, such as the other day when I was negotiating a very steep drop off while going downhill to a river, I’ll say “Six Feet Under opening in the making.”
Get a Life, to the tune of “Stand” by REM.
Surprised no one has mentioned the HolmesTV series with Jeremy Brett. Wonderful piece of music.
Fringe’s blue and red openings for whether it is in the real universe or the alternate universe is fantastic. Simple - and not original - idea but is it the first time it has been done so much. IIRC half the episodes this season are red and the other blue?