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

The expanse

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.
- In the spirit of ducktales. Captain Bucky O'Hare
You mean my ringtone? I fucking love that opening song.
I've had that song stuck in my head for FOUR YEARS NOW. And I'm pretty fine with it.

Game of Thrones used to get me so pumped.

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.

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)

I loved Mysterious Cities of Gold!
And the theme tune was great, just a pity it didn't have another series
- I can still recite most of the Cities of Gold opening almost 40 years later. For whatever reason, I really fixated on the outfits of some of the characters and the show may have partially contributed to my interest in textiles and textile-adjacent things. l may or may not made myself a Zia paper doll so I could design many dresses for her (which all included quipu made out of embroidery floss...).
The song is kinda meh, but in the anime category I gotta give a shoutout to Konosuba S2 OP for being an entire perfect mini-episode in itself

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.

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.

I really like the opening for Stargate SG-1. Mainly because that orchestral score is great. It's pretty iconic for the series and is pretty recognizable. https://youtu.be/aafGXNWHGaw

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

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

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.

Hands down Peacemaker for me
https://youtu.be/_mrr3UNALww

Never once skipped that intro while watching the show.

This was what I was looking for, the intro to Peacemaker never fails to brighten my day! It's easily the most James Gunn thing imaginable and it's brought to life for all to enjoy. I added so many songs from that show's soundtrack onto my workout playlist, all starting with the intro song.

It is so completely perfect that I'm really curious what they're gonna do for the Season 2 intro with new incoming characters in place of the leaving minor characters since they brilliantly used even actors in small roles as part of the big dance.

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 😂

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

Star Trek Discovery has a GORGEOUS intro

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.

Yeah came here to say Succession. The show is so cool and they nailed it with the opening intro. It's sets the vibe perfectly.
Another vote for Succession!

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.

Setting Up the Lair is totally on my workout playlist! Blake Neely really knows how to write a score that keeps me pushing when I start to run out of gas.

The electric guitar cover of Neely's "Flash vs Arrow" theme by Niall Stenson is also on my workout mix, makes it feel like I'm training to survive against a metahuman which is very motivating!

Twin peaks.

Showing my age here, but 80s and 90s had some catchy theme tunes but for me Knight Rider is my favourite

https://youtu.be/oNyXYPhnUIs

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.

As soon as I read this threds title, The Office (US)'s theme started playing in my head, so I guess that.

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Dark

Or Peaky Blinders

Dark' intro lives in my head

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

Guardians of the galaxy https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cbAfhBNQ2qU

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).

Corner Gas was truly one of the greatest sitcoms of its time, Canadian or otherwise.
I still watch the reruns whenever they are on.

2 that stick out for me are Magnum PI and Dallas.

Gerry Anderson's UFO (1970)

https://youtu.be/o2Z1yLO9C-Q
M.A.S.K. 1985

Muh muh muh MASK!

Bosch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YNrreHaov4

When you walk through the garden

You gotta watch your back

Well, I beg your pardon

Walk the straight and narrow track

But, which season version is the best???
- Yes.

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

For All Mankind and Foundation's are both incredible. Didn't skip them once. Someone over at Apple TV really cares about strong openings.

House MD (with Hugh Laurie) there were two cuts of the opening theme depending what region it was teardrop by massive attack or bab O'Reily by the who. And then often closing to "can't always get what you want" by rolling stones

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

It's from a while ago, but I just love the campy set and that Danny Elfmin score from Tales from the Crypt

@Merlu Scott Pilgrim vs The World title card with performance

Death Sex + Robots on Netflix. Love how the icons change for each episode.

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

Batman Beyond came to mind right away.

Contact (1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwhQB3TKXA

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

SPACE

The final frontier...

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

Best intro song? FIrefly.

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

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

mad men

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

Definetly "The Lego Batman Movie": https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Tc8X8A-x9dc
I just love the humor of that movie

The Severance opening titles are pretty awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmS3m0OG-Ug
I'm finding Succession opening to be a really annoying earworm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTAXzj36sag

Person Of Interest

The Expanse

The Americans

Succesion

Not opening credits exactly but I really loved the recap thing they did in Ronald D. Moore's BSG. So much energy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPBzHa2PcS8&t=38s

In the Heat of the Night. The original movie, not the TV show.

https://youtu.be/DejnyAIurdQ

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

Maybe not my favorite but the opening for True Blood

@Merlu Maybe opening of the Peripheral...The Amazon adaptation of William Gibson's excellent novel.

Motorcity (2012)

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

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.

Good question. Usually the music is far better than the actual intro, Succession was a good example of that. 24's intro isn't much but it's unique and ages well because nobody likes sitting through TV show intros anymore.

I'd have to say that Whiskey Cavalier's intro is the best one I've seen, from what I can think of off the top of my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uewHt0EpyA

Any Season of the Wire. Awesome show

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.

MacGyver (1985)

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
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.