Top 10: Creative TV Show Opening Credits

Sometimes art gets involved with TV. Often it’s not pretty and just doesn’t seem like a good idea. Every so often though these “artsy” intros grab the gist of a show and hit the nail right on the head. Here are 10 such intros.

10. The Ghost Whisperer

As LeTune puts it “the intro is much better than the series”. I’ve taken dumps better than this lame series, but yeah, the intro is pretty cool.

9. The Pacific

The Pacific – the continuation of Steven Spielberg’s and Tom Hanks’ hit series Band of Brothers tells the story of American troops during their fighting in the Pacific. While BoB were better, the intro of The Pacific is magnificent. Check it out below!

8. Desperate Housewives

It is uncertain how well this opening credits fits the nature of the show, but regarding its quality there is no doubt. Along the same style as Carnivale and Ghost Whisperer, this intro is far from ordinary.

7.Farscape

One of the strangest damned shows Sci-Fi ever came up with (and that’s saying a lot). Still the intro was trippy- like a 70′s acid kind of trippy. I’m pretty sure it was the weird song.

6. Carnivale

Too bad this series never made it as far as it should have. It was just too damned strange for most. The intro captures that perfectly and gives a real sense of not only the story, but the time in which it is set.

5. Caprica

Syfy’s new series is a spin off of the Battlestar Galactica series, with a definite Days of Our Lives Twist. Regardless of your feelings on sci-fi OR soap operas, this intro was elegantly done.

4. Mad Men

This intro is nearly a throwback to some of the intros from the 60s and early 70s. I know that’s probably not cool to say, but look at the intro to The Saint and in a lot of ways there are some parallels… artistically speaking.

3. Dexter

Yeah, the first time I saw this I was so disturbed I skipped breakfast and shaving for like a week.

2. True Blood

Regardless of my personal programming preferences, this intro has some “Art Street Cred” as far as intros go.

1.Fringe

Still in the same vein as the X-files, this is another “Artsy” FOX effort. I like it; it explains the show in 24 seconds which gives me just enough time to say “no thank you” and turn the channel… if I were so inclined.