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Opening Narration
Show
Space. The final frontier.
Star Trek
The following takes place between 7:00 AM and 8:00 AM.
24
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups.
Law & Order
My name is Michael Westen. I used to be a spy.
Burn Notice
In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit.
The A-Team
And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap – will be the leap home.
Quantum Leap
You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a Machine that spies on you every hour of every day.
Person of Interest
A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.
Knight Rider
Gentleman, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.
The Six Million Dollar Man
My name is Sydney Bristow. Seven years ago I was recruited by a secret branch of the CIA called SD-6.
Alias
Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.
Arrested Development
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture...
The Outer Limits
You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.
The Twilight Zone
The story you are about to hear is true. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Dragnet
Here it comes! From the Bob Barker Studio at CBS in Hollywood! Television's most exciting hour of fantastic prizes!
The Sam Beckett one is the closing words of the opening sequence. The opening is "Theorising that he could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr Sam Beckett stepped into the TITLE OF SHOW accelerator... and vanished"
...he awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknonwn force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see or hear....
...And so Doctor Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home…”
Good quiz! I wonder if you could maybe drop Price Is Right though. No one outside the US would know this. Some countries might have their own version of that show, but obviously a different intro.
I got it and I've never been to the US nor watched the show, except maybe briefly a German incarnation with the same premise. It's been referenced so many times in different tv shows/movies, so I think many of us have a decent chance of guessing it because of that.
best opening narration IMO was Keith David saying, "1000 years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness, it was a world of fear, it was the age of Gargoyles."
When I was of the age that I watched it (religiously), I didn't speak any English yet. That's my excuse and I stick to it! -- anyway I am surprised so few got it. Too many kids on this site? ;)
Only 15% got the Outer Limits? I guess the next line really wouldn't make sense to the younger generation: "We control the vertical. We control the horizontal". Those of us of a certain age remember having to adjust those. So those lines really meant something. Outer Limits and Twilight Zone. Two incredible shows.
Not everyone grew up in North America or had access to these shows outside of it. If I gave you a list of shows we watched in my home country I bet you would not have heard of any ;) and yes, yes; I know this is an American website, just replying to the comment in kind.
The Fargo opener is pretty iconic, although I do recognize the show started after this quiz was created.
"This is a true story. The events depicted took place in [location] in [year]. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred."
Never even heard of Person of Interest.
Yeah, "L'agence tous risques" is "The A-team", now I know… :)
"This is a true story. The events depicted took place in [location] in [year]. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred."