History Main / AutomobileOpening

* ''TheSopranos'' features Tony driving from New York to his home in New Jersey. His route is deliberately inefficient to provide more interesting visuals.

* Showa era ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series, with the exception of ''KamenRiderAmazon'', do this with a motorcycle rather than a car. ''{{Kamen Rider V3}}'' does it with a motorcycle and a BBCQuarry [[MadeOfExplodium that explodes randomly and pointlessly]].

* Another PoliceProcedural, this one by Jack Webb, was ''{{Adam-12}}'', which opened with a dispatcher calling the unit to investigate an armed mob, and showing it rolling off, lights and siren full blast.

* A big chunk of ''ThePrisoner'''s [[ExpositoryThemeTune expository opening sequence]] has Patrick [=McGoohan=] driving around in [[CoolCar the actor's own Lotus 7]].
* ''{{Series/Mash}}'' did a ''flying'' version, showing the camp from overhead as choppers full of wounded are coming in for a landing.

* ''{{Postman Pat}}'' features Pat driving around Greendale, picking up the mail from the post office and delivering it, while all the villagers wave as he goes past.

* ''[[ThePinkPanther The Pink Panther Show]]'' featured a live action sequence of (intercut with segments of the Pink Panther cartoons and random stock footage) known as the Panthermobile. At the end of the sequence the car drops off the Pink Panther and the Inspector at a cinema.
* ''FamilyGuy'' had a ''PoliceSquad'' style opening for one of its episodes, in which Stewie is riding his tricycle, culminating in him crashing into [[TheSimpsons Homer]] in the garage.

<<|TitleSequence|>>

* Showa era ''KamenRider'' series, with the exception of ''KamenRiderAmazon'', do this with a motorcycle rather than a car. ''{{Kamen Rider V3}}'' does it with a motorcycle and a BBCQuarry [[MadeOfExplodium that explodes randomly and pointlessly]].

* Several LateToTheParty PC adventure games open with a driving scene of your character's journey to the game's location, often using RealLife highway footage rather than CGI. Examples include ''Barrow Hill'', ''Rhiannon'', ''Dire Grove'', and ''Baron Wittard''.

* ''StarTrekVoyager'' had the ship travelling through different astronomical settings, making it fit this trope.
** Almost all the ''StarTrek'' series, except for ''DeepSpaceNine'' and ''{{Enterprise}}'', had the ships flying around. The original series had the Enterprise orbiting planets and flying through space, as did ''NextGeneration''.

* The ''MisterMagoo'' made-for-tv cartoons opened with him blithely driving his jalopy on a railroad track, through a barn, mowing down a hydrant, into a construction site, a roller-coaster track, finally into an electric substation and a fire of sparks.

** Especially ''KamenRiderBlackRX,'' whose opening consists of ''literally nothing but'' the hero riding his motorcycle down a road.

* ''PoliceSquad'''s title sequence began with a shot of the flashing light on a police cruiser. In TheMovie, ''TheNakedGun'', this was expanded to show the police cruiser driving around downtown L.A., driving off the roads, driving through buildings, [[RuleOfFunny driving into jungles, driving down waterslides]], driving down the [[StarWars Death Star trench]]...

* ''TheFlintstones'', particularly the (once) rarely seen first opening sequence.

* PoliceCameraAction, although that's pretty much obvious for a show which focuses mainly on motoring dangers.
* ''That 70s Show'' features various cast members rotating into the car singing along with Cheap Trick's In the Street.

* ''M*A*S*H'' did a ''flying'' version, showing the camp from overhead as choppers full of wounded are coming in for a landing.

* Another PoliceProcedural, this one by JackWebb, was ''{{Adam12}}'', which opened with a dispatcher calling the unit to investigate an armed mob, and showing it rolling off, lights and siren full blast.

* ''PoliceSquad!'''s title sequence began with a shot of the flashing light on a police cruiser. In TheMovie, ''TheNakedGun'', this was expanded to show the police cruiser driving around downtown L.A., driving off the roads, driving through buildings, [[RuleOfFunny driving into jungles, driving down waterslides]], driving down the [[StarWars Death Star trench]]...

* ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' features a car driving around the titular city.

* A big chunk of ''ThePrisoner'''s [[ExpositoryThemeTune expository opening sequence]] has Patrick McGoohan driving around in [[CoolCar the actor's own Lotus 7]].

** Almost all the ''StarTrek'' series, except for Deep Space Nine and Enterprise, had the ships flying around. The original series had the Enterprise orbiting planets and flying through space, as did NextGen.

* ''That 70s Show'' features various cast members rotating into the car singing along with Cheap Trick's In the Street.

* ''{{LA Law}}'' opened with a trunk of a Mercedes-Benz being slammed, showing a California personalized plate with this as the tag number. The opening scene had to be redone in the second season (and every year after), because the year sticker on the plate had expired.