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

mad men

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

Best intro song? FIrefly.

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

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

SPACE

The final frontier...

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

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

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

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

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

Motorcity (2012)

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

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.

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

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

https://youtu.be/DejnyAIurdQ

Maybe not my favorite but the opening for True Blood

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

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.

• 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

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

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

MacGyver (1985)