1.   The cockroach episode of thirtysomething included a scene that the programme makers also used on the opening credit sequence each week.

2.   All this before the opening credits have ended.

3.   As the opening credit roll shows her jogging on a beach at sunrise, you keep waiting for a product pitch for athletic shoes or bran flakes.

4.   All of this occurs before the opening credits.

5.   Burton veers between his usual course of portent and mockery, which can be glimpsed in the opening credits.

6.   But as soon as the opening credits are done, the mood shifts.

7.   But over the years, as the studio system crumbled and the apparatus of moviemaking grew larger, opening credits became more crowded.

8.   But there are some inspired bits, the best of which comes at the beginning in an affectionate sendup of the opening credits for the Bond films.

9.   By the time the opening credits are finished, Richard has survived his inevitable fall.

10.   Campion throws down the gauntlet in the opening credits, a black-and-white montage of contemporary young women discussing love and sex.