This personality is typically described as " mild-mannered ", perhaps most famously by the opening narration of Max Fleischer's Superman animated theatrical shorts.

The opening narration of Final mentioned the Bolar / Galman conflict, implying that the date for Yamato III was to be regarded as some time between 2202 and 2203 ( making for an unrealistic and compressed timeline ).

The nature for Sam's leaps are uncontrolled and unknown to the Project Quantum Leap team, attributing it to " God, time, fate, or whatever ", but generally to " put right what once went wrong ", as per the opening narration.

The opening narration to the show is as follows:

* In addition to the usual opening and closing narration, this episode features a rare bit of narration from Serling in the middle of the show — after Corey kills Donlin, Serling narrates Corey's travels through the desert landscape.

* Another Dragnet trademark is the show's opening narration: " Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true.

It featured shorter narration than the original opening.

On 1969's On the Threshold of a Dream Hayward, Edge, & Pinder share the opening narration on Edge's " In The Beginning ", leading into Hayward's " Lovely To See You ".

The opening scene with Nichols running down a hallway, up to Serling's opening narration, is all performed in one uninterrupted shot.

Corey Burton's voice performance as Brainiac was done in the same cold, low-affect style as HAL 9000 in the Space Odyssey films, and was also modeled after the ' Control Voice ' heard during the opening narration of The Outer Limits.

* The opening narration features as the introduction to Michael Jackson's " Threatened ," from his 2001 album, Invincible.

* The first sentence and a half of the opening narration from this episode is used in the pre-boarding video for Disney's The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attractions.

Other voice actors include the perennial Sterling Holloway in a cameo role as Mr. Stork, Cliff Edwards, better known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket, as Jim Crow, the leader of the crows, and John McLeish, best known for narrating the Goofy " How To " cartoons, providing the opening narration.

Forbes and Attenborough then contacted Kim Stanley, an American theatre and television actress whose previous film work was limited to starring in the 1958 feature The Goddess and providing the uncredited opening and closing narration for the 1962 adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Best remembered for its stirring title song, films originally featuring Maciste were dubbed into a variety of different " Sons of Hercules " pictures, with stock narration at the opening attempting to tie the film's lead character in to Hercules any way they could.

The series repackaged 14 Italian sword-and-sandal films by giving them a standardized theme song for the opening and closing titles, as well as a standard introductory narration attempting to relate the lead character in each film to the Greek demigod Hercules.

The movies were made into a series of sorts by splicing on the same opening and closing theme song and newly-designed voice-over narration that desperately attempted to link the protagonist of each film to the Hercules mythos, since few American viewers had a familiarity with Italian film heroes such as Maciste or Ursus.

In the Three Stooges short The Ghost Talks, a creaking door prompts Shemp to parody the opening narration of the program, naming it " The Outer Sanctorum.

Roddy announced the situation comedy Soap from 1977 to 1981, where he provided the opening and closing narration: " Confused?

The phrase itself was subsequently worked into the show's opening narration, which was written after the episode.

It also featured a much longer opening narration by Shatner.

* In his comedy book, Lolly Scramble, comedian Tony Martin makes reference to the irony of the opening narration " they never shot anyone!

The first few episodes after the pilot ( episodes two through eight ) used a non-animated, expository opening narrated by Paul Frees ; the narration mentions that Nelson lived in " a mythical town " named Cocoa Beach in " a mythical place called Florida ".

First forming in the Season One episode " The Harvest " to prevent The Master from opening a portal to hell, the line-up of the group varied from year to year, but the core that remained intact throughout the series ' run was Buffy herself and her best friends, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, as well as her Watcher, Rupert Giles.

The film opened at # 1 at the box office with $ 12, 110, 355 upon the also opening weekends of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bebe's Kids.

The opening theme was composed by Darling Violetta, an alternative rock group that performed two songs during the third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

After saying goodbye to her sister, Buffy jumps into the portal that is opening, instantly dying and closing the gateway.

release ) was used in the opening sequence of the episode " Passion " ( season 2, episode 17 ) of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, partly under the narrative voiceover of the character Angel / Angelus ( played by David Boreanaz ).

In the opening plotline, Buffy, her twin brother, Jody ( Johnny Whitaker ) and older sister, Cissy ( Kathy Garver ) are sent to live with their Uncle Bill ( Brian Keith ) and his valet Mr. French ( Sebastian Cabot ) after the children's parents died in a car accident.

Buffy takes the opening to plunge a shovel into its eyes.

The Master says, " It's not about right ; it's not about wrong ," then he morphs into Buffy who tells Spike, " It's about power ", echoing the real Buffy's opening line from the beginning of the episode.

In 1992, they had another No. 1 Dance / Club play hit with the song " Keep It Comin '" ( Dance Till You Can't Dance No More ); with emcee Q-Unique and lead and background vocalist Deborah Cooper that was recorded for the soundtrack and opening cheerleading routine from the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

A few days later, as the opening is being prepared, Buffy shows up and Glory fights her.

Buffy and an army of potential Slayers used their blood to open the Seal of Danzalthar, thus opening the Hellmouth.

The opening sequence of " The Body " was also the closing scene of the previous episode, " I Was Made to Love You "; this is the only episode in the series that was first aired without a " Previously on Buffy " lead-in.

The long opening shot of Buffy coming home and finding Joyce was filmed with one hand-held camera in constant movement as she walks through the house to the phone and back to her mother again.

When Angel, disoriented and oblivious to the vortex opening behind him, questions what happened and where he is, Buffy kisses him, professes her love for him and then drives her sword through him into the vortex.

* In keeping with this season's theme of going " back to the beginning ", in the shot right before the opening credits Buffy greets Rona by saying " Welcome to the Hellmouth ", which is the same as the title of the first episode of the series.

They prevent the seal from opening again, but during the course of the fight, Wood finds out that Spike is a vampire and that Buffy cares about him very much, making him uneasy.

* At the very beginning of the opening credits there is a shot of a woman standing alone on a street, which was a shot first seen in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode: Anne.

Hansen will engage in his first workout at Miami Stadium prior to the opening tomorrow night of a two-game weekend series with the New York Yankees.

The Mantissa is a series of twenty-five separate pieces of which the opening five deal directly with psychology.

A series of team-sponsored fan motorcoach trips from Tucson to Bank One Ballpark were inaugurated for the opening season and are still in operation to this day ( it is now known as the " Diamond Express ").

Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).

In 1987, Charles provided the poem track used for the opening credits of the BBC series The Marksman, which he also acted in, and the track is included on the album " The Marksman: Music from the BBC TV series ".

The clip is incorporated into the series ' opening credit sequence from the third season onward.

Another version is the Collector's Edition, a two-disc set featuring a remastered transfer with a 5. 1 audio track, two commentaries ( one by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, another by producer Debra Hill and Joe Alves ), a making-of featurette, the first issue of a comic book series titled John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, and a ten-minute deleted opening sequence.

While the rest of the series does not do this as much as the first, there are still a few cases that it happens, such as the opening sequence of Resident Evil 4.

In the first extended promo leading up to the series ' premiere, voice actor Peter Cullen narrated the back story, evoking memories of Voltron's opening credits.

By reaching into his mind, Emma reactivates Bobby's powers through opening a series of mental blocks he has placed on himself, and saves him from near death.

The opening credits of this series feature real images of the Sojourner rover on Mars, being the first Star Trek production featuring real footage filmed on another world.

A shorter version of the opening title was used later in the series, in syndication, and on Disney Channel reruns.

" The game is remembered by Saints fans for Steve Gleason's blocked punt on the opening series that resulted in a touchdown for New Orleans.

This prompted the government to take a series of actions to improve the service by opening the telecommunications market.

Pellucidar is accessible to the surface world via a polar opening allowing passage between the inner and outer worlds through which a rigid airship visits in the third book of the series.

In the 1986 American League Championship Series, Clemens pitched poorly in the opening game, watched the Boston bullpen blow his 3 – 0 lead in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 4, and then pitched a strong Game 7 to wrap up the series for Boston.

This speculation was fueled in October 2004 when the official website startrek. com posted an opening credits sequence in which Scott Bakula recites a modified version of the famous speech, ending instead of with the gender-specific ' man ' or the gender-and species-neutral ' one ' but rather the species-specific ' human ', accompanied by " Archer's Theme ", the instrumental used as the closing credits music for the series.

Additional animation was created for the movie ( such as the scenes on Iscandar ) or recycled from the series ' test footage ( such as the opening sequence ).

Hideaki Anno designed the new series ' opening sequence.

The opening title music with the car on the road had been used in a 1961 episode of the TV series " Ben Casey " entitled " I Remember a Lemon Tree ," that piece of music accompanying each time that George C. Scott's character, a doctor who is secretly a drug addict, is injecting himself with morphine.

Carter believed that the series could continue for another ten years with new leads, and the opening credits were accordingly redesigned in both seasons eight and nine to emphasize the new actors ( along with Pileggi, who was finally listed as a main character ).

The original opening sequence was made in 1993 for the first season and remained unchanged throughout the series, until David Duchovny left the show as a main character in season seven.

The titles had never been changed in the series ' seven-year run, so Carter and the production staff saw this as a chance to change the opening credits because Duchovny was leaving the series.