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* ''[[The Sopranos]]'' features Tony driving from New York to his home in New Jersey. His route is deliberately inefficient to provide more interesting visuals.
* ''[[Joey]]'' had the title character driving around Los Angeles.
* ''[[Star Trek:
** Almost all the ''[[Star Trek]]'' series, except for ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]'', had the ships flying around. The original series had the Enterprise orbiting planets and flying through space, as did ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Next Generation]]''.
*** A review [https://web.archive.org/web/20170709233954/http://www.firsttvdrama.com/enterprise/e3.php3 on firsttvdrama.com] mocked failure to give prominent place to a good shot of... the very flying object after which the series were named:
{{quote|It's a brand new show, with a brand new ship, and now you're up to the first single regular episode after the pilot movie premiere. So what do you do to get viewers familiar with the new settings? You go the entire Teaser and Act One without showing the exterior of the ship not once.
Yes, the Producers were that stupid. New ship. New show. Only the second broadcast. And we had to wait until the episode was 1/4th over before we got to see the ship that the show was set on actually cruising through space.
And to think I now actually miss the old days when Star Trek episodes would open with an [[Establishing Shot|establishing shot]] of the ship at warp. }}
* ''[[Taxi]]'' had, of course, a taxi driving around New York.
* ''[[Newhart]]'''s Automobile Opening was [[
* ''[[Maude]]''
* Showa era ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' series, with the exception of ''[[Kamen Rider Amazon]]'', do this with a motorcycle rather than a car. ''[[Kamen Rider V 3]]'' does it with a motorcycle and a [[BBC Quarry]] [[Made of Explodium|that explodes randomly and pointlessly]].
** Especially ''[[Kamen Rider Black]]'' and ''[[Kamen Rider Black RX]],'' whose opening consists of ''literally nothing but'' the hero riding his motorcycle(s) down a road.
** Both openings of [[Kamen Rider Agito]], especially the second one, was around 80% motorcycle riding and 20% everything else.
* ''[[
** Since California has front plates but not stickers, they could've avoided that by using a rear-engine car with the trunk in front, most likely a Porsche 911 since it was the only one that wouldn't qualify as an [[Alleged Car]].
* Another [[Steven Bochco]] series, ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'' had an opening montage showing police cars rolling out of the station-house.
* Another [[Police Procedural]], 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.
* ''[[Police, Camera, Action!]]'', 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.
* A big chunk of ''[[The Prisoner]]'''s [[Expository Theme Tune|expository opening sequence]] has Patrick McGoohan driving around in [[Cool Car|the actor's own Lotus 7]].
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