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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* ''[[Police Squad!]]'''s title sequence began with a shot of the flashing light on a police cruiser. In [[The Movie]], ''[[
* For its first 13 years, the opening title sequence of ''[[The Bill]]'' featured the area car (updated to a new one every few years or so) driving down a busy street in London.
* ''[[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: Voyager
** Almost all the ''[[
* ''[[Taxi]]'' had, of course, a taxi driving around New York.
* ''[[Newhart]]'''s [[Automobile Opening]] was [[Cowboy Bebop
* ''[[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]].
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* ''[[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]].
* ''[[M*A*S*H
* ''[[The Jeffersons]]'' has the main characters in a cab.
* The first season opening credits of ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' showed Mary driving herself into Minneapolis.
* The title sequences of ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]'' changed over its run, but they always opened with a shot of Starsky's trademark Torino tearing around a corner, tires squealing.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* ''[[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.
* A large part of the opening of ''[[Make Way For Noddy]]'' features Noddy traveling through ToyTown in his car, making deliveries.
* The ''[[
* ''[[The Pink Panther|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.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' had a ''[[Police Squad!]]'' style opening for one of its episodes, in which Stewie is riding his tricycle, culminating in him crashing into [[The Simpsons|Homer]] in the garage.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Several [[Late to
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