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* ''[[Newhart]]'''s [[Automobile Opening]] was [[Cowboy Bebop at His Computer|locally infamous in Vermont]] for 1) Showing the car cruising otherwise-empty backroads ''at the height of leaf-peeper season'', and 2) Featuring a 1972 Oldsmobile long after everything that age on the state's heavily-salted roads in [[Real Life]] had rusted to oblivion.
* ''[[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.
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** 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]].
* ''[[M*A*S*H|Mash]]'' did a ''flying'' version, showing the camp from overhead as choppers full of wounded are coming in for a landing.
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* A large part of the opening of ''[[Make Way For Noddy]]'' features Noddy traveling through ToyTown in his car, making deliveries.
* The ''[[Mr. Magoo]]'' made-for-tv cartoons opened with him blithely driving his jalopy on a railroad track, through a barn, mowing down a hydrant, into a construction site, a roller-coaster track, finally into an electric substation and a fire of sparks.
* ''[[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.
{{quote|'''Peter''': Hey Stewie! ...who the hell is that?}}
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