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After the [[Title Sequence]], but before the first act, many shows will put in an intertitle displaying the episode's title. For some shows, the title will be animated and a character from the series will read the title to the audience (mostly prevalent in anime, while western cartoons that use this are usually aimed at preschoolers). On the other hand, some shows might have the title be on-screen text displayed with the opening credits over the beginning of the first act. It is also common for the title to [[Title Please|never be shown]] and the name of the episodes only found from episode guides.
These days, one tends to see episode titles only on non-primetime animated programming, although even then there are many exceptions to this. (For example, [[
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* ''[[Police Camera Action]]'', a co-production of [[ITV]] and [[Optomen]], had no title cards for the first two episodes ''Danger Drivers Ahead!'' (mid-1994) and the generically titled ''Police Camera Action'' (late 1994/early 1995), then a background of thermal-imaging camera footage with the episode title in BLOCK CAPITALS between 1995 and 1996. No episode title cards were used for the 1996 special ''The Man Who Shot O.J'' about the OJ Simpson trial. From 1997, the title cards were a blue background and white text, with text Like This (capitalised beginning of sentence).
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'''Title card:''' ''[[Foregone Conclusion|Dennis and Dee Go On Welfare]]'' }}
* ''[[Kamichama Karin]]'' has the episode title cards read by [[Talking Animal|Shii-chan]], complete with her [[Verbal Tic|Verbal Tics]] added to the title.
* In ''[[The West Wing (TV)|The West Wing]]'', instead of coming after the title sequence, the title card comes right after [["Previously On..."]]. It is followed the [[The Teaser]], ''then'' the [[Title Sequence]].
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' uses a white background with text reading "Book One:Water/Two:Earth/Three:Fire Chapter (Episode #):Title"
* The Australian drama ''love is a four letter word'' played with this as part of its style: we would begin with a cold open, which ended with a [[Whip Pan]] and fast zoom over to the word, [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming|which was (usually) four letters long]]. Other such pans in the series would have captions telling us that the word either was or was not a four-letter word.
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