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* ''[[Hardcastle and McCormick]]'' had one in the early episodes: "Milton C. Hardcastle is a retired judge of the California Superior Court..."
* ''[[War of the Worlds (TV series)|War of the Worlds]]'' used a straightforward description of the show's premise in the first season. The second season replaced this with a vague and frightened news report intentionally reminiscent of the style of the [[Radio Drama]] of the same title (and, by proxy, the famous radio report on the Hindenburg disaster).
** [[Orson Welles]]' radio adaptation opened with a variation on [[The War of the Worlds (novel)||the book's]] unforgettable "No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was [[Being Watched]] keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's", as did the [[Dark Horse Comics]] adaptation, the Jeff Wayne musical, and the big-budget 2005 film adaptation.
** After a short introduction and a disclaimer, the radio ''WOTW'' goes into a musical Big Band Ballroom show which was very popular at the time. Many people who tuned in late were unaware this was a drama, so when the announcer starts breaking in with news of the invasion, it sounds completely plausible.
* ''[[Highlander the Series]]'': "He is immortal, born in the Highlands of Scotland four hundred years ago..."
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* ''[[Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N34MmqmxqD0\]
* ''[[Charlie's Angels|Charlies Angels]]'' ('This is the story of three special girls...')
* "Who are the ''[[
* "''[[The Invaders (TV series)|The Invaders]]'' - alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it ''their'' world...."
* ''[[Dirty Jobs]]'': "Hi, I'm Mike Rowe, and this is my job..."
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* [[My Name Is Earl]]
* ''[[Shameless]]' uses this to introduce the Gallagher family.
* [[Police, Camera, Action!]]: "Cameras, a vital tool in the fight against crime, we bring you the best and worst of what they capture... Start moving now!", then mid-series it became "Cameras, a vital tool in the fight against crime, we bring you the best and worst of what they capture... Take him out please, take him out!". For the new 2010 series, it is unknown what this will be.
* "''[[
* The first season of ''[[The Fall Guy (TV series)|The Fall Guy]]'' had this opening narration from Lee Majors:
{{quote|"This is the story of one of America's great unsung heroes. I mean, you've seen him but you never knew who he was. You've cheered for him and cried for him and women have wanted to die for him. But did he ever get any credit, or the girl? No! He's what we call the "stuntman" and the reason I'm talking so fondly about him is, well, because it's me, Colt Seaver. Anyway, picture work isn't wall-to-wall employment, so maybe you wonder how a guy keeps his head together. Well, one way is to wait by the phone...and wait...and wait. The other is to take an occasional job with the court system of the United States of America, where a man is considered innocent until proven guilty. Unfortunately, sometimes a lot of these people get out of jail on what we call bail. Then they run like hell. And that's where I come in. I sometimes pick up rent money trying to find them and bring them back to justice...and that reminds me of a very interesting case..." }}
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'''Henry:''' This experience is going to make a great book.
'''Kip:''' You see, it's all perfectly normal... }}
* "Some people hustle pool, some people hustle cars, but have you ever heard about the man who hustles stars? [[Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer|Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler]], director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium."<ref>In 1997 however, it had to change it's name, and had a new opening narration as a result.</ref>
* In [[Grimm]], the opining narration comes in the form of a quote from the fairy tale the villain of the week comes from.
* ''[[K-tai Investigator 7]]'': "Fighting cyber crimes, the walking cellphone Seven. This is the reality of tomorrow."
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== Tabletop Games ==
* "In the [[Grimdark|Grim Darkness]] of [[The Future|the far future]], there is [[Warhammer
** The novels have their own longer variation:
{{quote|"It is the 41st milennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die."
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