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* More recent episodes of ''[[Pokémon]]'' start with a scene from the middle of the episode, essentially making every episode into a [[How We Got Here]].
* ''[[Transformers Victory]]'' used previews.
* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptors]]'' would sometimes have these.
* The first season of ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]'' had a selection of clips from each weeks episode in it's opening.
** As did the second opening of ''[[Fate Stay Night|Fate/Staystay Nightnight]]''
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' did this up until season four, when it got rid of the precaps and instead used that space for a more tradtional [[Cold Open]].
* [[Bleach]] has started doing this in the mid 200's.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]'' had these at the front of the episode with assorted dialog and action sequences put together.
* ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' did this only in its fourteenth season.
* Parodied in the ''S.O.B.s'' episode of ''Arrested Development''. It's announced at the beginning that someone will die by the end, but halfway through the episode, the narrator reveals who it's going to be.
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* They did this on [[The Dukes of Hazzard]], showing highlights of the evening's dramatic moments and car stunts.
* ''Ellery Queen'': "This man is about to be killed. Was it [scenes of various characters saying how much they hated the victim but didn't kill them], or someone else? Match wits with Ellery Queen to see if you can discover Whodunnit."
* ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' also featured these, almost always ending with a scene from just before or during the second "Hulk-out".
* ''[[Knight Rider]]'' featured these in many episodes.
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' did these ''and'' [["On the Next..."]] for a while.
* This one goes back to the 1960s. Each intro to the original ''[[Mission Impossible|Mission: Impossible]]'' featured a [[Blipvert|quick action montage]] of scenes from that evening's episode over the light fuse animation. A few episodes from their final season also had the traditional teaser format prior to the theme intro.
* This practice was commonplace for majority of the ''NBC Mystery Movies'' ([[Columbo (TV)|Columbo]], McCloud, McMillan and Wife, etc.).
* ''[[Police Story]]'' showed scenes from the episode of the day as part of the overall intro to the show, which was one of the first "short" themes, which in itself was a forerunner to today's program intros.
* ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' also showed a [[Blipvert|very quick montage]] of action scenes from the upcoming episode of that series.
** Gerry Anderson would later use this trick again for ''[[Space: 1999|Space:1999]]'' and ''Space Precinct''.
* ''[[Sea QuestSeaQuest DSV]]'' only used precaps on a handful of episodes, where the events were actually major enough to be worth teasing.
* ''[[Top Gear]]'' does this in the first episode of the season, showing previews of all the stuff that is to come that was already filmed for that season. The best stuff is saved for the actual episodes that they appear in.
 
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