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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* Every episode of ''[[Alias (TV)|Alias]]'' has a 15 minute teaser, so that they can not only recap the story ([[Previously On]]), but also have a prologue.

* Every episode of ''[[Alias (TV)|Alias]]'' has a 15 minute teaser, so that they can not only recap the story ([["Previously On..."]]), but also have a prologue.

** ''[[Alias (TV)|Alias]]'', with its tongue very firmly in its cheek, decided to take advantage of having the Superbowl as [[Lead In]] in "Phase One".

* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] has one every episode, generally setting up the plot and whatnot (some can be a bit deceiving, though). The only episode that lacks one is the season four finale, "Restless", mostly due to the episode being ''that'' [[Mind Screw]]-y.

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* ''[[Psych]]'' normally begins with a clip of a young Shawn getting yelled at by his dad.

* ''[[Band of Brothers]]'' mostly avoids the cold opening, except for one or two episodes that start with the interviews of the [[Real Life]] veterans. In most other episodes these interviews came immediately after the [[Title Sequence]].

* ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' has used it in the show since the second episode of the revival "The End of the World", often with someone getting killed by a monster before the "scream" of the theme music. It appeared only four times before 2005- "Castrovalva", "The Five Doctors", "Time and the Rani" and "Remembrance of the Daleks"; instead, the original run of ''Doctor Who'' used the first episodes of a serial to fulfill the same function as a cold open.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has used it in the show since the second episode of the revival "The End of the World", often with someone getting killed by a monster before the "scream" of the theme music. It appeared only four times before 2005- "Castrovalva", "The Five Doctors", "Time and the Rani" and "Remembrance of the Daleks"; instead, the original run of ''Doctor Who'' used the first episodes of a serial to fulfill the same function as a cold open.

** It isn't the coldest opening because BBC guidelines require their logo to be placed at the beginning of every episode.

* [[Nickelodeon]]'s ''[[Double Dare 1986|Double Dare]]'' was perhaps the only game show to use a cold open; every episode began with the contestants performing a "Physical Challenge", followed by the show's introduction.

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* ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'' always uses this to show the murder that the Winchesters will investigate in the episode. Even arc-related episodes have Teasers.

* 16 out of the first 17 episodes of ''[[Leave It to Beaver]]'' had an opening narration to set up the episode done by Hugh Beaumont. The shortest one, from the episode "New Neighbors", went: "To a growing boy boy there are some emotions you can take in your stride. Love. Anger. But fear can play havoc with your little imagination. And that's our story tonight on Leave It To Beaver."

* The first season of ''[[~~Three Two One~~ Contact]]''.

* The first season of ''[[3-2-1 Contact]]''.

* ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' features a literal [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Cold]] [[Cold Open|Open]] in its pilot, showing three Night's Watchmen encountering the White Walkers.

* ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' uses these to great effect in multiple ways besides as the continuation of the previous episode's cliffhanger. The first two seasons mostly use straight cold opens (though one is a music video about Walt's Heisenberg persona) but seasons 3 and 4 have frequently featured flashbacks that feature a dead character, ad depth to the series' world or shed light on certain themes of that episode.

* The 1966 ''[[Batman (TV)|Batman]]'' series alternates between this and [[Previously On]].

* The 1966 ''[[Batman (TV)|Batman]]'' series alternates between this and [["Previously On..."]].

* ''[[UFO]]'' uses a variation in which the opening theme tune montage plays ''without titles''. This is then followed by the opening scene, which ends with the title logo appearing as an animated overlay. The cast and production credits appear as captions in act one. One reason for this may have been the show's rotating cast, meaning that they couldn't use credits with a fixed cast list.

* ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'' had one every episode. Several ended with [[Title Drop|Title Drops]].

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** Going through all of the games' teasers would take a very, very, long time. And ''that's not even getting into the Heart Station Tutorials.''

* [[Bio Ware]] has been moving in this direction lately. ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' showed the opening explosive sequence before the title logo showed up, and both ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'' and ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' ran the tutorial sequence before the opening titles.

* The ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' games start off with Snake performing an infiltration and then cut to a credit sequence between 5-20 minutes into the game, as a [[Satire Parody Pastiche|pastiche]] of the ''[[James Bond]]'' movies which spawned the whole idea of them. In more detail:

* The ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' games start off with Snake performing an infiltration and then cut to a credit sequence between 5-20 minutes into the game, as a [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|pastiche]] of the ''[[James Bond]]'' movies which spawned the whole idea of them. In more detail:

** In the first ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' you have to wait around in a dock area while the credits play, superimposed on the screen. When they're done you're free to enter the elevator to the next area, where Snake removes his mask and the logo comes up on screen as we see his face for the first time.

** ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2'' was more circumspect about it. The opening titles roll before the main menu comes up, and you play a mission on a Tanker (where, again, the title pops up as soon as we see Snake's face for the first time). It led many people into thinking it was the proper game - but it was a prologue, and the main meat of the game was later on, with a different main character - and again, the title popped up as soon as we saw Raiden's face for the first time, as he stripped off his diving equipment. There was a [[Mind Screw|reason]] for the blatant repetition.

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