Arena Animal Night (BBC2).

An early example of a BBC2 theme night (pre-dating A Night From TV Hell by three whole years), the long-running documentary strand teaming up with Spitting Image Productions to introduce an evening of films of various animals, closing off with a debate programme on animal rights. The framing device: Noah’s Ark, except the beardy sailboat proprietor isn’t as nice to the animals as legend would have it.

The full evening isn’t online, but the first couple of minutes are on the Ravensbourne BBC Motion Graphics Archive, and if that’s anything to go by, it’s a hell of a lot of effort they’ve gone into for some linking material.

It being on Ravensbourne’s BBC Motion Graphics Archive – a project used to highlight processes used in the formulation of TV title sequences through the decades – there’s also some background information on how it was put together by designer Pete Wane. And if you’ve not been through that site before, go take a look. It’s absolutely marvellous resource.

Arena Animal Night: Opening Title Sequence