Narrator

A narrator is, within any story, the person that conveys the story to the audience. When the narrator is also a character within the story, he or she is sometimes known as the viewpoint character.

There are many television programs that have use a narration as either part of their opening credit title sequence, or as the opening to the episode itself. Anthology series in particular almost always have a narration of some kind. The 1959 TV series The Twilight Zone had an opening narration specific to each episode, as well as the series as a whole, which was voiced by the program's creator, Rod Serling. It's contemporary sci-fi series, The Outer Limits used a similar motif. The narrator of the show was known as the Control voice and was narrated by Vic Perrin. Another, more modern, popular anthology series was the horror program Tales from the Crypt. The narrator of the series, as well as the comic book from which it was based, is a character called the Crypt Keeper. The Crypt Keeper had an on-screen presence in the series and was a puppet with a voice provided by John Kassir.