Previously on The Originals

The slogan "Previously on The Originals" was heard at the beginning of all Originals episodes since episode 10 (The Casket Girls). These words are followed by a series of short clips that recap the scenes that are important for the current episode. All of this lasts for approximately one minute.
The purpose of these clips is to both remind viewers about current and past storylines, as well as aid comprehension for those who may not have seen the last few episodes of the show. In some cases, speech and actions are edited.
In Season One, for the first 9 episodes (until Reigning Pain in New Orleans) of both the season and the show, there is a special opening, where the three main characters of the show, Klaus (Joseph Morgan), Elijah (Daniel Gillies), and Rebekah (Claire Holt), narrate briefly their history, mainly regarding the city of New Orleans.
== The Voice ==
In every episode the voice on the "Previously..." is different. That's because different actors from the main cast are saying it. Normally the actor who does the voice-over for an episode is the character who is given the main focus of the episode, or is mostly centered on them.
Usually the actor that portrays a character that dies in the episode, does the voice-over.
*Examples:
**Danielle Campbell (Davina Claire) in Après Moi, Le Déluge and Give 'Em Hell Kid;
**Leah Pipes (Camille O'Connell) in No More Heartbreaks;
**Daniel Gillies (Elijah Mikaelson) in Queen Death;
**Phoebe Tonkin (Hayley Marshall-Kenner) in What, Will, I, Have, Left;
**Joseph Morgan (Niklaus Mikaelson) in When The Saints Go Marching In.
==List of cast that voice-over==
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|-|Overall=
Actor/Actress 	Voice-overs
Joseph Morgan 	27 (+ 10 special narrations)
Daniel Gillies 	19 (+ 9 special narrations)
Phoebe Tonkin 	7
Claire Holt 	6 (+ 10 special narrations)
Charles Michael Davis	4
Yusuf Gatewood 	4 (+ 1 special narration)
Riley Voelkel 	3
Danielle Campbell 	3
Danielle Rose Russell	3
Leah Pipes 	1
|-|Season 1=
In season one, Daniel Gillies voice-overed 5 times, Joseph Morgan & Claire Holt 3 times each and Danielle Campbell & Phoebe Tonkin 1 time each. Charles Michael Davis, Leah Pipes, and Daniella Pineda are the only ones who didn't do any voice-over all season.
Episode 	Voiceover
1.00-Unaired pilot 	Morgan's narration
1.01-1.09 	Morgan, Gillies and Holt's narration
1.10-The Casket Girls 	Claire Holt
1.11-Après Moi, Le Déluge 	Danielle Campbell
1.12-Dance Back from the Grave	Joseph Morgan
1.13-Crescent City 	Daniel Gillies
1.14-Long Way Back From Hell 	Claire Holt
1.15-Le Grand Guignol 	Daniel Gillies
1.16-Farewell to Storyville 	Claire Holt
1.17-Moon Over Bourbon Street 	Daniel Gillies
1.18-The Big Uneasy 	Joseph Morgan
1.19-An Unblinking Death 	Daniel Gillies
1.20-A Closer Walk With Thee 	Phoebe Tonkin
1.21-The Battle of New Orleans	Joseph Morgan
1.22-From a Cradle to a Grave 	Daniel Gilliesn
|-|Season 2=
In the second season's premiere, the episode opens with Rebekah (Claire Holt) narrating the events of the previous season to baby Hope as a fairytale.
In season two, Joseph Morgan has voice-overed 10 times, Daniel Gillies 4 times, Phoebe Tonkin 3 times, Yusuf Gatewood 2 times and Claire Holt & Charles Michael Davis 1 time each. Leah Pipes & Danielle Campbell are the only main cast members who didn't do any voice-over.
Episode 	Voiceover
2.01–Rebirth 	Claire Holt's narration
2.02–Alive and Kicking 	Daniel Gillies
2.03-Every Mother's Son 	Joseph Morgan
2.04–Live and Let Die 	Joseph Morgan
2.05–Red Door 	Joseph Morgan
2.06–Wheel Inside the Wheel 	Joseph Morgan
2.07– Chasing the Devil's Tail 	Joseph Morgan
2.08– The Brothers That Care Forgot	Daniel Gillies
2.09– The Map of Moments 	Claire Holt
2.10- Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire 	Yusuf Gatewood
2.11- Brotherhood of the Damned 	Charles Michael Davis
2.12- Sanctuary 	Phoebe Tonkin
2.13- The Devil is Damned 	Daniel Gillies
2.14- I Love You, Goodbye 	Phoebe Tonkin
2.15- They All Asked For You 	Joseph Morgan
2.16- Save My Soul 	Joseph Morgan
2.17- Exquisite Corpse 	Yusuf Gatewood
2.18- Night Has A Thousand Eyes 	Joseph Morgan
2.19- When the Levee Breaks 	Daniel Gillies
2.20- City Beneath The Sea 	Phoebe Tonkin
2.21- Fire with Fire 	Joseph Morgan
2.22- Ashes to Ashes 	Joseph Morgan
|-|Season 3=
In season three', For the Next Millenniums (3.01) opening was not a voice-over, but was a special narration opening by Klaus (Joseph Morgan), which served as an introductory monologue for the flashback scene opener. The episode A Streetcar Named Desire (3.14) did not feature a voice-over. Joseph Morgan has done 8 voice-overs, Daniel Gillies has done 4 voice-overs, Claire Holt & Riley Voelkel have done 2 voice-overs, and Phoebe Tonkin, Charles Michael Davis, Leah Pipes & Danielle Campbell have done 1 voice-over each.
Episode 	Voiceover
3.01-For the Next Millennium 	Joseph Morgan's narration
3.02-You Hung the Moon 	Phoebe Tonkin
3.03-I'll See You in Hell or New Orleans	Joseph Morgan
3.04-A Walk on the Wild Side 	Charles Michael Davis
3.05-The Axeman's Letter 	Joseph Morgan
3.06-Beautiful Mistake 	Claire Holt
3.07-Out of the Easy 	Daniel Gillies
3.08-The Other Girl in New Orleans 	Joseph Morgan
3.09-Savior 	Claire Holt
3.10-A Ghost Along the Mississippi 	Joseph Morgan
3.11-Wild at Heart 	Daniel Gillies
3.12-Dead Angels 	Joseph Morgan
3.13-Heart Shaped Box 	Riley Voelkel
3.14-A Streetcar Named Desire 	no voiceover
3.15-An Old Friend Calls 	Joseph Morgan
3.16-Alone with Everybody 	Daniel Gillies
3.17-Behind the Black Horizon 	Daniel Gillies
3.18-The Devil Comes Here and Sighs 	Joseph Morgan
3.19-No More Heartbreaks 	Leah Pipes
3.20-Where Nothing Stays Buried 	Riley Voelkel
3.21-Give 'Em Hell Kid 	Danielle Campbell
3.22-The Bloody Crown 	Joseph Morgan
|-|Season 4=
There wasn't a voiceover in the first episode, as Vincent (Yusuf Gatewood) did a special naration opening. No voice-over was featured in the second episode either. Daniel Gillies has done 4 voice-overs, Joseph Morgan has done 2 voice-overs and Yusuf Gatewood, Charles Michael Davis, Riley Voelkel, Danielle Campbell & Phoebe Tonkin have each done a voice-over once.
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! scope="col" | Episode
! scope="col" | Voiceover
|-
|4.01-Gather Up the Killers
|Yusuf Gatewood's narration
|-
|4.02-No Quarter
|no voiceover
|-
|4.03-Haunter of Ruins
|Yusuf Gatewood
|-
|4.04-Keepers of the House
|Joseph Morgan
|-
|4.05-I Hear You Knocking
|Charles Michael Davis
|-
|4.06-Bag of Cobras
|Daniel Gillies
|-
|4.07-High Water and a Devil's Daughter
|Riley Voelkel
|-
|4.08-Voodoo in My Blood
|Danielle Campbell
|-
|4.09-Queen Death
|Daniel Gillies
|-
|4.10-Phantomesque
|Phoebe Tonkin
|-
|4.11-A Spirit Here That Won't Be Broken
|Daniel Gillies
|-
|4.12-Voodoo Child
|Joseph Morgan
|-
|4.13-The Feast of All Sinners
|Daniel Gillies
|-
|-|Season 5=
This is the first and only season to have a proper voice-over in all of the episodes.
Joseph Morgan has done a voice-over 5 times, while Danielle Rose Russell has done a voice-over thrice, and Daniel Gillies has done a voice-over twice, while Phoebe Tonkin, Charles Michael Davis and Yusuf Gatewood each done a voice-over once.
Episode 	Voiceover
5.01-Where You Left Your Heart 	Joseph Morgan
5.02-One Wrong Turn On Bourbon 	Danielle Rose Russell
5.03-Ne Me Quitte Pas 	Daniel Gillies
5.04-Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea	Charles Michael Davis
5.05-Don't It Just Break Your Heart 	Joseph Morgan
5.06-What, Will, I, Have, Left 	Phoebe Tonkin
5.07-God's Gonna Trouble the Water 	Joseph Morgan
5.08-The Kindness of Strangers 	Joseph Morgan
5.09-We Have Not Long To Love 	Yusuf Gatewood
5.10-There in the Disappearing Light 	Danielle Rose Russell
5.11-Til the Day I Die 	Danielle Rose Russell
5.12-The Tale of Two Wolves 	Daniel Gillies
5.13-When The Saints Go Marching In 	Joseph Morgan
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==Trivia==
*Out of 93 episodes of the show including the unaired pilot, 78 episodes had the "Previously on" segment.
**Out of those remaining 15 episodes, unaired pilot has a narration by Joseph Morgan, the first nine have a narration by Claire Holt, Joseph Morgan and Daniel Gillies, three have different narration openings, while only two episodes (A Streetcar Named Desire and No Quarter) don't had any kind of intro. 
*Steven Krueger (Joshua Rosza) and Daniella Pineda (Sophie Deveraux) are the only regulars who have never done a voice-over at all.
*Claire Holt, Yusuf Gatewood and Danielle Campbell are the only cast members to do a voice-over while not being part of the main cast.
**Claire Holt has done voice-overs as a special guest and former lead star in season 2's episode 9 and season 3's episodes 6 and 9.
**Yusuf Gatewood did a voice-over while being a guest star, before becoming part of the main cast, in season 2's episode 10.
**Danielle Campbell did a voice-over in season 4's episode 8 as a special guest star and former main cast member.
==Gallery==
The Originals Title Card.jpg|Title card
The Originals 2x01 Opening Scene - Story Recap by Rebekah|Example: intro from Rebirth
==See also==
*Previously on The Vampire Diaries
*Previously on Legacies
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