Buena Vista Television

Credits

Descriptions by
Jason Jones, Matt Williams, Matt Anscher, Nicholas Aczel, John Coffey, D.L. Chandell, and Gilblitz112

Captures by
Eric S.,V of Doom, Snelfu, Mr.Logo, and others

Editions by
Mr. Logo Lord, Shadeed A. Kelly, V of Doom, DreamMechanic, Muzzarino and Gilblitz112

Video captures courtesy of
Eric S., JohnnyL80, Muzzarino, ClosingLogosHD, youngleader610 (Mr.Logo), Jordan Rios, PluMGMK, and TheEriccorpinc

Background

Buena Vista Television was the production/distribution arm of Walt Disney Television, established in 1985. Originally, it distributed Walt Disney Television and Touchstone Television shows and the Buena Vista film library (such as Disney, Touchstone, Hollywood, Miramax and Dimension titles) on TV. Later, it also took on the libraries of ABC (in 1996) and Saban (in 2002). It also distributed other Disney-owned libraries. When Disney retired the "Buena Vista" brand in 2007, BVTV was re-branded as "Disney-ABC Domestic Television", with the logo making its debut in September.

1st Logo (September 14, 1985-2007)

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Nicknames: "The Comets III", "The Buena Vista Comets III", "2000s Comets"

Logo: The same concept as before, except that the planet "Neptune" is in place of the Earth globe on a spiffier Milky Way, and we start from a different position. On a black space background, we see three comets appear at the same time. We pan up to Neptune and pan to its upper right, where the comets fly to the back. Three comets streak from the left and freeze, and the screen turns white with the logo of the comets and globe in space in a box at the top, and the "BUENA VISTA TELEVISION" text, in gray, fades in and zooms out to take its place under the logo.

Trivia: Unlike the last two logos, this one was animated at 60fps.

Variants:

• A more common short version starts with the last three comets streaking past first appeared in 2005, while the longer variant appeared in 2006.
• There is a rare variation that is longer than the short version, yet shorter than the extended version, where the logo starts when the comets pass Neptune instead of circling around it.
• A stretched version of the 4:3 logo exists. That was used for the PAL DVD release of Stephen King's Desperation.

FX/SFX: Same as the previous logo.

Music/Sounds: A re-orchestrated version of the last logo theme. Again, there were long, short and medium-length versions.

Music/Sounds Variant: On The Tony Danza Show, it used the last logo theme.

Availability: Uncommon, as it was only used for 3 years.

• This logo first appeared on Moonlighting in 2005 when Nick@Nite celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2005.
• This appeared on episodes of Buena Vista-produced/distributed shows such as Live with Regis and Kelly, The Tony Danza Show, Ebert & Roeper, and the syndicated version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from 2005 to 2007.
• It also appeared on reruns of other shows including The Golden Palace when it aired on Lifetime. The long version appeared on syndie reruns of My Wife & Kids, Scrubs and America's Funniest Home Videos, among others.
• Makes a surprise appearance on a Charge! airing of Cop Land and a ThisTV airing of The Crow: Salvation, and might possibly appeared on other previously Disney-owned Miramax titles on Charge!, ThisTV and Comet (most likely because of the use of 2000s Disney syndie prints).

Editor's Note: The lighter background will seem odd to those viewers familiar with the previous "comet" logos, but it's nothing too out of the ordinary. This is a nice logo.