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Logo: Against a black background, we see the text:
in a serif, jumbled-up font.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Extinct, just like lots of old logos from the UK. Additionally, several copies of early STV programs were destroyed in a fire around some time in late-1969.
Editor's Note: None.
Logo: Against a black background, we see four white squares, each of which are split by two white lines arranged in a cross shape. Inside the squares are (clockwise, starting in the top-left): an "S", the lion rampant, a "V", and a "T", all of which are black. The letters are written in a wide serif font. "CHANNEL TEN" is written below in the same font as the letters.
Variant: Sometimes, there would be no text below at all.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: An eight-note horn and drum fanfare, followed by the announcer saying, "This is Scotland".
Availability: Extinct.
Editor's Note: The fanfare, announcer, and sheer darkness may spook some.
Nicknames: "Spinning Lion Rampant", "Zooming Lion Rampant"
Logo: For a split second, we see a white background, which is wiped away horizontally on both sides, revealing a white box opening up on a black background. The words "SCOTTISH" and "TELEVISION" (also in white) drop in from the top and bottom sides of the screen, respectively. Then, a white Lion Rampant (the symbol found on the flag used by the King of Scots) spins in counterclockwise
Variants:
FX/SFX: The text moving into their usual positions and the lion spinning in. Lots of choppy animation.
Music/Sounds: A rearrangement of the last logo theme played on the flute, followed by additions of a drum roll and a cymbal crash as the lion spins in. Composed by Geraldo, arranged by Ray Terry.
Availability: Extinct. Though the news program Scotland Today did show a brief portion of the zooming variant as part of a montage back in 2007 commemorating STV's 50th anniversary. Andrew Wiseman's TV Room on 625.uk.com has a Flash remake of both the spinning and the zooming variants, so it's worth a look for nostalgia's sake.
Editor's Note: The loud music isn't very nice with the cymbals and the lion spinning in with the choppy motion is very jarring.
Nicknames: "STV Tartan", "Zooming STV", "STV Color", "Boxing STV", "stv"
Logo: Against a black background, we see the letters "stv", in a blocky font, zooming in. At the same time, an outline of a second set of the same letters zoom out. As the letters merge, the logo fades to blue.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The zooming letters and the fade to blue/grey. The blocks forming the logo for the tartan variant.
Music/Sounds: A French horn fanfare or none.
Availability: Extinct for the original and animated version of the additional version which was so far only seen before Scotland Today. The production variant was seen on a few shows and maybe seen on VHS of those shows. Has a Flash remake of both versions on 625.uk.com.
Editor's Note: None.
Nicknames: "The Thistle", "CGI Thistle", "The Colorful Thistle" Logo: Against a black background, we see six gray cubes, one long rectangular column, one teal sphere, and a magenta cone shape zoom-out to the left and arrange themselves onto a sheet of metal, forming an abstract thistle shape. "SCOTTISH TELEVISION", in white, fades-in below. Variants:
FX/SFX: Top-notch CGI for its time. The Christmas and Desert variants are mostly live-action. Music/Sounds: A dramatic synth bass line with a mellow nine-note woodwind fanfare with an autoharp-like flourish. The Christmas variant uses a soft chime tune, and the desert variant uses a tune with bongos, flutes, and guitars. Sometimes, the end theme of the programme plays over the logo. Availability: Saved on shows from the era. The animated version was seen on some prints of Taggart.
Editor's Note: None.
Nicknames: "Spinning Lion Rampant", "Zooming Lion Rampant"
Logo: For a split second, we see a white background, which is wiped away horizontally on both sides, revealing a white box opening up on a black background. The words "SCOTTISH" and "TELEVISION" (also in white) drop in from the top and bottom sides of the screen, respectively. Then, a white Lion Rampant (the symbol found on the flag used by the King of Scots) spins in counterclockwise.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The text moving into their usual positions and the lion spinning in. Lots of choppy animation.
Music/Sounds: A rearrangement of the last logo theme played on the flute, followed by additions of a drum roll and a cymbal crash as the lion spins in. Composed by Geraldo, arranged by Ray Terry.
Availability: Extinct. Though the news program Scotland Today did show a brief portion of the zooming variant as part of a montage back in 2007 commemorating STV's 50th anniversary. Andrew Wiseman's TV Room on 625.uk.com has a Flash remake of both the spinning and the zooming variants, so it's worth a look for nostalgia's sake.
Editor's Note: The loud music and the lion spinning in choppily are very jarring.
Nicknames: "STV Tartan", "Zooming STV", "STV Color", "Boxing STV", "stv"
Logo: Against a black background, we see the letters "stv", in a blocky font, zooming in. At the same time, an outline of a second set of the same letters zoom out. As the letters merge, the logo fades to blue.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The zooming letters and the fade to blue/grey. The blocks forming the logo for the tartan variant.
Music/Sounds: A French horn fanfare or none.
Availability: Extinct for the original and animated version of the additional version which was so far only seen before Scotland Today. The production variant was seen on a few shows and maybe seen on VHS of those shows. Has a Flash remake of both versions on 625.uk.com.
Editor's Note: None.
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Nicknames: "The Tiddlywinks", "The Thistle II", "CGI Thistle II"
Logo: Against a dark cloudy sky with a shady purplish floor, three plastic discs called "tiddlywinks", one red, one green, and one blue, roll forward and the camera follows them. They all fall down, one-by-one, in the appropriate order, and the camera showing that they are forming the "head" of the thistle as seen before. As the tiddlywinks fall, they all turn the thistle into their appropriate colors. The camera slightly turns upward to view the final product.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The cloudy sky and the tiddlywinks.
Music/Sounds: A synthesized tune with a series of chimes that are timed to the falling tiddlywinks. A traditional Scottish-like tune plays for the "bridge" variant. The "frost" variant uses a cheery harp-like tune. The ending variant uses a dreamy, four note jingle.
Availability: The production variant appeared on several shows, such as Taggart. The animated end variant is used on season one episodes of Fun House. The version with the ITV logo and copyright can be found on season two episodes of the UK version of Wheel of Fortune.
Editor's Note: None.
Nickname: "ITV Generic"
See ITV for description.
Nicknames: "Silver Thistle", "The Thistle III", "CGI Thistle III"
Logo: Against a stylized purple background, the "head" from the thistle, in silver, zooms out and slowly flips around, and as this happens, the other parts of the thistle unfold from right to left, and the words "SCOTTISH TELEVISION" do the same.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The background and the flipping, as well as the effects used in the other variants.
Music/Sounds: A four-note horn fanfare. The nighttime variant used a jazzy saxophone rendition of the normal music. The Christmas variant uses a gentle Christmas-like tune with harps and jingle bells.
Availability: Saved on Taggart episodes and other shows.
Editor's Note: None.
Nicknames: "Silver Thistle II", "The Thistle IV", "CGI Thistle IV"
Logo: Against a cloudy purple background, several large glass thistles pan back to reveal the silver thistle from before. A blurry white cloud below sharpens up to reveal the words "SCOTTISH TELEVISION" in white.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The thistles and the "focusing".
Music/Sounds: A more calm-sounding version of the 8th logo's music. The nighttime variant has a soothing rendition of the music and the movie variant has a majestic theme.
Availability:
Editor's Note: None.
Nicknames: "scottishtv", "The Shiny Scottish Logo", "No Thistle"
Logo: We see a short film relating to Scotland, which culminates in the appearance of a modified version of a large square on top with several lights flashing inside it and "scottish tv" (the blue color around "tv" being slightly lighter) below appearing via a "focusing" effect.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The live-action footage and lights in the square.
Music/Sounds: A rather futuristic techno tune.
Availability: Saved on programming from the era.
Editor's Note: None.
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Nicknames: "scottish tv II", "STV People"
Logo: Like the then-current generic ITV1 ident, we see a montage of various ITV1 personalities, which ends with a shot of the STV logo from before, minus the square on top, against a series of blue panels. The logo zooms toward us a bit.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The panels and zooming.
Music/Sounds: A rather uninspired jazz-like tune, or an equally uninspired guitar tune. This is sometimes accompanied by a continuity announcement.
Availability: Saved on programming from the era.
Editor's Note: None.
Logo: In each variant various people are seen grabbing and looking around a blue "S" on different places. One of them puts the "S" on the center, and it flashes and the word "stv" appears at the left of its bottom area.
Variant: In August 2007, The "S" was gold for the station's 50th birthday.
FX/SFX: Mostly live-action.
Music/Sounds: TBA
Availability: Can be found on programs from the era.
Editor's Note: None.
Logo: There is a random clip shown at the beginning at the logo. Later, it flips to a still picture, followed by a series of them. When the logo zooms out to the left, it reveals that they are inside of a diamond-shaped photo album on a dark blue background. The diamond then shows different colors before closing into a white arrow and bands of the colors appear in the background. "stv" in the same font then fades and flips onto the arrow as the URL appears on the bottom right corner.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The clips, the arrow and text flipping into place.
Music/Sounds: TBA.
Availability: The television ident is extinct, but the production logo is seen on last seasons of Taggart and other original programming.
Editor's Note: None.
Logo: TBA
FX/SFX: TBA.
Music/Sounds: TBA.
Availability: Current.
Editor's Note: None.
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