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King Features Entertainment was originally formed in 1980 as Novacom, Inc. by Bruce Paisner and PBS station WGBH Boston to distribute television movies for syndication. The company itself was sold to The Hearst Corporation in 1981 and was renamed to King Features Entertainment. In 1983, it absorbed the assets of PolyGram Television into this company. It later signed on a relationship with Phoenix Entertainment Group, distributing telemovies internationally, and acquired it outright in 1989. In 1990, it was renamed to Hearst Entertainment. Hearst Communications sold its live-action Hearst Entertainment library to Lionsgate in 2015, and integrated Hearst's animated content library into King Features Syndicate.

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1st Logo (1981-1985, October 9, 1988)	2nd Logo (1982)	3rd Logo (1985-1990)

1st Logo (1981-1985, October 9, 1988)

Visuals: On a cerulean blue background, the company name (stacked word-by-word) slowly zooms out. When the words get to a suitable distance, a "trail" of stylized outlined crowns come from the left and right side above the logo, consolidating into one stylized outlined shield. The words "Produced by" or "Distributed by" appear in an arc above it.

Variant: Sometimes, a chroma-keyed copyright appears below.

Technique: Motion-controlled cel animation.

Audio: A somewhat dramatic synthesizer theme.

Availability:

May appear at the end of some syndicated movie telecasts, such as The Cartier Affair.
It is also seen on some prints of An American Werewolf in London, although other prints of that film use the Hearst Entertainment logo instead, with the KF music preserved.
This can also be found on DVD releases of The Toughest Man in the World and High School USA.
This logo also made an appearance on the 1988 TV movie Going to the Chapel.
It can also be seen at the end of the Blondie films on the Movies! network and Amazon Prime such as Footlight Glamour (1943).
This logo is also preserved on GREAT! Movies Classic airings of The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper and An American Werewolf in London as they use old 4:3 SD masters.
This logo does not appear at the end of The All-New Popeye Hour DVD releases or Tubi prints, as it's been plastered over with the 3rd logo below instead.

2nd Logo (1982)

Visuals: * On a blue background, the King Features crown is above a long white stripe spanning the entire screen, with "King Features Entertainment" on it. Below it is a copyright for King Features Syndicate. The crown zooms in and takes up the entire screen, with the inside of it fading to the intro itself as the stripe and copyright disappear. At the end, the crown appears over King Features' line-up of characters and zooms in, takes up the entire screen again, and goes back to the logo, thus ending the intro.

Audio: The sailors' hornpipe, as heard in the intro to the classic Popeye cartoons.

Availability: This was seen as the intro to King Features' cartoons on VHS. ^[Examples?]

3rd Logo (1985-1990)

Visuals: On a black background, a steel blue 3D crown spins onto the screen. It moves towards the top as the black background begins to become lavender (the color moves up from the bottom). The crown, when it gets near the top and comfortably small, flashes and becomes a 2D stylized crown, similar to the previous logo but completely colored in. Below it the company name appears in the same font as the previous logo, this time written in two lines. The words "A Subsidiary of The Hearst Corporation" appear below it.

Variants:

Most of the time, "Distributed By" also appears above the crown, and the logo is shifted lower than usual.
Sometimes, the logo is still.
A warp speed variant exists.
A slightly longer version also exists, where the words slowly fade in.
On the 1989 Beetle Bailey special, the finished logo zooms in to fill the screen. Copyright stamps for King Features Entertainment and King Features Syndicate can be seen.
On the Blondie & Dagwood special from 1987, the variant above is plastered onto a black/blue gradient background with a very noticable black outline.
On the test pilot of the cartoon Defenders of the Earth, the text reads "AND King Features Entertainment, Inc." with a small version of the crown placed to the left of the company name.

Technique: CGI for the crown, 2D computer animation for the rest.

Audio: It begins with several synth taps, followed by a whirring sound getting louder and with more reverb. Four synth notes then play in series of two. A drum plays when the text starts to fade in, with the byline appearing with a twinkle. All of this was played on a Yamaha DX-7.

Audio Variants:

In some cases, the drum sound is delayed slightly.
It may also have the show/movie's ending theme playing over it.
The closing themes of the animated Blondie and Beetle Bailey specials from 1989, as well as Ask Dr. Ruth, are heard over the logo.
The still variant has the last few seconds of the logo's theme playing.
The warp speed variant has the logo's theme doubled in speed.
High tone and low tone variants of the logo's theme both also exist.

Availability:

Seen on old VHS releases of Popeye and Krazy Kat, as well as the 1970s Filmation version of Flash Gordon, among other classic KFS cartoons.
This logo was also seen without music on Cartoon Network reruns of G-Force in the late 1990s.
Early 90s reruns of The All-New Popeye Hour and Popeye and Son on the Family Channel (currently Freeform) also had this following both the 1974 Hanna-Barbera logo and the 1979 "Swirling Star" for the former (on this show, it was also sped up thanks to time compression), and the 1986 H-B "CGI Swirling Star" logo for the latter.
- However, Tubi prints of The All-New Popeye Hour (referred to as The Continuing Adventures of Popeye) have this logo and the Hanna-Barbera logos play normally.
It is also preserved on the DVD releases of Get Smart, Again and God Bless the Child, respectively.
It can also be seen at the end of the Sandy Frank dub of Gamera (1965), which was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
The sped-up variant was also seen on Defenders of the Earth, and is also preserved on the DVD release and on the Comics Kingdom YouTube channel.
It was also seen at the end of the syndicated series Ask Dr. Ruth, which aired during the 1989-1990 season (the parent King Features Syndicate distributed Dr. Ruth Westheimer's column to newspapers, so naturally their TV arm produced her show).
It also made an appearance on AMC's print of Six Weeks back in the early 2000s.
On BET airings of The Women of Brewster Place, the warp speed version is seen with the ending theme playing over it.
This logo is also retained on Air Music and Media Group plc's DVD releases of KFS' cartoons.
- On Popeye releases (or at least Popeye: Ye Olde Popeye), the logo appears four times overall. The reason for this happening is because the content is split in two, with each half starting with the logo, and ending with the Distributed by variant.
The logo without the "Distributed by" text is also seen on the 1990 U.S. VHS release of Flash Gordon: Blue Magic.

◄	King Features Syndicate PolyGram Television

King Features Entertainment

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 ===Background===
+'''King Features Entertainment''' was originally formed in 1980 as '''Novacom, Inc.''' by Bruce Paisner and PBS station [[WGBH Productions|WGBH Boston]] to distribute television movies for syndication. The company itself was sold to The Hearst Corporation in 1981 and was renamed to '''King Features Entertainment'''. In 1983, it absorbed the assets of [[PolyGram Television (1980-1983)|PolyGram Television]] into this company. It later signed on a relationship with [[King Phoenix Entertainment|Phoenix Entertainment Group]], distributing telemovies internationally, and acquired it outright in 1989. In 1990, it was renamed to '''[[Hearst Entertainment]]'''. Hearst Communications sold its live-action [[Hearst Entertainment]] library to [[Lionsgate Films|Lionsgate]] in 2015, and integrated Hearst's animated content library into [[King Features Syndicate (2004-present)|King Features Syndicate]].
-Most of the King Features catalog, with some exceptions, is held by [[Lionsgate]].
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+'''Visuals:''' On a cerulean blue background, the company name (stacked word-by-word) slowly zooms out. When the words get to a suitable distance, a "trail" of stylized outlined crowns come from the left and right side above the logo, consolidating into one stylized outlined shield. The words "Produced by" or "Distributed by" appear in an arc above it.
-'''Nicknames:''' "The KFS Pegasus", "The Pegasus Logo", "The Popeye Logo"
+'''Variant:''' Sometimes, a <u>chroma-keyed copyright appears below</u>.
-'''Logo:''' In the center of a {{Font color|blue|blue}} background is an image reminiscent of the mythical Bellorophon riding Pegasus or a man riding some winged beast. He is holding a quill pen. On both sides of the image are ribbons with the company's name. "KING FEATURES" is on the left ribbon and "SYNDICATE" is on the right. Below the eagle is a monitor-shaped box that says "TV". The word "'''''Presents'''''" appears under the opening logo in white script. Then, a star spins towards the screen from the center of the logo as it fades out. When it stops, Popeye appears in it and toots his pipe, followed by the title screen and credits.
+'''Technique:''' Motion-controlled cel animation.
-'''Variant:''' On reruns of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' on the Family Channel, the logo was sped-up for time compressing.
+'''Audio:''' A somewhat dramatic synthesizer theme.
-'''Closing Title:''' At the end, the white quill pen writes out "'''''The End'''''" in script, then the script slides to the left as the quill flips to the right to rejoin the logo as it fades in.
+'''Availability:'''
-'''FX/SFX:''' The spinning star (which was re-used from the Paramount ''Popeye'' cartoons), and the quill pen "writing" in the closing logo. This would also serve as the opening logo for ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' before the start of the opening credits.
+* May appear at the end of some syndicated movie telecasts, such as ''The Cartier Affair''.
+* It is also seen on some prints of ''An American Werewolf in London'', although other prints of that film use the [[Hearst Entertainment]] logo instead, with the KF music preserved.
+* This can also be found on DVD releases of ''The Toughest Man in the World'' and ''High School USA''.
+* This logo also made an appearance on the 1988 TV movie ''Going to the Chapel''.
+* It can also be seen at the end of the ''Blondie'' films on the Movies! network and Amazon Prime such as ''Footlight Glamour'' (1943).
+* This logo is also preserved on GREAT! Movies Classic airings of ''The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper'' and ''An American Werewolf in London'' as they use old 4:3 SD masters.
+* This logo does not appear at the end of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' DVD releases or Tubi prints, as it's been plastered over with the 3rd logo below instead.
+===2nd Logo (1982)===
-'''Music/Sounds:'''
+<tabber>
-*Opening: An abridged version of the generic cartoon sailor song "The Sailor's Hornpipe" (played on what sounds like a flute), leading into an abridged version of ''Popeye the Sailor Man'' which plays over the credits. On ''Barbecue for Two'' and ''Hits and Missels'' (the first two cartoons of the 60's series), however, the Famous Studios version of the theme song is heard.
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-* Closing: The end to "The Sailor's Hornpipe". Some Rembrahndt Films ''Popeye'' cartoons replaces it with a peppy version of the end of the ''Popeye the Sailor Man'' theme song.
-'''Availability:''' Extremely rare. This logo may be preserved on the DVD release of the made-for TV KFS ''Popeye'' cartoons of the 1960s. The logo also made a surprise return at the end of some reruns of some 1st season episodes of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'', following the 1974 [[Hanna-Barbera Cartoons|H-B]] "Rainbow" logo, as well as an opening logo for syndicated prints of seasons 2-4 of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' as seen on Tubi (excluding the Valentine's day special.).
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
-===2nd Logo (1960?-1964)===
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+'''Visuals:''' * On a blue background, the King Features crown is above a long white stripe spanning the entire screen, with "King Features Entertainment" on it. Below it is a copyright for King Features Syndicate. The crown zooms in and takes up the entire screen, with the inside of it fading to the intro itself as the stripe and copyright disappear. At the end, the crown appears over King Features' line-up of characters and zooms in, takes up the entire screen again, and goes back to the logo, thus ending the intro.
-'''Nicknames:''' "The KFS Crown", "The Zooming/Spinning Crown", “The Beetle Bailey Logo”
+'''Audio:''' The sailors' hornpipe, as heard in the intro to the classic Popeye cartoons.
-'''Logo:''' On a specific color background ({{Font color|gray|gray}}, {{Font color|teal|teal}}, {{Font color|lavender|lavender}}, {{Font color|lawngreen|pistachio}}, {{Font color|lightgrey|light gray}}, or {{Font color|deepskyblue|sky blue}}), a small {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} or {{Font color|gold|gold}} rectangle in the center of the screen zooms in in a spinning manner. The three spikes in the crown pop up one by one from left to right. The word “{{Font|Old English|{{Font color|red|K}}ing}}” appears on the crown in an old-world font, with the “{{Font color|red|K}}” being colored a bold {{Font color|red|red}}. The “King” spins and settles on the below left of the screen, and the words “Features” and “Syndicate” (the first letter in each also colored bold red) appear to the right of it and “PRESENTS” (in either black or {{Font color|red|red}}) below. This logo leads into the title screen and opening credits for the cartoon that follows.
+'''Availability:''' This was seen as the intro to King Features' cartoons on VHS. {{AvailabilityExamples}}
-'''Closing Titles:'''
-* A different color background (blue, lavender, gray, light gray, or pistachio) background, but the crown is in the upper left corner, and below it are written the stacked words “A KING FEATURES SYNDICATE PRODUCTION”, with the bold grey/white word “TV” written behind it to hence "A KING FEATURES SYNDICATE TV PRODUCTION". This can be only seen on cartoons that are animated at Jack Kinney Productions, Rembrahndt Films, Artransa Park Film Studios, Joseph Oriolo Animation (G&H Films, Inc.), and many more.
-*A crown-less version of the aforementioned closing title is seen on some ''Krazy Kat'' cartoons.
-*Cartoons produced at Paramount Pictures Cartoon Studios will have the “Produced by Paramount Pictures Corporation” credit written in it's signature font on the bottom right, with the "KING FEATURES SYNDICATE TV PRODUCTION" words moved on the top left, above and next to the crown.
+===3rd Logo (1985-1990)===
-'''FX/SFX:''' The zooming/spinning crown, and the word animations. None for the closing variant.
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-'''Music/Sounds:'''
-*'''Opening:''' A horn and xylophone fanfare that syncs with the animation, leading into the cartoon short theme music.
-*'''Closing:''' A horn and percussion fanfare, which varies depending on the cartoon.
-'''Availability:''' Very rare. First appeared on the 1960 ''Beetle Bailey'' cartoon ''Labor Shortage''. It also appears on the umbrella series ''The King Features Trilogy'' (the umbrella title for ''Beetle Bailey, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith,'' and ''Krazy Kat'' cartoons) on syndicated TV in 1963. If you really want to see it, some cartoon shorts that originally appeared in the series have been released on three VHS volumes of [[Rhino Home Video]]’s “Sunday Morning Funnies”: ''Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, Beetle Bailey,'' and ''Krazy Kat''. DVD and streaming site releases (like Tubi) of these cartoons may preserve the logos, as well (the logo has been retained on the ''Krazy Kat Kartoon Kollection'' DVD box set released by [[Koch Vision]] in 2003).
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
-===3rd Logo (1963-1970) ===
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+'''Visuals:''' On a black background, a steel blue 3D crown spins onto the screen. It moves towards the top as the black background begins to become lavender (the color moves up from the bottom). The crown, when it gets near the top and comfortably small, flashes and becomes a 2D stylized crown, similar to the previous logo but completely colored in. Below it the company name appears in the same font as the previous logo, this time written in two lines. The words "A Subsidiary of The Hearst Corporation" appear below it.
-'''Nicknames:''' "The KFS Crown II", "The Blondie Logo", "Jumping Shapes"
-'''Logo:''' Against a white (gray in B&W) background, we first see a rectangle with a equilateral triangle in the center, along with two triangles on either side with one curved side each. On the lower left hand corner and upper right hand corner of the rectangle, there are two dots. The dot on the lower left drops and explodes into 8 small dots and 5 larger dots. The triangle on the left side drops along with the other dot. The triangle blossoms like a fan into a flower shape, while the other two triangles drop and form an hexagon shaped by six triangles, except the upper triangle is missing. Then at one point, we see the four "pieces" of the KFS logo on the screen, before they suddenly "multiply" and jump all over the screen, finally forming the KFS crown logo (which is either fully black in B&W, or the tips are orange when in color), which shrinks and moves to the upper left of the screen above the words "KING FEATURES PRESENTS" (It is ID'ed as "A KING FEATURES PRESENTATION" at the end of some TV shows).
-'''FX/SFX:''' The moving shapes jumping across the screen. Each piece of animation is synced perfectly with the music, which is pretty cool.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' The theme begin with the sound notes hearing similar to the Universal theme from the late '70s. These occur during the dropping phase. Then, big band music is heard while all of the shapes jump all over the screen and during the formation of the KFS crown. This music could be easily heard on ''The Beatles'' cartoon. Other times, the opening or end theme may play over the logo.
-'''Availability:''' Very rare. This logo appeared on the animated cartoon series ''The Beatles'' and ''Cool McCool'' on network TV. It was also seen on television prints of [[Columbia Pictures]]' ''Blondie'' movies. This logo maybe vanishing since it was last seen on the KFS-owned ''Blondie'' movies with Columbia Pictures original credits last seen on AMC. However, if your station has been showing ''Blondie'' for a long time or if you owned a video of the ''Blondie'' movies from KFS Home Entertainment, you may see this logo. This logo can be found on the DVD release of ''Cool McCool'' from BCI/Eclipse, and may also turn up on a few public domain DVDs of ''Blondie'' and ''Beetle Bailey''.
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
-===4th Logo (October 7, 1972)===
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-'''Nicknames:''' "The KFS Crown III", "'70s KFS Logo", "KFS Radar Globe"
-'''Logo:''' On a blue background, we see on the right a crudely-drawn crown encapsulated inside a [[Worldvision Enterprises|Worldvision]]-like radar globe, with a large quill behind it. Below, we see the words “King Features” in a bold font aligned to the left.
-'''FX/SFX:''' None.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' None.
-'''Availability:''' Extinct. The only known record of its existence is on the original broadcast of the 1972 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie ''Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter''.
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
-===5th Logo (1981-1985, October 9, 1988)===
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-'''Nicknames:''' "The KFS Crown IV", "Crown Trail"
-'''Logo:''' On a cerulean blue background, the words "King Features Entertainment" slowly zoom out. When the words get to a suitable distance, a "trail" of stylized outlined crowns come from the left and right side above the logo, consolidating into one stylized outlined shield. The words "Produced by" or "Distributed by" would appear in an arc above it.
-'''Variant:''' Some shows contain a King Features copyright notice below.
-'''FX/SFX:''' The crown trail.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' A somewhat dramatic synthesizer theme.
-'''Availability:''' Very rare. May appear at the end of some syndicated movie telecasts, such as ''The Cartier Affair''. Also appears on some prints of ''An American Werewolf in London'', although other prints of that film use the [[Hearst Entertainment]] logo, with the KF music preserved. This can also be found on DVDs of ''The Toughest Man In The World'' and ''High School USA''. This logo also makes a surprise appearance on the 1988 TV movie ''Going to the Chapel''. As of May 2018, it can be seen at the end of the ''Blondie'' films on the Movies! network. Don't expect this logo to show up at the end of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' DVD's or Tubi TV reruns as it's been plastered over with the next logo below.
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
-===6th Logo (1985-1990)===
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-'''Nicknames:''' "The KFS Crown V", "Rolling Crown"
-'''Logo:''' On a black/blue gradient background, a blue 3D crown spins onto the screen. It moves towards the top, as the black background begins to become lavender (the color moves up from the bottom). The crown, when it gets near the top and comfortably small, flashes and becomes a 2D stylized crown, similar to the 5th logo but completely colored in. Below it the words "King Features Entertainment" appear in the same font as the 5th logo. The words "A Subsidiary of The Hearst Corporation" appear below it. Sometimes, "Distributed By" may appear above the crown.
 '''Variants:'''
+* Most of the time, "Distributed By" also appears above the crown, and the logo is shifted lower than usual.
 * Sometimes, the logo is still.
-*A warp speed variant exists.
+* A warp speed variant exists.
-*A slightly longer version exists where the words slowly fade in.
+* A slightly longer version also exists, where the words slowly fade in.
-*On the test pilot of the cartoon Defenders of the Earth, the text reads "AND King Features Entertainment, Inc." with the small version of the Crown placed to the left of the company name.
+* On <u>the 1989 ''Beetle Bailey'' special</u>, the finished logo zooms in to fill the screen. Copyright stamps for King Features Entertainment and King Features Syndicate can be seen.
+* On <u>the ''Blondie & Dagwood'' special from 1987</u>, the variant above is plastered onto a black/blue gradient background with a very noticable black outline.
-*A unique version was seen as the intro to King Features' cartoons on VHS where the background is blue. Here, the crown is above a long white stripe spanning the entire screen, with "King Features Entertainment" on it. Below it is a copyright for King Features Syndicate. "The Sailor's Hornpipe" plays here, in which when the whistle blows, the crown zooms in and takes up the entire screen, with the inside of it fading to the intro itself as the stripe and copyright disappear. At the end, the crown appears over King Features' line up of characters and zooms in, takes up the entire screen again, and goes back to the logo, thus ending the intro.
+* On <u>the test pilot of the cartoon ''Defenders of the Earth''</u>, the text reads "AND King Features Entertainment, Inc." with a small version of the crown placed to the left of the company name.
-'''FX/SFX:''' The rolling crown. None for a sped-up variant.
+'''Technique:''' CGI for the crown, 2D computer animation for the rest.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' It starts with a several synth taps, which is followed by a whirring sound getting louder and with more reverb. 4 synth notes then play in series of 2. A drum plays when the text starts to fade in, with the byline appearing with a twinkle. All of this was played on a Yamaha DX-7. The closing themes of the animated ''Blondie'' specials from 1989, as well as ''Ask Dr. Ruth'', were heard over the logo.
+'''Audio:''' It begins with several synth taps, followed by a whirring sound getting louder and with more reverb. Four synth notes then play in series of two. A drum plays when the text starts to fade in, with the byline appearing with a twinkle. All of this was played on a Yamaha DX-7.
-'''Music/Sounds Variants:'''
+'''Audio Variants:'''
+* In some cases, the drum sound is delayed slightly.
-*There were two slightly different versions of the theme.
-*It may also have the show/movie's ending theme playing over it.
+* It may also have the show/movie's ending theme playing over it.
+* The closing themes of the animated ''Blondie'' and ''Beetle Bailey'' specials from 1989, as well as ''Ask Dr. Ruth'', are heard over the logo.
-*The still variant has the last few seconds of the logo's theme playing.
-*The warp speed variant had the logo's theme doubled in speed.
+* The still variant has the last few seconds of the logo's theme playing.
+* The warp speed variant has the logo's theme doubled in speed.
+* High tone and low tone variants of the logo's theme both also exist.
+'''Availability:'''
-'''Availability:''' Uncommon. Can be seen on old videocassettes of ''Popeye'' and ''Krazy Kat'' as well as the 1970s cartoon of ''Flash Gordon'' among other KFS classic cartoons. This logo was seen without music on ''G-Force'' on Cartoon Network. When reruns of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'', as well as the short-lived ''Popeye and Son'' (1987-88) were seen on the Family Channel in the early '90s, this logo followed after both the [[Hanna-Barbera Cartoons|H-B]] '74 "Rainbow" and the '79 "Swirling Star" for the former, and the '86 "CGI Swirling Star" for the latter version. For the former, this logo was played in sped-up mode due to time compression. Also appears on the DVDs of ''Get Smart, Again'' and ''God Bless the Child''. It's also at the end of the Sandy Frank dub of ''Gamera (1965)'', which was featured on ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''. The sped-up variant was also seen on ''Defenders of the Earth'' and was preserved on the DVD release. Also appeared at the end of the short-lived syndicated series ''Ask Dr. Ruth'', which aired during the 1989-1990 season (the parent King Features Syndicate distributed Dr. Ruth Westheimer's column to newspapers, so naturally their TV arm produced her show). Also made an appearance on AMC's print of ''Six Weeks'' back in the early 2000s. On Tubi TV reruns of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' under ''The Continuing Adventures of Popeye'' name, this logo and the Hanna-Barbera logos were played in normal mode. On BET airings of ''The Women of Brewster Place'', the warp speed version is seen with the ending theme playing over it.
+* Seen on old VHS releases of ''Popeye'' and ''Krazy Kat'', as well as the 1970s Filmation version of ''Flash Gordon'', among other classic KFS cartoons.
+* This logo was also seen without music on Cartoon Network reruns of ''G-Force'' in the late 1990s.
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
+* Early 90s reruns of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' and ''Popeye and Son'' on the Family Channel (currently Freeform) also had this following both the 1974 [[Hanna-Barbera]] logo and the 1979 "Swirling Star" for the former (on this show, it was also sped up thanks to time compression), and the 1986 H-B "CGI Swirling Star" logo for the latter.
+** However, Tubi prints of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' (referred to as ''The Continuing Adventures of Popeye'') have this logo and the Hanna-Barbera logos play normally.
-===7th Logo (1987-1989)===
+* It is also preserved on the DVD releases of ''Get Smart, Again'' and ''God Bless the Child'', respectively.
-[[File:NDC4AJEzv7igrzne8lmLXw27229.jpeg|center|350px]]
+* It can also be seen at the end of the Sandy Frank dub of ''Gamera'' (1965), which was featured on ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''.
-'''Nicknames:''' "The KFS Crown VI", "Chromed Crown", "Still Crown"
+* The sped-up variant was also seen on ''Defenders of the Earth'', and is also preserved on the DVD release and on the Comics Kingdom YouTube channel.
+* It was also seen at the end of the syndicated series ''Ask Dr. Ruth'', which aired during the 1989-1990 season (the parent King Features Syndicate distributed Dr. Ruth Westheimer's column to newspapers, so naturally their TV arm produced her show).
-'''Logo:''' On a shaded blue background, a 2D stylized crown like in 6th logo, and the words "King Features Entertainment" are seen in the same font as the previous logo. Under it, the byline "A Subsidiary of The Hearst Corporation" is also there.
+* It also made an appearance on AMC's print of ''Six Weeks'' back in the early 2000s.
+* On BET airings of ''The Women of Brewster Place'', the warp speed version is seen with the ending theme playing over it.
-'''Variant:''' Some shows contain one or two King Features copyright stamps below.
+* This logo is also retained on [[Air Music and Media Group plc]]'s DVD releases of KFS' cartoons.
+** On ''Popeye'' releases (or at least ''Popeye: Ye Olde Popeye''), the logo appears four times overall. The reason for this happening is because the content is split in two, with each half starting with the logo, and ending with the ''Distributed by'' variant.
-'''FX/SFX:''' None.
+* The logo without the "Distributed by" text is also seen on the 1990 U.S. VHS release of ''Flash Gordon: Blue Magic''.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' None or the closing theme of the show.
-'''Availability:''' Very rare. Appears on the ''Blondie & Dagwood'' specials from the era.
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
-===8th Logo (November 9, 2004) ===
-[[File:UZAqzrz03d99ZAkT68gQLg125504.png|center|350px]]
-'''Nicknames:''' "The KFS Pegasus II", "The Pegasus Logo II", "The Popeye Logo II", "The CGI Pegasus"
-'''Logo:''' A big flash appears which reveals the planet earth, which is spinning. A ribbon is pulling out behind from the earth (with the words "KING FEATURES" on the left ribbon, and the word "SYNDICATE" appearing on the right ribbon), and the symbol from the first logo appears on top of the earth. The flash dies down and the finished product ends up on a dark teal background, which looks similar to the first logo, with a few exceptions (see below).
-'''Trivia:''' A reinterpretation of the 1st logo, only this time the TV is changed to a globe of the Earth.
-'''FX/SFX:''' The flash, the rotation of the earth, the movement of the ribbons and text, and the background changing color.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' None.
-'''Availability:''' Ultra rare. It was only seen on the direct-to-video movie ''Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy''.
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
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