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* This logo can be found on the ''Inspector Gadget: The Original Series'' DVD set and on the ''Inspector Gadget: Go, Go Gadget Collection'' DVD (with the exception of the "Launch Time" episode, which replaces all logos at the end with the 2004 [[DHX Cookie Jar|Cookie Jar]] logo).
* It also appeared when This TV aired certain episodes of the aforementioned series.
* The variation with "INC."
** Some airings of the show on Syfy, however, have the 1986 [[Lorimar-Telepictures]] "Crashing Comets" logo, while DVD releases (and Comet in the USA, and Horror Channel airings in the UK) use the 2007 [[CBS Media Ventures|CBS Television Distribution]] logo instead, but it's still intact on the 2015 ''Strawberry Shortcake - Double Feature: The Wonderful World of Strawberry Shortcake/Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City'' DVD release released by [[CBS Home Entertainment]].
* The still variant can be seen at the end of ''Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation''.
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* The videotaped version survived on ''Tales from the Darkside'' on the now defunct Chiller and Syfy, although some episodes plastered it with the 1986 Lorimar-Telepictures "Crashing Comets" logo.
* The videotaped version of this logo, along with the videotaped variant of the DIC Entertainment "Vortex" logo also appears on the 1991 UK VHS release of ''Heathcliff And Cats And Company: Xmas Memories'' from [[Tempo Video]].
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** It is unknown if the [[ThrillerVideo]]/[[Artisan Entertainment|IVE]] VHS releases of ''TFTD'' retain this logo, or the above logo.
* It was also seen on season two of ''Inspector Gadget'' and was on most of the seasons of ''Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats'', respectively (DVD releases of both also preserve the logo).
* The filmed version
* The filmed version of the logo is also intact on certain episodes of ''M.A.S.K.'' on Shout! Factory TV.
* ''What's Happening Now?!?'' reruns on TVOne also retain this logo as of 2022.
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** This can also be found on ''Inspector Gadget'' tapes released by [[Maier Communications, Inc.|Maier Group]].
** It is also seen on some episodes through the finale of ''The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin'' on DVD.
* 1989-1991:
** It's also on CBN's reruns of ''The Young Rebels'' and Nostalgia Television's reruns of ''The Interns'', as well as ''Eisched''.
* 1990: It was seen on a few syndie episodes in tandem with the 1989 logo on ''Family Feud''.
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Lexington Broadcast Services (commonly known by its initials, "LBS") was created in 1976 by Henry Siegel. It was reincorporated to "LBS Communications, Inc." in 1984. LBS also joined forces with Columbia Pictures Television to create "Colex Enterprises", which distributed TV series by Screen Gems and CPT. Over the years, the company would produce/distribute television shows such as Inspector Gadget and Heathcliff (DiC), What's Happening!! and What's Happening Now!! (CPT), Baywatch and Family Feud (Mark Goodson), and World of Wrestling. LBS was also an ad-sales barter until they formed "TV Horizons".
After Colex Enterprises dissolved in 1986, LBS Communications began to lose money and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991. This left the company to sell more than 80% of its assets to All American Television in March 1992. LBS would live on in the 1990s as an in-name-only unit of All American Television, which was sold to Pearson, plc. in 1997 and renamed to Pearson Television; the production company would close in 2001.
Today, most of the LBS library, with the exceptions of their DiC co-productions (WildBrain), What's Happening Now!! (Sony Pictures Television), and Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (Columbia Pictures), is owned by Fremantle.
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1st Logo (September 1976-1984) | 2nd Logo (June 27, 1984-March 26, 1988) | 3rd Logo (April 12, 1987-April 27, 1991) | 4th Logo (September 23, 1991-May 18, 1992) |
Visuals: On a black background, a series of 4 small lights flashing multiple colors, scans across the screen, leaving a large fused "LBS", consisting of an "L" and "S" nearly fused together and a "B" in the gap between them. The LBS logo slides back into the background and, after the LBS text slides into place, a small white flash appears, leaving behind the text "LEXINGTON BROADCAST SERVICES COMPANY" in a white Futura font.
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Technique: Backlit animation, with computer animation for the 1983 variant.
Audio: An uplifting synth tune accompanied by a rising series of beeps, and a synthesized "zap" accompanying the flash. All three elements of the soundtrack sound like they were made on a Moog synthesizer.
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Visuals: On a shaded violet gradient background with a floor, a curved "LBS" (exactly like in the 1st logo, but in a medium shade of light blue) zooms out while "unfolding" and stops in the center of the screen. "LBS COMMUNICATIONS INC." wipes in under the logo, in an ITC Avant Garde font, as the LBS logo "shines" with a stripe of white inside. The shadow of the LBS logo can be seen below on the floor.
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Technique: Computer animation.
Audio: A nine-note synthesizer score ending in two drumbeats, composed by Andrew Holtzman.
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Visuals: On a black background, a group of round balls pan to the left of the screen. The "LBS" logo, now in 3D and colored a transparent dark blue, slides in from the right side of the screen and the camera revolves to the front of it, during which two groups of 5 conical lights (possibly representing meteors) streak through twice. The logo makes a stop at the front of the screen, a spotlight illuminates the logo, and "LBS COMMUNICATIONS INC." fades in below in the same font as before, but with a metallic look to it.
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Technique: CGI.
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Visuals: On a black background, a yellow/white oval comes from the middle of the screen and swoops forwards. Then, the LBS logo in red comes down from the top of the screen, followed by a purple banner flying up as the text "15TH ANNIVERSARY" wipes in over it. After the logo is completed, the entire logo shines as "1976-1991" appear along the bottom edge of the oval.
Technique: 2D computer animation.
Audio: Either a mellow synthesizer score with a "ching" sound to indicate the shine, a five-note somber tune with synth guitar chords, of which a short version exists, or none.
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