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Background

This was the first vanity plate of producer Leonard J. Goldberg, formed after the end of his and Aaron Spelling's partnership in 1977. He would later form a new vanity plate in 2000, Panda Productions (now The Leonard Goldberg Company), as a successor to Mandy.

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1st Logo (February 6, 1981)	2nd Logo (October 26, 1982-1986)	3rd Logo (April 23, 1986-2000)

1st Logo (February 6, 1981)

Visuals: On a yellow background, there is a blue semicircle containing a wide white filmstrip arch (though looking more reminiscent of a View Master reel), whose frames are in different rainbow colors. Inside the arch, there is the black word "MANDY" and under the semicircle is the word "PRODUCTIONS", curved downwards. The bottom center of the semicircle below "MANDY" is bumpy, making it look like the top profile of a cloud.

Technique: A still image.

Audio: The closing theme.

Availability: Seen on This House Possessed.

2nd Logo (October 26, 1982-1986)

Visuals: On an orange background, there is a large white filmstrip arch (much shorter than before and with far fewer frames this time, making its resemblance to a View Master reel much more closer) whose frames, like before, are in different rainbow colors. Inside the arch, there is a bluish vertigo background containing the white word "MANDY". The words "FILMS INC." are underneath the arch, in black. Then it cuts to a black "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" on the same background.

Technique: A still image

Audio: The end theme of the show or film.

Availability: It was seen on Gavilan and Paper Dolls.

3rd Logo (April 23, 1986-2000)

Visuals: Virtually the same as before, only now the background is white, the logo has a darker tint, the center is now dark purple, and "INC." is absent.

Variants:

On The Cavanaughs, "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" fades in below; this is followed by the Paramount Television "Blue Mountain" logo (the videotaped version).
A later variant has a purple-light purple gradient background with the logo in 3D and brighter in color, with "FILMS" in white. The product casts a shadow in the background.

Technique: A still image.

Audio: The end theme of the show or film.

Availability: It was seen on the TV series Class of '96 and on the TV movies Alex: The Life of A Child, She Woke Up, and Runaway Virus.

Mandy Films

Panda Productions

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+===Background===
-===1st Logo (February 6, 1981)===
+This was the first vanity plate of producer Leonard J. Goldberg, formed after the end of his and Aaron Spelling's partnership in 1977. He would later form a new vanity plate in 2000, [[Panda Productions]] (now [[The Leonard Goldberg Company]]), as a successor to Mandy.
-[[File:Mandy Productions.jpeg|center|350px]]
+{{ImageTOC
-'''Logo:''' On a yellow background, we see the blue semicircle with the View Master-esque disc with rainbows colors bordering it inside, with the bumpy hill underneath and the words "PRODUCTIONS" in curved style.
+|Mandy Productions (1981).jpeg|1st Logo (February 6, 1981)
+|Mandy Films (1982).jpg|2nd Logo (October 26, 1982-1986)
+|Mandy Films (1986).jpg|3rd Logo (April 23, 1986-2000)
+}}
+===1st Logo (February 6, 1981)===
-'''FX/SFX:''' None.
+[[File:Mandy Productions (1981).jpeg|center|350px]]
+'''Visuals:''' On a yellow background, there is a blue semicircle containing a wide white filmstrip arch (though looking more reminiscent of a View Master reel), whose frames are in different rainbow colors. Inside the arch, there is the black word "MANDY" and under the semicircle is the word "PRODUCTIONS", curved downwards. The bottom center of the semicircle below "MANDY" is bumpy, making it look like the top profile of a cloud.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' The closing theme.
+'''Technique:''' A still image.
-'''Availability:''' Seen on ''This House Possessed''.
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
+'''Audio:''' The closing theme.
+'''Availability:''' Seen on ''This House Possessed''.
-===2nd Logo (1982-1986)===
-[[File:c98nnCUFAYkfYXGv_Gyo8w22762.jpg|center|350px]]
+===2nd Logo (October 26, 1982-1986)===
-'''Logo:''' On an orange background, we see half of a View Master-esque disc with rainbow colors bordering it. In the bottom center of the disc is the word "MANDY". The words "FILMS INC." are just below the disc, in black. Then it cuts to an "in association with" text.
+[[File:Mandy Films (1982).jpg|center|350px]]
+'''Visuals:''' On an orange background, there is a large white filmstrip arch (much shorter than before and with far fewer frames this time, making its resemblance to a View Master reel much more closer) whose frames, like before, are in different rainbow colors. Inside the arch, there is a {{color|blue|bluish}} vertigo background containing the white word "MANDY". The words "FILMS INC." are underneath the arch, in black. Then it cuts to a black "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" on the same background.
-'''FX/SFX:''' None.
+'''Technique:''' A still image
-'''Music/Sounds:''' The end theme of the show or film.
+'''Audio:''' The end theme of the show or film.
-'''Availability:''' Extinct. It was seen on ''Gavilan'' and ''Paper Dolls''.
+'''Availability:''' It was seen on ''Gavilan'' and ''Paper Dolls''.
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
-===3rd Logo (1986-2000) ===
+===3rd Logo (April 23, 1986-2000)===
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+Mandy Films (1986).jpg
-File:ilPGfOtSNj-HYR2SGbXcyA65290.jpg
+Mandy Films (2000).jpg
-File:4dfbdbef515ad2fe5cb19559906c7c90.jpg
 </gallery>
-'''Logo:''' Same as before, except taking place on a purple gradient background, the center of the disc is dark blue, and the bottom simply reads "FILMS" in a shadowed white font.
+'''Visuals:''' Virtually the same as before, only now the background is white, the logo has a darker tint, the center is now dark purple, and "INC." is absent.
+'''Variants:'''
-'''Variant:''' On a 1988 second-season episode of the CBS comedy ''The Cavanaughs'', the Mandy card is on a white background, and has an "In Association With" text to come up under it in black; this cuts to [[Paramount Television (1967-2006)|Paramount Television]]'s standard-version Blue Mtn. w/1979 jingle (this being the version from O-R ABC ''MacGyver''in the 1985-86 season of that ABC adventure series w/Richard Dean Anderson); the logo fades in as a still shot, then unfreezes long enough for Television to come in between Paramount and the mountain, and then becomes still again and fades out. The Mandy logo has the last notes of the closing theme of ''The Cavanaughs''; that theme seems to blend in to the 1979 Paramount jingle.
+*On <u>''The Cavanaughs'',</u> <u>"{{font|Times New Roman|IN ASSOCIATION WITH}}"</u> fades in below; this is followed by the [[Paramount Television (1967-2006)|Paramount Television]] "Blue Mountain" logo (the videotaped version).
+*A <u>later variant</u> has a purple-light purple gradient background with the logo in 3D and brighter in color, with "FILMS" in white. The product casts a shadow in the background.
-'''FX/SFX:''' None.
+'''Technique:''' A still image.
-'''Music/Sounds:''' The end theme of the show or film.
+'''Audio:''' The end theme of the show or film.
-'''Availability:''' Was seen on the TV series ''Class of '96'' and on the TV movies ''Alex: The Life of A Child,'' ''She Woke Up'', and ''Runaway Virus''.
+'''Availability:''' It was seen on the TV series ''Class of '96'' and on the TV movies ''Alex: The Life of A Child'', ''She Woke Up'', and ''Runaway Virus''.
+{{Chronology||[[Panda Productions]]}}
-'''Editor's Note:''' None.
+{{TV-Navbox}}
 [[Category:American television logos]]
-[[Category:American logos]]
+[[Category:United States]]
 [[Category:Television logos]]
+[[Category:Vanity cards]]