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=== Background === <!--T:1-->
[[Paramount Pictures]] was involved in television as early as 1949 when it owned a television network called the "Paramount Television Network" and an early television division known as "[[Paramount Television Productions]]". The network presented and produced 17 programs in total until it and the production banner
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'''Desilu Productions''' was a production company founded in 1950 by then-husband-and-wife comedy duo, '''Desi''' Arnaz and '''Lu'''cille Ball (hence the name of the company), producing very successful TV shows and films between the 1950s and 1960s, notably pioneering the multi-camera sitcom format. In 1960, Desi Arnaz sold the pre-1960 shows to CBS since Ball and Arnaz couldn't work with each other anymore. They later divorced the same year. In 1962, Arnaz sold his holdings of Desilu to Ball. In 1967, she sold Desilu to Gulf+Western Industries, which merged Desilu with Paramount Pictures. Desilu became the television arm of Paramount in July, renaming it to "Paramount Television" months later. Desilu Sales became "Paramount Television Sales", while Lucille Ball formed her then-new company "[[Lucille Ball Productions|Lucille Ball Productions, Inc.]]" and Desi Arnaz formed his own company named "Desi Arnaz Productions". Currently, all of the Desilu Productions television library is owned by
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In 2004, [[Viacom (1952-2006)|Viacom]] merged Paramount Network Television and [[CBS Productions]] to form the "CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group" at the same time it merged Paramount International Television and [[CBS Broadcast International]] to form "CBS Paramount International Television" (
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=== 1st Logo (October 15, 1951-May 21, 1963) ===
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<center>A</br>DESILU PRODUCTION</center>
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From 1951-1952, the copyright stamp fades in below. From 1952-1963, this fades to the "script" logo.
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'''FX/SFX:''' None.
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'''Music/Sounds:''' The closing theme from any show.
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'''Availability:''' Seen intact on all ''I Love Lucy'' episodes on Hallmark Channel and DVD. This was also seen on ''The Untouchables'' and ''The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour''.
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'''Editor's Note:''' None.
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|A Desilu Production (1966) (Star Trek).png| Another version of the "A Desilu Production" variant of the logo.
|A Desilu Production (Early 1967) (Star Trek).jpeg| Another version of the "A Desilu Production" variant of the logo.
|A Desilu Production (1967) (Star Trek).png| A later version of the "A Desilu Production" variant of the logo.
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'''Nickname:''' "Desilu Script"
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'''Logo:''' Over a
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'''Trivia:''' The logo was designed by visual artist Howard Anderson Jr., who also designed the titles and effects works for ''I Love Lucy'', among other shows.
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'''Variants:'''
*There is a still in-credit variant that appeared on shows that were filmed on location.
*Another in-credit logo has the Desilu script name between "A" and "PRODUCTION"
*At the beginning of some programs, the word "Presents" is seen below.
*For Desilu Sales, Desilu's distribution arm starting in 1962, the text "
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'''FX/SFX:''' The "drawing effect".
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'''Availability:''' Seen intact on any shows that originally had it.
*The superimposed version can be seen on shows like ''I Love Lucy'' on Hallmark Channel, the ''Star Trek'' pilot episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before", ''The Lucy Show'', and ''The Untouchables'' (1950s version) on Me-TV.
*The in-credit variant was seen intact on some filmed on locations shows, such as ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''I Spy'', ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', and ''That Girl'', among others.
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'''Editor's Note:''' The animation in this logo is primitive, but it's well-remembered by fans of ''I Love Lucy'' and ''Star Trek''.
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'''Final Notes:''' This logo was used on the final two seasons of ''The Lucy Show'', which used the 1966 Desilu logo and the 1968 Paramount Television logo at the end.
=== 3rd Logo (September 8, 1966-December 1967) === <!--T:22-->
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|Desilu (1966) 2.png| Alternate version of the logo, with Paramount Pictures copyright stamp.
|Desilu (1967) 1.png| 1967 version of the logo, with Paramount Pictures and Norway Corporation copyright stamps.
|Desilu (1967) 2.png| 1967 version of the logo, with Paramount Pictures copyright stamps.
|Desilu (1966) (1978 Copyright).png| A variant of the logo, with a 1978 copyright stamp.
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'''Nicknames:''' "Merging Circles", "Multi-Colored Circles", "Color Desilu Logo"
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'''Logo:''' On a black background, six multicolored ({{Font color|red|red}}, {{Font color|#ffcccc|pink}}, and {{Font color|orange|orange}}) circles surround a white one and then merge together with it to form a blue circle, which backs away upward as the word "
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'''Variants:'''
*When Desilu merged with Paramount Pictures in 1966, the Paramount copyright stamp and print logos would appear under it.
*On ''Star Trek'' reruns from 1978, the Paramount copyright is chyroned in
*There was a {{Font color|red|red}} Desilu logo seen on ''Mission: Impossible''.
*There's another variant where the year reads as "1967" appears instead of reading in Roman numeral style.
*There is another version of the previously described variant where the copyright notice is partially on the Desilu text. This oddity is known to have been on original prints (and also Sci-Fi Channel airings) of the ''Star Trek'' episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" Home media releases by CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment will have this variant replaced by the standard version of the logo (with the Paramount Pictures and [[Norway Corporation]] copyrights).
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*On some recent prints of seasons 5-6 of ''The Lucy Show'', a Desilu Productions copyright has been chyroned in under the logo. These also plaster over the original Paramount copyrights, if any.
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'''FX/SFX:''' The circles merging in a kaleidoscope fashion, moving, and changing colors, the "drawing" effect of the text.
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'''Music/Sounds:''' A five-note horn fanfare
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'''Music/Sounds Variants:'''
*1966-1967 season episodes of ''Mission: Impossible''
*Some 1967-1968 season episodes of ''Mission: Impossible'' episodes had a battling loud rendition of the fanfare. This would later be used on Paramount Television's first logo in early 1968.
*In other cases, it's silent.
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*On the original effects version of the ''Star Trek'' episode "Return to Tomorrow" as seen on the "Roddenberry Vault" compilation, the final note of the early 1968 Paramount Television logo's music can be heard for a split second after the Desilu logo finishes and just before the CBSTD logo begins. This is most likely an editing mistake made while inserting the Desilu logo over the original Paramount logo.
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'''Availability:''' Uncommon.
*Currently seen on ''Star Trek'' on Me-TV (as of March 2016) and BBC America.
*It was also last seen on ''Star Trek'' reruns on TV Land and in local syndication and some ''Mission: Impossible'' episodes on the former ALN (now "YouToo TV"). When ''Star Trek'' is shown on Canada's Space: The Imagination Station, this logo was presumably kept with the Paramount copyright without the Paramount TV logo.
*It's also intact on early episodes of ''Mannix'', as well as ''The Lucy Show''.
*Currently DVD releases of the first season of ''Mission: Impossible'' retain this logo with the Paramount copyright byline, but
*Seasons 1 & 2 of the original ''Star Trek'' on Blu-ray have retained this logo (followed by the CBS Television Distribution logo), with this logo strangely replacing the January-September 1968 Paramount Television logo.
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'''Editor's Note:''' The animation is still primitive here (and the battling loud version of the fanfare may startle some viewers), but again, this is a well-loved and memorable logo by many.
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*One of 6 visual variants were used:
**For 2/3 of its existence, a small pre-1968 Paramount's print logo appeared alongside the copyright information, while the rest of the 1968 mid-season had just the text.
**Variants 3 and 4 had the standard format as the first two, with the addition of the Norway Corporation, as credited on ''Star Trek''.
**For variants 5 and 6, the logo appears with the copyright, but without the Gulf+Western byline. This was featured on ''Mission: Impossible'' and ''Mannix'' respectively.
*A B&W variant exists on 16mm prints of said colors.
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'''FX/SFX:''' The "sunrise" effect, the stars, and "Paramount" changing into "Paramount Television".
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'''Music/Sounds:''' The two main themes from the 1966 Desilu Productions logo. The battling loud version of the fanfare was only used in early 1968, typically for the bylineless variant.
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'''Music/Sounds Variant:''' A high tone variant exists for both themes, which is generally heard on PAL prints of shows.
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'''Availability:''' Very rare as this was short-lived, but it is not too difficult to find.
* It was seen on ''Mannix'' and early 1968 episodes of ''Mission: Impossible'' on ALN (now Youtoo America) and is intact on DVD releases of the show.
* On VHS, this is retained on Columbia House Collector's Edition releases of later Season 2 episodes of Mission: Impossible and the Volume 4 VHS of said show. At least one or two Star Trek VHS tapes may have retained this logo.
* The last 10 episodes of ''The Lucy Show'' also had this logo and it is retained on the S6 DVD release.
* This logo is strangely replaced by the Desilu logo and the CBS Television Distribution logo on the ''Star Trek'' season 2 Blu-ray set.
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'''Logo:'''
<center>{{Huge|'''PARAMOUNT'''}}</center>
<center>{{Large|TELEVISION}}</center>
<center>{{Small|A DIVISION OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION}}</center>
All of the text excluding the byline is set in the Eurostile font (with the company byline appearing to be set in the Trade Gothic font). "'''PARAMOUNT'''" has the largest typeface, and the other two lines are progressively smaller. The smaller right section of the rectangle contains a Paramount logo with a {{Font color|deepskyblue|blue}} circle and white mountain. The picture zooms up to the logo, which kind of looks like a {{Font color|deepskyblue|blue}} and white version of the "Rising Circle" logo (with "'''A Gulf+Western Company'''" and the copyright message appearing at the bottom of the white mountain) except the word "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Television'''''}}" is not present. Also, the copyright stamp appears when the picture zooms in.
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'''Trivia:''' A similar version of this and the next logo were used as the print logo for Paramount's record division of the time, Dot Records, from 1968 to 1971.
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'''Variants:'''
*There was a variation seen on ''Here's Lucy'' in which the mountain has no bylines or copyrights.
*Around September-November 1968, the word "CORPORATION" is missing on the rectangle on some shows.
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*On shows like ''Mission: Impossible'' and ''Mannix'' and TV movies, this logo appears with the copyright only. This will linger on through the first 2 months of ''M:I's'' 4th season and ''Mannix''<nowiki/>'s 3rd season, as the first 4 episodes didn't feature the copyright on the ending theme just yet.
* On some late '90s PAX TV airings of season 1 episodes of ''Here's Lucy'', this logo (along with the [[Lucille Ball Productions]] and [[Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, Cable & Network Features]] logos {the latter replacing the [[Telepictures Productions|Telepictures]] "Rollercoaster"}) was played at warp-speed before the compressed credits. On other airings on the same network, the logos would cross-fade into the next one before fading to black.
*An in-credit version with "
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'''Music/Sounds:'''
*September 1968-1969: A majestic 7-note horn fanfare. Composed by Leith Stevens, who arranged it from the original "Paramount on Parade" theme.
*September-December 1969: The music from the next logo.
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'''Availability:'''
* This was seen on ''Mission: Impossible'' on ALN (now Youtoo America), season 3 of both ''Mannix'' and ''Star Trek''<nowiki/>'s 1999/2004 Paramount DVD releases, several ''Star Trek'' episodes on CBS's YouTube channel and when they were aired on TV Land, as well as the 1969 TV movies ''The Immortal'' (which is intact on current DVDs), ''The Young Lawyers'', and ''Seven in Darkness''.
* It is intact on season 1 of ''Here's Lucy'' and Season 3 of Star Trek (non-remastered) on Amazon Prime Video.
* On VHS, this is retained on all Star Trek Season 3 episodes, as well as Mission: Impossible episodes that aired during this time period.
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===3rd Logo (September 1969-1975, October 10, 1988-May 14, 1990, October 1, 2012-February 19, 2013)=== <!--T:
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* The placement of the registered trademark "®" symbol is either close to or under the last star on the right side of the near-circle.
* A version exists with the Paramount copyright. This was seen between
* There was a variation in which the mountain has no bylines or copyrights.
* A version where the background is {{Font color|blue|blue}} exists, possibly due to an error.
* On ''Mission: Impossible'', ''Mannix'', and some TV movies from the era, this logo appears with the copyright only.
* A still variant with the text "'''IN ASSOCIATION WITH'''" above exists on ''The Brady Kids''. Later episodes had "'''IN ASSOCIATION WITH AND DISTRIBUTED BY'''" above it instead.
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*September-November 1969: An 8-note horn-driven jingle written by Dominic Frontiere a.k.a. "The Closet Killer". Notes 4-7 are louder. This ends with a quick glissando.
*December 1969-1971: An alternate "Closet Killer" theme. This one is noticeably slower with the first three notes and faster for the rest.
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*1974-1975: A more dramatic rendition, sometimes referred to as the "Pound & Drop" version. This signature will eventually be redone for the then-upcoming "Blue Mountain" logo.
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'''Music/Sounds Variants:'''
*An extreme high tone version of the "Closet Killer" was used.
* On the first episode of ''The Magician'', it used a sped-up version of the 1972 music variation heard in the next logo.
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*An off-sync variant was spotted on an episode of ''The Brady Bunch''. The "Closet Killer" music would begin during the black screen between the credits and the logo, before the logo appears. As a result, part of the logo was silent.
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'''Availability:'''
* This was seen on ''Mission: Impossible'' on ALN (now Youtoo America) and on a number of shows and TV movies, but a lot of it have been replaced with either the 6th, 8th, or a later logo (mostly CTD currently). An example of this would be the "The Complete Series" DVDs of ''The Brady Kids'', which plaster this logo with the CBS Television Distribution logo.
*The 1969 versions are rare and it can be seen on ''The Brady Bunch'' DVD box sets, as well as on Me-TV airings of the show. It's also intact on ''The Odd Couple'' on DVD, Me-TV and Decades. Me-TV airings of ''Love, American Style'' have this as well.
*The 1970 version is uncommon. This version has been spotted on all S1 episodes of the 1988 ''War of the Worlds'' TV series on its DVD release, as well as ''The Immortal'', ''Longstreet'' on DVD, season 1 of ''The Odd Couple'' on DVD and Me-TV, local reruns of ''Love, American Style'' (such as airings on Decades and Me-TV), and ''The Brady Bunch'' on DVD and Me-TV airings. This variant was "revived" on ''What Was Carol Brady Thinking?'', part of the former NickMom block on Nick Jr.
*The 1972 version is rare and was spotted on S1 and some S2 episodes ''Happy Days'' episodes, which includes the season 1 DVD boxset, Me-TV and older Discovery Family airings in the US (latter of which was called Hub Network at the time), as well as UK Gold airings in the UK. Other shows where this has been spotted on is ''The Magician'' on DVD, season 1 of ''Petrocelli'' on DVD and older airings on AXN Crime, and ''The Brady Bunch'' on DVD and Me-TV airings.
*The 1974 version is extinct and was spotted on Season 5 episodes of ''The Odd Couple'', and also early Season 8 episodes of ''Mannix'', but is hard to find on
*The silent version can be seen on a few programs like ''The Devil's Daughter'' and ''The Legend of Lizzie Borden'', which are retained on their DVD releases. The animated ''Star Trek'' series also has this, which has been seen on Netflix, DVD and Blu-ray box sets, and recent H&I (Heroes and Icons) prints. Not all prints have this, as some plaster it with the 1995 Domestic logo.
* The bylineless version is extremely rare and
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*1969-1970: An extended version of Frontiere's "Closet Killer" jingle; at least two arrangements are known to exist.
*Circa 1971: A fast-paced piece composed by Lalo Schifrin.
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*Other than that, generally the closing theme of the show, or none at all.
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'''Availability:'''
* This was seen as the intro to several made-for-TV movies produced by Paramount, including ''Seven in Darkness'', ''Quarantine'', ''Dr. Cook's Garden'', ''Night of Terror'', and ''Women in Chains''; most of which have rarely been reran, and a few copies online of some of these programs are bootleg copies. Over the years however, some higher quality prints of this logo have started to resurface.
* This was also seen on some episodes of ''The Lost Islands'' (while the other episodes including the pilot, use the next logo), and was also seen on Decades airings of the TV pilot for ''The Young Lawyers'' (which was removed on DVD releases), the pilot of ''The Immortal'' on DVD, the TV pilot of ''Longstreet'' on DVD, and ''The Devil's Daughter'' on DVD.
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'''Editor's Note:''' The extended "Closet Killer" on the earlier version of logo can make this scarier than the previous logo to some, but is tamer with the extended version of Schifrin's "Color ID" jingle.
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'''Nicknames:''' "Late 1970s Mountain", "1980s Mountain", "Blue Mountain", "Gulf+Western Mountain V"
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'''Logo:''' We see only the finished product of the 1975 movie logo, but more defined this time; the mountain has been compressed by about one inch with the indentations (or impressions) also reduced from five to four. The word "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Television'''''}}" comes from the right and slides in below "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Paramount'''''}}", creating the same end product from the 3rd logo.
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'''Variants:'''
*This comes with or without a Registered trademark "®" symbol under the right side of the near-circle.
*This exists as both filmed and videotaped versions.
*By around 1982, a new version of the Paramount Television logo is released utilizing the standard template of the main logo with all 5 indentations intact. As a result, the word "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Television'''''}}" overlaps the tip. You may notice on this that the portion of the "Television" logo that touches the mountain peak is a brighter white; this is due to "chroma-keying," per Benjamin Edge on Club CBS Television Studios on Facebook.
*Depending on the film quality, the colors may vary from {{Font color|darkblue|dark blue}}, all the way to a {{Font color|powderblue|whitish-blue}} color.
*In the later usage of this logo, Paramount used some videotape trickery on some of their prints with this logo. Instead of letting the film clip roll as usual, what they do is show the still of the logo with just "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Paramount'''''}}" showing. Then it quickly fades into the animation of "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Television'''''}}" sliding in from the right, which then reverts back into a still image (this time, of the completed animation). This can be seen on the first two seasons of ''MacGyver'', a few early episodes of ''Friday the 13th: The Series'', the short-lived revival ''The New Love, American Style'', the CBS sitcom ''The Cavanaughs'', and the TV movie ''The Jesse Owens Story''.
*A similar variation to the one above exists of the filmed variant becoming a still image after "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Television'''''}}" slides to its place, and the logo fades to black slower than usual.
* On the first episode of ''Webster'' in 1983, instead of the bombastic 1982 logo with "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Television'''''}}" sliding in in front of the mountain, the standard version (with "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Television'''''}}" coming into its usual place between "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Television'''''}}" and the mountain) is used, with the 1981 sounder.
*On ''The Brady Brides'', a still variant of this logo (without the sliding word "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Television'''''}}") was used.
*Another still variant exists with "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Television'''''}}" present. This was spotted on an USA Network airing of ''The Associates'' episode "The Censors".
*On the first two episodes of ''The Brady Bunch Variety Hour'', an in-credit variant was seen. On top is the text "'''Produced in association with PARAMOUNT TELEVISION'''", and below it is the print logo with the G+W byline in one line inside a square.
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'''FX/SFX:''' The word "Television" sliding in.
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'''Music/Sounds:''' A slower version of the Lalo Schifrin jingle which was first heard with 5th logo. There were many variations of this jingle throughout the '70s and '80s. There is also one completely different theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith used in 1977. A brief explanation of the jingles goes as follows:
*September 9, 1975-1976: Marching band rendition of the Lalo Schifrin jingle.
*1976-1977: An 8-note horn fanfare composed by Jerry Goldsmith. A high tone theme also exists.
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*A stereo version of the aforementioned theme exists, and can be heard on shows like ''Cheers'', ''All is Forgiven'', and ''The Tortellis''.
*September 22, 1986-May 4, 1987: 2 different reverberated versions were used, and was heard only on season 2 episodes of ''MacGyver''.
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'''Music/Sounds Variants:'''
*This logo was used with the 1972 "Split Rectangle II" music on nearly all season 1 and season 2 episodes of ''Happy Days'' when they aired on The Hub (now Discovery Family).
*On reruns of ''Mannix'' from 1983, this logo used the previous three logo's themes:
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**The 1972 Split Rectangle music (seasons 6-7 and most of the final season)
**The 1974 Split Rectangle music (early final season episodes - specifically the fall 1974 period)
*In exceptional cases, the closing theme of the show or TV movie or nothing at all was used.
*The first few notes of the 1982 logo played on the last few seconds of The Georgian Bay Ltd. logo on a few episodes of ''Webster'' DVD's, such as the S2 episode "The Uh-Oh Feeling."
*An unknown show had a Moog theme playing over it.
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*It's been spotted on ''Family Ties'' and most episodes of ''Happy Days'' when last seen on Hub Network (now Discovery Family), INSP TV, and Me-TV. It was seen on some episodes of ''Friday the 13th: The Series'' on Chiller (but not on DVD, nor on local airings), the first two seasons of ''MacGyver'' on Cloo, Me-TV and Netflix, and on the first and second season DVD releases of ''MacGyver'' from Paramount Home Entertainment. It also appears on recent DVD releases of the first four seasons of ''Webster'' from Shout! Factory (the Paramount logo on S1 would be the standard version with 1979 music [standard version meaning the one with the space between the mountain and "Paramount"] and the Paramount logo on a few S2 episodes and the entire 4th season would use the 1982 tall-peaked variant, though on some international reruns and DVD episodes, it would use the standard version).
*Other programs it was seen on was 1981-1987 episodes of ''Solid Gold'' (the silent 1995 Domestic logo plasters over this logo on VH1 airings from 1998-99), DVD releases of ''Angie'', ''Best of the West'', ''Future Cop'', ''The Bad News Bears'', ''The Powers of Matthew Star'', season 2 of ''Petrocelli'' (on DVD and on AXN Crime airings), ''Having Babies III'' on Amazon Prime Video, and ''The Winds of War'' miniseries on DVD.
*This logo is also retained on the DVD's and Blu-rays of ''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' (the 1979 BBC TV series) and its sequel ''Smiley's People'', as well as the short-lived Leslie Nielsen sitcom ''Police Squad!'' and the 1980 miniseries ''Shōgun''.
*Internationally, this logo also made a surprise appearance at the end of Australian airings of some episodes of both ''Mork & Mindy'' and ''Laverne & Shirley'', as well as an episode of ''Taxi''.
*On VHS, this is retained on ''Mork & Mindy'' Vol. 1 (and possibly other volumes), The seven-part miniseries ''The Winds of War'', James Clavell's ''Shogun'' (miniseries), Columbia House Collector's Edition VHS releases of ''Laverne and Shirley'', ''Taxi'', and ''Family Ties'', and the silent version can be found on the VHS and the PAL DVD release of ''A Woman Called Golda''.
*It is unknown if this was seen on 1970s/1980s prints of ''The Lucy Show''.
*Paramount (Viacom) had updated this logo with either the 1995 or 2003 Domestic logos, and even syndicated reruns of ''Cheers'' (once known as the best source of the logo) have been replaced with the 1995 Domestic logo, although one local rerun episode of ''Cheers'' from S5 called "Norm's First Hurrah" and Aussie airings of most season 5 episodes of said show retained this logo. However, any new prints on local broadcast and later DVD prints would have this logo replaced by the CBS Television Distribution logo.
*The tall-peaked variant with the 1979 jingle has been spotted on the ''Happy Days'' S5 episode "The Apartment", the 1983 Australian miniseries ''Return to Eden'', and some season 5 episodes of ''Taxi'' like "Arnie Meets the Kids".
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'''Nicknames:''' "CGI Mountain", "Majestic Mountain II", "Mountain of Monotony", "'90s Mountain", "Star Wars Mountain", "Gulf+Western Mountain VI", "Viacom Mountain", "Still Mountain II"
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'''Logo:''' We see only the finished product of the 1986 movie logo. It is sometimes still, while other times it has the animated clouds moving westward in the background.
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'''Bylines:''' On the bottom, the following bylines were used:
* September 13, 1987-October 1989: "'''A Gulf + Western Company'''" (aligned similarly to the last logo)
* October 1989-May 23, 1995: "{{Font|Times New Roman|A Paramount Communications Company}}" with a line above the byline. From October 1989-May 21, 1992 and September 12, 1994-January 27, 1995, the byline was in {{Font color|gold|gold}}. From September 17, 1990-May 23, 1995, the byline was in white.
*February 6, 1995-August 27, 2006: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (styled after Viacom's logo of the era), with a line above the byline.
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'''Variants:'''
*A variant of this logo with the "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''75th''''' {{Font color|#EDD602|'''''Anniversary'''''}}}}" text appeared on late 1987 episodes of ''Entertainment Tonight''.
*At the end of a 1987 outtake reel of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', the 1987 75th logo was shown first as a still picture, then the logo was seen animating in reverse, beginning with the "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''75th''''' {{Font color|#EDD602|'''''Anniversary'''''}}}}" text fading out and continuing to the stars rolling and flying away. The logo then cuts to a clip of another mountain exploding from an episode of said show.
* There is a special bylineless version which appears on a ''Star Trek: Voyager'' special and on the opening of some episodes from [[Cookie Jar Entertainment (Canada)|Cinar]]'s (now "[[WildBrain (Canada)|WildBrain]]") ''The Busy World of Richard Scarry''.
*This logo can be in 4:3 or 16:9 (only the 1995 network variant has a 16:9 variation, which debuted in 1999).
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*1987-1995: None.
*1987-1989; 1990-1995: Only the clouds moving westward in the background.
*1995-2006: (Network and domestic television): Same as first two.
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'''Music/Sounds Variants:'''
*As a result of poor attempts at plastering, each variant of the logo was sometimes spotted with the following themes from the 4th, 5th, and 7th logos:
**1987 logo with 1979 and 1980 themes, reportedly spotted on older ''Bosom Buddies'' reruns on TBS.
**1989 logo with gold byline with the 1970 and 1978 themes.
**1990 logo with 1970, 1972, 1976, 1978 and 1979 themes. The version with the 1976 theme was spotted on 90s prints of the TV movies ''Nero Wolfe'' and ''Delta Country U.S.A.'', the version with the 1978 theme was spotted on Me-TV's print of the ''Taxi'' episode "Jim and the Kid", and the version with the 1979 theme was spotted on an Australian airing of ''Taxi''.
**1995 domestic logo with 1968, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982 themes. The 1978 theme variant was seen on most episodes of ''Mork & Mindy'' on Syfy, while a few had the 1981-B theme variant, an early 2000's airing of ''The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang'' episode "Westward Whoa!" on TV Land used the 1980 theme variant, and the 1968 theme variant was seen on a French airing of ''Mannix''. Several reverse plaster spottings involving Blue Mountain jingles include Fox Family (now Freeform) airings of ''The Brady Brides'', repeats of several ''Mork & Mindy'' episodes when they last aired on older Hub Network and Fox Family airings, and an early 2000's airing of ''The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang'' episode "Westward Whoa!" on TV Land.
*On ''Judge Judy'' (season 4 to mid-season 6), ''Judge Joe Brown'' (seasons 2 & 3), the final 2 seasons of ''Judge Mills Lane'' in syndication (and on Pluto TV), the final 2 seasons of ''Nash Bridges'', and ''The Adventures of Corduroy'', the end themes would play over the 1995 Domestic or Network logo.
* On an episode of ''Entertainment Tonight'', aired May 16, 1990, the logo is silent, out of a show of respect to Sammy Davis, Jr. and Jim Henson, who both passed away that day and were the focus of the episode.
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*On at least one Season 8 episode of ''Happy Days'', the 1979 fanfare is heard faintly on the 1995 Network logo.
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*The Gulf+Western variation was once found on later ''Family Ties'' episodes (seen intact on recent airings such as those on Antenna TV), 1987-1989 ''Cheers'' episodes in syndication, and ''Friday the 13th: The Series'' on Chiller and certain episodes on Syfy. On Netflix, the Gulf+Western version has also turned up on the last 2 seasons of ''Family Ties'' (plastered on DVD), as well as seasons 3-4 and the first 4 season 5 episodes of ''MacGyver'', which can also be seen on Pluto TV. The short-lived 1988-89 game show ''Wipeout'' (with Peter Tomarken) had this as well, and it was retained when the USA Network reran from 1989 to 1991 (episodes can be found on YouTube). This variation usually gets plastered with the Viacom variation.
*The silent Viacom bylined 1995 logo was used to plaster Viacom logos. Since Viacom owns TV Land, many airings of Viacom shows had their logos plastered by this one. These prints are still used, and you may come across some of them if you watch some of these shows that TV Land had aired. Some of these shows include ''The Andy Griffith Show'', the 1970 ''Harlem Globetrotters'' cartoon, ''Cannon'', color ''Gunsmoke'' episodes (and even some black and white episodes), ''Petticoat Junction'' (also seen on Me-TV and H&I airings), ''Family Affair'', ''Gomer Pyle USMC'', ''Hawaii Five-O'', ''I Love Lucy'', ''My Three Sons'', ''The Honeymooners'', ''The Fonz & the Happy Days Gang'', and ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (these prints were also used for Nick at Nite airings). It is unknown if this applied to TV Land airings of ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', seasons 1-8 of ''Matlock'', ''The Devlin Connection'', ''The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse'' and ''Heckle and Jeckle'', and ''Perry Mason''.
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*This logo also apears on ''Exclusif Ce Soir'', a short-lived French adaptation of ''Entertainment Tonight'' that used to be shown on the TF1 network.
*An airing of the ''Star Trek'' episode "Coda" on Australian channel FOX Sci Fi retained the 1995 variant.
*This logo is intact on the pilot episode of the UPN sitcom ''Girlfriends'' on Netflix (the rest of season 1 uses the CBS Paramount Television logo).
*Although the logo was updated in 2002, ''The Dead Zone''
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'''Logo:''' Just in-credit text that reads:
<center>{{Font|Times New Roman|{{Large|''Distributed by''}}}}</center>
<center>{{Font color|#00D6DE}}'''—————————'''</center>
<center>{{Font|Times New Roman|{{Large|Paramount Television}}}}</center>
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'''Music/Sounds:''' The closing theme of the show.
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'''Nicknames:''' "CGI Mountain II", "Mount Paramount", "2000s Mountain", "Star Wars Mountain II", "Viacom Mountain II", "Still Mountain III"
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'''Logo:''' We see only the finished product of the 2002 movie logo, with the movement of the clouds being the only animation. Like the 6th logo, when the logo is shown closer, it's from Paramount Network Television. However, if it's further away, it's from Paramount Domestic Television.
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'''Trivia:''' The version with the "{{Font color|#EDD602|'''{{font|Times New Roman|''90''}}<sup>{{small|''TH''}}</sup> ANNIVERSARY'''}}" disclaimer debuted in February 2002, a month before its full movie counterpart later came about with the release of ''We Were Soldiers'' on March 1 of that same year.
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*The 90th Anniversary version appeared from February 2002 through December of that year. A still frame of that logo was used only on ''Montel''.
*Some shows with the 90th Anniversary version have the logo's colors appear enhanced.
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*A 4:3 pan-and-scan version of the Network logo exists.
*Also like the 6th logo, some shows broadcast in 4:3 strangely used the Domestic logo for Paramount Network Television.
*There was a still shot of the Domestic version that was used on ''Montel'' as well as some episodes of ''Sabrina, The Teenage Witch'' on Pluto TV and Lifetime, Cozi TV, and other syndicated airings of some episodes of ''Frasier''.
*A filmed version of the 2003 Domestic logo exists.
*A filmed version of the 2003 Network logo also exists. It can be seen on shows like season 6 of ''Becker'' and the short-lived shows ''It's All Relative'' (on later episodes) and ''A Minute with Stan Hooper''.
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*Even though the clouds in the movie logo were updated on the movie ''The Sum of All Fears'', Paramount still used the prototype variant of the clouds for television until 2003.
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*Like the 6th logo, the 1989 version of the theme is used on most shows from Paramount Domestic Television. However, on some shows from PDT, like ''Dr. Phil'', ''Montel'', ''Entertainment Tonight'', ''The Insider'' and ''Hot Ticket'', the original 1987 version is used.
*Also like the 6th logo, on network shows with 5.1 surround sound, like ''Frasier'' and ''Becker'', the fanfare is slightly re-orchestrated.
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*On Bounce TV airings of the December 1, 2004 and January 5, 2005 episodes of ''Judge Joe Brown'', the CBS Television Distribution theme is played over the Domestic variant due to sloppy reverse plastering.
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*It still appears on reruns of several shows, such as pre-2006 episodes of ''Girlfriends'' on BET Her, TV One, Cleo TV, CW Seed and Netflix (plastered on DVD by CBS Paramount Domestic Television or CBS Television Distribution), the first 3 seasons of ''NCIS'' on USA Network before using compressed credits (which use the CBS Television Studios logo), ''Frasier'' on Lifetime and Hallmark Channel as well as the Complete 10th and 11th seasons DVD box sets, ''One on One'' on Bounce TV (as well as on Netflix), every season of ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' besides season 6 on Antenna TV, Fuse, Pluto TV, and when it was last seen on Hub Network (before the re-brand of Discovery Family), ''Everybody Hates Chris'' on Fuse, ''The Parkers'' on BET and Centric, ''Soul Food: The Series'' on Aspire (plastered on DVD), ''Blind Justice'' on the now-defunct Sleuth network, 2004 syndicated late-night airings of ''Perry Mason Returns'' (which followed the 1990 Viacom "Wigga Wigga" logo), some syndicated reruns of the first two seasons of ''NUMB3RS'' (followed by the CBS Television Distribution logo) and Fox Reality Channel reruns "Maximum Exposure" (after the First Television and RTV News logos) and it surprisingly appeared at the end of a 2016 Showtime 2 broadcast of ''Universal Soldier''. The final show to use this logo was ''Deadwood''. The logo was previously seen on Nick @ Nite, TeenNick, and BET.
*The 90th Anniversary variation is uncommon and can be seen on 2002 episodes of ''One on One'' on Bounce TV and Netflix, ''Raising Dad'' on The WB, 2002 episodes of ''Do-Over'' on The WB, ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' on Syfy, Prime Video, Hulu and Netflix, 2002 episodes of ''Frasier'' on Hallmark Channel and Netflix (but not on DVD), Season 2 and 3 episodes of ''Girlfriends'' on TV One, Cleo TV and Netflix (season 2 is plastered by CBS Paramount Television on Netflix), a syndicated episode of ''Clueless'', local reruns of ''Nash Bridges'', later Season 6 episodes of ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' on Antenna TV and Fuse, ''Becker'' on Pluto TV and when it was last shown on WGN America, and on H&I's airings of 2002 ''JAG'' episodes. This also appeared on several first-run syndicated shows which were ''Entertainment Tonight'', ''Dr. Phil'', ''Judge Judy'' (mid-seasons 6-10), and ''Montel''.
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*1968-1990: Copyright © [YEAR] by Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
*1985-1988: © [YEAR] by Paramount Domestic Television & Video Programming. All Rights Reserved.
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Paramount Pictures was involved in television as early as 1949 when it owned a television network called the "Paramount Television Network" and an early television division known as "Paramount Television Productions". The network presented and produced 17 programs in total until it and the production banner were dissolved in 1956. Paramount also had a majority stake in the DuMont Television Network and owned KTLA in Los Angeles and WBKB in Chicago (now WBBM-TV). Paramount Pictures' second attempt in the television industry began in 1959 as "Paramount Pictures Television" when they produced the television movie Destination Space for CBS. They also co-produced six unsold pilots with Tandem Productions, such as Henry T. and Meet Me At Danny's. They also had a short-lived production banner called "Telemount-Mutual".
Desilu Productions was a production company founded in 1950 by then-husband-and-wife comedy duo, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball (hence the name of the company), producing very successful TV shows and films between the 1950s and 1960s, notably pioneering the multi-camera sitcom format. In 1960, Desi Arnaz sold the pre-1960 shows to CBS since Ball and Arnaz couldn't work with each other anymore. They later divorced the same year. In 1962, Arnaz sold his holdings of Desilu to Ball. In 1967, she sold Desilu to Gulf+Western Industries, which merged Desilu with Paramount Pictures. Desilu became the television arm of Paramount in July, renaming it to "Paramount Television" months later. Desilu Sales became "Paramount Television Sales", while Lucille Ball formed her then-new company "Lucille Ball Productions, Inc." and Desi Arnaz formed his own company named "Desi Arnaz Productions". Currently, all of the Desilu Productions television library is owned by Paramount Global through CBS Media Ventures.
In 2004, Viacom merged Paramount Network Television and CBS Productions to form the "CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group" at the same time it merged Paramount International Television and CBS Broadcast International to form "CBS Paramount International Television" (later the "ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group", now "Paramount Global Content Licensing"). On December 31, 2005, the Viacom/CBS split took effect and Viacom changed its name to the CBS Corporation at the same time it created a spin-off company that bears the Viacom name. On January 17, 2006, CBS Corporation merged the CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group, CBS Paramount International Television, and Paramount Domestic Television into the CBS Paramount Television Group, but the on-air logo for PDT remained the same until Memorial Day, May 29, 2006, when the first CBS Paramount Television logo debuted. As for the network version, the PNT and CBS Productions logos were used before the CBS Paramount Network Television logo debuted on June 11. However, CBS Paramount Domestic Television was merged with CBS Paramount International Television, King World Productions, and CBS Home Entertainment to form CBS Television Distribution (now "CBS Media Ventures") in September 2006, and CBS Paramount Network Television was renamed as "CBS Television Studios" (now "CBS Studios") in May 2009 after CBS lost its license to the Paramount name it had for three years. On March 4, 2013, Paramount Pictures relaunched a current incarnation of Paramount Television (now "Paramount Television Studios"); both divisions are owned by Paramount Global.
Logo: Desilu did not use a logo until 1952. We see the following text superimposed on the credits or scrolling up as part of them:
From 1951-1952, the copyright stamp fades in below. From 1952-1963, this fades to the "script" logo.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: The closing theme from any show.
Availability: Seen intact on all I Love Lucy episodes on Hallmark Channel and DVD. This was also seen on The Untouchables and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.
Editor's Note: None.
Nickname: "Desilu Script"
Logo: Over a custom backdrop, we see the words "FILMED IN HOLLYWOOD BY" ("Filmed in HOLLYWOOD and MEXICO by" on The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour). The word "Desilu" is written in a cursive font, either in black, white, or in a 3D-like appearance. Then, a round ball dots the "i". The copyright information appears at the bottom. This phrase was shortened to "FILMED BY DESILU" in 1957.
Trivia: The logo was designed by visual artist Howard Anderson Jr., who also designed the titles and effects works for I Love Lucy, among other shows.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The "drawing effect".
Music/Sounds: The end credit music. Some I Love Lucy episodes have an announcer saying, "I Love Lucy is a Desilu Production", while some others have "Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz will return next week at the same time".
Availability: Seen intact on any shows that originally had it.
Editor's Note: The animation in this logo is primitive, but it's well-remembered by fans of I Love Lucy and Star Trek.
Final Notes: This logo was used on the final two seasons of The Lucy Show, which used the 1966 Desilu logo and the 1968 Paramount Television logo at the end.
Nicknames: "Merging Circles", "Multi-Colored Circles", "Color Desilu Logo"
Logo: On a black background, six multicolored (red, pink, and orange) circles surround a white one and then merge together with it to form a blue circle, which backs away upward as the word "Desilu" is written in a yellow cursive font. As the circle takes its place over the "i", it turns white.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The circles merging in a kaleidoscope fashion, moving, and changing colors, the "drawing" effect of the text.
Music/Sounds: A five-note horn fanfare that starts on a light note as the circle forms. This would later be used on Paramount Television's 1st logo. Sometimes this music plays faster. All were composed by Wilbur Hatch.
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Uncommon.
Editor's Note: The animation is still primitive here (and the battling loud version of the fanfare may startle some viewers), but again, this is a well-loved and memorable logo by many.
Nicknames: "Rising Circle", "Iris-in Circle", "Dark Mountain", "Changing Paramount Text", "Gulf+Western Mountain"
Logo: On a blue background, we see a black mountain and the words "A Gulf+Western Company" in white. Suddenly, a white circle makes an iris-in effect behind the mountain. The "Paramount" name, which is written in its majestic script font and appears in black, pops in while 22 white stars appear around the border, starting in the middle and going downward. The word "Paramount" immediately moves upward to make room for "Television" below it, in the same typeface. Below the logo are two subtitles, both in white: "COPYRIGHT © MCMLXVIII BY PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" in a more standard typeface, and "'Paramount Pictures Corporation" in the Paramount logo font.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The "sunrise" effect, the stars, and "Paramount" changing into "Paramount Television".
Music/Sounds: The two main themes from the 1966 Desilu Productions logo. The battling loud version of the fanfare was only used in early 1968, typically for the bylineless variant.
Music/Sounds Variant: A high tone variant exists for both themes, which is generally heard on PAL prints of shows.
Availability: Very rare as this was short-lived, but it is not too difficult to find.
Editor's Note: This is the first animated Paramount Television logo. This also might be a prototype of the Paramount print logo that made its debut in the same year.
Nicknames: "Split Rectangle", "Yellow Split Rectangle", "Benevolent Rectangle", "The Closet Killer", "The Bumper Sticker", "Split Box", "Gulf+Western Mountain II"
Logo: Against a yellow background, we see a blue rectangle which is split into two sections; the larger section on the left contains the following text:
All of the text excluding the byline is set in the Eurostile font (with the company byline appearing to be set in the Trade Gothic font). "PARAMOUNT" has the largest typeface, and the other two lines are progressively smaller. The smaller right section of the rectangle contains a Paramount logo with a blue circle and white mountain. The picture zooms up to the logo, which kind of looks like a blue and white version of the "Rising Circle" logo (with "A Gulf+Western Company" and the copyright message appearing at the bottom of the white mountain) except the word "Television" is not present. Also, the copyright stamp appears when the picture zooms in.
Trivia: A similar version of this and the next logo were used as the print logo for Paramount's record division of the time, Dot Records, from 1968 to 1971.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The sudden zoom-in.
Music/Sounds:
Availability: Rare, as it is usually not intact on many common prints of the TV shows it was on.
Editor's Note: This logo resembles a bumper sticker, which could be a tongue-in-cheek reference to Paramount's then owner at the time.
Nicknames: "Split Rectangle II", "Red Split Rectangle", "Malevolent Rectangle", "The Closet Killer II", "Bumper Sticker II", "Split Box II", "Gulf+Western Mountain III"
Logo: Same as the previous logo except the background is red, the larger rectangle is blue, the smaller rectangle is white (the mountain is cut off at the bottom in this version), and the circle and stars in the Paramount logo are blue. The zooming towards the square is still intact.
Variants:
FX/SFX: Same as the previous logo.
Music/Sounds:
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Uncommon.
Editor's Note: Same as its predecessor. Of the two "Split Box" logos, it's the more recognizable version that's also infamous by some viewers for its animation and early Frontiere themes. Also, the 1970 theme would become Paramount's de-facto television theme for the following 17 years.
Nicknames: "Gulf+Western Mountain IV", "Still Mountain"
Logo: Same as the theatrical 1968 logo, although it could be either matted or cropped to fit TV screens.
FX/SFX: Same as the 1968 theatrical counterpart.
Music/Sounds:
Availability: Rare.
Editor's Note: The extended "Closet Killer" on the earlier version of logo can make this scarier than the previous logo to some, but is tamer with the extended version of Schifrin's "Color ID" jingle.
Nicknames: "Late 1970s Mountain", "1980s Mountain", "Blue Mountain", "Gulf+Western Mountain V"
Logo: We see only the finished product of the 1975 movie logo, but more defined this time; the mountain has been compressed by about one inch with the indentations (or impressions) also reduced from five to four. The word "Television" comes from the right and slides in below "Paramount", creating the same end product from the 3rd logo.
Variants:
FX/SFX: The word "Television" sliding in.
Music/Sounds: A slower version of the Lalo Schifrin jingle which was first heard with 5th logo. There were many variations of this jingle throughout the '70s and '80s. There is also one completely different theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith used in 1977. A brief explanation of the jingles goes as follows:
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Uncommon.
Editor's Note: One of the more fondly remembered television logos, mainly due to its charm and cheesiness.
Nicknames: "CGI Mountain", "Majestic Mountain II", "Mountain of Monotony", "'90s Mountain", "Star Wars Mountain", "Gulf+Western Mountain VI", "Viacom Mountain", "Still Mountain II"
Logo: We see only the finished product of the 1986 movie logo. It is sometimes still, while other times it has the animated clouds moving westward in the background.
Bylines: On the bottom, the following bylines were used:
Variants:
FX/SFX:
Music/Sounds: A re-orchestrated version of the last six notes to Paramount Pictures' 1987 theatrical fanfare, which is a re-arrangement of Elsie Janis/Jack King's Paramount on Parade by Jerry Goldsmith, first heard on trailers for Paramount Pictures since 1976, and is in the key of B♭ major. (Lalo Schifrin is credited as composer of this theme on the Star Trek: Enterprise soundtrack.) It may remind some viewers of the Star Wars theme (hence the nickname "Star Wars Mountain"). There are two main versions of the theme. The second version, which officially debuted in 1989, has the first note of the fanfare and the last note's echo in a slightly lower pitch. Many of these logos are plastered onto old shows (mostly on TV Land airings, as well as TV movies) with the logo being silent.
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Common. The 1995-2002 Viacom variation plastered over previous logos before being plastered by the CBS Television Distribution logo.
Editor's Note: It's mostly a still shot of the 1986 movie logo, which is fine enough. It also began Paramount's full time practice of using their movie logo as their de-facto television logo. However, the 75th Anniversary version was largely wasted, as it only appeared on Entertainment Tonight, while other shows during the period would instead use the standard Gulf+Western variation, before its use on films in 1988. In addition, this logo (mostly the 1995 variants) was notorious at the time for its wide prevalence during its lifespan, primarily due to plastering older logos, mainly ones from older Paramount TV and Viacom. Despite its notoriety, this would pale in comparison to the later CBS Television Distribution, which plastered logos on a larger scale.
Logo: Just in-credit text that reads:
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.
Availability: Extremely rare. Appeared on the first two seasons of Geraldo. It has been kept intact within prints available on the streaming service Nosey.
Editor's Note: None.
Nicknames: "CGI Mountain II", "Mount Paramount", "2000s Mountain", "Star Wars Mountain II", "Viacom Mountain II", "Still Mountain III"
Logo: We see only the finished product of the 2002 movie logo, with the movement of the clouds being the only animation. Like the 6th logo, when the logo is shown closer, it's from Paramount Network Television. However, if it's further away, it's from Paramount Domestic Television.
Trivia: The version with the "90TH ANNIVERSARY" disclaimer debuted in February 2002, a month before its full movie counterpart later came about with the release of We Were Soldiers on March 1 of that same year.
Variants:
FX/SFX: Only the clouds moving westward in the background or none. On Blind Justice, it shows the end animation from the movie logo. Sometimes, the logo utilizes a simple fade in and fade out, like its movie counterpart. The fade transitions occur mostly on the Domestic version of the logo.
Music/Sounds: The same 1987 theme from the 8th logo or silence.
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Although this logo is falling victim to plastering (by way of the CBS Paramount Domestic/Network Television or CBS Television Distribution logos), it's still common to find.
Editor's Note: Like the 8th logo, it's mostly a nearly still shot of the 2002 movie logo (because the background is still animating), which is fine enough. However, some people may confuse this logo with the closing logo of the movie counterpart, as the television counterpart sometimes fades in and fades out and is sometimes silent, while the movie counterpart is the same, but always happening and always silent. Also, it should be noted that the television logo debuted in February 2002, a month before the movie logo followed suit in March 2002, and this is the final Paramount logo seen on television until nearly six years later.
Here is some information about the copyright stamps on Paramount TV series:
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