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'''Editor's Note:''' One of the more fondly remembered television logos, mainly due to its charm and cheesiness.
===6th Logo (September 13, 1987-August 27, 2006)===
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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"
'''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:
* 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.
'''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).
* Starting in 1995, when the logo is shown closer, it's from Paramount Network Television. However, if it's further away, it's from Paramount Domestic Television.
* Strangely, some network TV shows from 1999-2002 used the Domestic logo for Paramount Network Television.
* There is a grayscale variation of the 1995 Domestic logo seen on black & white syndicated reruns such as on ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''My Three Sons'', ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', and ''The Honeymooners'' on TV Land, and mid-90's prints of ''The Wild Wild West'' though most B&W shows use the color version (such as ''Have Gun, Will Travel'' prints and non-TV Land airings of B&W ''Gunsmoke'' episodes).
* During the white-byline-Paramount Communications and [[Viacom (1952-2006)|Viacom]] eras, airings of TV movies would close the movie with the full logo's animation and then fade out before the byline faded in, technically creating a bylineless TV variant.
* The 1995 network variant often appeared with a noticeably chyroned Viacom byline, and was a still variant.
* Starting in 1990 on ''Entertainment Tonight'', this logo is seen in-credit, inside the area where superimposed footage plays during the credits.
** Similarly, the French version of ''Entertainment Tonight'' (known as ''Exclusif'' or ''Exclusif ce soir'', and aired between 1998-2002 on TF1) has a split-screen variant with the Case Production logo (even using the sound of said logo) which is seen at the beginning and ending of the program.
* On original NBC airings of ''Frasier'' and ''Wings'', the logo is part of the split-screen credits; the stars, "Paramount" text and the byline are drastically smaller to fit inside of it. The Paramount Communications byline now spans across two lines here.
* On ''The Busy World of Richard Scarry'', the logo appeared at the beginning with the show's theme playing in the background, and the mountain fades into a mountain in the show.
* 1987 episodes of ''Entertainment Tonight'' have the logo still for a second before the fanfare plays and the clouds start animating.
* Even though Paramount debuted an updated version of their movie logo in 1999, they still used the 1995 variant for television.
* A bad Blue Mountain plastering error appeared once: the Blue Mountain logo started, but was cut off by this logo. This is most likely due to a bad plastering error.
* The domestic version of this logo is zoomed in on 2000s prints of ''The Invaders''.
* The first two episodes of Season 3 of ''Friday the 13th: The Series'' had the animated clouds on the 1989 gold Paramount Communications variant.
* A filmed version exists.
'''FX/SFX:'''
* 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.
Like the movie logo, this was done by Flip Your Lid Animation, with the model of the mountain done by Apogee Inc.
'''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 [https://www.discogs.com/release/6408139-Various-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Collection-Original-Television-Soundtrack La-La Land Records' 2014 release of 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:'''
* 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.
* At the end of a 1987 outtake reel of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', the last note from the 1966 ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' theme music (aka "Theme from Star Trek"), is heard, followed by the 1967 Desilu logo's music, the 1979 Paramount Television theme, and some suspenseful music sounding like the theme music from the 1975 film ''Jaws'' before finally concluding with an explosion sound.
* A low-toned version was spotted on some episodes of ''Family Affair'' on Me-TV and Decades, which plastered older Viacom logos.
* A version exists that has the last note of the theme cut short.
* Another version exists that uses the last 4 notes of the theme.
* On the 2001 remaster and HD remasters of ''Cheers'', 2000s prints of ''The Love Boat'', an episode of season 3 of ''7th Heaven'' on Hulu, and seasons 2 through 6 of ''Charmed'' on DVD, the 1989 version of the theme is slightly re-orchestrated and has a different echo at the end.
* On some episodes of ''Gomer Pyle, USMC'' when they were aired on Me-TV and possibly other shows formerly distributed by Viacom, the "V of Doom" music in warp-speed is heard with the 1995 domestic logo. Similarly, mid-1990s prints of ''Our Miss Brooks'' have the 1995 Domestic logo with a low-toned regular 1976 "V of Doom" reverse-plaster.
* On a few episodes of ''Gunsmoke'' last aired on Encore Westerns, the Viacom "V of Steel" music in normal speed would be heard with the 1995 domestic logo due to sloppy plastering. The music would jarringly cut after the logo fades out.
* Reportedly, TubiTV's print of the 1990 film ''Men at Work'' had the Viacom "Wigga Wigga" music with V/O play over the 1995 domestic logo due to sloppy plastering.
* The first episode of ''The Invaders'' on a foreign DVD set had the 1995 domestic logo intact but with the 1988 [[Worldvision Enterprises|Worldvision]] "Whoosh Globe" music playing over it due to sloppy plastering. This also was spotted on some early 2000s prints of ''The Love Boat'' episodes.
* A February 2019 rerun of ''Nash Bridges'' on H&I used the [[CBS Media Ventures|CBS Television Distribution]] music with the 1995 Network logo. This is most likely a reverse plaster.
* On a TV Land airing of the ''Happy Days'' episode "Guess Who's Coming to Christmas" in July 2003, a split second of the previous logo's music can be heard and it then abruptly cuts to the regular theme of this logo, probably because of a poor plastering job.
* On syndicated airings of ''Taxi'', the 1982 theme from the previous logo is heard faintly before it is cut off by this logo's fanfare.
* One CBS Justice print of an episode of ''Gunsmoke'' had the Viacom "V of Doom" music play faintly under the 1995 Domestic version of this logo.
* Network airings on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC used a generic theme instead.
* On the 1988 game show ''Wipeout'' and the pilot of ''What's Alan Watching?'', the 1987 theme is slightly re-orchestrated.
* Starting in 1997 on network shows with 5.1 surround sound, like ''Frasier'' and ''Becker'', the fanfare is slightly re-orchestrated.
* Starting in 1995, most shows from Paramount Domestic Television used the 1989 version of the theme. However, on shows from PDT like ''Entertainment Tonight'' and ''Hard Copy'', the 1987 version is used.
* Season 1 episodes of ''Girlfriends'' had the fanfare played in mono.
* The 1988 version of ''Mission: Impossible'' plays the 1989 version of the fanfare on this logo.
* On at least one Season 8 episode of ''Happy Days'', the 1979 fanfare is heard faintly on the 1995 Network logo.
'''Availability:''' Common. The 1995-2002 Viacom variation plastered over previous logos before being plastered by the CBS Television Distribution logo.
* 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''.
* Non-TV Land programs that used the silent variant are ''Frasier'' on Lifetime, Hallmark Channel, and DVD box sets, ''Cheers'' on Hallmark Channel, Netflix, Me-TV, Reelz Channel, WGN America, and DVD prints up to season 8, the final season of ''Matlock'' (S8 DVDs use the CBS Television Distribution logo instead), the second season of ''Diagnosis Murder'' on Me-TV and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (S2 DVDs use the [[CBS Studios|CBS Paramount]] "Wallpaper" logo instead), ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' when it was on WGN America, the first two seasons of ''Soul Food: The Series'' on TV One, ''The Lucy Show'' prints, ''Mork & Mindy'' prints, ''Sabrina The Teenage Witch'' on Antenna TV and when last seen on Hub Network (before the rebrand to Discovery Family), ''The Dead Zone'' on Cloo, Me-TV airings of ''Taxi'', ''The Odd Couple'' prints, a 2013 airing of ''Return to Mayberry'' (after the Viacom "V of Happiness"), 1998-99 VH1 airings of ''Solid Gold'', ''Have Gun – Will Travel'' and ''The Wild Wild West'' airings on Me-TV and H&I (as well as ''The Wild Wild West'' airings on mid-1990's TNT airings, current FETV airings, and French-localized prints), USA Network's airings of the 1st 4 seasons of ''Nash Bridges'' (H&I airings of these seasons have the CBS Television Distribution logo, but is still found on the last 2 seasons when aired), LMN airings of ''Her Deadly Rival'' (after the 1995 Rysher Entertainment logo), ''Rawhide'' on H&I and Me-TV [though scarcely appearing], ''The Phil Silvers Show'' on Decades [also scarcely appearing], H&I airings of ''JAG'' (except seasons 3 and 4), Portuguese-localized ''The Twilight Zone'' episodes on USA Network [though scarcely], and ''Hogan's Heroes'' on Forces TV in the United Kingdom [though scarcely]. It was also seen on 2000 syndicated airings of some ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' episodes (a couple episodes retains this on Pluto TV) and is intact (with the Edd Kalehoff composed-end theme playing over) on episode 125 onwards of ''Judge Mills Lane'' on Pluto TV (which plasters the [[Rysher Entertainment]] logo).
* On the initial U.S. syndication reruns of the 1st 4 seasons of ''Webster'', the 1987 logo plastered the "Blue Mountain" on all but a select few episodes, as did the 1995 Domestic logo on much later U.S. syndication reruns after 1995.
* The 1990 and 1995 variants appear on ''Wings'' on USA Network, DVDs use CBS Paramount Domestic Television starting with season 4, and later seasons use CTD.
* The 1989 logo with the gold Paramount Communications byline lasted until January 27, 1995, and during its lifespan was used on the syndicated 1994-1995 ''The New Price Is Right'' show, DVD and Netflix's prints of seasons 5-7 of ''MacGyver'', the first season DVD of ''Wings'', Get TV airings of ''The Boy Who Loved Christmas'', and the 1993 unaired pilot ''Gloria Vane''.
* The 1990 logo with the white Paramount Communications byline made its final regular appearance on ''The Marshal'' season 1 episode "The Great Train Robbery", aired on February 11, 1995, while its final overall appearance was on ''The Laverne & Shirley Reunion''.
* ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' season 1 reruns on Netflix and DVD retain the 1995 Viacom-byline logo, while they are replaced by the CBS Television Distribution logo on the 2013 Blu-ray set. This was also seen on the final 2 seasons (1st-run syndication-era) episodes of ''Webster''.
* This logo makes a surprise appearance with the fanfare on digital prints of ''Don't Give Up the Ship'', the 1997 VHS release of ''It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown'' after the said special's closing credits and on a demo VHS tape of ''Boohbah: Comfy Armchair'' following the Dot variant of the [[PBS Kids|PBS Kids Video]] logo.
* 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'' still used the 1995 network variant until 2006, and most episodes of ''Unexplained Mysteries'' used the 1995 domestic variant until the show ended in 2004.
'''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.
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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 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 Distribution"). 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.
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:
Like the movie logo, this was done by Flip Your Lid Animation, with the model of the mountain done by Apogee Inc.
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 La-La Land Records' 2014 release of 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 6th logo or silence. Like the movie logo, this was done by BUF Compagnie.
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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