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Background

Saban Entertainment was an independent television production company formed in 1980 by music and television producers Haim Saban and Shuki Levy as "Saban Records", a U.S. subsidiary of Saban International Paris (later "SIP Animation"), who composed music soundtracks to shows made by other companies (most notably DiC). In 1984, the company expanded in television production of its own, and was renamed as "Saban Productions". In 1988, the company also founded "Saban International N.V." (now part of Disney Platform Distribution) for international distribution of its shows (Note: Though used interchangeably with "Saban International Paris", they were technically two distinct entities). Around the early 1990s, the company was reincorporated as "Saban Entertainment, Inc.". In October 2001, Saban Entertainment was renamed to "BVS Entertainment, Inc." when Saban and News Corp. sold it to The Walt Disney Company. Likewise, Saban International became "BVS International N.V.".

Today, most of the Saban library is held by The Walt Disney Company through Buena Vista Studios (BVS Entertainment) and 20th Century Studios. The Power Rangers and Power Rangers-related series (VR Troopers, Big Bad Beetleborgs, Masked Rider, The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, and Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation), as well as the English dubs of Digimon (including the seasons dubbed by Sensation Animation) were re-acquired on May 15, 2010 by Saban Brands through "SCG Power Rangers, Inc.", both subsidiaries of private investment firm Saban Capital Group, and are currently held by Hasbro's Allspark division and Entertainment One.

1st Logo (September 15, 1984-October 29, 1988)

Kideo TV (filmed)

Logo: On a light indigo/white gradient background (in which a few stars can be faintly seen), we see a static shot of a purple (or dark red) Saturn-like planet, with a ring. In the middle of the planet and the ring, the word "S A B A N" is seen in a font similar to Pac-Man. Below it is the word "P R O D U C T I O N S". On the bottom half of the planet to the left, there are five yellow lines.

Variants:

On Kidd Video, the Saban logo is seen in a box in the upper left corner of the screen, and the DiC logo in the bottom right; the corner of the Saban logo overlaps the DiC logo. They are up against an orange background with a streak in the middle.
On the pilot episode of Kidd Video, the Saban logo is seen in the bottom right corner and the DiC logo in the upper left, which overlaps Saban. They are on a black background with a streak in the middle.
On a tape of The New Archies, the logo fades out early.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: A synthesized note with a descending synth sound, ending in five hits. Composed by Shuki Levy.

Music/Sounds Variants:

The theme was high-pitched and sped-up on the Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n Wrestling special "All Time Champ".
On ALF: The Animated Series, the last few notes of the theme are used.
On Kidd Video, the end theme plays over it.
On the pilot episode of Kidd Video, the 1984 DiC music is heard.

Availability: Extremely rare.

Will probably be intact if any shows produced by Saban during this time are reran in the future, such as Maple Town and I'm Telling.
It was also seen on The New Archies during its' original run on NBC, but isn't kept on later airings or DVD releases.
Preserved on DVDs of ALF: The Animated Series and ALF Tales.

2nd Logo (June 11, 1988-March 30, 1996, January 2-August 28, 2010)

Logo: On a background with stars, a white marble rectangle with a round hole in the center moves slowly from the left-hand side of the screen towards the middle of the screen, growing as it does so. In the hole, "glowing" but in black lettering, is the word "SABAN" and below the circle-shaped hole is the word "PRODUCTIONS" (in later years "ENTERTAINMENT"), or "INTERNATIONAL" for international distribution, with a gold line underneath. On the right side of the screen, a gold "coin" (or plate) twirls towards the middle of the screen as well. As the coin gets closer to the rectangle and the middle of the screen, it starts twirling faster and faster until it is affixed firmly in the hole in the center of the rectangle like a magnet attracting metal. Three white lines form on the bottom-left of the circle.

Variant: A still variant exists.

Technique: Early computer animation.

Music/Sounds: A short synthesized theme ending in what sounds like a jail door slamming shut. The music was done on a Roland D-50 synthesizer using the "Digital Native Dance" patch. Composed by Shuki Levy.

Music/Sounds Variants:

There are two short versions. The first one is the 2nd half of the logo theme. The other has the first 3 notes and the slamming jail door sound.
Sometimes, the "slamming door" sound is removed.
The music was altered in 2010 for the remastered version of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. This time it consists of a series of loud whooshes that culminate in a different "slamming door" sound.
For most of the 90’s shows, the end of the show's theme played over it instead.

Availability: Rare, but it can be found if you know where to look, specifically on VHS releases but also on some DVDs.

It can be seen on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, alongside its spinoffs VR Troopers and Masked Rider episodes until "The Dash" (though Netflix and YouTube prints of all those said shows plaster all Saban logos with the 2011 Saban Brands logo).
It also appears on X-Men and is kept on VHS and DVD releases and all digital prints, including Disney+ for the latter and the complete series box set on DVD, alongside the earlier US "volume" DVDs from Buena Vista and VHS tapes of the show that were given out by Pizza Hut in the early 1990s, as well as the 2009 UK DVD from Clear Vision.
The 2010 version is extinct; and only appeared on the 2010 remaster of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers on ABC Kids.
The "PRODUCTIONS" variant can be seen on Noozles and VHS releases of Bumpety Boo; it was also sighted on the game show Couch Potatoes when the show was last rerun on the USA Network in the early '90s (followed by the Group W Productions logo).
The "INTERNATIONAL" variant is more common and was seen on international prints of various Saban shows from the era, notably English-dubbed anime shows and co-produced shows, alongside shows produced by Saban International Paris.
- It was also seen on international broadcasts of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and also even appears on the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Die Komplette Saga 2013 German DVD release as well.
Also seen on Bob in the Bottle, the partly found English dub of Hakushon Daimaō.
Syndicated prints of New World Pictures films from the early 1990s, such as Heathers, plastered this logo over the New World logo.
It was also seen after The Landsburg Company logo on a UK VHS release of The Ryan White Story.
It is also available on Peacock's streaming prints of Samurai Pizza Cats.

3rd Logo (April 20, 1996-July 21, 2002)

Logo: A group of children, who are ethnically diverse and wearing what appears to be spandex jumpsuits (some are wearing green, some are wearing red, and some are wearing yellow) with patterns all over them, are shown in a circle, looking upward as the camera revolves around and zooms out for a second. Then, it fades to a shot of the children from above as they take a piece of orange-yellow cloth with a globe pattern imprinted on it and throw it in the air as they are standing on opposite ends of a small "orb". Then, it fades to another shot of the children, who are shown raising their hands up and releasing brown, spherical objects into the air as they fade out as the orb (which resembles an Earth globe with yellow water and red and green continents) "transforms" into the Saban logo, which resembles a shiny gold crescent moon on the right with 3 "swishing" lines on the left. The word "SABAN" appears below the logo. The Saban logo zooms-in slightly. This is done on a cloudy sky background that seems to converge towards the center.

Variants: There are 5 variations of this logo:

A "short" version that only has the "hands-up" part of the animation with an abridged version of the music (two different versions were used).
A "medium" version that lacks the close-up shot of the children. The music plays in its entirety (though sometimes only the first six notes and the last note of the jingle plays).
The long version has all of the shots in the logo and the complete music.
The logo was still on the video game Power Rangers Zeo vs the Machine Empire.
Some Saban shows distributed outside North America have "INTERNATIONAL" at the bottom.
A weird stretched variant of the Saban International logo was seen on the TV movie On Thin Ice: Going For The Gold.
On Rusty: A Dog's Tale and Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, the logo is filmed.
When ABC Family reran Au Pair 2 in 2009, the short version of the logo was slowed down (with the ending theme) as an attempt to plaster the Fox Family Originals logo that was originally used there. The split-screen credits followed. Another slowed-down variant appeared on certain episodes of Iron Man on Disney XD, plastering over the Genesis Entertainment or New World Entertainment logos (most episodes used the short variant but without the slowdown).

Technique: It's a combination of live-action and CGI.

Music/Sounds: A 13-note flute/xylophone-like jingle that eventually coalesces into a trumpet. The sounds of children laughing are also heard throughout. Some wind is audible too. Composed by Shuki Levy.

Music/Sounds Trivia: This music was used on the company's adaptation of Kamen Rider Black RX, Masked Rider (made before the "Twirly-Doo" was introduced), as the theme for one of the supporting cast members, the alien Ferbus.

Music/Sounds Variants:

The logo was shortened to 7 notes.
Sometimes, the "INTERNATIONAL" version uses 10 notes that are rearranged.
- Both high tone and low tone variants exist, with the low tone variant appearing on some overseas prints of the CGI Action Man series and on Unis TV broadcasts of Big Wolf on Campus in Québec.
A double pitched (very high tone) variant with the 7-note music was seen on later episodes of The Mouse and the Monster.
The 10 notes version is sometimes shortened to 6 notes for both the normal and "INTERNATIONAL" versions. This appears on a few TV movies, such as On Thin Ice: Going For The Gold and some shows such as Space Goofs and Diabolik.
One season 3 episode of the French dub of Bobby's World have a weird monaural reverb effect.
On international airings and the Australian DVD release of Au Pair, instead of the children's laughing, it plays the 2 first notes of the 1998 Fox Family Productions logo before the music plays normal. This only appears at the end of the movie.
Toon Disney/Disney XD prints of Iron Man's first season had the Genesis Entertainment music playing under the logo (in one case, switching from the 1994 music to the 1989 theme); some international prints of the 1994 Spider-Man have the 1988 New World Entertainment theme playing under the logo.
In other cases, the ending theme of the show is played.
On Rusty: A Dog's Tale and Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, the opening theme of the film is played over the logo.

Availability: Uncommon; it's not seen on TV these much these days (in America at least), and for a while was plastered by the 2011 Saban Brands logo on some online and television prints, but it's still generally preserved on modern DVD/Blu-ray releases of Saban shows, as well as VHS copies.

This appeared on many later Fox Kids shows like Flint the Time Detective, Mon Colle Knights, and specifically on episodes of Power Rangers (from Zeo until Time Force), Masked Rider episodes beginning from "Battle of the Bands", and the first three English-dubbed seasons of Digimon; Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02 and Digimon Tamers.
The "International" variant appears on most series from Saban's library, including some of the 1980s and 1990s Marvel Productions shows it owned (Dungeons and Dragons) and pre-1990 DiC shows among others, sometimes plastering older logos.
Netflix prints of Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation and Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog plaster this logo with the 2011 Saban Brands logo, though it might be preserved on Shout! Factory's DVDs of those series. YouTube uploads of Power Rangers use these same prints.
On television, it was last seen on This TV's prints of Inspector Gadget, which either used older prints from Fox Family or the DiC Kids Network syndicated prints, and on some of the Marvel shows (primarily Iron Man, Fantastic Four and The Incredible Hulk) on Disney XD, newer prints of those shows have the Marvel Animation logo instead. It was also seen on the TV movie Like Father, Like Santa on Lifetime, with the 2006 Buena Vista Television logo following afterwards.
This logo is preserved on the Revelation Media DVD releases of Goosebumps released in the UK from 2012, starting with the complete first season, the Flatiron DVD set of Digimon Adventure (and presumably their sets of Adventure 02 and Tamers as well), and the 2006 DVD release of Rusty: The Great Rescue (aka Rusty: A Dog's Tale). Also seen on VHS releases of those shows, and on Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie.
On streaming, the logo is preserved on Richie Rich's Christmas Wish and Three Days on Disney+, Pigs Next Door on Tubi, and Hulu's streaming prints of Digimon Adventure (and presumably their prints of Adventure 02 and Tamers as well), as well as Hulu's prints of the first six episodes of The Tick.
This was not seen on Digimon: The Movie (2000) (except on Toon Disney/Jetix's print, which has the "INTERNATIONAL" version at the start right after the 1994 20th Century Fox logo, in that case plastering the 2000 Fox Kids theatrical logo and having the opening theme as well).

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 *The logo was shortened to 7 notes.
 *Sometimes, the "INTERNATIONAL" version uses 10 notes that are rearranged.
-**A low tone variant appears on some overseas prints of the CGI ''Action Man'' series and on Unis TV broadcasts of ''Big Wolf on Campus'' in Québec.
+**Both high tone and low tone variants exist, with the low tone variant appearing on some overseas prints of the CGI ''Action Man'' series and on Unis TV broadcasts of ''Big Wolf on Campus'' in Québec.
 *A double pitched (very high tone) variant with the 7-note music was seen on later episodes of ''The Mouse and the Monster''.
 *The 10 notes version is sometimes shortened to 6 notes for both the normal and "INTERNATIONAL" versions. This appears on a few TV movies, such as ''On Thin Ice: Going For The Gold'' and some shows such as ''Space Goofs'' and ''Diabolik''.