TVS Productions

Credits

Descriptions by
Camenati

Captures by
Camenati and Hb1290

Editions by
Michael Kenchington

This article is about the production logos. For the TV idents, see TVS Television.

Background

This is the production arm of TVS Television.

1st Logo (January 1, 1982-September 4, 1987)

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Visuals:

• Opening: Same as the station ID of the era.
• Closing: On a black background, the flower from the 1982 TVS logo is placed in the middle of the screen. "TVS Production" is placed below in the corporate font.

Variants:

• The weekend opening variants of this logo exist as both filmed and videotaped versions.
• Sometimes, other phrases like "TVS Outside Broadcast", "TVS Production with the south in view" and "TVS Presentation" (the latter of which was seen at the end of movies and imported programmes) are used.
• In the logo's early years, the logo is closer to the screen, and a copyright date is added underneath, reading "©(year) Television South plc" or "©TVS (year)".
• For programmes produced for Channel 4 such as Night Mail 2, either the words "A TVS Production for Channel 4" or "A TVS Production for Channel Four" appear below the logo with the copyright notice reading "©(year) Television South plc" also appearing below as well.
• On Ultra Quiz, the flower is in a chrome effect.
• On Bobby Davro's TV Annual, the logo appears within a TV set against a room full of Christmas decorations. A man wearing a party hat is seen within a black and white picture. After the credits fly off screen, he stares at the viewer and smiles before blowing a party horn and giving a toast to us. The man then drinks from a wine glass.
• On The Real World 3D TV, the flower is in a 3D-effect against a perspective effect grid background. It then zooms out and looses its effect before the shot crossfades to the normal logo.
• On Highway, the logo is paired with six other ITV franchise logos on a blue background. TVS's logo appears on the bottom left.

Technique:

• Opening: 2D computer animation.
• Closing: A digital graphic.

Audio:

• Opening: Same as the station ID of the era.
• Closing: The ending theme of the programme or none.

Availability: Seen on programmes by TVS from the time-period until 1987.

• Examples include Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Vintage Quiz, Ultra Quiz, The Real World 3D TV, On Safari, The Boys of 66, Bobby Davro's TV Annual, Challenge of the South, Nightmail II (current prints plaster it with the 2001 Peter Williams Television logo instead), Digance at Work, Henry's Leg, Hello Campers!, and the first two seasons of Catchphrase, among many others.
• One of the earliest programmes to use this logo was Bring in the New.
• It was also seen at the end of the original airings of the first two seasons of The Telebugs.
• The videotaped version of the weekend opening variant of this logo is also preserved on the Fraggle Rock episode "Capture the Moon", included on the 2005 UK DVD release of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock: Let the Music Play: Volume 1.

2nd Logo (September 5, 1987-1990)

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Visuals:

• Opening: Same as the station ID of the era.
• Closing: On a silver background, the 1987 TVS logo is bevelled and in a dimly lit steel blue colour. Underneath is the word "P R O D U C T I O N".

Variants:

• On the first season of Motormouth, the page slides in to reveal the 1987 TVS endcap.
• On The Pyramid Game and Coast to Coast, a copyright stamp in a dark colour is added below the logo.
• Programmes produced for Channel 4 have the logo smaller and the bottom text bigger, now reading "A TVS PRODUCTION FOR CHANNEL FOUR".
• The same variation from the Bobby Davro's TV Annual is used here, but with this logo instead.
• The rare production variant which was seen on Karting: The Superprix, Hodson Confidential, and The Channon & Ball Video Show features a larger 1987 TVS logo and the text reading "A TVS PRODUCTION FOR" and the 1989 ITV logo both appearing below.
• On When Will I Be Famous, the logo appears with the 1989 Childsplay Productions logo.

Technique:

• Opening: CGI.
• Closing: A still CGI render.

Audio:

• Opening: Same as the station ID of the era.
• Closing: The ending theme of the programme or none.

Availability: Seen on programmes by TVS from the time-period until 1990.

• Examples include Knights of God, Davro's Sketch Pad, Hodson's Confidential, season 1 of Tell the Truth, seasons 3 and 4 of Catchphrase, season 4 of The Pyramid Game, the first two seasons of Mr Majeika, John Gielgud: An Actor's Life, TUGS, the first season of Motormouth, the first two seasons of That's Love, and the third and final season of Summertime Special, among many others.
• It was also seen at the end of the third and final season of The Telebugs.
• The opening variant of this logo was used on all networked programmes by TVS until ITV abolished frontcaps starting on January 1, 1988.
• The rare production variant with the 1989 ITV logo was seen on Karting: The Superprix, Hodson Confidential, and The Channon & Ball Video Show, respectively.

3rd Logo (September 1, 1989-October 30, 1993)

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Visuals: On a blue background with a spotlight on the top left corner, the TVS logo from before is in a bluish glass texture. "P R O D U C T I O N" can be seen underneath in a slightly different font than before.

Variants:

• "PRODUCTION" may be reworded to "PRESENTATION".
• The 1989 ITV logo also appears below the "TVS PRODUCTION FOR" text on networked programmes.
  • Another variant has "PRODUCTION" reworded to "PROGRAMME".
  • On All Clued Up, a copyright notice is added below the 1989 ITV logo.
  • A filmed version also exists, which was seen on episodes of the final series of Mr Majeika.
• Ob the 1988-1992 episodes of Catchphrase, while it is similar to the Motormouth's version from 1988, but instead, the page flipped to the right and slides down (formerly up) to reveal the TVS endcap.
• On The Prayer For Us All, the logo is in a box with white outlining outside of it and appears next to the 1988 Anglia Television logo and on the latter's background with the text below changing to "Anglia/TVS Production for ITV" with the 1989 ITV logo below.
• On Purple Triangles, the print logo has a thick grey outline and also appears within the Starlock Pictures logo.
• On the first two series of Finders Keepers, the World Wide International Television logo appears above the TVS logo. Underneath, the copyright notice is expanded to read "© (year) TVS Television Ltd based on underlying materials ©1991 MTV Networks all rights reserved".
• On Streetwise, the logo appears within the 1989 Childsplay Productions logo.
• On the Equinox documentary Adventures Branson Across a Fiery Sky, the words PRODUCTION FOR CHANNEL FOUR appear below the logo with a copyright notice reading © 1989 TVS TELEVISION LTD © 1990 THE GARFIELD KENNEDY CO LTD which appears underneath.

Technique: A still CGI render.

Audio: The ending theme of the programme or none.

Availability: Seen on programmes by TVS from the time-period until the end of 1992.

• Examples include seasons 2 to 6 of Ruth Rendell Mysteries (However, when ITV3 re-aired these seasons many years ago, this logo was plastered over with the 2003 Buena Vista International Television logo), as well as all episodes from series 5-8 of Catchphrase, Motormouth, All Clued Up, The Maiden Voyage, Perfect Scoundrels, the Equinox documentary Adventures Branson Across a Fiery Sky, the final two seasons of Tell the Truth, the first four seasons of Art Attack, the first two seasons of Finders Keepers, and the final two seasons of That's Love, among many others.
• This logo made its last appearance on the series 9 premiere of Catchphrase, which despite the switch-over to Meridian, surprisingly kept it at the end.
• It was also seen on the original 1991 airings of Rupert (season 1) on Children's ITV.
• The "TVS Production for ITV" variant with the 1989 ITV logo was also seen at the end of Highway: A Journey from Dungeness to Rye.
• The "TVS Production for ITV" variant with the 1989 ITV logo was also seen at the end of a June 28, 1991 airing of the 90-minute TV version of the 1989 mini-series The Heroes.
• The "TVS Production for ITV" variant with the 1989 ITV logo was also seen at the end of a 1992 episode of Art Attack as part of CITV's Old Skool Weekend in January 2013.

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