Time-Life Television was a division of Time-Life Films (initially owned by Time, Inc., later independent from Time Warner (then "WarnerMedia", now "Warner Bros. Discovery"), and after acquired by and folded into Meredith Corporation), active throughout the 1970s. It was most notable as the U.S. distributor of the BBC's television output including Doctor Who and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Time-Life's deal with the BBC expired on April 30, 1981 (these rights were taken over by the upstart Lionheart Television). That August, Time-Life Films' assets were acquired by Columbia Pictures; this included TV distribution rights to the library, as well as rights to films already in production. WarnerMedia (now known as Warner Bros. Discovery) retained the copyrights to the library, and it is now handled by HBO (with video rights usually going through HBO Home Entertainment in the U.S., with a few exceptions). A totally different company operating as Time-Life Television exists today as the production unit of Time-Life Video.
Logo: In the show's end credits or on a crimson background, we see the following text:
"TIME LIFE" is solid and inside a rectangle, while the word "TELEVISION" is outlined.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the program.
Availability: Extinct.
Logo: On a black background, we see a white conjoined, slanted "TL" (with the "L" connected near the end of the "T") zooming into place onto a television-like box with a red screen in the center, forming trails of itself as it moves (a la the 1978-81 Filmways logo). Once it reaches the screen, it quickly flashes and merges with the box to form the logo. The text "TIME LIFE TELEVISION" appears underneath the logo when it completes its formation.
Variants:
FX/SFX: Standard Scanimate effects.
Music/Sounds: A shrill Moog synthesizer sounder (extended on the BBC variant), which sounds like "You Can Fly" from Disney's Peter Pan. The still variant uses a short version of the jingle. Sometimes, it is silent.
Availability: Very rare.
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