- 2.2 Productions
- 2121 Productions
- 3 Ball Productions
- 310 Entertainment
- 343 Incorporated
- Access Syndication
- Action Adventure Network
- Adam Productions
- After Portsmouth
- Aggregate Films
- Amity Entertainment
- Andrew Adelson Company
- Andrew Daly Productions
- Apploff Entertainment
- Arnold Shapiro Productions
- The Arthur Company
- Artists Television Group
- Asylum Entertainment
- Asymmetrical Productions
- Atlantic Television Inc.
- Baer Bones
- Bakshi Productions, Inc. (See sections)
- Balenciaga Productions
- Banyan Productions
- Bass Entertainment
- Benny Smart
- Big Phone Productions
- Bixby-Brandon Productions
- The Blue Marble Company
- Blue Streak
- Bob & Alice Productions
- Bob Banner Associates
- Bon Mot Productions
- Brad Lachman Productions
- Bright-San Productions
- Brillstein Entertainment Partners
- Broadway Video
- Bruce Cohn Productions
- Buccieri Entertainment
- Bulldog Productions
- Bullfrog Productions
- Burns & Burns
- Burt Sugarman Inc.
- Carolco Television Productions
- The Carsey-Werner Company
- Carson Entertainment
- Castle Combe Productions
- The Cates Brothers Company
- Centropolis Television
- Chanticleer Films
- Chelsea Handler Productions
- Chernin Entertainment
- Chip Taylor Communications
- The Colleton Company
- Consolidated Productions
- Coquette Productions
- Craig Anderson Productions
- Craftsman Films
- The Cramer Company
- Crossover Programming Company
- Daddy's Girl Productions
- Dakota Pictures
- Dan Curtis Productions
- Danny Kallis Productions
- Dauphine Productions
- Dave Bell Associates
- The Detective Agency
- DJ Productions
- Doc Shop Productions
- Don Fedderson Productions
- Don Meier Productions
- Dorado Productions
- Drug Store Television Productions
- Dualstar Entertainment
- Edelman Productions
- Eilenna Productions
- Elsboy Entertainment
- Emmanuel Lewis Entertainment Enterprises
- Entertainment Studios
- Eyeboogie, Inc.
- Fair Dinkum Productions
- Field Communications
- Fierce Baby Productions
- Film 44
- Finishing the Hat Productions
- Fisher Communications
- Flat Earth Productions Inc.
- Fly on the Wall Entertainment
- Flying Glass of Milk Productions
- Gallant Entertainment
- Gangbuster Films
- Garen/Albrecht Productions
- Gary Murphy-Larry Strawther Productions
- Geffen Television
- Gekko Film Corp
- Georgia Entertainment Industries
- GEP Productions
- Goddard Textiles
- Gold Coast Television Entertainment
- Grammnet Productions
- Gravy Boat (See countries)
- Graz Entertainment
- Green Couch Entertainment
- Greystone Communications
- Guarascio/Port Productions
- Happy Jack Productions
- Harmony Gold
- Headhunter Films, Inc.
- Heliosphere Productions
- Henerson/Hirsch Productions
- Hentemann Films
- Heyday Production
- Homer Productions, Inc.
- Hurricane Entertainment Corp
- The Hurwitz Company
- Idbox
- IMG Original Content
- In Motion
- Interbang Inc.
- International Mammoth Television
- Jack Russell Film Productions
- Jay Wolpert Enterprises
- Jellyvision Productions
- Jerry Leider Company
- Jim Owens Entertainment, Inc.
- Jobsite Productions
- Joe Hamilton Productions
- Jones Programming Services
- Journal Broadcast Group
- The Jozak Company
- JPD Entertainment
- Judgemental Films
- Jump at the Sun Productions
- Juniper Releasing
- Jupiter Entertainment
- Just Singer Entertainment
- Karz Entertainment
- The Kaufman Company
- Kaufman Films
- KDTN
- Kevin Slattery Productions
- Keyser/Lippman Productions
- KidRo Productions
- Kin TV Studios
- Kripke Enterprises
- Landmark Entertainment Group
- Lark International
- Larry Levinson Productions
- Laurel Canyon Productions
- Laurelwood Entertainment
- Lawton Entertainment
- Lean Machine
- The Lee Rich Company
- Legendary Television
- Lil' Whoop Productions
- Lin Bolen Productions
- Lloyd-Levitan
- LMNO Productions
- Loch Lomond Entertainment, Ltd.
- Lucille Ball Productions
- Luther Davis Productions
- Madwoman In The Attic
- Major League Baseball Productions
- Mantis Productions
- Marian Rees Associates
- Martindale-Hillier Entertainment
- Mastermind Laboratories
- MBR Productions (See countries)
- McMonkey Productions
- Medallion TV Enterprises
- Meetinghouse Productions, Inc.
- Mega Diva Inc.
- Mess Media
- Messina Baker Entertainment Corporation
- Michael Krauss Productions
- Mighty Oak Entertainment
- Million Monkeys, Inc.
- Monkey Massacre
- Moonlight Productions
- Mulberry Square Productions (See sections)
- Nash Entertainment
- Nasser Entertainment
- National Geographic Television
- N'Credible Entertainment
- Nemo Films
- NFL Network
- New Century Telecommunications
- New Wave Entertainment
- New West Entertainment
- Nuyorican Productions
- O'Hara-Horowitz Productions
- Okay Goodnight!
- Olive Bridge Entertainment
- O'Quinn Productions
- Orenthal Productions
- Our Production Company
- Outpost Farm Productions
- The Over The Hill Gang
- P3 Entertainment
- Pacific Bay Entertainment
- Pacific Motion Pictures
- Panamort Television
- Paper Kite Productions
- Paperboy Productions
- Partner Stations Network
- Paul Brownstein Productions
- Pendragon
- Perez-Minton Productions
- Piller/Segan/Shepherd
- Picador Productions
- Pie Town Productions
- Pilot Productions
- PKO Television
- Planet Grande Pictures
- Playboy Productions
- PMT, Ltd.
- Polka Dot Pictures
- PPI Releasing
- Production Partners Inc.
- Profile Productions
- Promark Television
- Puny
- QMI Television
- QRZ Media
- Radio City Music Hall Television Productions
- Ralph C. Ellis Enterprises
- Range Rider Production
- Red Board Productions
- Reid/Land Productions
- RickMill Productions
- R-Lab
- Rodan Productions
- Romart
- Room 403 Productions
- Sande Stewart Television
- The Sanitsky Company
- Sather Gate Productions
- Satin Productions
- The Saul Group
- S.B.B. Productions
- Science Originals
- Scout Productions
- The Second City Television Productions (See countries)
- Secret Hideout
- Select Media Communications
- Shapiro Glickenhaus Television
- Shore Z Productions
- Sirius Thinking Ltd.
- Siroco Enterprises
- Skydance Television
- Slam Dunk Productions
- Spanish Trail Productions
- Spartan Productions
- Spectacor Films
- Spin The Bottle Inc.
- Spinnaker Films, Inc.
- Spud TV
- Stage Five Productions
- Staley/Long Productions
- Storyline Entertainment
- Sugar Brothers Entertainment
- Tadpole Kids
- TalkStory Productions
- Telco Productions
- Television Artists and Producers Corporation
- Teleworld, Inc.
- Temple TV Productions
- Tenth Planet Productions
- The Thomas Carter Company
- TIL' Productions, Inc.
- Topstone Productions
- The Tornante Company
- Triage Entertainment
- Trillium Productions
- Tropper Schickler Productions
- True Jack Productions
- Unreality, Inc.
- Verbatim Productions
- Vision Maker Media
- Visualize
- Vitello Productions
- Wallach Media
- Wes Craven Films
- Western International Syndication
- WFAA
- When Pigs Fly Incorporated
- Winters/Rosen Productions
- Worldwide Biggies
- WW Entertainment
- WWE Originals
- You & I Productions
- Zaloom/Mayfield Productions
- Zero Gravity Management
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'''Editor's Note:''' This features a neat transition and some magnificent animation from the current movie logo. |
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===Copyright Stamps=== |
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Revision as of 01:18, 26 September 2021
Nicholas Aczel and Michael Bode
Captures by
Eric S., Shadeed A. Kelly, and V of Doom
Editions by
Shadeed A. Kelly and V of Doom
Video captures courtesy of
Eric S., Michael Bass, mcydodge919 and Pepsi9072
Background
Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. launched its own television arm as "Tri-Star Television" in March 1986 after the formation of TeleVentures with Stephen J. Cannell Productions and Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions suggested by Stephen J. Cannell. Their first official series was Downtown. After HBO (its last partner) dropped out of the venture the same year, Coca-Cola owned 100% of Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. Tri-Star Television was folded into the newly-formed Columbia Pictures Television on January 4, 1988 along with Columbia/Embassy Television after Coke sold its entertainment business to Tri-Star and renamed the company to "Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc." on December 21, 1987. Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. was later spun-off as a reorganized company in 1988. On October 7, 1991, TriStar Television was relaunched under Sony Pictures Entertainment and renamed to its current name after acquiring several television shows from New World Television. On February 21, 1994, TriStar Television merged with CPT and became Columbia TriStar Television. Both studios still produced its series independently, but in 1999, TriStar Television was folded into CTT (now Sony Pictures Television) before The Nanny and Mad About You ended on CBS & NBC, but kept its name in credit until 2000 on Early Edition. However, Malcolm & Eddie used the CTT credit. During that time, TriStar Television operated as in-name-only under Sony Pictures Television. On May 28, 2015, SPT resurrected TriStar Television as its boutique production label with the television series The Good Girls Revolt, which made its debut on Amazon Prime Video on November 5, 2015.
1st Logo (September 27, 1986-March 1988?)
Nicknames: "The Pegasus", "Jumping Pegasus", "Pegasus Over Pyramid", "Pegasus Over Triangle", "Majestic Pegasus", "The Tri-Star Pegasus"
Logo: The same triangle from the movie logo (a triangle with a gold border, a dark blue/purple sky background, and the words "TRI STAR" stacked on each other inside) zooms-out and plasters itself on a black background, right below the logo's Pegasus drawing. The word "TELEVISION" appears below.
Variants:
- On an episode of Buck James, the word "TELEVISION" is outlined in white.
- On the TV movie Danger Down Under (aka Reed Down Under), the logo is still.
FX/SFX: The triangle zooming out, and the word "TELEVISION" appearing.
Music/Sounds: An edited version of the last seven notes of the 1984 TriStar Pictures theme composed by Dave Grusin. The TV movie Danger Down Under uses the film's ending theme.
Music/Sounds Variant: On an episode of Buck James, the theme music is slightly lower in pitch.
Availability: Extremely rare.
- It appeared on Downtown, Take Five, Nothing in Common, My Two Dads, and Werewolf.
- Werewolf reruns last aired on Chiller deleted this logo and was replaced by the 2005 SPT logo.
- However, this is seen on three episodes on S1 of My Two Dads from Shout! Factory under license by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and on Antenna TV.
- This also appeared on Danger Down Under, a made-for-TV movie.
- On a couple of episodes of Werewolf, this had the actual TriStar Pictures logo in place of the TV version. Chiller reruns kept this.
Editor's Note: It's a slightly modified version of the end bit of the movie logo. Sadly, the final result looks nowhere near as polished.
2nd Logo (November 9, 1991-March 2, 1993)
Nicknames: "Dark Marble", "Sparkling Pegasus", "CGI Marble", "The TriStar Pegasus II", "Pegasus Over Pyramid II", "The Silver Pegasus"
Logo: On a dark gray or dark blue marbled background, the following text in a silver version of the Didot font used in the movie logo zooms out from the bottom of the screen to the center:
The word "" is cut-out on a light silver rectangular box. Then, the "Pegasus Over Pyramid" logo is formed out of light streaks next to "TRI".
Trivia: This logo is based on the 1991-1993 theatrical logo of TriStar Pictures as seen on trailers, TV spots, and the end of films.
Variants:
- On Forever Knight, the phrase "produced in association with" in white is seen above the logo.
- The Fifth Corner has the logo fading out rather than cutting to black as normal.
- On the 1992 TV movie Stormy Weathers, a filmed version of this logo is used.
FX/SFX: The text zooming-out from the bottom and the streaking of the Pegasus.
Music/Sounds: The end-title theme from any show, TV movie, or none.
Music/Sounds Variants:
- The Boys of Twilight unsold pilot and two episodes of The Fifth Corner had the last 7 notes of the 1984 movie logo theme.
- On Get A Life, the sound clips from the end of the episodes are heard.
Availability: Extremely rare.
- Appeared on the 2nd season of Get a Life starting with episode 2, Charlie Hoover, The Fifth Corner, and early S1 episodes of Forever Knight.
- It also appeared on the TV movies Stormy Weathers, Rapture, and Split Images (in which Amazon Prime's print from Samuel Goldwyn Films under license from Sony and a Encore broadcast retained it).
- Can still be seen on Rhino Home Video's Get a Life season 2 on VHS and DVD.
Editor's Note: An improvement over the previous logo with nice animation on the text and Pegasus.
3rd Logo (September 19, 1992-June 23, 1999)
Nicknames: "The TriStar Pegasus III", "Ultra Majestic Pegasus"
Logo: We see the white Pegasus from the 1993 movie logo with its wings spread out, posed on a sun-lit, cloud-filled sky (which is a similar background to that of the Columbia Pictures logo, but the middle part is a bit shorter). "TRISTAR" appears on the top of the screen in giant bold, white chiseled text like the "COLUMBIA" text from the 1992 CPT logo and the text "TRISTAR TELEVISION" (in the same Bank Gothic MD BT font as the 1992 CPT logo) appears on the bottom of the screen with the byline "a SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT company" below it.
Trivia: This logo was painted by artist Alan Reingold.
Variants:
- On the 1992 TV movie A Child Lost Forever, the 1995 TV movie Annie: A Royal Adventure, and the short-lived series Hudson Street, the logo appears enhanced. Sometimes, on some shows and TV movies like the 1995 TV movie Sahara, the logo fades out like the 1992 CPT logo.
- On a Jeopardy! episode aired on December 23, 1993, the logo was seen on a "Video clue" question (not a "Video Daily Double"). The logo appears to be close-up, there is no text below the Pegasus and the "TRISTAR" text is not there.
- On a French print of the miniseries Dead By Sunset, the logo is superimposed but most of it is invisible due to a poor chroma-key effect.
- On original NBC airings of Mad About You, a different version of this logo was used within the split-screen credits: The TriStar logo is in the middle on a blue background with "TRISTAR TELEVISION" and the byline below in the Bank Gothic font.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: Depending on the logo years:
- 1992-1993, 1994-1995: The last 7 notes of the 1984 movie logo theme. Used again for first 3 season 2 episodes on Mad About You. From 1994-1995, this was used on the Michael Moore TV series TV Nation aired on NBC and Fox.
- 1993-1999: A 5-note majestic orchestral fanfare with bells composed by Jay Asher.
- 1994-1997: A 6-note majestic theme.
- 1996-1999: A short version of this has 4 notes based on the 1994 logo theme and is sped up and revamped.
- In other cases, it used the closing theme of the show, original NBC and CBS airings would use generic music starting in 1994.
- There is a silent version of the logo as well.
Music/Sounds Variants:
- There is a high tone variant of the last 7 notes of the theatrical theme on Mad About You S1 episode "Neighbors From Hell".
- On Mad About You season 2 episode "Natural History", the 1993 theme echos at the end.
- On a Mad About You Christmas episode the music plays over it.
- On the short-lived series TriBeCa, it's the last 5 notes of the 1984 theatrical theme.
- At least one episode of the Designing Women spin-off Women of the House has the logo starting off silently, then playing the last three notes of the 1993 theme.
- On one episode of the short-lived sitcom A League of their Own (based on the 1992 Columbia Pictures movie), the 1992 theme is low-pitched.
- On Australian airings of the 1995 TV movie Abandoned and Deceived on Seven Network, the short CTTD theme is heard.
Availability: Uncommon. Thanks to Sony's habit of plastering over former logos with their more recent ones, this logo isn't quite as easy to find as the CPT logo at the time, but it's still not too hard to find on certain sources.
- It originally appeared on The Edge, Mad About You, season 1 and early season 2 episodes of Early Edition, Malcolm & Eddie, TriBeCa, The Nanny, Hudson Street, Ned and Stacey, and the remaining seasons of Forever Knight, among other shows and TV movies, but recent broadcasts of most series plaster this logo over with the Sony Pictures Television logo.
- However, this logo is currently seen on Annie: A Royal Adventure on most current prints (VHS, DVD, TV broadcasts, digital prints...), the first two seasons of Mad About You on DVD, a surprise appearance on the pilot episode of My Two Dads (plastering the 1986 logo) seen on the DVD release of the first season from Shout! Factory, the first season of Malcolm & Eddie on DVD also from Shout! Factory with seasons 1-3 on Fuse retaining the logo, the first three seasons of Early Edition last aired on FamilyNet and Syfy, the VHS release of the 1994 TV movie Next Door (the Amazon Prime print has it cut alongside the Showtime Networks credit notice that followed), the first season of Mr. Show on DVD, and appears on all but five episodes (those having the CTTD logo) of The Edge on DVD.
- It also appeared on episode 8 of The Jeff Foxworthy Show instead of the CPT logo on TBS (probably due to the editing mistake or maybe a plaster), and it's also retained on Crackle's print as well.
- It also appeared on From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One, and is retained on Sony Movie Channel's broadcast and digital prints.
- This is retained on Sony Movie Channel airings and the Crackle/Amazon Prime prints of the 1997 TV movie, Home Invasion.
- On Blu-Ray, this can be seen on the Australian release of To Sir, With Love II, in which it's also intact on the US Sony Pictures Choice Collection DVD-R release and iTunes/Amazon/Google Play/Vudu digital prints. However, the Sony PAL DVD and a True Movies UK broadcast has it plastered by the 2003 Sony Pictures Television International logo.
- The Sony Pictures Choice Collection DVD-Rs of Dead By Sunset and Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story (alongside digital prints of the latter) retains this as well. It may also be preserved on the Sony DVD-R of The Disappearance of Vonnie (this is however plastered by the Sony Pictures Television logo on Amazon Prime's print from Samuel Goldwyn Films under license from Sony Pictures).
- International airings of TriStar series/TV movies may maintain this logo, but others will have the SPT (or SPTI) logo.
Editor's Note: Like CPT's logo at the time, it's a still shot of an elegant painting with some glorious fanfares. Like with Columbia, this logo appeared about a year before movies had their own version of this then-new Pegasus in 1993.
4th Logo (November 5, 2015-)
Nicknames: "Ultra Majestic Pegasus II", "The TriStar Pegasus IV", "CGI Pegasus", "Christian Pegasus"
Logo: It starts with the 2014 Sony logo, just like Sony Pictures Television. It very quickly zooms in to reveal the end of the current TriStar logo with the Pegasus just beginning to spread its wings. "TELEVISION" then fades in underneath in the Impact font and with the letters spaced out. The byline "A SONY COMPANY" fades in a moment later, in small letters and in a different font than in the regular logo. All of the text appears to be made of solid gold.
FX/SFX: The iris transition from the Sony logo, the Pegasus standing up, and the text fading in. This was designed by JAMM VFX.
Music/Sounds: The 1993 theme from the previous logo.
Availability: Common. It's seen The Good Girls Revolt, Shut Eye, and The Last Tycoon all on Amazon Prime Video. Also seen on the Showtime series On Becoming a God in Central Florida.
Editor's Note: This features a neat transition and some magnificent animation from the current movie logo.
Copyright Stamps
Here is some information about the copyright stamps on the TriStar Television series and TV movies:
- 1986: Copyright © (year) by Tri-Star Pictures, Inc.
- 1987-1988: Copyright © (year) by Tri-Star Television - A Division of Tri-Star Pictures, Inc.
- 1989: Copyright © (year) Columbia Pictures Television, Inc. (used on My Two Dads season 2)
- 1988, 1989-1990: Copyright © (year) 12 Year Old Productions, Inc. (used on My Two Dads seasons 1 (last few episodes) and 3)
- 1991-1998, 1999-2000: Copyright © (year) TriStar Television, Inc.
- 1993: Copyright © (year) ETC Productions, Inc. (Used on Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson)
- 1994: Copyright © (year) TriStar Television, Inc./Showtime Networks Inc. (used on the TV movie Next Door)
- 1996-1998, 1999: Copyright © (year) Tri-Star Television, Inc. (used on Malcolm & Eddie)
- 1998-1999: Copyright © (year) Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG
- 1999-2000: Copyright © (year) Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. (used on the final season of Malcolm & Eddie)