Walt Disney Television: Difference between revisions

Disney's TV output from 1954 until 1981 (the anthology series, ''Zorro'', ''Mickey Mouse Club'') had no in-credit text for "Walt Disney Productions" at all, only a copyright stamp at the end of the closing credits; also, the company didn't have its own television arm until 1983 as "Walt Disney Pictures Television". The name Disney obviously required no indication, unlike other studios. Syndication of Disney's library was done by [[SFM Entertainment]]. The original ''Mickey Mouse Club'', ''The Mouse Factory'', and the 1970s revival of ''MMC'' were the only programs made available through syndication; in the days before the Disney Channel, the lesser movies and the short cartoons were seen only on the anthology series, while the animated films and first-tier live-action films were, of course, re-issued to theaters. When the anthology series moved to CBS however, this changed. In 2000, Walt Disney Television was folded into [[ABC Studios|Touchstone Television]] (now [[ABC Signature]]) while its name continued to be used on new cartoons from Walt Disney Television Animation (now [[Disney Television Animation]], which is now a unit of Disney Branded Television) until 2003, when it disappeared for good.

* 1998-2005: The logo is in the style of the 1990 variant of the then-current movie logo, but the background is a {{color|#88baba|grayish aquamarine}}. The URL "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''www.disney.com'''}}" is seen below, although sometimes this was omitted. Usually there is no ball of light in this variant with the castle and the "WALT DISNEY" name already formed, but in an extremely rare case from 2000, the text and the URL appeared from a flash of light, no longer from a ball of light like the 1986 variant. This was also used with the [[Buena Vista International Television]] logo.

* The 1987 version used to be very common, as it was seen on many family programs on ABC, Disney Channel, ABC Family, Disney XD, and other Disney-produced shows on any network, but it has grown strongly uncommon due to a lot of them having never been re-aired or reissued on home video over the years. However, it is still available on shows with this logo on Disney+, as well as certain video releases of them, though not all of them retain this logo and either use the black-screen copyright notice or the 1986 logo instead. Among others, it can be seen on episodes of ''Recess'' on DVD (only the ones as bonus features on the movies, however; the actual movies themselves don't have this logo), and at the end of the ''Aladdin'' sequel ''The Return of Jafar'', even on Blu-ray copies.

* This logo plastered over the 1995 or 1997 [[Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution|Buena Vista Television]] logo on all reruns of ''101 Dalmatians: The Series'' in the U.S., even though when it originally aired in syndication, this logo was used (the BVTV logo or this logo was used when the show was on ABC). Oddly enough, when the logo was aired on the original ABC and syndicated episodes of said show, the end theme would play over it, slightly in-sync with the animation; however in all reruns, the logo plays after the closing theme has ended.

* The 1998 logo is extremely rare, but was still found internationally on the Disney Cinemagic network, like a few episodes of ''The Legend of Tarzan'' as well as ''Lloyd in Space''.

* The variant with the alternate ping tune is extremely rare and appeared on a Russian broadcast of ''Darkwing Duck''.

* The logo also (appropriately) appeared on ''Mickey's 60th Birthday''.