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'''The Incorporated Television Company''' ('''ITC''') was a British television distribution company founded by Lew Grade in 1954 as the distribution unit of [[Associated Television|ATV]] (Associated TeleVision), one of the [[ITV|ITV]] franchises; it later branched out into TV series and feature film production. In 1995, [[PolyGram Filmed Entertainment]] acquired ITC Entertainment Group, resulting in the company being renamed into a new incarnation of [[PolyGram Television]] two years later. PolyGram was later acquired by Seagram and Sons on 10 December 1998, resulting in PolyGram TV being folded into [[Universal Worldwide Television|Universal Television]] (which serves as the legal successor of the comapany).   

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* The dark blue standalone in-credit background variant can be found in the 1981 movie ''From a Far Country''.

* The black standalone in-credit background variant was seen in the 1977 TV movie ''The Man in the Iron Mask'' and the first season of ''Lovejoy'' from 1986, although it was replaced by a still version of the 2001 [[Fremantle|FremantleMedia]] logo on the DVD releases, and also on a rerelease of ''Vendetta for the Saint'' (1969).

* The animated superimposed variant can be seen in the TV movies like ''Secret Weapons'' and ''Malice in Wonderland'' (also known as ''The Rumor Mill'').

* The green variant can be seen on ''The Munch Bunch''.

* On Blu-ray, this appears on the German BD of ''Wedlock'', and the Scorpion releases of ''Trouble Bound'', ''The Last Seduction'' (including the Network UK BD and SE DVD) over the film's opening theme, though the US Artisan DVD had it plastered with the Barnholtz Productions logo.

* This is also seen on ITC catalogue releases by [[Avid Home Entertainment]], where it usually (if not always) plasters earlier ITC logos or those of the films' distributors (e.g. [[Associated Film Distribution]], [[20th Century Studios|20th Century Fox]] (now 20th Century Studios), [[Columbia Pictures]], [[Universal Pictures]], [[Warner Bros. Pictures]], and [[Avco Embassy Pictures]]); on the Avid release of ''The Tamarind Seed'', it plasters the Avco Embassy logo but retains the in-credit ITC opening logo.

* This logo also made an appearance on recent Australian airings of the ''Thunderbirds'' episodes "Lord Parker's Holiday" and "Path of Destruction", respectively (and can be seen on 9Now's prints of those episodes).

** It also appeared at the end of Syfy UK airings of the aforementioned show's last ever episode titled "Give or Take a Million", which is then followed by the 1999 [[Carlton International]] logo.

* The superimposed variant was seen on the 1990 revival of ''Tic-Tac-Dough'', and was last seen when it was rerun on the USA Network more than 20 years ago, as well as on 1991-95 episodes of ''The George Michael Sports Machine'' (presumably to help distinguish the national version of the show from the one seen on NBC's O&O stations {the show was produced by NBC's Washington D.C. station WRC-TV 4}, certain promos included the ITC logo and the ITC diamonds were seen on certain set pieces; beginning fall 1995, [[Group W Productions]] took over distribution and were in turn succeeded by [[Eyemark Entertainment]], [[King World Productions|King World]], [[NBC Enterprises]] and [[NBCUniversal Syndication Studios|NBCUniversal Television Distribution]]).

* It is unknown if this was seen on late 1980s/early 1990s prints of ''The Buccaneers''.