Columbia Pictures Television: Difference between revisions

On November 24, 1986, CPT was merged with [[Embassy Communications]] by forming "Columbia/Embassy Television". This was also the birth of [[Coca-Cola Telecommunications]], when CPT's distribution division merged with the Television Program Source. Coke also regrouped CPT, Embassy Communications, and [[Merv Griffin Enterprises]] into "Coca-Cola Television". On December 21, 1987, Coke's entertainment business was sold to [[TriStar Pictures|Tri-Star Pictures, Inc.]] for $3.1 billion. Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. was renamed to "Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc." (now "Sony Pictures Entertainment") and CCT was shut down ten days later and folded into the reorganized Columbia Pictures Television Distribution.  

On January 1, 2001, Columbia Pictures Television was folded into Columbia TriStar Television as a failed attempt to become a network television syndication division called Columbia TriStar Network Television (later replaced by Columbia TriStar Domestic Television), however, the CPT name was retained in the in-credits of ''The Young and the Restless'' until October 2002. Currently, the division is known as [[Sony Pictures Television]]. A separate entity of CPT continues to exist on paper as an intellectual property holder, and an in-name-only unit and division of SPT known as "CPT Holdings" (formed in 1983) to hold the copyright for the TV show ''The Young and the Restless'' including the UK version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'', as well as old incarnations from the company's television library such as ''What's Happening!!''.

* The 1991 logo is retained on the Sony Movie Channel broadcast and the Sony Pictures Choice Collection DVD-R release of ''The Whereabouts of Jenny''. However a True Movies 1 airing in the UK used the 2003 Sony Pictures Television International logo instead.

* Oddly enough, the 1982 bylineless version plasters the original 1991 logo (while retaining the ending theme) on Sony Movie Channel broadcasts and the CTV.ca print of ''I Still Dream of Jeannie''.  

* It recently made a appearance on Decades airings of some ''Riptide'' episodes, which they recently aired as part of their weekend binge.

* The 1989 and 1991 variants were spotted on many later-season episodes of ''Who's the Boss?'' on GAC Family, followed by the 2002 SPT logo.

* On ''The Greatest '70s Cop Shows'' DVD, the short 1995 [[Columbia TriStar Television|Columbia TriStar Television Distribution]] theme was heard on the pilot of ''Police Woman'' (this can also be heard on ''Gidget Grows Up''), and the long Columbia TriStar Television Distribution theme was heard on the pilot of ''Starsky & Hutch''. This was likely due to being a rushed job, resulting in terrible plastering. The short CTTD theme is also heard on ''The Jeff Foxworthy Show'' on TBS, ''The Dana Carvey Show'' episode "The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show" on DVD, and episode 5 of season 1 of ''The New Gidget'' on CTV Throwback (plastering the 1982 variant of the 4th logo).

* On early to mid '90s reruns of the short-lived series ''Ivanhoe'', the second half of the theme is used.

* The CPTD version of the logo sometimes used a warped version of the 1993 theme. This was a little strange to hear it be used with the CPT version of the logo on older prints of selected episodes of ''Charlie's Angels'', possibly due to plastering over the older logos.

* On the series ''Dark Skies'' starting on episode 2, older prints of some episodes of ''Charlie's Angels'', and the 1996 TV movie ''Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of Bus #17'', the 1995 [[Columbia TriStar Television]] theme is used.

* On a DVD print of ''The Real Ghostbusters'' episode "Captain Steel Saves the Day", the 1987 [[Coca-Cola Telecommunications]] theme is heard due to bad plastering.

* On early season 1 episodes of ''Beakman's World'', the 1988 theme is somewhat distorted by the toy rocket's noises. Later season 1 episodes only have the rocket noises playing without the theme. Starting with the second season, the 1993 theme would be heard over the logo.

* On some Spring 2020 reruns of ''The Young and the Restless'' episodes on CBS, the 1976 theme can be heard due to bad plastering again.

* Like the previous logo, on one print and also on German dubs of ''The Real Ghostbusters'', the 2002 SPT theme is heard, again, due to a reverse plastering error.

* A handful of episodes of ''The Jeffersons'' have this logo on the 2014 Mill Creek Entertainment release of season 2, with both 1988 and 1993 music.

* It also appeared at the beginning of an airing of ''Moscow on the Hudson'' on This TV. It can also be seen on Crackle prints of episodes of ''The Steve Harvey Show'', ''The Critic'', and season 3 of ''The Real Ghostbusters''.

* It was seen on Spring 2020 Flashback Friday reruns of ''The Young and the Restless'' on CBS, with the 1976, 1988 and 1993 music.

* This was also seen at the start of TCM's print of the [[Rankin-Bass Animated Entertainment|Rankin/Bass Productions]] film ''The Daydreamer'' (possibly due to being sourced from an earlier television print, as Sony holds the TV rights via Embassy Pictures).

* [https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0041442 Columbia Pictures Television] on IMDb

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