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===Background=== | |||
After the Orion Pictures Company acquired Filmways in 1982, Filmways Television was renamed as "Orion Television" (also known as "Orion Pictures Television"), after allowing their catalog to have been distributed by Viacom Enterprises (now "CBS Television Distribution"), and took over Filmways Television content in the same year and began to produce and syndicate various TV shows and movies. As a result of Orion's long-running financial troubles, its television division was closed in spring 1990, although Orion continued to retain ownership of all its television output up to the time of the bankruptcy, except when Orion sold its ''Hollywood Squares'' format to King World in 1991. After 14 years since Orion Television was shut down, MGM revived the television studio in 2013 and in 2014, MGM revived Orion Pictures. All of Orion TV's library is now owned by MGM. | |||
===1st Logo (October 25, 1982-November 16, 1991)=== | ===1st Logo (October 25, 1982-November 16, 1991)=== | ||
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'''Nicknames:''' "The Constellation", "Starry Sky" | |||
'''Logo:''' Same as the movie logo of the era, but we start at the animation where the letter "O" starts flashing. The forming of "ORION" is the same, then "TELEVISION" (in white, similar font to ORION, in caps) appears below, just as wide as the above text. | |||
'''Variants:''' | |||
*The font and color for "TELEVISION" may vary. Sometimes, it was colored blue or white in the font used for the "Pictures Release" text from the movie logo (this was used early on in the logo's run, though as late as 1987); other times it appeared in a similar yet different font to the movie logo, below the "RION" portion. | *The font and color for "TELEVISION" may vary. Sometimes, it was colored blue or white in the font used for the "Pictures Release" text from the movie logo (this was used early on in the logo's run, though as late as 1987); other times it appeared in a similar yet different font to the movie logo, below the "RION" portion. | ||
*This logo sometimes appears without the additional "TELEVISION" text. | *This logo sometimes appears without the additional "TELEVISION" text. | ||
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*On the pilot of the live-action series ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures'', there is an in-credit text that reads as: "ORION TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT and NELSON ENTERTAINMENT". | *On the pilot of the live-action series ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures'', there is an in-credit text that reads as: "ORION TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT and NELSON ENTERTAINMENT". | ||
'''FX/SFX:''' The flashing of the "O", the rest of the logo appearing, and the line being drawn on it. In other cases, it's still. | |||
'''Music/Sounds:''' An abridged and re-arranged version of the Orion Pictures fanfare, the ending theme of the show, or none. At least one episode of ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures'' used the final part of the movie fanfare. | |||
'''Availability:''' Rare. | |||
*It was seen on the 1988 TV movie ''The Murder of Mary Phagan'' and is retained on airings of this film on This TV, and the version with only the "Orion" text is seen on reruns of ''The Best of Saturday Night Live'' (half-hour edit-downs of ''SNL''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s 1975-79 episodes). | *It was seen on the 1988 TV movie ''The Murder of Mary Phagan'' and is retained on airings of this film on This TV, and the version with only the "Orion" text is seen on reruns of ''The Best of Saturday Night Live'' (half-hour edit-downs of ''SNL''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s 1975-79 episodes). | ||
*''Cagney and Lacey'' reruns shown more than a decade ago on TNN (later Spike, now Paramount Network) and Lifetime usually had this logo with the "TELEVISION" text (plastering the Filmways Television logo on those reruns), though on some episodes from the pre-nationally expanded Me-TV reruns from 2007, this logo was plastered with the 5th MGM Television logo. | *''Cagney and Lacey'' reruns shown more than a decade ago on TNN (later Spike, now Paramount Network) and Lifetime usually had this logo with the "TELEVISION" text (plastering the Filmways Television logo on those reruns), though on some episodes from the pre-nationally expanded Me-TV reruns from 2007, this logo was plastered with the 5th MGM Television logo. | ||
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*The Orion Television Syndication logos are extinct and were last seen on a Charge! airing of ''No Man's Land'' and a Comet airing of ''Making Mr. Right'', both before the 2010 MGM Worldwide Television Distribution logo. Also seen on the USA Network reruns of the 1980s versions of ''The Hollywood Squares'' and ''High Rollers,'' as well as season 2 episodes of ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures.'' | *The Orion Television Syndication logos are extinct and were last seen on a Charge! airing of ''No Man's Land'' and a Comet airing of ''Making Mr. Right'', both before the 2010 MGM Worldwide Television Distribution logo. Also seen on the USA Network reruns of the 1980s versions of ''The Hollywood Squares'' and ''High Rollers,'' as well as season 2 episodes of ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures.'' | ||
'''Editor's Note:''' None. | |||
===2nd Logo (September 7, 1998-February 3, 1999)=== | ===2nd Logo (September 7, 1998-February 3, 1999)=== | ||
'''Nicknames:''' "CGI Constellation", "CGI Starry Sky" | |||
'''Logo:''' This is basically the 2nd half of the 1996 Orion Pictures logo starting with the "RION" wipe effect. | |||
'''FX/SFX:''' The 2nd half of the 1996 Orion Pictures logo. | |||
'''Music/Sounds:''' See above, but the logo theme would finish playing over the Summit Media Group logo. | |||
'''Availability:''' Extremely rare. It's seen on ''RoboCop: Alpha Commando'', which was last seen on KidsClick. | |||
'''Editor's Note:''' None. | |||
===3rd Logo (September 23, 2013- )=== | ===3rd Logo (September 23, 2013- )=== | ||
'''Nicknames:''' "CGI Constellation II", "CGI Starry Sky II", "The Blue Laser Light" | |||
'''Logo:''' On a space background, there are two flying stars with one flying in from the upper left and the other on the lower right. The stars from the 1981 Orion Pictures logo is seen as it swirls to create the letter "O" as the flying stars swirl in to meet the circling stars and form a platinum letter "O" with a blue laser light effect. The blue light brightens and flies over to the right to form "RION" also appearing in platinum, as each letter wipes in with the laser one-by-one as the laser light disappears on the letter "N". The "ORION" logo suddenly zooms in and has a shining wipe effect as the word "TELEVISION" with a small Trademark (TM) symbol in subscript beside it fades in underneath and zoom in. | |||
'''FX/SFX:''' The flying stars, the stars forming the letter "O", the laser effect forming the name, and the logo zooming in. | |||
'''Music/Sounds:''' Whooshing sounds, followed by a quiet synth theme and another whooshing sound while the theme plays. | |||
'''Availability:''' Common. It's currently seen on ''Paternity Court'', ''Couples Court'', and ''Injury Court'' in syndication. | |||
'''Editor's Note:''' None. | |||
[[Category:Television Logos]] | [[Category:Television Logos]] | ||
[[Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | [[Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | ||