Lorimar Television: Difference between revisions

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'''Logo''': On a blank {{font color|red|red}} screen, we see the words "{{font|Times New Roman|'''{{small|A}} L{{small|ORIMAR PRODUCTION}}'''}}" wiped in a Goudy font. As this happens, a thick white line starts to draw out the letter "L", then turns and goes straight, before wrapping around and forming the letter "P", using the bottom of the "L" above to serve as the bottom of the "P". It then stops at the bottom of, and between the words "{{font|Times New Roman|'''L{{small|ORIMAR}}'''}}"" and "{{font|Times New Roman|'''{{small|PRODUCTION}}'''}}".

*A dark variant exists possibly due to film deterioration, where the background is brown.

'''FX/SFX''': The white line drawing itself to form "LP" and "{{font|Times New Roman|'''{{small|A}} L{{small|ORIMAR PRODUCTION}}'''}}" wiping in.

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'''Logo:''' On a black background, an orange line begins to draw itself. Going down and turning it forms an "'''L'''", then makes a loop to form an "'''O'''", turns again and goes up, around and diagonally to form an "'''R'''" and then back up to form an "'''I'''". Another section starts, goes up, diagonally down, diagonally up, then down again to form an "'''M'''", then up and down again at angles to form an "'''A'''", then finally, up, around, and down diagonally to form a second "'''R'''". The resulting logo reads "'''LORIMAR'''", all in connected letters.

*The registered trademark "®" symbol on the lower-right hand corner of the letter "R" started appearing in 1983.

*This logo has two main distinctive colors: {{font color|gold|yellow}} and {{font color|#FF781F|orange}}. Depending on the print quality, variants of the two colors exist including {{font color|#FFBC00|yellow-orange}} and {{font color|maroon|maroon}}.

*Another opening variant is still and has "{{font color|red|'''LORIMAR'''}}" in its font and "{{font color|red|'''Presents'''}}" (in a Helvetica font) in {{font color|red|red}}.

'''Logo:''' On a white background, two logos fade in. The top being the one for [[Green/Epstein Productions]] (a giant green stylized "GE" with the company name underneath the "E") and the bottom being the print logo for Lorimar Television (which is based off the next logo used below with "A LORIMAR TELEPICTURES COMPANY" byline below). In between the two logos are the words "in association with".

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'''Logo:''' On a white marble background, wave ripples zoom out from the center. This causes "'''LORIMAR'''" (in black, and in a revised version of the design from the last logo, such as the "'''A'''" having a standard line going through it and the "'''O'''" no longer being connected to the rest of the text) to be written out, not unlike the last logo. At about the same time the "'''A'''" in "'''LORIMAR'''" is finished, a shadowed red bar with "'''T E L E V I S I O N'''" in white, etched in, rotates in below "'''LORIMAR'''", which then shines once it's in place. From 1991-1993, the Time Warner byline, in the same font as used in the Warner Bros. logo, appears below the red bar.

'''Trivia:''' The logo was first created in 1987, as part of a planned rebranding that saw the design being used for Lorimar-Telepictures' various divisions; the red bar would have read either "TELEVISION", "[[Lorimar Film Entertainment|MOTION PICTURES]]" (or "FILM ENTERTAINMENT"), "HOME VIDEO", "SYNDICATION", "INTERNATIONAL", or "RECORDS" depending on the unit. However, aside from this logo, they were never seen onscreen with the possible exception of trailers, due to L-T's financial issues at the time (they were already in the process of merging with Warner Communications when this logo premiered). The Lorimar Syndication variant was used in trade magazine ads.

*As with the 2nd logo, this comes with or without a registered trademark symbol "®" on the lower-right hand corner of the letter "R".

*On a few episodes of ''3rd Degree!'', the logo is shortened with the words "LORIMAR" already in place and the "TELEVISION" bar rotating into place before the 1984 WBTV logo appears.

*On the TV movie ''There Was a Little Boy'', "LORIMAR" is written at a much faster speed than usual and the logo cuts to black before the red bar shines.

'''Music/Sounds/Voice-over Variants:'''

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'''Logo:''' We go back to the yellow-orange "'''LORIMAR'''" logo for this, but with the word "'''T E L E V I S I O N'''" below and no animation whatsoever (here the "'''LORIMAR'''" logo has the 1978 design, but with the "'''A'''" having the line through it like in the 1988 design). This is seen on screen in the credits. From 1991-1993, the Time Warner byline is seen below.

*The logo would appear in either yellow, yellow-orange, gold, or light blue.

'''Music/Sounds/Voice-over:''' Most of the times it is the closing theme of the show, but on some instances like the fourth season of ''Full House'' on DVD, it is the previous logos music. On syndication prints, an announcer says: "(Show title) is a (show creator...usually [[Miller-Boyett Productions|Miller-Boyett Production]]) in association with Lorimar Television, (on the WBTD logo) and is distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution".