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* The original version of this logo was filmed, and was used from 1976 until 1985.

* A black & white version of the filmed "'''V'''" was used in the earlier years.

* Videotaped variants have the words "{{font|Times New Roman|'''A'''}}" and "{{font|Times New Roman|'''Viacom'''}}" spaced farther apart, and the animation is more smooth. This was used from 1978 to 1986. Colour variants include monochrome, {{color|slateblue|purple}} background with {{color|navy|dark blue}} "'''V'''", and faint {{color|mediumpurple|purple}} background with {{color|turquoise|blue}} "'''V'''", among others.

* Some filmed variants feature the "'''V'''" actually stopping right before it cuts to black. This was largely common in its earlier years (especially in black & white variants).

* An extremely rare videotaped variant featuring a {{color|gold|yellow}} "{{color|gold|'''V'''}}" was used on some syndicated prints of ''The Honeymooners'', appearing in a giant moon over a city skyline where the credits appear. This is a result of a chroma-key mistake. This variation was given the nickname "V of Moon".

* There is also a rare videotaped variant with a {{color|lawngreen|jungle green}} background and a {{color|green|Charleston green}} "{{color|green|'''V'''}}".

* An extremely rare {{color|turquoise|turquoise}} variant with an {{color|navy|ultramarine blue}} "{{color|navy|'''V'''}}" was used in 1984. The "{{color|navy|'''V'''}}" stops moving before we fade to black.

* A videotaped variant of this logo has an {{color|orange}} background and a {{color|midnightblue|midnight blue}} "{{color|midnightblue|'''V'''}}" seen on 1978 episodes of ''You Don't Say!''. There is also a warp speed version of this.

* Sometimes, the "V of Doom" music cuts off right before the last timpani beat, removing the final echo in the process. This was heard on the Magnetic Video release of ''Don't Give Up the Ship''.

* Sometimes on the filmed variant, the first note or two can be cut off. Often, the final bit of the show's closing theme will play over the logo briefly. This is caused by a bad splice on the film between the credits and the logo. An example of this would be the Season 11 finale to ''My Three Sons''.

* On ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' episode "Christmas with the Clampetts", and perhaps other episodes from the first two seasons, it has a generic theme (the show's theme couldn't be used due to it being copyrighted while episodes from the first two seasons have fallen into the public domain) playing over the filmed version of this logo.

* On the ''Have Gun-Will Travel'' season 3 episode "Fragile" on Me-TV and H&I, the 1987 [[Paramount Television (1967-2006)|Paramount Television]] theme plays faintly over a black screen before the videotaped variant appears, due to a double plaster.

** The filmed variant can be seen on Cozi TV airings of episodes from the first two seasons of ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', due to said network using public domain prints of that show.  

** It also appeared on [[Nelvana Enterprises|Nelvana]]'s first special ''A Cosmic Christmas''; this is intact on current prints of the special whenever it gets aired on TV, as well as on Amazon Prime and Nelvana's Keep it Weird YouTube channel (where it is followed by the 2004 Nelvana logo), in addition to ''Terror In The Wax Museum'' on Amazon Prime.

** The B&W filmed variant was once spotted on an episode of ''Perry Mason'' on Me-TV before it was replaced with a later print sometime in 2015.

** It can also be spotted on almost every episode of ''The Millionaire'', which can occasionally be seen on Decades.