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=== 1st Logo (January 13, 1952-March 6, 1968) ===

 

*On the TV movie ''Destination Space'', the text "{{Font|Times New Roman|''In Association with the''}}" is seen first, before it fades out and the rest of the animation takes place.

*Sometimes, the pupil remains open for a longer time than normal.

*On the TV special ''Stars in the Eye'', after the pupil closes, the word "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''Presents'''''}}" appears with superimposed footage of fireworks behind it, which transitions into the intro.

*There exists a color variant, with the background being an off-white color and the Eyemark and shutter being a shade of {{Font color|brown|brown}}.

*This logo appeared on ''Perry Mason'', ''Gunsmoke'', and ''Rawhide'', among other shows.

*It is intact on every show released on DVD that CBS produced during this period (except for ''The Honeymooners'', as the prints were sourced from syndication airings of the show).

*This is also seen on some newer TV prints of ''Perry Mason'', ''Rawhide'', and pre-fall 1965 episodes of ''The Andy Griffith Show'', which started in early 2009, followed by the silent 2003 Paramount Domestic Television logo on said show, and on more than one occasion, the CBS Television Distribution logo.

*This logo also inexplicably made a surprise appearance following the 1966 [[20th Century Fox Television]] logo on the recent S2 Blu-ray of ''Lost in Space'', which is odd considering the latter series aired in color by 1966.

=== 2nd Logo (January 13, 1952-May 28, 1985, 1987-1988) ===

 

*Sometimes, the Eyemark is omitted.

*1959-1962: The text appears on a Eyemark wallpaper background.

*1962-1965: The text appears on a {{Font color|gray|gray}} background with the N.A.B. "Seal of Good Practice" or "Television Code" logo.

*1962-1964: On early seasons of ''Petticoat Junction'' and ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', the "IAW" variant fades after the 1961 Filmways logo.

*1962-1966: The logo is in grayscale.

*1963-1975: The text appears on a {{Font color|dodgerblue|blue}} background with a black CBS Eyemark at the lower left corner and the text "'''FILMED AT CBS STUDIO CENTER, STUDIO CITY, CALIFORNIA'''" next to the Eyemark.

*1964-1965: The notice is shown on the lower right-hand corner on the Filmways logo.

*1965-1969: On ''The Wild Wild West'', there is an additional in-credit name for Michael Garrison on a grayscale background (season 1 only), blue background (subsequent seasons) reading "A MICHAEL GARRISON PRODUCTION" before that logo faded to the "IAW THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK PRODUCTION" logo.

*1968-1970: On shows from [[Talent Associates]], the Eyemark appears at the center, sandwiched between the respective in-credit text.

*1978-1980: The text now reads "'''A CBS Entertainment Production'''". Apparently, ''Five-O'' was a CBS Entertainment Production in its next-to-last season, as well as its last season.

*From season 8 through to the end of the original ''Hawaii Five-O'', after the CBS Television Network/"Filmed Entirely On Location in Hawaii" card, there was an extra card that said "Developed by Leonard Freeman Productions." This was also included with the CBS Entertainment card of the final two seasons.

*The Eyemark is either black or white.

*On some episodes of ''My Three Sons'', this logo is sometimes seen in a completely different font.

*On the 1978 TV movie ''Like Mom, Like Me'', the text reads "A CBS Television Production".

*On the [[Dr. Seuss Enterprises|Dr. Seuss]] TV specials from 1971-1975, such as ''The Cat in the Hat'', the logo is just text, in this format:

*It appears on ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Perry Mason'', ''Rawhide'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''Get Smart'', ''Gilligan's Island'', the original ''Hawaii Five-O'', and ''Have Gun, Will Travel'', among other key shows.

*This was also seen on ''The Wild Wild West'', as well as the 1965-1972 episodes of ''My Three Sons''.

*The [[Filmways Television|Filmways]] shared version appears on 1962-1965 episodes of ''The Beverly Hillbillies''.

*Its last use was on the 1985 TV movie ''Brotherly Love''.

=== 3rd Logo (1963?-1967) ===

'''Availability:''' Extinct. This logo was the standard closing card for the CBS network and appeared mostly on filmed series produced for CBS. It was seen on original network airings of ''Hogan's Heroes'', ''Pistols 'N' Petticoats'', ''Hazel'', ''Lassie'', ''My Favorite Martian'', ''The Ed Sullivan Show'', ''The Lucy Show'', ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''Captain Kangaroo'', ''Password'', ''Art Linkletter's House Party'', ''The Red Skeleton Hour'', ''The Jackie Gleason Show'', ''To Tell the Truth'', ''What's My Line?'', ''I've Got a Secret'', ''Mission: Impossible'', ''Gunsmoke'', and ''The Gary Moore Show'', among other classic shows.

 

=== 1st Logo (1983-1985) ===

*It appears on Columbia House releases of ''I Love Lucy: The Collector's Edition'' on VHS.

*Strangely, on some copies, the "closing variant" appears at the start, and the opening variant appears at the end.

 

=== 2nd Logo (1985) ===

 

'''Availability:''' Rare. This can be found on the VHS and Blu-ray releases of ''Target'', ''Eleni'', and ''Better Off Dead...'', while the DVD release of the latter plasters it with the 1995 CBS Video logo.

 

=== 1st Logo (March 30, 1985-June 19, 1992) ===

 

*Sometimes, the logo is shown on an all-white, {{Font color|gray|gray}}, or {{Font color|blue|blue}} background, with the letters smaller and on the bottom of the screen.

*The logo is sometimes superimposed or scrolling in the end credits.

*The text "'''A Production of'''" sometimes appears above the logo.

*Sometimes, there is a copyright stamp underneath the logo.

*Sometimes, the text "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" appears below the logo, ''The Honeymooners Reunion Special'' had the IAW text type in.

*This is seen on the first three seasons of ''Rescue 911'', the first season of ''Evening Shade'' (Antenna TV airings retained this but DVDs remove this logo and plaster with the CBS Television Distribution logo), the first two seasons of ''The (New) Twilight Zone'' (MeTV and former Chiller airings retained this with the CBS Television Distribution logo following soon after), the 1987 TV movie ''Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge'', the 1990 film ''Gunsmoke: The Last Apache'', and the 1992 film ''Gunsmoke: To the Last Man''.

*It was also seen on several television specials like ''I Love Lucy: The Very First Show!'', the short-lived talk show ''The Pat Sajak Show'' from 1989-90, as well as some TV movies from this time.

*The in-credit version appeared on the pilot of the short-lived game show ''The Hollywood Game''.

*It made its debut on ''CBS Storybreak'', and didn't make full use until the 1985-86 season.

 

=== 2nd Logo (September 15, 1991-March 5, 1996) ===

 

 

=== 1st Logo (September 13, 1995-1998) ===

 

*It appeared on such shows like seasons 3 & 4 of ''Walker, Texas Ranger''; the first 2 seasons of ''Caroline in the City'', the final season of ''Rescue 911'', the first season of ''Early Edition'', post-1995 episodes of ''Dave's World'', ''Moloney'', and even the first season of ''Kids Say The Darndest Things''. Also seen on seasons 4 and 5 of ''Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'', and the first seasons of ''Promised Land'' and ''Early Edition''.

*However, this logo was plastered by the CBS Television Distribution logo on most current prints of ''Early Edition'' including the DVD and Start TV airings, and on the DVD's of the 1st 2 seasons of ''Caroline in the City'', and by the CBS Paramount Network Television "Wallpaper" logo on ''Walker, Texas Ranger: The Complete Third Season'' on DVD.

=== 2nd Logo (September 15, 1997-November 28, 2019) ===

 

*Starting in 1999, a better-known version debuted, which omits the light. The logo is redone and in a lighter shade of {{Font color|brown|reddish-brown}}, and the font is smaller, with the metallic silver outline more visible. ''Now & Again'' continued to use the original version, and ''Walker, Texas Ranger'' continued to use the original version until its end in 2001. Interestingly enough, ''Snowden's Christmas'' used the original version on the VHS release despite the CBS premiere used the 1999 logo.

*A widescreen version exists for the 1999 version.

*On season 1 of ''The Amazing Race'', the logo is next to the [[ABC Studios|Touchstone Television]] logo.

*Mostly none or the outro of the end title theme from any show playing over the logo until 2008. On occasion, the music score from the 97-98 on-air look plays over the logo, along with voice actor Mark Elliott reading a short promo.

*2009-2019: A light orchestral sounder, played by low strings, low horns and a piano with a bang of a timpani and a clash of cymbals. It sounds a little bit like the 3-note CBS jingle, which was used between 1992 and 2020. This debuted on the second season of ''90210''.

**A short version exists, where we begin a split-second before the cymbals end.

*On ''Kids Say the Darndest Things'', ''Now & Again'' and ''The Brian Benben Show'', there's a mysterious synth sounder.  

**On ''Now & Again'', this theme trails into the 1995 Paramount Domestic Television logo, but on current prints, it's cut-off by the CBS Television Distribution logo's theme.

**On Earl Jenshus' "earlier works" demo reel, a long version of the mysterious synth sounder is heard. This can be seen [https://youtu.be/NufzRTdXQho?t=338 here.]

*On ''Listen Up!'', the abridged version of the [[Fox Television Studios]] logo's theme is played, as a result of this logo plastering it.

*On ''The Beautiful Life: TBL'', the shortened CBS Paramount Television jingle is heard.

*On Russian TV prints of ''Early Edition'', this logo is short and almost still with the ending theme playing over it. On one episode, a bad plaster job resulted in this logo having the music for [[Sony Pictures Television|Columbia TriStar Television]].

*CBS, NBC and The CW airings used their generic themes.

*On most episodes of ''Family Law'', the scream from the preceding [[Paul Haggis Productions]] logo extends onto this logo.

*It's seen on ''Walker, Texas Ranger'' seasons 5-8, ''The District'', ''The Gregory Hines Show'', ''Still Standing'', ''Yes, Dear'' until 2006, ''The King of Queens'' until 2007, the final season of ''Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'' (and the two TV movies that followed it), the last few seasons of ''Promised Land'', ''Kids Say the Darndest Things'',  ''The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS'', and the ''CSI'' franchise, among others. This was used until summer 2006 when this logo was replaced by the [[CBS Studios|CBS Paramount Network Television]] logo.

*The logo is not plastered over on syndicated reruns of shows except on season 5 of ''Walker, Texas Ranger'' on DVD and ''Early Edition'' reruns on GMC (now Up) and DVD releases, which have the [[CBS Media Ventures|CBS Television Distribution]] logo instead.

*When the company was revived in 2008, this logo appeared on ''90210'' (until season 4), S2 episodes of ''The Cleaner'', the short-lived ''Melrose Place'' revival (except the pilot episode which used the CBS Television Studios logo), the first three seasons of ''The Good Wife'', and the first two seasons apiece of ''Hawaii Five-O'' and ''Blue Bloods''.

*Despite ''The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS'' continued to use this logo (until 2019) while all the company's shows (such as ''Hawaii Five-0'', ''The Good Wife'', ''90210'' and ''Blue Bloods'') use the CBS Television Studios logo starting in 2012, the logo was surprisingly brought back on ''CSI: Cyber''.

*It also appeared on original prints of season one episodes of ''Rescue Heroes'' and season three episodes of ''Tales from the Cryptkeeper'', but current prints remove this logo. It can also be seen on later seasons of ''Touched By An Angel'' on MeTV and Start TV airings.

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