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Paramount Television traces its origins to 1949 when [[Paramount Pictures]] owned a television network called "Paramount Television Network". The network presented and produced 17 programs in total until it and the production banner was dissolved in 1956. Paramount also had a majority stake in the DuMont Television Network and owned KTLA in Los Angeles and WBKB in Chicago (now WBBM-TV). Paramount Pictures' second attempt in the television industry began in 1959 as "Paramount Pictures Television" when they produced the television movie Destination Space for CBS. They also co-produced six unsold pilots with [[Tandem Productions]], such as ''Henry T.'' and ''Meet Me At Danny's''. They also had a short-lived production banner called "[[Telemount-Mutual Productions|Telemount-Mutual]]". When Gulf+Western Industries, parent company of Paramount Pictures at the time, purchased [[Desilu Productions]] in 1967, Desilu became the television division of Paramount Pictures and later became "Paramount Television" in late 1967; officially forming the studio, and Desilu sales became "Paramount Television Sales". In 2004, [[Viacom (pre-2006)|Viacom]] merged Paramount Network Television and [[CBS Productions]] to form the "CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group" at the same time it merged Paramount International Television and [[CBS Broadcast International]] to form "CBS Paramount International Television" (currently known as "[[CBS Studios International]]"). On December 31, 2005, the Viacom/CBS split took effect and Viacom changed its name to the CBS Corporation at the same time it created a spin-off company that bears the Viacom name. On January 17, 2006, CBS Corporation merged the CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group, CBS Paramount International Television, and Paramount Domestic Television into the [[CBS Paramount Television]] Group, but the on-air logo for PDT remained the same until Memorial Day 2006, when the first CBS Paramount Television logo debuted. As for the network version, the PNT and CBS Productions logos were used before the CBS Paramount Network Television logo debuted on June 11. However, it was renamed as "[[CBS Studios|CBS Television Studios]]" (now "CBS Studios") in May 2009 after CBS lost to license to the Paramount name it had for three years. On March 4, 2013, Paramount Pictures relaunched a current incarnation of [[Paramount Television Studios|Paramount Television]]; both divisions are owned by [[ViacomCBS]].

'''Logo''': On a gray background with some random shadows, we see the following:

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:impact;font-size:16px;line-height:0.9;">''A''</span></div>

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:times-new-roman;font-size:34px;line-height:1;">''Paramount''</span></div>

...with "Paramount", "Television" and "Production" in their famous script in white letters, with a prominent shadow effect over the background.

'''Variants''':

*Some shows such as ''Time for Beany'' would have the text at the bottom of the title card reading as "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''a Paramount Television Presentation'''''</span>".

*On the magazine show ''City at Night'', the print logo of the time period was seen with some modifications. On top of the mountain is a radio tower with "K T L A" seen in the middle of it. On the mountain is the name "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''Paramount Television Productions, Inc.'''''</span>".

'''FX/SFX''': None.

'''Music/Sounds''': Silent, or the intro and outro music of the program.

'''Availability''': Extremely rare. Seen on old kinescope prints from some live shows from KTLA such as ''Time for Beany''. This logo is intact on a few episodes of ''Beany'' on YouTube.

'''Editor's Note''': This is the first time we see the Paramount script font on a television broadcast.

'''Nickname''': "Majestic Mountain"

'''Logo''': It's the same as their movie counterpart of the time, but with several differences:

*This time it's referred as "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''Paramount Pictures'''''</span>", not as "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''A Paramount Picture'''''</span>".

*The text "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''PRODUCED BY'''</span>", in a Times New Roman-like font, appears above the Paramount name.

'''Variants''':

*On the game show ''Seven Keys'', an in-credit version of the print logo of the time period was seen. This one has no sky and "Pictures" was replaced with "<span style="font-family:courier;">'''TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS INC.'''</span>" stacked word by word and on the bottom of the mountain is a byline reading "A SUBSIDIARY OF <span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''Paramount Pictures Corporation'''''</span>" with "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''Paramount Pictures Corporation'''''</span>" in its trademark script.

*Another superimposed variant exists of in-credit text that reads "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''in association with PARAMOUNT TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS, INC.'''</span>".

'''FX/SFX''': The clouds moving.

'''Music/Sounds''': A majestic fanfare. Other times, it's the closing theme, a voiceover, a combination of a theme and a voiceover, or silence. For example on the game show ''Seven Keys'', the host says "Jack Narz speaking, ''Seven Keys'' is a Paramount television production".

'''Availability''': Ultra rare. This has been spotted on public domain video releases of the 1959 TV movie ''Destination Space'', the TV special ''Hedda Hopper's Hollywood'', the game show ''Seven Keys'' when it aired locally on KTLA-TV, and a 16mm print of the ''Three to Get Ready'' pilot.

'''Editor's Note''': This is the first time a Paramount movie logo was used for television.

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'''Nicknames''': "Rising Circle", "Iris-in Circle", "Dark Mountain", "Changing Paramount Text", "Gulf+Western Mountain"

'''Logo''': On a blue background, we see a black mountain and the words "'''A Gulf+Western Company'''" in white. Suddenly, a white filled-in circle border makes an iris-in effect behind the mountain. The "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''Paramount'''''</span>" name, which is written in its majestic script font and appears in black, pops in while 22 white stars appear around the border, starting in the middle and going downward. The word "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''Paramount'''''</span>" immediately moves upward to make room for "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''Television'''''</span>" below it, in the same typeface. Below the logo are two subtitles, both in white: "'''COPYRIGHT © MCMLXVIII BY PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED'''" in a more standard type, and "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''Paramount Pictures Corporation'''''</span>" in the Paramount logo font.

'''Main Variants''': One of 6 visual variants were used:

*For 2/3 of its existence, a small pre-1968 Paramount's print logo appeared alongside the copyright information, while the rest of the 1968 mid-season had just the text.

*Variants 3 and 4 had the standard format as the first two, with the addition of the Norway Corporation, as credited on ''Star Trek''.

* For variants 5 and 6, the logo appears with the copyright, but without the Gulf+Western byline. This was featured on ''Mission: Impossible'' and ''Mannix'' respectively.

'''Other Variant''': A B&W variant exists on 16mm prints of said colors.

'''FX/SFX''': The "sunrise" effect, the stars, and "Paramount" changing into "Paramount Television".

'''Music/Sounds''': The two main themes from the 1966 Desilu Productions logo.

'''Music/Sounds Variant''': A high tone variant exists for both themes, which is generally heard on PAL prints of shows.

'''Availability''': Very rare as this was short-lived, but it is not too difficult to find. It was seen on early 1968 episodes of ''Mission: Impossible'' on ALN (now Youtoo America) and is intact on DVD releases of the show. It can also be seen on videocassettes of ''Star Trek'' episodes aired during that time period. The last 10 episodes of ''The Lucy Show'' also had this logo and is retained on the S6 DVD release. This logo is strangely replaced by the Desilu logo and the CBS Television Distribution logo on the ''Star Trek'' season 2 Blu-Ray set.

'''Editor's Note''': This is the first animated Paramount Television logo. This also might be a prototype of the Paramount print logo that made its debut in the same year.

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'''Nicknames''': "Split Rectangle", "Yellow Split Rectangle", "Benevolent Rectangle", "The Closet Killer", "The Bumper Sticker", "Split Box", "Gulf+Western Mountain II"

'''Logo''': Against a yellow background is a blue rectangle which is split into two sections; the left and the larger rectangle contains the words:

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:34px;">'''PARAMOUNT'''</span></div>

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:20px;line-height:0;">TELEVISION</span></div>

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;">A DIVISION OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION</span></div>

Besides the last line, all are set in Eurostile font (the company byline appears to be set in Trade Gothic font). "'''PARAMOUNT'''" has the largest typeface, and the other two lines are progressively smaller. On the smaller right side of the rectangle is a Paramount logo with a blue border and white mountain. The picture zooms-up to the logo, which kind of looks like a blue and white version of the "Rising Circle" logo ("'''A Gulf+Western Company'''" and copyright message appears at the bottom of the white mountain) except the word "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''Television'''''</span>" is not present. Also, the copyright stamp appears when the picture zooms in.

'''Trivia''': A similar version of this and the next logo were used as the print logo for Paramount's record division of the time, Dot Records, from 1968 to 1971.

'''Variants''':

*There was a variation seen on ''Here's Lucy'' in which the mountain has no bylines or copyrights.

*An in-credit version with "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">''in association with''</span>" above the print logo with the byline can be seen on 1968-69 episodes of the game show ''You Don't Say!''.

'''FX/SFX''': The sudden zoom-in.

'''Music/Sounds''':

*September 1968-1969: A majestic 7-note horn fanfare.

*September-December 1969: The music from the next logo.

'''Availability''': Extremely rare, as it is usually not intact on many common prints of the TV shows it was on. This was seen on ''Mission: Impossible'' on ALN (now Youtoo America), season 3 of both ''Mannix'' and ''Star Trek''<nowiki/>'s 1999/2004 Paramount DVD releases, several ''Star Trek'' episodes on CBS's YouTube channel and when they were aired on TV Land, as well as the 1969 TV movies ''The Immortal'' (which is intact on current DVDs), ''The Young Lawyers'', and ''Seven in Darkness''. It is intact on season 1 of ''Here's Lucy'' on Amazon Prime.

'''Editor's Note''': This logo resembles a bumper sticker, which could be a tongue-in-cheek reference to Paramount's then owner at the time. This logo was also known for its jarring theme (in its twilight years), which would become more noteworthy in the next logo.

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'''Nicknames''': "Split Rectangle II", "Red Split Rectangle", "Malevolent Rectangle", "The Closet Killer II", "Bumper Sticker II", "Split Box II", "Gulf+Western Mountain III"

'''Logo''': Same appearance as the 4th logo except the background is red, the larger rectangle is blue, the Paramount mountain and the stars around it mountain are blue, and the smaller rectangle is white (the mountain is cut off at the bottom in this version). The zoom on the square is still intact.

'''Variants''':

* The placement of the registered trademark "®" symbol is either close to or under the last star on the right side of the near-circle.

* A version exists with the Paramount copyright. This was seen between 1969-1971.

*A still variant with the text "'''IN ASSOCIATION WITH'''" above exists on ''The Brady Kids''. Later episodes had "'''IN ASSOCIATION WITH AND DISTRIBUTED BY'''" above it instead.

'''FX/SFX''': Same as the previous logo.

'''Music/Sounds''':

*1969: An 8-note horn-driven jingle written by Dominic Frontiere a.k.a. "The Closet Killer". Notes 4-7 are louder. This applied to most of the 1969 fall season.

* 1969-1971: An alternate "Closet Killer" theme. This one is noticeably slower with the first three notes and faster for the rest.

*1974-1975: A more dramatic rendition, sometimes referred to as the "Pound & Drop" version. This signature will eventually be redone for the then-upcoming "Blue Mountain" logo.

'''Music/Sounds Variants''':

*An extreme high tone version of the "Closet Killer" was used.

* On the first episode of ''The Magician'', it used a sped-up version of the 1972 music variation heard in the next logo.

*An off-sync variant was spotted on an episode of ''The Brady Bunch''. The "Closet Killer" music would begin during the black screen between the credits and the logo, before the logo appears. As a result, part of the logo was silent.

'''Availability''': Uncommon.

* This was seen on ''Mission: Impossible'' on ALN (now Youtoo America) and on a number of shows and TV movies, but a lot of it have been replaced with either the 8th, or a later logo (mostly CTD currently). An example of this would be the "The Complete Series" DVDs of ''The Brady Kids'', which plaster this logo with the CBS Television Distribution logo.

*The 1969 versions are rare and it can be seen on ''The Brady Bunch'' DVD box sets, as well as on Me-TV airings of the show. It's also intact on ''The Odd Couple'' on DVD, Me-TV and, Decades. Me-TV airings of ''Love, American Style'' have this as well.

* The bylineless version is extremely rare and was recently spotted on a 1970 episode of ''The Brady Bunch'' on Me-TV and on the ''Mission: Impossible'' S6 episode "Blues" on Decades.

'''Editor's Note''': Same as above. Of the two "Split Box" logos, it's the more recognizable version that's also infamous by some viewers for its animation and early Frontiere themes. Also, the 1970 theme would become Paramount's de-facto television theme for the following 17 years.

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'''Nicknames''': "Gulf+Western Mountain IV", "Still Mountain"

'''Logo''': Same as the theatrical 1968 logo, although it could be either matted or cropped to fit TV screens.

'''FX/SFX''': Same as the 1968 theatrical counterpart.

'''Music/Sounds''':

* 1969-1970: An extended version of Frontiere's "Closet Killer" jingle; at least two arrangements are known to exist.

*Circa 1971: A fast-paced piece composed by Lalo Schifrin.

*Other than that, generally the closing theme of the show, or none at all.

'''Availability''': Rare. This was seen as the intro to several made-for-TV movies produced by Paramount, including ''Seven in Darkness'', ''Quarantine'', ''Dr. Cook's Garden'', ''Night of Terror'', and ''Women in Chains''; most of which have rarely been reran, and a few copies online of some of these programs are bootleg copies. Over the years however, some higher quality prints of this logo have started to resurface. This was also seen on some episodes of ''The Lost Islands'' (while the other episodes including the pilot, use the next logo), and was also seen on Decades airings of the TV pilot for ''The Young Lawyers'' (which was removed on DVD releases), the pilot of ''The Immortal'' on DVD, the TV pilot of ''Longstreet'' on DVD, and ''The Devil's Daughter'' on DVD.

'''Editor's Note''': The extended closet killer on the earlier version of logo can make this scarier then the previous logo to some.

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'''Nicknames''': "Late 1970s Mountain", "1980s Mountain", "Blue Mountain", "Gulf+Western Mountain V"

'''Logo''': We see only the finished product of the 1975 movie logo, but more defined this time. The mountain has been modified to give more room for the word "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''Television'''''</span>''"'' by compressing the mountain about one viewer's inch and downgrading the amount of indentations (or impressions) to 4 from its standard of 5. On a sky blue background, we see a near-circle made by 22 white stars. The near-circle contains a navy blue backdrop and a flat mountain in another shade of blue with the word ''"'''<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">Paramount</span>'''"'' in white above it. Below the mountain is the Gulf+Western byline in the same alignment as its movie counterpart. The word "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''Television'''''</span>" comes from the right and slides in below "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''Paramount'''''</span>". Same alignment as the 3rd logo.

'''Variants''':

*This comes with or without a Registered trademark "®" symbol under the right side of the near-circle.

*This exists as both filmed and videotaped versions.

*On the first two episodes of ''The Brady Bunch Variety Hour'', an in-credit variant was seen. On top is the text "'''Produced in association with PARAMOUNT TELEVISION'''", and below it is the print logo with the G+W byline in one line inside a square.

'''FX/SFX''': The word "Television" sliding in.

'''Music/Sounds''': A slower version of the Lalo Schifrin jingle which was first heard with 5th logo. There were many variations of this jingle throughout the '70s and '80s. There is also one completely different theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith used in 1977. A brief explanation of the jingles goes as follows:  

*September 9, 1975-1976: Marching band rendition of the Lalo Schifrin jingle.

*1976-1977: An 8-note horn fanfare composed by Jerry Goldsmith. A high tone theme also exists.

*September 22, 1986-May 4, 1987: 2 different reverberated versions were used, and was heard only on season 2 episodes of ''MacGyver''.

'''Music/Sounds Variants''':

*This logo was used with the 1972 "Split Rectangle II" music on nearly all season 1 and season 2 episodes of ''Happy Days'' when they aired on The Hub (now Discovery Family).

*On reruns of ''Mannix'' from 1983, this logo used the previous three logo's themes:

**The 1974 Split Rectangle music (early final season episodes - specifically the fall 1974 period)

*In exceptional cases, the closing theme of the show or TV movie or nothing at all was used.

*The first few notes of the 1982 logo played on the last few seconds of The Georgian Bay Ltd. logo on a few episodes of ''Webster'' DVD's, such as the S2 episode "The Uh-Oh Feeling."

*An unknown show had a Moog theme playing over it.

'''Availability''': Uncommon.

*It's been spotted on ''Family Ties'' and most episodes of ''Happy Days'' when last seen on Hub Network (now Discovery Family), INSP TV, and Me-TV. It was seen on some episodes of ''Friday the 13th: The Series'' on Chiller (but not on DVD, nor on local airings), the first two seasons of ''MacGyver'' on Cloo, Me-TV and Netflix, and on the first and second season DVD releases of ''MacGyver'' from [[Paramount Home Media Distribution|Paramount Home Entertainment]]. It also appears on recent DVD releases of the first four seasons of ''Webster'' from Shout! Factory (the Paramount logo on S1 would be the standard version with 1979 music [standard version meaning the one with the space between the mountain and "Paramount"] and the Paramount logo on a few S2 episodes and the entire 4th season would use the 1982 tall-peaked variant, though on some international reruns and DVD episodes, it would use the standard version).  

*Other programs it was seen on was 1981-1987 episodes of ''Solid Gold'' (the silent 1995 Domestic logo plasters over this logo on VH1 airings from 1998-99), DVD releases of ''Angie'', ''Best of the West'', ''Future Cop'', ''The Bad News Bears'', ''The Powers of Matthew Star'', season 2 of ''Petrocelli'' (on DVD and on AXN Crime airings), ''Having Babies III'' on Amazon Prime Video, and ''The Winds of War'' miniseries on DVD.  

*The tall-peaked variant with the 1979 jingle has been spotted on the ''Happy Days'' S5 episode "The Apartment", the 1983 Australian miniseries ''Return to Eden'', and some season 5 episodes of ''Taxi'' like "Arnie Meets the Kids".

'''Editor's Note''': One of the more fondly remembered television logos, mainly due to its charm and cheesiness.

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'''Nicknames''': "CGI Mountain", "Mountain of Monotony", "'90s Mountain", "Star Wars Mountain", "Mountain of Annoyance", "Gulf+Western Mountain VI", "Viacom Mountain", "Still Mountain II"

'''Logo''': We see only the finished product of the 1986 movie logo. It is sometimes still, while other times it has the animated clouds moving westward in the background.

'''Bylines''': On the bottom, the following bylines were used:

* Late 1987-October 1989: "'''A Gulf + Western Company'''" (aligned similarly to the last logo)

* October 1989-May 23, 1995: "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">A Paramount Communications Company</span>" with a line above the byline. From October 1989-May 21, 1992 and September 12, 1994-January 27, 1995, the byline was in <span style="color:#ffa500" ;>gold</span>. From September 17, 1990-May 23, 1995, the byline was in white.

*February 13, 1995-August 27, 2006: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (styled after Viacom's logo of the era), with a line above the byline.

'''Variants''':

*A variant of this logo with the "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''75th'''''</span> <span style="font-family:times-new-roman;color:#edd602;">'''''Anniversary'''''</span>" text appeared on late 1987 episodes of ''Entertainment Tonight''.

*At the end of a 1987 outtake reel of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', the 1987 75th logo was shown first as a still picture, then the logo was seen animating in reverse, beginning with the "<span style="font-family:times-new-roman;">'''''75th'''''</span> <span style="font-family:times-new-roman;color:#edd602;">'''''Anniversary'''''</span>" text fading out and continuing to the stars rolling and flying away. The logo then cuts to clip of another mountain exploding from an episode of said show.

*On ''The Busy World of Richard Scarry'', the logo appeared at the beginning with the show's theme playing in the background, and the mountain fades into a mountain in the show.

'''FX/SFX''':

*1987-1995: None.

* 1987-1989; 1990-1995: Only clouds moving westward in the background.

*1995-2006: (Network and domestic television): Same as first two.

'''Music/Sounds''': A re-orchestrated version of the last six notes to Paramount Pictures' 1987 theatrical fanfare, which is a re-arrangement of Elsie Janis/Jack King's ''Paramount on Parade'' by Jerry Goldsmith, first heard on trailers for Paramount Pictures since 1976. It may remind some viewers of the ''Star Wars'' theme (hence the nickname "Star Wars Mountain"). There are two arrangements of the theme. Many of these logos are plastered onto old shows (mostly on TV Land airings, as well as TV movies) with the logo being silent.

'''Pre-1987 Paramount Television Music/Sounds Variants''': As a result of poor attempts at plastering, each variant of the logo was spotted with the following themes from the 4th, 5th, and 7th logos:

*1987 logo with 1979 and 1980 themes, reportedly spotted on older ''Bosom Buddies'' reruns on TBS.

*1989 logo with gold byline with the 1970 and 1978 themes.

*1995 domestic logo with 1968, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1981, 1982 themes. The 1978 theme variant was seen on most episodes of ''Mork & Mindy'' on Syfy, while a few had the 1981-B theme variant, an early 2000's airing of ''The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang'' episode "Westward Whoa!" on TV Land used the 1980 theme variant, and the 1968 theme variant was seen on a French airing of ''Mannix''. Several reverse plaster spottings involving Blue Mountain jingles include Fox Family (now Freeform) airings of ''The Brady Brides'', repeats of several ''Mork & Mindy'' episodes when they last aired on older Hub Network and Fox Family airings, and an early 2000's airing of ''The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang'' episode "Westward Whoa!" on TV Land.

'''Other Music/Sounds Variants''':

*On ''Judge Judy'' (season 4 to mid-season 6), ''Judge Joe Brown'' (seasons 2 & 3), the final 2 seasons of ''Judge Mills Lane'' in syndication, the final 2 seasons of ''Nash Bridges'', and ''The Adventures of Corduroy'', the end themes would play over the 1995 Domestic or Network logo.

* On an episode of ''Entertainment Tonight'', aired May 16, 1990, the logo is silent, out of a show of respect to Sammy Davis, Jr. and Jim Henson, who both passed away that day and were the focus of the episode.

*One CBS Justice print of an episode of ''Gunsmoke'' had the Viacom "V of Doom" music play faintly under the 1995 Domestic version of this logo.

'''Availability''': Common. The 1995-2002 Viacom variation plasters over previous logos before being plastered by the [[CBS Television Distribution]] logo.

*The Gulf+Western variation was once found on later ''Family Ties'' episodes (seen intact on recent airings such as those on Antenna TV), 1987-1989 ''Cheers'' episodes in syndication, and ''Friday the 13th: The Series'' on Chiller and certain episodes on Syfy. On Netflix, the Gulf+Western version has also turned up on the last 2 seasons of ''Family Ties'' (plastered on DVD), as well as seasons 3-4 and the first 4 season 5 episodes of ''MacGyver''. The short-lived 1988-89 game show ''Wipeout'' (with Peter Tomarken) had this as well, and it was retained when the USA Network reran from 1989 to 1991 (episodes can be found on YouTube). This variation usually gets plastered with the Viacom variation.

*The silent Viacom bylined 1995 logo was used to plaster Viacom logos. Since Viacom owns TV Land, many airings of Viacom shows had their logos plastered by this one. These prints are still used, and you may come across some of them if you watch some of these shows that TV Land had aired. Some of these shows include ''The Andy Griffith Show'', the 1970 ''Harlem Globetrotters'' cartoon, ''Cannon'', color ''Gunsmoke'' episodes (and even some black and white episodes), ''Petticoat Junction'' (also seen on MeTV and H&I airings), ''Family Affair'', ''Gomer Pyle USMC'', ''Hawaii Five-O'', ''I Love Lucy'', ''My Three Sons'', ''The Honeymooners'', ''The Fonz & the Happy Days Gang'', and ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (these prints were also used for Nick at Nite airings). It is unknown if this applied to TV Land airings of ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', seasons 1-8 of ''Matlock'', ''The Devlin Connection'', ''The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse'' and ''Heckle and Jeckle'', and ''Perry Mason''.

*An airing of the ''Star Trek'' episode "Coda" on Australian channel FOX Sci Fi retained the 1995 variant.

'''Editor's Note''': It's mostly a still shot of the 1986 movie logo, which is fine enough. It also began Paramount's full time practice of using their movie logo as their de-facto television logo. However, the 75th Anniversary version was largely wasted, as it only appeared on ''Entertainment Tonight'', while other shows during the period would instead use the standard Gulf+Western variation, before its use on films in 1988. In addition, this logo (mostly the 1995 variants) was notorious at the time for its wide prevalence during its lifespan, primarily due to plastering older logos, mainly ones from older Paramount TV and Viacom. Despite its notoriety, this would pale in comparison to the later CBS Television Distribution, which plastered logos on a larger scale. Originally, this logo was changed to the final logo in 2002; however, on ''The Dead Zone'', the 1995 network variant was kept until 2006.

'''Logo''': Just in-credit text that reads:

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:times-new-roman;line-height:0;font-size:20px;">''Distributed by''</span></div>

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#00d6de;line-height:0;">'''—————————'''</span></div>

'''FX/SFX''': None.

'''Music/Sounds''': The closing theme to the show.

'''Availability''': Extinct. Appeared on the first two seasons of ''Geraldo''. It has been kept intact within prints available on the streaming service Nosey.

'''Editor's Note''': None.

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'''Nicknames''': "CGI Mountain II", "Mount Paramount", "2000s Mountain", "Star Wars Mountain II", "Viacom Mountain II", "Still Mountain III"

'''Logo''': We see only the finished product of the 2002 movie logo, with the movement of the clouds being the only animation. Like the 8th logo, when the logo is shown closer, it's from Paramount Network Television. However, if it's further away, it's from Paramount Domestic Television.

'''Trivia''': The version with the "{{Font color|#EDD602|'''{{font|Times New Roman|''90''}}^{{{small|''TH''}}} ANNIVERSARY'''}}" disclaimer debuted in February 2002, a month before its full movie counterpart later came about with the release of ''We Were Soldiers'' on March 1 of that same year.

'''Variants''':

*The 90th Anniversary version appeared from February 2002 through December of that year. A still frame of that logo was used only on ''Montel''.

*Just like the 8th logo, this logo exists in both 4:3 and 16:9.

* On the short-lived drama ''Blind Justice'', it shows a portion of the end of the animated movie logo.

'''FX/SFX''': Only the clouds moving westward in the background or none. On ''Blind Justice'', it shows the end animation from the movie logo. Sometimes, the logo utilizes a simple fade in and fade out, like its movie counterpart.

'''Music/Sounds''': Same as the 8th logo or none.

'''Music/Sounds Variants''':  

*Some shows like ''One on One'' would have a shorter version of the theme when originally aired.

*Some versions use the last notes of the 1987 theme.

*On Bounce TV airings of the December 1, 2004 and January 5, 2005 episodes of ''Judge Joe Brown'', the CBS Television Distribution theme is played over the Domestic variant due to sloppy reverse plastering.

'''Availability''': Although this logo is falling victim to plastering (by way of the CBS Paramount Domestic/Network Television or CBS Television Distribution logos), it's still common to find.

*It still appears on reruns of several shows, such as pre-2006 episodes of ''Girlfriends'' on BET Her, TV One, Cleo TV, The CW Seed and Netflix (plastered on DVD by CBS Paramount Domestic Television or [[CBS Media Ventures|CBS Television Distribution]]), the first 3 seasons of ''NCIS'' on USA Network before using compressed credits (which use the CBS Television Studios logo), ''Frasier'' on Lifetime and Hallmark Channel as well as the Complete 10th and 11th seasons DVD box sets, ''One on One'' on Bounce (as well as on Netflix), every season of ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' besides season 6 on Antenna TV and when it was last seen on Hub Network (before the re-brand of Discovery Family), ''Everybody Hates Chris'' on Fuse, ''The Parkers'' on BET and Centric, ''Soul Food: The Series'' on Aspire (plastered on DVD), ''Blind Justice'' on the now-defunct Sleuth network, 2004 syndicated late-night airings of ''Perry Mason Returns'' (which followed the 1990 Viacom "Wigga Wigga" logo), some syndicated reruns of the first two seasons of ''Numb3rs'' (followed by the CBS Television Distribution logo) and at the end of a 2016 Showtime 2 broadcast of ''Universal Soldier''. The final show to use this logo was ''Deadwood''. It was previously seen on Nick @ Nite, TeenNick, and BET.

*The 90th Anniversary variation is uncommon and can be seen on 2002 episodes of ''One on One'' on Bounce TV and Netflix, ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' on Syfy, 2002 episodes of ''Frasier'' on Hallmark Channel and Netflix, (but not on DVD), an episode of ''Clueless'', local reruns of ''Nash Bridges'', ''Becker'' when it was last shown on WGN America, and on H&I's airings of 2002 ''JAG'' episodes. This also appeared on several first-run syndicated shows which were ''Entertainment Tonight'', ''Dr. Phil'', ''Judge Judy'' (mid-seasons 6-10), and ''Montel''.

* The version with the fanfare makes a surprise appearance at the end of the ''Dora The Explorer: It's A Party!'' VHS.

'''Editor's Note''': Like the 8th logo, it's mostly a nearly still shot of the 2002 movie logo (because the background is still animating), which is fine enough. However, some people may confuse this logo with the closing logo of the movie counterpart, as the television counterpart sometimes fades in and fades out and is sometimes silent, while the movie counterpart is the same, but always happening and always silent. Also, it should be noted that the television logo debuted in February 2002, a month before the movie logo followed suit in March 2002, and this is the final Paramount logo seen on television until nearly six years later.

Here is some information about the copyright stamps on Paramount TV series:

*1968-1990: Copyright © [YEAR] by Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

*1985-1988: © [YEAR] by Paramount Domestic Television and Video Programming. All Rights Reserved.

*2006: Copyright © [YEAR] by CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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