Paramount Television (1967-2006): Difference between revisions

===6th Logo (September 13, 1987-August 27, 2006)=== <!--T:50-->

 

*February 6, 1995-August 27, 2006: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (styled after Viacom's logo of the era), with a line above the byline.

*A variant of this logo with the "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''75th''''' {{Font color|#EDD602|'''''Anniversary'''''}}}}" 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 "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''''75th''''' {{Font color|#EDD602|'''''Anniversary'''''}}}}" text fading out and continuing to the stars rolling and flying away. The logo then cuts to a clip of another mountain exploding from an episode of said show.

*This logo can be in 4:3 or 16:9 (only the 1995 network variant has a 16:9 variation, which debuted in 1999).

*Starting in 1995, when the logo is shown closer, it's from Paramount Network Television. However, if it's further away, it's from Paramount Domestic Television.

*Strangely, some network TV shows from 1999-2002 used the Domestic logo for Paramount Network Television.

*There is a grayscale variation of the 1995 Domestic logo seen on black & white syndicated reruns such as on ''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''My Three Sons'', ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', and ''The Honeymooners'' on TV Land, and mid-90's prints of ''The Wild Wild West'' though most B&W shows use the color version (such as ''Have Gun, Will Travel'' prints and non-TV Land airings of B&W ''Gunsmoke'' episodes).

*During the white-byline-Paramount Communications and Viacom eras, airings of TV movies would close the movie with the full logo's animation and then fade out before the byline faded in, technically creating a bylineless TV variant.

*The 1995 network variant often appeared with a noticeably chyroned Viacom byline, and was a still variant.

*Starting in 1990 on ''Entertainment Tonight'', this logo is seen in-credit, inside the area where superimposed footage plays during the credits.  

**Similarly, the French version of ''Entertainment Tonight'' (known as ''Exclusif'' or ''Exclusif ce soir'', and aired between 1998-2002 on TF1) has a split-screen variant with the Case Production logo (even using the sound of said logo) which is seen at the beginning and ending of the program.

*On original NBC airings of ''Frasier'' and ''Wings'', the logo is part of the split-screen credits; the stars, "Paramount" text and the byline are drastically smaller to fit inside of it. The Paramount Communications byline now spans across two lines here.

*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.

*1987 episodes of ''Entertainment Tonight'' have the logo still for a second before the fanfare plays and the clouds start animating.

*Even though Paramount debuted an updated version of their movie logo in 1999, they still used the 1995 variant for television.

*A bad Blue Mountain plastering error appeared once: the Blue Mountain logo started, but was cut off by this logo. This is most likely due to a bad plastering error.

*The domestic version of this logo is zoomed in on 2000s prints of ''The Invaders''.

*The first two episodes of Season 3 of ''Friday the 13th: The Series'' had the animated clouds on the 1989 gold Paramount Communications variant.

*A filmed version exists.

*1987-1995: None.

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

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

*As a result of poor attempts at plastering, each variant of the logo was sometimes 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.

**1990 logo with 1970, 1972, 1976, 1978 and 1979 themes. The version with the 1976 theme was spotted on 90s prints of the TV movies ''Nero Wolfe'' and ''Delta Country U.S.A.'', the version with the 1978 theme was spotted on Me-TV's print of the ''Taxi'' episode "Jim and the Kid", and the version with the 1979 theme was spotted on an Australian airing of ''Taxi''.

**1995 domestic logo with 1968, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, and 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.

*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 (and on Pluto TV), the final 2 seasons of ''Nash Bridges'', and ''The Adventures of Corduroy'', the end themes would play over the 1995 Domestic or Network logo.

*At the end of a 1987 outtake reel of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', the last note from the 1966 ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' theme music (aka "Theme from Star Trek"), is heard, followed by the 1967 Desilu logo's music, the 1979 Paramount Television theme, and some suspenseful music sounding like the theme music from the 1975 film ''Jaws'' before finally concluding with an explosion sound.

*A low-toned version was spotted on some episodes of ''Family Affair'' on Me-TV and Decades, which plastered older Viacom logos.

*A version exists that has the last note of the theme cut short.

*Another version exists that uses the last 4 notes of the theme.

*On the 2001 remaster and HD remasters of ''Cheers'', 2000s prints of ''The Love Boat'', an episode of season 3 of ''7th Heaven'' on Hulu, and seasons 2 through 6 of ''Charmed'' on DVD, the 1989 version of the theme is slightly re-orchestrated and has a different echo at the end.

*On some episodes of ''Gomer Pyle, USMC'' when they were aired on Me-TV and possibly other shows formerly distributed by Viacom, the "V of Doom" music in warp-speed is heard with the 1995 domestic logo. Similarly, mid-1990s prints of ''Our Miss Brooks'' have the 1995 Domestic logo with a low-toned regular 1976 "V of Doom" reverse-plaster.

*On a few episodes of ''Gunsmoke'' last aired on Encore Westerns, the Viacom "V of Steel" music in normal speed would be heard with the 1995 domestic logo due to sloppy plastering. The music would jarringly cut after the logo fades out.

*Reportedly, TubiTV's print of the 1990 film ''Men at Work'' had the Viacom "Wigga Wigga" music with V/O play over the 1995 domestic logo due to sloppy plastering.

*The first episode of ''The Invaders'' on a foreign DVD set had the 1995 domestic logo intact but with the 1988 [[Worldvision Enterprises|Worldvision]] "Whoosh Globe" music playing over it due to sloppy plastering. This also was spotted on some early 2000s prints of ''The Love Boat'' episodes.

*A February 2019 rerun of ''Nash Bridges'' on H&I used the CBS Television Distribution music with the 1995 Network logo. This is most likely a reverse plaster.

*On a TV Land airing of the ''Happy Days'' episode "Guess Who's Coming to Christmas" in July 2003, a split second of the previous logo's music can be heard and it then abruptly cuts to the regular theme of this logo, probably because of a poor plastering job.

*On syndicated airings of ''Taxi'', the 1982 theme from the previous logo is heard faintly before it is cut off by this logo's fanfare.

*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.

*Network airings on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC used a generic theme instead.

*On the 1988 game show ''Wipeout'' and the pilot of ''What's Alan Watching?'', the 1987 theme is slightly re-orchestrated.

*Starting in 1997 on network shows with 5.1 surround sound, like ''Frasier'' and ''Becker'', the fanfare is slightly re-orchestrated.

*Starting in 1995, most shows from Paramount Domestic Television used the 1989 version of the theme. However, on shows from PDT like ''Entertainment Tonight'' and ''Hard Copy'', the 1987 version is used.

*Season 1 episodes of ''Girlfriends'' had the fanfare played in mono.

*The 1988 version of ''Mission: Impossible'' plays the 1989 version of the fanfare on this logo.

*On at least one Season 8 episode of ''Happy Days'', the 1979 fanfare is heard faintly on the 1995 Network 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'', which can also be seen on Pluto TV. 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 Me-TV 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''.

*Non-TV Land programs that used the silent variant are ''Frasier'' on Lifetime, Hallmark Channel, and DVD box sets, ''Cheers'' on Hallmark Channel, Netflix, Me-TV, Reelz Channel, WGN America, and DVD prints up to season 8, the final season of ''Matlock'' (S8 DVDs use the CBS Television Distribution logo instead), the second season of ''Diagnosis Murder'' on Me-TV and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (S2 DVDs use the CBS Paramount "Wallpaper" logo instead), ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' when it was on WGN America, the first two seasons of ''Soul Food: The Series'' on TV One, ''The Lucy Show'' prints, ''Mork & Mindy'' prints, ''Sabrina The Teenage Witch'' on Antenna TV and when last seen on Hub Network (before the rebrand to Discovery Family), ''The Dead Zone'' on Cloo, Me-TV airings of ''Taxi'', ''The Odd Couple'' prints, a 2013 airing of ''Return to Mayberry'' (after the Viacom "V of Happiness"), 1998-99 VH1 airings of ''Solid Gold'', ''Have Gun – Will Travel'' and ''The Wild Wild West'' airings on Me-TV and H&I (as well as ''The Wild Wild West'' airings on mid-1990's TNT airings, current FETV airings, and French-localized prints), USA Network's airings of the 1st 4 seasons of ''Nash Bridges'' (H&I airings of these seasons have the CBS Television Distribution logo, but is still found on the last 2 seasons when aired), LMN airings of ''Her Deadly Rival'' (after the 1995 Rysher Entertainment logo), ''Rawhide'' on H&I and Me-TV [though scarcely appearing], ''The Phil Silvers Show'' on Decades [also scarcely appearing], H&I airings of ''JAG'' (except seasons 3 and 4), Portuguese-localized ''The Twilight Zone'' episodes on USA Network [though scarcely], and ''Hogan's Heroes'' on Forces TV in the United Kingdom [though scarcely]. It was also seen on 2000 syndicated airings of some ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' episodes (a couple episodes retains this on Pluto TV) and is intact (with the Edd Kalehoff composed-end theme playing over) on episode 125 onwards of ''Judge Mills Lane'' on Pluto TV (which plasters the Rysher Entertainment logo).

*On the initial U.S. syndication reruns of the 1st 4 seasons of ''Webster'', the 1987 logo plastered the "Blue Mountain" on all but a select few episodes, as did the 1995 Domestic logo on much later U.S. syndication reruns after 1995.

*The 1989 logo with the gold Paramount Communications byline lasted until January 27, 1995, and during its lifespan was used on the syndicated 1994-1995 ''The New Price Is Right'' show, DVD and Netflix's prints of seasons 5-7 of ''MacGyver'', the first season DVD of ''Wings'', Get TV airings of ''The Boy Who Loved Christmas'', and the 1993 unaired pilot ''Gloria Vane''.

*The 1990 logo with the white Paramount Communications byline made its final regular appearance on ''The Marshal'' season 1 episode "The Great Train Robbery", aired on February 11, 1995, while its final overall appearance was on ''The Laverne & Shirley Reunion''.

*''Star Trek: Enterprise'' season 1 reruns on Netflix and DVD retain the 1995 Viacom-byline logo, while they are replaced by the CBS Television Distribution logo on the 2013 Blu-ray set. This was also seen on the final 2 seasons (1st-run syndication-era) episodes of ''Webster''.

*This logo makes a surprise appearance with the fanfare on digital prints of ''Don't Give Up the Ship'', the 1997 VHS release of ''It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown'' after the said special's closing credits and on a demo VHS tape of ''Boohbah: Comfy Armchair'' following the Dot variant of the [[PBS Kids|PBS Kids Video]] logo.

*This logo also apears on ''Exclusif Ce Soir'', a short-lived French adaptation of ''Entertainment Tonight'' that used to be shown on the TF1 network.

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

*This logo is intact on the pilot episode of the UPN sitcom ''Girlfriends'' on Netflix (the rest of season 1 uses the CBS Paramount Television logo).

*Although the logo was updated in 2002, ''The Dead Zone'' still used the 1995 network variant until 2006, and most episodes of ''Unexplained Mysteries'' used the 1995 domestic variant until the show ended in 2004.