Paramount Television (1967-2006): Difference between revisions

* A grayscale variation of the 1995 Domestic logo also exists, which appears 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 instead (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 Productions|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.

* Starting in 1990 on ''Entertainment Tonight'', this logo appears 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 a 1996 [[Tyne Tees Television|Tyne Tees]] airing of ''Star Trek: Beyond First Contact'', the 1995 Domestic variant of the logo fades into the 1996 [[ITV Tyne Tees Productions|A Tyne Tees Television Presentation for Channel 3 North East]] endcap.

'''Audio:''' 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 Lalo Schifrin, first heard on trailers for Paramount Pictures since 1976, and is in the key of B♭ major. (Schifrin is credited as composer of this theme on [https://www.discogs.com/release/6408139-Various-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Collection-Original-Television-Soundtrack La-La Land Records' 2014 release of the ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' soundtrack].) There are two main versions of the theme. The second version, which officially debuted in 1989, has the first note of the fanfare and the last note's echo in a slightly lower pitch. Many of these logos are plastered onto old shows (mostly on TV Land airings, as well as TV movies) with the logo being silent.

** 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 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982 themes. The 1978 theme variant appears on most episodes of ''Mork & Mindy'' on Syfy, while a few have 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 and 1969 theme variants appeared on two French airings of ''Mannix''. Several reverse plaster spottings involving Blue Mountain jingles include Fox Family (now Freeform) airings of ''The Brady Brides'', as well as repeats of several ''Mork & Mindy'' episodes when they last aired on older Hub Network and Fox Family airings, and a few later Season 2 episodes of ''Star Trek'' on the 2004 DVD set (region 2 only), plastering the 1st logo.  

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

* 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 died that day and were the focus of the episode.

* The 1995 network variant of this logo also appears on a DVD print of the 2002 TV movie ''Sightings: Heartland Ghost'', which is then followed by the 1999 [[Carlton International]] logo.

* Although the logo was updated in 2002, ''The Dead Zone'' still used the 1995 network variant until 2006 (and ended coincidentally on the same day as the next logo), and most episodes of ''Unexplained Mysteries'' used the 1995 domestic variant until the show ended in 2004.

'''Legacy:''' The 1995 variants were rather infamous for plastering older logos, similar to CBS Television Distribution and Sony Pictures Television. The logo as a whole has been awarded the nickname of "Star Wars Mountain" because of the fanfare's unintentional resemblance to the ''Star Wars'' theme tune.