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Background

Screen Gems, previously the cartoon division of Columbia Pictures, was revived as a television subsidiary in 1948. It was formed when Columbia acquired Pioneer Telefilms, a television commercial company founded in 1947 by Ralph M. Cohn, the son of Columbia Pictures co-founder, Jack Cohn, and the nephew of longtime Columbia Pictures president and co-founder, Harry Cohn. Pioneer Telefilms was renamed to Screen Gems after the acquisition. It was responsible for television production, TV movies, syndicating the Columbia Pictures movie library, and starting in 1958, The Three Stooges shorts starting with the Curly series. Screen Gems became a fully-fledged studio in 1951 by moving into Telefilm syndication and later into television production in 1952. On July 1, 1956, Columbia studio veteran Irving Briskin formed Briskin Productions to oversee all of Screen Gems' productions. On December 10, 1956, Screen Gems acquired television syndication company Hygo Television Films (a.k.a. "Serials Inc.") as well as its affiliated company, United Television Films, Inc. On August 2, 1957, Screen Gems agreed to syndicate the Universal Horror Package from Universal-International for 10 years under the names Shock and Son of Shock. From 1957-1966, Screen Gems held a 20% stake in Hanna-Barbera and acted as their distributor; Screen Gems (and later, Columbia Pictures itself) also owned the distribution rights to The Flintstones until the 1980s. In January 1961, Columbia Pictures Corporation and Screen Gems, Inc. were split into separate companies, when the former studio sold 11% of the latter's stock to the public. On December 23, 1968, Screen Gems merged with its parent Columbia Pictures Corporation and the whole organization was reincorporated as "Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.".

On May 6, 1974, Screen Gems was reincorporated as "Columbia Pictures Television" (now "Sony Pictures Television"). The name's change was announced on May 1 and was suggested by David Gerber, who was president of Columbia's television division. In 1984, Coke demerged Columbia Pictures and Columbia Pictures Television. CPT was transferred to "CPT Holdings, Inc.". On January 30, 1984, CPT joined forces with Lexington Broadcast Services Company, Inc. (later known as "LBS Communications, Inc.") and created "Colex Enterprises". It was created to distribute most series by Screen Gems and CPT from the 1950s to the '70s. In October, CPT created "The Television Program Source" with Alan Bennett and former King World president, Bob King. On November 24, 1986, CPT was merged with Embassy Communications by forming "Columbia/Embassy Television". This was also the birth of Coca-Cola Telecommunications, when CPT's distribution division merged with the Television Program Source. Coke also regrouped CPT, Embassy Communications, and Merv Griffin Enterprises into "Coca-Cola Television". On December 21, 1987, Coke's entertainment business was sold to Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. for $3.1 billion. Tri-Star Pictures, Inc. was renamed to "Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc." (now "Sony Pictures Entertainment") and CCT was shut down ten days later and folded into the reorganized Columbia Pictures Television Distribution. In October 1991, CPT, TriStar Television, and MGE were reorganized into the "Sony Pictures Entertainment Television Group" (a.k.a. "Sony Television Entertainment"). On February 21, 1994, Columbia Pictures Television merged with TriStar Television by becoming "Columbia TriStar Television" and Columbia Pictures Television Distribution was renamed to "Columbia TriStar Television Distribution". On January 1, 2001, Columbia Pictures Television was folded into Columbia TriStar Television as a failed attempt to become a network television syndication division called Columbia TriStar Network Television (later replaced by Columbia TriStar Domestic Television), however, the CPT name was retained in the in-credits of The Young and the Restless until October 2002. Currently, the division is known as Sony Pictures Television. A separate entity of CPT continues to exist on paper as an intellectual property holder, and an in-name-only unit and division of SPT known as "CPT Holdings" (formed in 1983) to hold the copyright for the TV show The Young and the Restless including the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, as well as old incarnations from the company's television library such as What's Happening!!.

Screen Gems Productions (Screen Gems Film Productions/Screen Gems Television)

1st Logo (April 1951-1952, December 14, 1957-1974)

Logo: Superimposed over the screen, we see the following in-credit text:

A

SCREEN GEMS, INC.

PRODUCTION

Variants:

• On Days of Our Lives, the text says "A CORDAY PRODUCTIONS, SCREEN GEMS PRESENTATION".
• For shows co-produced by Hanna-Barbera, it says "A SCREEN GEMS FILM PRESENTATION, TELEVISION SUBSIDIARY COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION".
• On Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman, under the Ben Gradus Productions text is the text "In association with SCREEN GEMS INC. and DAVID M. NOYES".
• On the short-lived game show Line 'em Up, the first reel says "a SCREEN GEMS production".
• On The Jetsons episode "The Coming of Astro", the letter "A" isn't shown next to the words "SCREEN GEMS" (This version can still be seen intact on The Jetsons episode on Boomerang and Amazon Video on Demand).

FX/SFX: None or the cross-fading. Except on Days of Our Lives, where the text scrolls.

Music/Sounds: The end-title theme from any show. On the game show Line 'em Up, a voice-over says "Line 'em Up is a Screen Gems production in association with CFTO TV enclosing".

Availability: Uncommon. It's currently seen on the first two seasons of The Flintstones and some first season episodes of The Jetsons on Boomerang, MeTV, and DVD's of the shows.

• It was also seen on Top Cat and early seasons of The Ford Theatre.
• The 1964 in-credit variant can be seen in the documentary series Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman episode "Dialogue with the Future, Part I", currently on C-SPAN's YouTube channel.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (October 2, 1952-April 4, 1956)

Nickname: "The TV Tube"

Logo: On the same light gray background seen on the last logo, we see a TV tube-like shape that's outlined in dark gray and filled in black. There are about eight stars shining inside (like stars in the sky) around the phrase "A SCREEN GEMS INC. Presentation" or "A SCREEN GEMS INC. Production".

Variants:

• There is one version where the stars shining are more animated and differently shaped, with no glow inside them.
• From late 1954 to early 1956, the word "Film" is added inside the tube.

FX/SFX: The little stars twinkling.

Music/Sounds: The end title theme of any show.

Availability: Ultra rare.

• It originally appeared on The Ford Television Theatre, Captain Midnight, Father Knows Best, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, among other shows.
• Currently seen on the complete first & second season of Father Knows Best on DVD.

Editor's Note: The logo fits well with the company name as the "SCREEN" is the TV tube, and the "GEMS" are the stars on the screen. It's a rather peculiar concept that was shelved in favor of the "Torch Lady" years later.

3rd Logo (August 27, 1955-June 24, 1960)

Nickname: "Torch Lady"

Logo: Like the 1942 version of the 1936 Columbia Pictures logo, we see a lady (Columbia, a representation of the USA) holding a light torch on top a pedestal with a backdrop of clouds over her. The Torch Lady's head and upper body is between the words "SCREEN GEMS" with the letter "A" in Vivaldi font above it and "FILM PRESENTATION" or "FILM PRODUCTION" below it. The byline "TELEVISION SUBSIDIARY COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION" appears below that.

Trivia: The Torch Lady, aka Columbia, is played by Pittsburgh native Jane Chester Bartholomew, who was discovered by Harry Cohn. (After she left acting in the '60s, Mrs. Bartholomew became a nursing inspector with the Chicago Board of Health. She passed away in 2012.)

Variants:

• There is a special variant for the 10th Anniversary of Screen Gems. The logo is the same, except for the text "10TH ANNIVERSARY FILM PROGRAM" (or "FILM PRESENTATION") seen below in place of the standard text.
• Recently, an extremely rare colorized version of the logo was spotted. It is known to be seen on the Shirley Temple's Storybook episode "Mother Goose".

FX/SFX: The lady's torch "shining".

Music/Sounds/Voice-over:

• A majestic horn fanfare at the begin/end of some syndicated programs, or the opening theme of the movie or short. There exists two known versions of this fanfare.
• Usually, as a closing logo, you will hear the ending theme for whatever show or movie played over it sometimes with Harry Cohn announcing: "This has been a Screen Gems Film Production, from the Hollywood studios of Columbia Pictures".

Music/Sounds Variant: When the movie 20 Million Miles to Earth premiered on television, Screen Gems plastered the Columbia Pictures logo, keeping the fanfare intact.

Availability: Rare.

• Currently seen on seasons 2-4 DVD releases of Father Knows Best, two episodes of Ranch Party on the Internet Archive, and a few season 1 & most season 2 episodes of Dennis the Menace on Hulu, strangely replacing the next logo on season 2 episodes.
• Despite the logo blending in with the show itself, Columbia TriStar has deleted the logo on several occasions. This logo isn't seen on Antenna TV's reruns of Father Knows Best or Dennis the Menace as it has been deleted and replaced by the Colex and/or SPT logos.
• It was also used on the original late '50s/early '60s 16mm prints of all 190 Stooges shorts that remained in circulation on TV stations until the late 1980s, including 200 non-Stooge Columbia two-reelers released to TV in 1959, many of which can be obtained by private collectors online, although the logo may vary in quality on most shorts. It can be found on a few Stooges shorts released on VHS by RCA/Columbia, including "A Bird in the Head" (closing variant only), "Three Smart Saps", and "I'm a Monkey's Uncle", which were last seen on TBS in the early '90s. Surprisingly, it can be found on a newly transferred 16mm print of "Disorder in the Court" on a Stooges DVD by TGG Direct, as this was a public domain short for many years with many VHS/DVD prints blacking out the opening logo due to copyright issues.
• It's also very rarely seen on The Huckleberry Hound Show.
• This logo also makes a surprise appearance at the close of the Naked City season 2 episode "The Day it Rained Mink" (which, as of this posting, can be seen on Tubi). The fourth SG logo was already in use by that time.

Editor's Note: This was the first use of the "Torch Lady" for television. It's mostly a well-liked logo, but some viewers in their youth were put off by the loud and dramatic nature of the fanfare heard on some shows, which has been referred to by some as the "Fanfare of Doom".

4th Logo (September 3, 1960-July 7, 1963)

Nickname: "Torch Lady II"

Logo: Same as the 1955 logo, excluding the clouds and the additional captions. Only the name "SCREEN GEMS" remains, and the words are smaller and somewhat stretched out, and the words are shown on each side of the lower body and legs.

Trivia: The Torch Lady here is also played by Jane Chester Bartholomew.

Variants:

• A rare color variant of this logo was seen on Hazel.
• An opening version featured the lettering "COLUMBIA" over a filming studio, with a camera crane moving (similar to the 1960 NBC "Cameraman" logo) and then it fades to the Screen Gems logo.

FX/SFX: The lady's torch "shining".

Music/Sounds/Voice-over: Usually, the end title theme from any show has played over this with Harry Cohn, the longtime president of Columbia Pictures announcing:

• "This has been a Screen Gems Film Presentation (from Columbia Pictures), Herbert B. Leonard, Executive Producer".
• "This has been a Screen Gems Film Presentation (from Columbia Pictures), produced by Herbert B. Leonard."
• "This has been a Screen Gems Production."
• "This has been a Screen Gems Film (Production/Presentation)."
• "This has been a Screen Gems Film (Production/Presentation), from the Hollywood studios of Columbia Pictures". Announced by Hal Gibney.
• The opening variants would have a fanfare with a different announcer saying, "From Columbia Pictures, A Screen Gems Production".

Availability: Rare.

• Last seen on reruns of Hazel, Dennis the Menace, The Naked City, and Route 66, to name a few. (As of this posting, the latter two shows are being aired on Retro TV's weekday afternoon schedule.)
• Surprisingly, this has been edited over with or followed by the Columbia TriStar Television Distribution logo or the Sony Pictures Television logo on some shows recently.
• Currently seen on The Naked City, The Donna Reed Show, some seasons 2-4 episodes of Dennis the Menace on Hulu, and some episodes of Route 66 on Retro TV and Me-TV.

Editor's Note: It's more of the same from the previous logo, but with less clutter. An updated version of sorts could be seen as the logo for the Screen Gems Network, the '90s syndicated package of classic SG, Columbia, Tandem, and ELP shows.

5th Logo (September 15, 1963-June 25, 1965)

Nickname: "The Dancing Sticks", "The Swizzle Sticks"

Logo: Eleven animated lines "drop down" at the right of the black screen to ascending jazz notes as a swarm of circles scatter near the middle of the left side leaving behind the words "SCREEN GEMS" in a Benguiat Frisky font. (These circles were what one rec.arts.animation post described as the "spotlights". The "stars" may come from the fact that the circles sparkle like stars.) As this happens, the lines shrink somewhat and spread out, filling the right half and shaking slightly back and forth.

Variant: When filmed and broadcast in color, the sticks and the dots are rainbow colors.

FX/SFX: The lines dropping and shrinking.

Music/Sounds/Voice-over: An 8-note jazzy trumpet fanfare that ascends as the sticks drop in, and ends with a 5-note stinger when the logo finishes. An announcer states that the production is "A Screen Gems Production" (for shows produced in-house) or "A Screen Gems Presentation" (for co-productions with other companies) near the end.

Music/Sounds/Voice-over Variants:

• One extremely rare version of the logo does not use an announcer spiel. This was often used on international prints of Screen Gems shows.
• The final season of Route 66 has "A Screen Gems Presentation, Herbert B. Leonard, Executive Producer".

Availability: Rare.

• It does appear in color without the signature music on the 1999 Columbia Pictures documentary The Lady with the Torch. However, due to replacement with various newer logos, both Sony Pictures Television-related and syndication, this is very hard to find on television.
• The color logo with no announcer was spotted on extremely rare syndication prints of The Peter Potamus Show.
• Many Hanna-Barbera shows such as Jonny Quest had the presentation variant appear at the end of the program. Film prints of original broadcast versions keep this logo intact.
• It can be seen on S3 and S4 of Hazel on DVD.
• This logo also miraculously appears at the end of recent prints such as Me-TV airings of the final season of Route 66 (followed by the 1993 Columbia Pictures Television logo on most episodes) and also appeared on their prints of The Donna Reed Show, followed by the Sony Pictures Television logo.
• The B&W "Presentation" variant can be seen in the documentary series Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman episode "Dialogue with the Future, Part I", currently on C-SPAN's YouTube channel.

Editor's Note: An example of early '60s art decor; advertising of the era commonly used this style of art. This logo was used for a relatively short period of time, and as such, it's relatively obscure - especially compared to the next logo.

6th Logo (September 13, 1965-August 29, 1974)

Nicknames: "S from Hell", "The Spiral S", "The Filmstrip S", "S of Doom", "That S"

Logo: On a yellow background, two red parallelograms (or lines) come from the top and bottom of the screen, and the upper one is at a distance while the lower is closer. They fly towards each other, and the higher moves forward while the lower backs away. As they do so, they grow in length and wrap around a space where a red dot appears, forming a stylized "S". Under that, the text "SCREEN GEMS" zooms in.

Trivia:

• The "S" logo was designed and animated by Chermayeff & Geismar Associates of New York, a firm also responsible for the six-feathered NBC Peacock, the 1984 PBS logo, the Viacom "Wigga Wigga" logo, and the Chase Manhattan Bank logo, among other designs.
• In the 2019 Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the jingle can (partially) be heard on a television. Depending on how you feel, it may seem appropriate that said TV is somewhere on the Manson Compound (especially during a particularly unnerving scene). The logo's music is credited in the end credits of the movie.

Variants:

• There's an in-credit logo that's shown on the short-lived series Adventures of the Seaspray with the text "in association with" and "Screen Gems" in the same font as the credits.
• Another in-credit version was shown on The Pierre Berton Show with the text "SCREEN GEMS Canada Production" in the same font as the credits.
• Starting in late 1972, the byline "A DIVISION OF COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC." zooms up with "SCREEN GEMS" on most programs.
• When shown in black & white, the standard scheme appears to be a light gray screen and black "S" and words. When shown in color, the standard scheme appears to be a yellow screen, red "S", and black words. The words may or may not have actually been red at one time as well. On some prints of The Partridge Family, the "S" and the words were both black, attributed by some to film deterioration. However, when the Columbia byline was added, everything was changed to a light gray, and that color change appeared more natural. At the same time, other Screen Gems shows carried the normal color scheme (as did The Partridge Family when it was rerun on Hallmark Channel).
• Several shows in 1970 didn't have the name in bold.
• There is also a still variant of this logo with the phrase "DISTRIBUTED BY" in small print above "SCREEN GEMS".
• Another still variant with and without Columbia bylines respectively was seen on some shows like the first season of Police Story and Ghost Story (also known as Circle of Fear).
• Another variant has the byline appearing after the company logo/text animation stop. This variant was seen on early episodes of the miniseries QB VII.
• There is a variant where (possibly due to film deterioration), the screen is white and the "S" is bright. Seen on the pilot episode of Love on a Rooftop.
  • Another variant is similar to the one above, but even brighter, making the "S" invisible and the words "SCREEN GEMS" barely visible. Seen on the Love on a Rooftop episode "The Six Dollar Surprise".
    • Another variant like the ones above, contains the byline, has the "S" partly invisible and the name and byline barely visible to see. This was spotted in a B&W print of The Paul Lynde Show episode "Togetherness".
• On a late '80s print of an episode of Occasional Wife, the animation and music of the logo were slightly faster than usual, probably due to time compression.
• A still version with a sky blue background was seen on S1 E5 of the short-lived series The Girl with Something Extra.
  • Another still version with a pink background was seen on the pilot of the same show.
• On the Get TV airing of the TV special The Temptations Show, the logo strangely skips in the middle of its animation, speeding up the logo and music in the process.
• One variant seen on a 16mm Screen Gems film header has the text "EUE/SCREEN GEMS". EUE (Elliot, Unger and Elliot) was a commercial production company which was incorporated into Screen Gems in 1965.

FX/SFX: The parallelograms wrapping around the dot, and the name "SCREEN GEMS" zooming in.

Music/Sounds:

• Composed by Van Alexander and arranged by Eric Siday, the entire score was performed on a Moog modular synthesizer (Siday was one of the first musicians to have one). It consists of 6 French horn-like notes, followed by 2 synth-brass quadruplets with the last note held. In the key of C major.
• In 1970, the Siday theme was shortened so only three notes came before the tones. This shortened variant was sped-up and was used for the first short-lived Columbia Pictures Television logo.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• There is a silent version on the 1971 television movie Brian's Song.
• The still version seen on Police Story had the end theme playing over the logo.
• The 1966 series Hawk (with Burt Reynolds), some later prints of The Peter Potamus Show, the 1966 edition of NFL Game of the Week, and the very first episode of Days of Our Lives, carried an alternate recording of the Eric Siday music, which had sharper, more "shrill" tones, almost sounding like a loud saxophone.
• On some first season episodes of I Dream of Jeannie (seen in syndication in the '70s and early '80s), as well as the half hour packaging of Batfink, an alternate trumpet fanfare in G major played over the logo (said to be also composed by Van Alexander and Eric Siday, but this is unconfirmed).
• In other cases, it used the closing theme of the show or TV movie.
• Some prints have the music higher pitched.
• When ABC reran Bewitched on their daytime schedule in 1968, this logo had the "Dancing Sticks" music attached to it on at least two episodes, probably due to a plastering error.

Availability: Pretty common.

• This logo has been beautifully restored on reruns of Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, and The Partridge Family on Antenna TV and FETV. Ironically, the DVD versions are not so lucky; except for one B&W episode (episode #22) of I Dream of Jeannie, the logos were removed on disc, but the short version complete with jingle has been restored starting with the seventh season DVDs of Bewitched, as well as the fourth season DVD of The Partridge Family. Don't expect the Columbia byline on the latter, though.
• The VHS release The Partridge Family: C'mon Get Happy! also preserves this logo, followed by the 1993 CPT logo. The only other DVDs with this logo are the 1971 TV movie Brian's Song and the 1974 miniseries QB VII, with theme music over it, plus the Columbia byline. This logo can be seen after every episode on the DVD release of Bridget Loves Bernie.
• This logo can also be found on every episode on the 2014 Mill Creek Entertainment DVD release of Gidget.
• The still variant with the Columbia byline can be found on most episodes of the first season of Police Story on DVD, released by Shout! Factory. It was also shown in an edited form on Fox Family reruns of The Partridge Family and in a sped-up form without music on Hallmark Channel reruns of Bewitched. A good few episodes of Bewitched when aired on the UK satellite channel Living have this logo, often followed by the Sony Pictures Television International logo.
• The "Hawk S" can be seen at the Paley Center, and the 1966 edition of NFL Game of the Week, which can be found on YouTube. This was also seen on an episode of The Monkees on IFC, which was followed by the 1996 CTTD and 2014 Sony/SPT logos.
• Its first appearance was on the third and final season of The Farmer's Daughter, on ABC, and the fifth and final season of Hazel, on CBS.

Editor's Notes:

• For a logo from the '60s, this features very smooth animation, especially when compared to other logos of the time.
• This logo has gained a relatively large cult following (even transcending the core closing logo community), due to its notoriety for scaring some viewers (particularly children). This is mostly due to the animation and Siday's early Moog stinger, which has been described to as "creepy"[2] and "horrifying"[3]. Commonly referred to alongside other "scary" logos, such as the Viacom "V of Doom", VID "Mask of Guo Xiang", Klasky-Csupo "Super Scary Face", Paramount Television's "Closet Killer", and THX "Deep Note". Its notoriety was even enough to spawn a short mockumentary in 2010 called The S from Hell, as well as get featured in a particularly tense scene in Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
• Despite its notoriety, a large swath of viewers love the logo, with some calling it "charming and innovative".

Columbia Pictures Television

1st Logo (In-credit variants) (May 1974-February 11, 2001)

Logo: Just a simple in-credit from the following:

• Days of Our Lives (May 1974-November 5, 1983): "A CORDAY PRODUCTIONS COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION PRESENTATION © (year), PRE-RECORDED".
• The Young and the Restless (May 1974-February 11, 2001): "A COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION PRESENTATION in association with BELL-PHILLIP TELEVISION, INC. (later "BELL DRAMATIC SERIAL CO." in 1984) and CORDAY PRODUCTIONS, INC. Copyright © (year) by (name of CPT company) All Rights Reserved".
• Dealer's Choice (June 1974-July 30, 1977) and The Diamond Head Game (September 27, 1975-June 11, 1988): "This has been a Columbia Pictures Television Presentation". The former show had it in the Cooper Black font (later used for one of the font style for Columbia) while the latter used Peignot.
• The Fun Factory (January 10, 1976-July 25, 1981): This has the Fishman-Freer Productions in-credit logo with a copyright notice and below that is "in association with COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION".
• The Upper Hand (September 8, 1990-December 4, 1993): "Produced in association with COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION".
• Beakman's World (September 19, 1992-February 8, 1997): We have the Columbia Pictures print logo in white with the words "Columbia Pictures Television Distribution" in Souvenir font (later Bank Gothic Condensed Bold font as "COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION" in 1993) under the Torch Lady. Underneath that is the phrase "In Association With", which was later changed into "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" in all-caps since 1993. September 19, 1992-May 22, 1993, episodes have the 1989-1993 print Torch Lady with the sunburst behind her, while episodes aired between September 18, 1993-February 8, 1997 have the current Torch Lady with a cloud background placed inside a box.
• Miracle on Interstate 880 (September 10, 1988-February 11, 2001): "COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION".

Variants:

• On S1 of The Upper Hand, it scrolls in the credits.
• On The Best of Beakman's World, the phrase, "In Association With" is in the similar font as the show's credits.

FX/SFX: The scrolling or the fade in of the text.

Music/Sounds: The show's closing theme.

Availability: Extremely rare, but it's intact in some variants.

• It appeared on Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, The Upper Hand (a British sitcom based on Who's the Boss?), and Beakman's World.
• The Dealer's Choice (the first show, apparently, to ever include a reference to Columbia Pictures Television), The Diamond Head Game, and The Fun Factory variants are extinct. It will also no longer be seen on reruns on Y&R.
• The Miracle on Interstate 880 variant is seen on said movie, which can be found on DVD, and can be also purchased on YouTube, iTunes, Amazon and Vudu.
• This logo is retained on Me-TV airings of Beakman's World but is followed immediately by the SPT logo.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (June 1974-July 30, 1977)

Nicknames: "CPT Pretzel", "CPT", "The Pretzel", "The Torch"

Logo: Against a red background, the yellow letters "C-P-T" appear one by one as each initial appears on screen and zooming out at the same time. The "T" is in the middle of and on a higher plane than the "C" and "P", which slide upwards diagonally to merge with the "T" to form a stylized logo, which looks like a pretzel. On either side of the logo's stem are the words "COLUMBIA" and "PICTURES", and below that "TELEVISION". Under all that is the byline "A DIVISION OF COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC." all in white Eurostile bold font.

Trivia: According to Jeb H. Perry, the author of Screen Gems - a history of Columbia Pictures Television from Cohn to Coke, 1948-1983, the CPT letters represent the Lady's Torch. "In 1974, Screen Gems became Columbia Pictures Television, replacing its stylized "S" logo with a graphic representing the glow of The Lady's torch."

Variant: A stretched 16:9 variant was spotted on a Plus7 streaming print of Police Woman.

FX/SFX: The letters appearing, and the letters "combining".

Music/Sounds: A slightly sped-up version of the 1970-1974 Screen Gems music as the first three opening notes bring forth the three initials in the logo. The rest of the theme plays normally. The first three notes appear to be played faster than on the Screen Gems version.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• On the TV movie The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, the logo's theme was played on an organ, since the movie took place in the 1930s.
• Sometimes, the closing theme of the show or TV movie would play over it.

Availability: Rare.

• It appears on the DVD of the 1976 TV movie The Story of David with the closing music playing over it.
• The first version can be seen on every episode of Season 2 of Police Woman and Born Free on DVD, and was also spotted on an airing of Police Story on Black Starz! years ago. It also appeared on a recent 7mate airing of Police Woman in Australia as well as a Plus7 streaming print of the same episode.
• The second version has only appeared on the TV movie The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case and is preserved on the VHS release and the DVD from Sony Pictures Choice Collection, as well as the CTV.ca print.
• It was also seen on the two short-lived ABC comedy series Good Heavens! and That's My Mama, and the short-lived ABC drama series The Feather and Father Gang.
• This was also reported to have appeared at the end of late '80s to early '90s reruns of Hart to Hart (replacing the 1982 logo).
• Its first appearance appears to have been on syndicated versions of 29 features from the Columbia Pictures library, including The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Professionals, Born Free, The Love Machine, and Easy Rider.
• This is retained on Sony Movie Channel's airings of Cage Without a Key and Banjo Hackett (while the DVD release of the latter has it plastered with a low pitched SPT logo).

Editor's Note: This logo's rough animation and design as well as its use of the "S from Hell" theme signified that this logo was only temporary until the "Sunburst" was introduced two years later.

3rd Logo (2nd official logo) (September 21, 1976-September 28, 1982)

Nicknames: "The Abstract Torch", "The Sunburst", "The Starburst"

Logo: We see a bright torch light appear against a black screen and as it shrinks, it changes into a more "abstract" torch light. The light rays recede from the bottom to about half way with 13 symmetrical white light rays remaining. An orange half circle, or a semicircle, fades in from behind the rays and the words "Columbia Pictures Television" appear under it in a gold Souvenir font. The entire logo then slowly backs away as it fades out.

Trivia:

• This logo is actually the second half of the 1976 Columbia Pictures movie logo and, aside from a different color designation for the abstract torch, the footage also seems to be played faster than its theatrical counterpart.
• Depending on the quality of the film print or telecine, the logo would appear slightly red. It should be noted that despite this, orange was the designated color for Columbia's television unit during this era.
• According to the book Screen Gems: A History of Columbia Pictures Television from Cohn to Coke, 1948-1983, by TV historian Jeb H. Perry, this logo was described as "a graphic representing the glow from The Lady's torch", which is, indeed, what this logo was meant to represent. Mr. Perry, however, made a mistake in this book, in that he said that this logo started in 1974 with the change to Columbia Pictures Television from Screen Gems. The real first logo of CPT was the "Pretzel", as described above.

Variants:

• On occasion, the glow around the sunburst varied in brightness or was not visible at all. This was generally the case during the 1980s on network TV.
• On the second episode of the short-lived series Filthy Rich, titled "Town and Garden", the sunburst appears in-credit as animating on the end-title scene. The CPT logo here, however, does not have its own jingle playing; rather, the Filthy Rich closing theme plays over it.
• A B&W version exists.
• An ultra dark version exists, where the text and semicircle are invisible and only the torch light remains barely visible. This can be seen on the Police Woman episode "The Human Rights of Tiki Kim." A similar variant, with a brownish-colored sunburst, is rumored to have appeared on an episode of Fantasy Island.

FX/SFX: The light rays shrinking and turning into the abstract torch.

Music/Sounds: The television theme is a variation of the theatrical inspirational music. Was also written by Suzanne Ciani. Some people find it appropriate for the company that would be owned by Coca-Cola, as the effects in the song resemble the sound of pouring and fizzing soda.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• Some syndicated broadcasts of this logo have a shorter version of the music, only playing the second half. This was due in part because of the splice edit method that was commonplace on early film prints of their shows.
• Sometimes, the music was played at a lower pitch.
• In rare cases, it used the closing theme of the show or TV movie.
• A silent version appears at the end of the final episode of Barney Miller, "Landmark, Part 3".

Availability: Very rare.

• It appears with closing music playing over it on the VHS tape of the 1981 miniseries Family Reunion with Bette Davis, the 1982 TV movie Ivanhoe on DVD, the Vidmark VHS, SPHE DVD release, the Sony Movie Channel broadcast and Netflix's print of the 1982 Tom Selleck TV movie The Shadow Riders (its last known new appearance), and two post-1980 Barney Miller episodes: "Homicide, Part I" and "Contempt, Part I" on local syndication. It appeared with music at the end of the 1977 TV movie A Killing Affair, but it has not been seen since Encore last aired it in 2006. Also seen on an international airing of Fantasy Island, followed by the Sony Pictures Television International logo.
• The logo with music has been restored on all season 1 episodes of T.J. Hooker on the 2014 Mill Creek Entertainment re-release of the first and second seasons of that show on DVD and without the SPT logo at all (the original Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005 release had the logo replaced with the SPT logo). The logo appears in silence at the end of Barney Miller's series finale "Landmark, Part 3" on the 2011 Shout! Factory complete DVD series set. This logo can be seen on the Father Knows Best reunion special Home for Christmas, last seen on GetTV and Sony Movie Channel. It also appears on Seasons 3 and 4 of Police Woman. Also spotted on a Sony Movie Channel airing of Last of the Good Guys.
• On Blu-ray, this appeared on The Making of The Deep, seen on the Blu-ray release of The Deep.

Editor's Note: This logo is a favorite among logo enthusiasts for its nice visual effects and music. The regular variant is also considered to be the first ever logo to have been uploaded onto YouTube, uploaded sometime in 2006. However, the original video appears to have been deleted.

4th Logo (3rd official logo) (September 28, 1982-May 14, 1993)

Nicknames: "'80s Torch Lady", "Coke Bottle Torch Lady", "Torch Lady"

Logo: We see the then-current Columbia Pictures logo, the lady holding a light torch on top of a pedestal (Columbia, a representation of the USA), in her 1981-1993 incarnation against the backdrop of clouds. The words "Columbia Pictures" appear on either side of the torch lady, the word "Television" underneath in the same font as above, and underneath that, either the respective company byline, or sometimes nothing at all. The woman's torch "shines" after the music ends, and the words also shine lightly.

Bylines:

• September 28, 1982-May 21, 1989: "A UNIT OF THE Coca-Cola COMPANY"
• September 17, 1988-December 5, 1992: "A unit of Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc."
• August 11, 1991-May 14, 1993: Bylineless. This was used during the early era of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Variants: There are several versions of this logo, namely in bylines, company name, and animation:

• September 28, 1982-May 21, 1989: Blue clouds/Gold company name, byline is the Coca-Cola one with "Coca-Cola" in its trademarked logo font. An early version has a tiny Coke byline. Another version has a medium-sized byline. This was first used on Days of our Lives and The Young and the Restless in late 1982 or early 1983. Prior to this, neither show used a Columbia or Screen Gems logo, with the exception of in-credit text on Days of Our Lives (see Corday Productions). A 16mm B/W copy of this variant was seen on a syndicated print of The Three Stooges short "Boobs in Arms", plastering the Screen Gems logo.
• October 9, 1982-September 10, 1988: Teal clouds/Gold company name (alternate with no byline).
• October 16, 1982-September 24, 1988: Another version features darker clouds.
• 1983: Alternate gold company name with a medium-sized Coke byline.
• 1985: Alternate 1982 logo.
• 1986: On the TV movie The Canterville Ghost, there is only a static image of the logo with the Coke byline.
• September 13-December 27, 1986, September 12, 1987-January 16, 1988: On the first ABC season of The Real Ghostbusters, the first note of the CPT jingle would overlap with the final note of the shows' ending theme. On the syndicated episodes, the ending them would play in full, and the last few seconds of the CPT logo would be freeze-framed.
• September 13, 1986-November 19, 1988: Gold company name, smaller Coca-Cola byline with "Coca-Cola" in its trademarked logo font.
• 1986-1988: Gold company name, normal Coca-Cola byline, dark and muddy Torch Lady, little shining animation.
• September 10, 1988-November 28, 1989: Blue clouds/Gold company name, Columbia Pictures Entertainment byline. There was an early distribution logo used on Punky Brewster, which has this logo with "Distributed by" and the CPE byline in a plain looking font.
• October 30, 1988-October 5, 1991: Purple clouds/Gold company name, Columbia Pictures Entertainment byline (alternate 1988 network logo).
• November 6, 1988-May 21, 1989: Teal clouds/Gold company name, Columbia Pictures Entertainment byline (alternate 1988 logo, based on the 1982 bylineless logo).
• September 25, 1989-December 5, 1992: Blue/Ivory company name as seen on the theatrical version, byline is changed to Columbia Pictures Entertainment (network version, 1989; syndication prints have "Distributed by" on top). If you look closely on the torch, you can see the sunburst slowly dimming out. On some distribution variants, the sunburst fades in, rather than out. Although it stopped general use around September 1991, a few shows, such as the Married... with Children spin-off Vinnie & Bobby, used this until 1992.
• On the TV movie Intrigue, the 1988 logo has a gray CPE byline.
• September 10, 1989-May 26, 1990: There was a text "In Association With" that was seen above the blue/ivory logo on Screen Gems shows. This followed the LBS Communications logo. From 1989-1991, the font was cheaply tacked in white with the black outline around it. This version looped part of the animation, causing the sunburst to fade out, then suddenly reappear. It would also fade in. On Days of Our Lives, the logo used the IAW variant in Souvenir font and was used from 1991-1993.
• August 11, 1991-February 23, 1992: Blue/gold and purple/gold company name; no byline. This was used during the early years under Sony Pictures Entertainment.
• There is an early version of the CPE byline where it's in all caps reading "A UNIT OF COLUMBIA PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT, INC." It was used in the 1988 TV movie, Badlands 2005.
• Open matte versions of the 1989 and 1991 logos exist, revealing more of the Torch Lady's pedestal. The 1989 version is seen on Dark Avenger (1990) and Hardball (the latter has the phrase "In Association With" appear below that), while the 1991 version is seen on Christmas on Division Street. On the 1989 version, the text looks bronze rather than gold. Another version, seen on part one of Switched at Birth, Cast the First Stone, and a few episodes of the short-lived 1989 CBS drama series A Peaceable Kingdom have no black under the pedestal. The 1989 open-matte version was exclusive to TV movies and drama shows, barring the soap operas.
• August 11, 1991-May 14, 1993: Blue/ivory company name, no byline (network version; syndication prints have "Distributed by" on top from 1991-1992).
• There is also a B&W rendition of this logo on classic Columbia movies in B&W and to plaster Screen Gems logos on classic shows.
• There is a short version of the 1982 logo.
• Another version of the 1991 logo exists where you can see a few extra steps in the pedestal, but it's not a full open matte logo, like in the Christmas on Division Street version. This is seen on Revolver.
• A version of the 1982 logo has the logo shifted up, revealing the whole pedestal. This was spotted in the 1985 miniseries Robert Kennedy and His Times.
• The 1992 TV documentary Titanic: Treasure of the Deep has the 1991 logo fading in.
• Another fade in version with the 1989 logo is seen on the 1989 TV pilot Shivers, which aired as part of the CBS Summer Playhouse.

FX/SFX: The Lady's torch "shining". The blue/ivory logos would have the name "Columbia Pictures" shining, except on the 1988 versions.

Music/Sounds:

• September 28, 1982-May 21, 1989: A shortened, slightly higher pitched version of the Sunburst music was used by Suzanne Ciani. The 1976 version was also used on this logo for a long version.
• September 10, 1988-May 14, 1993: A 6-note brass jingle mixed with twinkles composed by Tim Thompson that was played on a keyboard. Also consider that Columbia's logo editing habits were so sloppy during this era that sometimes this logo was plastered over a Screen Gems or Embassy Communications logo with the original logo's music still intact. No trace of the SG music for this logo has been found since. However, the Embassy theme was retained on a Diff'rent Strokes episode when it was reran on Antenna TV.
• Sometimes, the end theme of the show or TV movie is played over the logo, or none.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• On Married... with Children: The Most Outrageous Episodes: Volume 2, at the end of the episode "A Man's Castle", the 1993 music from the 5th logo is heard.
• There was a warped version with Thompson's music seen on '80s prints of Screen Gems shows such as Occasional Wife. The theme is also in higher pitch.
• There was a slowed down version with Thompson's music on the 1988 and 1991 logos. The 1988 logo was seen on second episode of The Real Ghostbusters, part of the Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters II DVD set, while the 1991 logo is seen on the 1991 The Young and the Restless Christmas episode. The 1988 theme sounds much slower.
• On the season 4 DVD set of Punky Brewster, at the end of the episode, "The Nun's Story", the short Columbia TriStar Television Distribution theme is used in the 1982 CPT logo, this logo was silent on the Peacock airing of this episode.
• On a couple episodes of My Two Dads S1 DVD set, it had the first two notes of the 1988 fanfare gone. The music fades in at the third note. This may have been used on the original NBC broadcasts.
• On Switched at Birth and on several episodes of Designing Women, the 1988 theme reverbs for a long time after the logo fades out.
• On the 1988 TV movie Intrigue, the 1988 CPT theme is low toned.
• On the first three episodes of A Peaceable Kingdom, the logo fades out half way before the theme finishes. The first episode, the theme fades out on the 6th and final note, the second episode fades out on the 4th note and you can hear a little bit of the 5th note, and the third episode fades out on the 6th note and you can hear a little bit of the 6th note as it fades out.
• Some Screen Gems programs had the "S from Hell" logo sloppily plastered with this logo in the early/mid '80s, in a way that the first 2-3 notes of the SG jingle would be heard, then the Ciani music would be heard starting in mid-jingle. One example of this would appear on '80s reruns of The Farmer's Daughter.
• French airings of T.J. Hooker on the French Belgium channel "La Une" have the widescreen 1982 logo with the 1993 CPT theme.
• On a French print of a S1 episode of Silver Spoons, the 1988 CPT logo theme can be faintly heard as the sound is strangely low.

Availability: Uncommon. Most of these logos have been plastered by the Columbia TriStar and/or Sony Pictures Television logos but it just might pop up on some older prints of shows.

• It was previously found on some episodes of Designing Women on TV Guide Network.
• It was also spotted when Chiller aired reruns of the short-lived series Werewolf. Comedy Central's print of the movie Hairspray (1988) used the 7th variation listed in the opening (w/the '88-'93 jingle).
• Local reruns would have the 1988 Distribution logo on several Good Times episodes, which would also appear on S1 on DVD and on Antenna TV, followed by the SPT logo. This can also been seen at the beginning of Village of the Giants, when it was shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Mike, Crow and Tom Servo were entering the theater.
• The 1982 logo can be seen on DVD in many places: the 1982 mini-series The Blue and the Gray, the 1985 version of Alice in Wonderland, several S2 episodes of Fantasy Island on DVD released from Shout! Factory, with music on most episodes on the season 4 DVD release of Punky Brewster from Shout! Factory and on Peacock, and without music (also plastering the Paramount logo) on a 1994 VHS of Road to Bali from Video Treasures. A 16mm B/W copy of this logo was seen on some syndicated prints of The Three Stooges short "Boobs in Arms", replacing the Screen Gems logo.
• The B&W variant of the 1982 logo can be seen on some episodes of The Donna Reed Show on Me-TV, and some movies on Antenna TV including Last Train from Bombay; the B&W variant of the 1988 logo can be seen at the end of all episodes on the Bewitched tape "Love That Witch". The B&W 1982 Coca-Cola byline variant can also be seen on select reruns - mostly from season 2 - of Naked City on both Tubi and (as of this posting) Retro TV's daytime schedule. This variant usually plasters the original Screen Gems torch lady logo during the announcement by Harry Cohn; as a result, the Columbia Pictures Television logo fades out sooner and the remaining theme music is heard for about 5 seconds after fading out.
• The 1988, 1989, and 1991 logos can be found on Married... with Children: The Most Outrageous Episodes Volumes 1 & 2.
• The 1989 logo can be seen on the 1991 VHS release of All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special, Switched at Birth, Cast the First Stone and Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story (which plasters the Embassy logo).
• The 1988 and 1989 logos can also be seen on plenty S1 and S2 My Two Dads episodes by Shout! Factory under SPHE's license.
• Plus, the 1988 logo was seen on a majority of 1980 episodes of Barney Miller sometimes last aired on WGN America and mostly on local syndication, including a vast number of the then-remastered Three Stooges shorts on local stations. It was also seen on the first few episodes of the short-lived series Phenom, while later episodes used the final logo.
• The 1988 logo is also seen on the VHS releases of Weekend War and Intrigue.
• The 1982 CPT logo can be found on some S1 episodes of Designing Women on DVD.
• The 1988, 1989, and 1991 CPT logos can be seen on plenty of episodes from seasons 1-6 DVD releases of Designing Women.
• The 1991 blue/ivory open matte logo is seen on Christmas on Division Street, which can be found on the VHS release in the UK from Odyssey Video, and is also retained on Crackle's print.
• A bylineless 1982 version was recently spotted on an episode of T.J. Hooker that aired on Australian digital Channel 7mate and can also be seen on Cloo, Universal HD, and the French Belgium channel "La Une" (in a widescreen variant and oddly with the 1993 CPT theme on the latter channel), and has been added to all second season episodes of that show on the 2014 Mill Creek Entertainment DVD reissue of the first and second seasons (the Sony Pictures Television logo replaced the logo on the 2005 DVD release), and is also on all 22 episodes on the season 4 (1982-83) release of Hart to Hart from Shout! Factory.
• This logo was also seen on a few episodes of some existing syndicated prints of season 1 episodes of That's My Mama!, which have them plastered over the original "Pretzel" logo since the 1980s.
• The Revolver variant can be found on the VHS release of said title and appears on the Sony Movie Channel's airing of said movie. It may also appears on the Sony Pictures Choice Collection DVD-R as well.
• The bylineless gold version is retained on the front of The Producers on This TV (but not on Get TV) and TCM airings of the films The Oscar and Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules. Also spotted on a Movies! airing of Hercules and the Princess of Troy, a 1993 Family Channel (now Freeform) airing of the original 1982 Annie, as well as old cable prints of Winter Kills, Stripes and Maximum Overdrive (including a TNT broadcast), replacing the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) logo.
• The 1988 CPTD logo was seen on one episode of The Burns & Allen Show, as well as the Diff'rent Strokes episode "The Moonlighter" both on Antenna TV.
• The 1991 logo is retained on the VHS release of Titanic: Treasure of the Deep. The "Distributed by" variant can be found on the Dutch Arrow Film VHS release of Dark Avenger.
• This logo, with the CPE byline, can be seen on the first season and the first few episodes of the second season of Parker Lewis Can't Lose on FamilyNet and Sony Crackle, while later second season episodes and early third season episodes use the bylineless version. Later third season episodes use the next logo.
• The bylineless, open-matte version of the 1982 logo is seen on T.J. Hooker episodes on Crackle, Sony's online streaming service.
• It was also seen at the end of a December 2000 Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) broadcast of The Hidden.
• The 1991 logo is retained on the Sony Movie Channel broadcast and the Sony Pictures Choice Collection DVD-R release of The Whereabouts of Jenny
• Oddly enough, the 1982 bylineless version plasters the original 1991 logo (while retaining the ending theme) on Sony Movie Channel broadcasts and the CTV.ca print of I Still Dream of Jeannie.

Editor's Note: It's the end bit of the 1981 movie logo albeit slightly modified, which was still satisfactory enough for the '80s. This was the first logo to replace the Embassy logo starting in 1988 on shows from Embassy. Many shows stopped using this logo in 1992, although The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives continued to use the blue/ivory logo until 1993. This was also used for the first season of The Larry Sanders Show, which premiered in August 1992.

5th Logo (4th official logo) (August 15, 1992-Present)

Nicknames: "'90s Torch Lady", "Majestic Torch Lady", "Torch Lady II"

Logo: We see a still picture of a brand new Columbia Torch Lady (painted by Michael J. Deas, and modeled by Louisiana homemaker, Jenny Joseph; some think it looks like actress Annette Benning) holding a light torch on top of a new pedestal against the background of clouds with dark blue skies around it. The word "COLUMBIA" appears in giant chiseled silver letters behind her at the very top, similar to the classic Columbia Pictures logo from 1936-1976. Underneath the lady are the words "COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION", or until 1996, "COLUMBIA PICTURES TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION" (in Bank Gothic Condensed Bold font) and underneath that is the byline "a SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT company".

Trivia: The painting was originally made in 1991 by Michael J. Deas and made its debut in 1992.

Variants:

• On a Jeopardy! episode aired on December 23, 1993, the logo was seen on a "video clue" question (not a "Video Daily Double") in the category "Logo Ladies." The logo appears to be close-up, there is no text below the Torch Lady and the "COLUMBIA" text is not there. (The contestant guessed "What is Columbia TriStar?" and was deemed correct.)
• There is a black & white variation that was used to plaster Screen Gems logos on classic shows.
• On the TV pilot movie of Dark Skies known as "The Awakening", the name and the byline fade out at the same time as the logo.
• An open-matte version is seen on the Parker Lewis Can't Lose season 3 episodes, "Beauty and the Kube" and "Hungry Heart".

FX/SFX: None, except when it fades out, where the name along with the byline below dims out and later fades out completely.

Music/Sounds: Here are the main versions:

• August 15, 1992-September 11, 1993: The 1988 music from the 4th logo. Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless were the two series who used this starting in mid-Spring 1993 and used it until New Year's Eve 1993.
• September 18, 1993-February 17, 2001: A 6-note majestic tune is heard; full of brass instruments composed by Dave Grusin.
• September 10, 1994-Present: A re-composed 1993 theme that's slightly re-arranged.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• Sometimes, the ending theme of the show plays over it.
• There is a silent version of the logo, NBC & CBS airings used their generic themes starting in 1994.
• On The Greatest '70s Cop Shows, the short Columbia TriStar Television Distribution theme was heard on the pilot of Police Woman and it was also heard on Gidget Grows Up, and the long Columbia TriStar Television Distribution theme was heard on the pilot of Starsky & Hutch. This was the fact that it was a rushed job due to horrible plastering. The short CTTD theme is also heard on The Jeff Foxworthy Show on TBS, The Dana Carvey Show episode "The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show" on DVD, and episode 5 of season 1 of The New Gidget on CTV Throwback (plastering the 1982 variant of the 4th logo).
• In the early to mid '90s, the short-lived series Ivanhoe used the second half of this logo in black & white.
• On Early Edition episode "Red Fellas" (syndication reruns), the 1993 TriStar Television logo music is heard. This was probably due to plastering the logo leaving its music intact.
• For the black & white and color versions of CPTD, they sometimes used a warped version of the 1993 theme.
• On the short-lived series Dark Skies starting on episode 2, some episodes of Charlie's Angels, and the 1996 TV movie Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of Bus #17, the Columbia TriStar Television theme is used.
• On the Charlie's Angels episode "Night of the Strangler", the final note of the 1993 CPT theme is reverbed. This is on the complete first season on DVD.
• On a DVD print of The Real Ghostbusters episode "Captain Steel Saves the Day", the Coca-Cola Telecommunications theme is heard due to bad plastering.
• On Beakman's World (1992-1993), the 1988 theme is somewhat distorted by the toy rocket's noises. In September 1993, due to Columbia changing the musical jingle for the television logo, the rocket is the only noise to hear throughout the CPT's logo silence until New Year's Day 1994 (all the way until June 1995 until it began to use the 1994 Columbia TriStar Television logo) when the new theme finally appeared on the second season, along with the rocket.
• On a French television broadcast of the 1993 TV movie Baby Brokers, the 2003 Sony Pictures Television International theme is heard. This is probably due to the fact that the network used a HD print with the audio of an older printing featuring SPTI.
• On a Greek VHS of three The Real Ghostbusters episodes by Prooptiki and Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, the theme of the Columbia Pictures Television logo on the last episode is also replaced by the 2003 Sony Pictures Television International one.
• On some Spring 2020 episodes of The Young & The Restless episodes on CBS, this logo used the 1976 theme due to bad plastering again.

Availability: Surprisingly pretty common, as it has managed to pop up on several current prints of Sony series and movies even with the Sony Pictures Television logo plastering over logos.

• Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless did not begin using this logo until 1993.
• On local stations, it's spotted on a majority of Good Times reruns.
• The CPTD logo can also be found on TCM, the season 5 Good Times episode "The Evans Get Involved: Part I" on TV One, the end of the original version of The Producers on This TV, at the front of Nevada Smith and An Eye for an Eye (1981) on getTV, and the season 2 Silver Spoons episode "Mr. President" on Antenna TV.
• The black & white version appeared on I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched; it was also spotted at the beginning of the 1965 film Darling on TCM and some episodes of Dennis the Menace on Hulu (plastering the 1955 and 1960 Screen Gems logos). It can also be seen at the close of select episodes of Naked City on Tubi and Retro TV (see above), and at the end of the final season episodes of Route 66, following the Screen Gems "dancing sticks" logo, on Retro TV's daytime schedule (again, as of this posting).
• This logo is available on DVD releases of All in the Family, Good Times, The Jeffersons, Charlie's Angels, and Sanford and Son complete first seasons.
• This logo is also seen on DVD volume releases of The Real Ghostbusters, released by Sony in 2005. It is also seen on volume 1 of Married... with Children: The Most Outrageous Episodes and The Greatest '70s Cop Shows on DVD.
• The version with the 1988 music can be seen on the VHS release of Married... with Children: It's a Bundyful Life, The Best of Beakman's World (the variant with the rocket) on VHS and DVD, at the start of a 1993 Columbia House VHS tape of Bewitched called "Love That Witch", and on most episodes of the final season of Designing Women on DVD (a handful of episodes have the 1993 version and the series finale "Gone with a Whim" has the SPT logo).
• It also appeared at the end of The Partridge Family: C'mon Get Happy! on VHS--it's also likely preserved on other VHS tapes in the Screen Gems TV series. Weirdly on some episodes of Bewitched, this logo is seen between with the 1965 Screen Gems logo and the Sony Pictures Television logo.
• It's also seen at the end of The Graduate on Antenna TV and ThisTV. The CPT logo is present on several season 5 episodes of Barney Miller on the Shout! Factory DVD set, following the Four D Productions logo.
• The logo was also spotted on an airing of Just You and Me, Kid on Antenna TV, plastering the first few seconds of the 1976 Columbia film logo.
• It was also spotted on some episodes of The Jeff Foxworthy Show on TBS, surprisingly not falling victim to TBS's style of split-screen credits. However, it's intact on the 2015 Complete Series DVD release from Mill Creek Entertainment.
• This was also seen at the beginning on a recent airing of The Natural on Antenna TV and ThisTV.
• A small handful of episodes of The Jeffersons have this logo on the 2014 Mill Creek Entertainment release of season 2, with both 1988 and 1993 music.
• It also appeared in the beginning of an airing of Moscow in the Hudson on ThisTV, which is actually quite odd. It can also be seen on Sony Crackle prints of episodes of The Steve Harvey Show, The Critic, and season 3 of The Real Ghostbusters.
• It is also seen on reruns of Walker: Texas Ranger on ONE in Australia with the closing theme played over it. It's also retained on its DVD releases on seasons 1-3 but later seasons plaster this logo in favor of the CBS Paramount Network Television "Wallpaper" logo on season 4 and the CBS Television Distribution logo on seasons 5-7.
• It was seen on Spring 2020 Flashback Friday reruns of The Young and the Restless on CBS, with the 1976, 1988 and 1993 music.
• This was also seen at the start of TCM's print of the Rankin/Bass Productions film The Daydreamer (possibly due to being sourced from an earlier television print, as Sony holds the TV rights via Embassy Pictures).
• Also spotted on a 2000 syndicated print of the TV movie Rapture, where it appeared before the Columbia TriStar Television Distribution logo (and with both logos replacing the TriStar Television logo that was originally used on this film).

Editor's Note: A still logo of a painting that still looks exquisite even to this day, supplemented with some grand fanfares. It should be noted that this appeared almost a year before movies began using this new Torch Lady in 1993.

TriStar Television

1986–1993

1st Logo (September 27, 1986-January 16, 1988, September 10, 1988-January 30, 1993)

Nicknames: "The Pegasus", "Jumping Pegasus", "Pegasus Over Pyramid", "Pegasus Over Triangle, "Majestic Pegasus", "The Tri-Star Pegasus"

Logo: A violet triangle that contains the background sky of the Tri-Star Pictures logo intro, with a golden border and the text:

TRI

STAR

stacked on each other, zooms-out and plasters itself on a black background, above which the Pegasus is seen posed as in the movie logo. The text "TELEVISION" appears below. Months later, the word "TELEVISION" is already chyroned in underneath the logo.

FX/SFX: The triangle zooming-out, and the "TELEVISION" text appearing.

Music/Sounds: An edited version of the last seven notes of the 1984 TriStar Pictures theme composed by Dave Grusin.

Availability: Extremely rare.

• It appeared on Downtown, Take Five, Nothing in Common, My Two Dads, and Werewolf.
• Werewolf reruns last aired on Chiller deleted this logo and was replaced by the 2005 SPT logo.
• However, this is seen on three episodes on S1 of My Two Dads from Shout! Factory under license by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and on Antenna TV.
• This also might have appeared on Reed Down Under.
• On a couple of episodes of Werewolf, this had the actual TriStar Pictures logo in place of the TV version. Chiller reruns kept this.

Editor's Note: It's a slightly modified version of the end bit of the movie logo. Sadly, the final result looks nowhere near as polished.

2nd Logo (November 9, 1991-March 2, 1993)

Nicknames: "Dark Marble", "Sparkling Pegasus", "CGI Marble", "The TriStar Pegasus II", "Pegasus Over Pyramid II", "The Silver Pegasus"

Logo: On a dark gray or dark blue marbled background, the studio name in the same Didot font used on the CBS logo and on the '80s TriStar logo, only in CGI and a light silver color zooms out from the bottom to the center of the screen saying:

TRI-------------

STAR

TELEVISION

By having the word "TELEVISION" in a light silver cote-out rectangular box. Then, the "Pegasus Over Pyramid" logo is formed out of light streaks next to "TRI".

Trivia: This logo is based on the 1991-1993 theatrical logo of TriStar Pictures as seen on trailers, TV spots, and the end of films.

Variants:

• On Forever Knight, the phrase "produced in association with" in white is seen above the logo on a dark blue background.
• The Fifth Corner has the logo fading out rather than cutting to black as normal.
• On the 1992 TV movie Stormy Weathers, a filmed version of this logo is seen.

FX/SFX: The text zooming-out from the bottom and the streaking of the Pegasus.

Music/Sounds: The end-title theme from any show, TV movie, or none.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• The Boys of Twilight unsold pilot and two episodes of The Fifth Corner had the last 7 notes of the 1984 movie logo theme.
• On Get A Life, the sound clips from the end of the episodes are heard.

Availability: Extremely rare.

• Appeared on the 2nd season of Get a Life starting with episode 2, Charlie Hoover, The Fifth Corner, and early S1 episodes of Forever Knight.
• It also appeared on the TV movies Stormy Weathers, Rapture, and Split Images (in which Crackle's print and a Encore broadcast retained it).
• Can still be seen on Rhino Home Video's Get a Life season 2 on VHS and DVD.

Editor's Note: An improvement over the previous logo with nice animation on the text and Pegasus.

3rd Logo (September 19, 1992-September 25, 2015)

Nicknames: "The TriStar Pegasus III", "Ultra Majestic Pegasus"

Logo: We see the white, winged Pegasus with its wings spread out, posed on the dreamy, sun-lit, cloud-filled sky (which is a similar background from the Columbia Pictures logo, but the middle part is a bit shorter) as in the 1993 movie logo. "TRISTAR" appears on the top of the screen in giant bold, white chiseled text like the "COLUMBIA" text from the 1992 CPT logo and on the bottom of the screen in smaller text (all in the same Bank Gothic MD BT font as the 1992 CPT logo), "TRISTAR TELEVISION" with the byline "a SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT company" below it.

Trivia: This logo was painted by artist Alan Reingold.

Variants:

• On the 1992 TV movie A Child Lost Forever, the 1995 TV movie Annie: A Royal Adventure, and the short-lived series Hudson Street, the logo appears enhanced. Sometimes, on some shows and TV movies like the 1995 TV movie Sahara, the logo fades out like the 1992 CPT logo.
• On a Jeopardy! episode aired on December 23, 1993, the logo was seen on a "Video clue" question (not a "Video Daily Double"). The logo appears to be close-up, there is no text below the Pegasus and the "TRISTAR" text is not there.
• On a French print of the miniseries Dead By Sunset, the logo is superimposed but most of it is invisible due to a poor chroma-key effect.
• On original NBC airings of Mad About You, a different version of this logo was used within the split-screen credits: The TriStar logo is in the middle on a blue background with "TRISTAR TELEVISION" and the byline below in Bank Gothic font.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: Depending on the logo years:

• September 19, 1992-May 8, 1993, July 29, 1994-May 20, 1995: The last 7 notes of the 1984 movie logo theme. Used again for first 3 season 2 episodes on Mad About You. From 1994-1995, this was used on the Michael Moore TV series TV Nation aired on NBC and Fox.
• August 28, 1993-May 22, 1999: A 5-note majestic orchestral fanfare with bells composed by Jay Asher.
• September 3, 1994-November 28, 1997: A 6-note majestic theme.
• September 27, 1996-September 25, 2015: A short version of this has 4 notes based on the 1994 logo theme and is sped up and revamped.
• In other cases, it used the closing theme of the show, original NBC and CBS airings would use generic music starting in 1994.
• There is a silent version of the logo as well.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• There is a high tone variant of the last 7 notes of the theatrical theme on Mad About You S1 episode "Neighbors From Hell".
• On Mad About You season 2 episode "Natural History", the 1993 theme echos at the end.
• On a Mad About You Christmas episode the music plays over it.
• On the short-lived series TriBeCa, it's the last 5 notes of the 1984 theatrical theme.
• At least one episode of the Designing Women spin-off Women of the House has the logo starting off silently, then playing the last three notes of the 1993 theme.
• On one episode of the short-lived sitcom A League of their Own (based on the 1992 Columbia Pictures movie), the 1992 theme is low-pitched.
• On 7 Network (Australia) airings of the 1995 TV movie Abandoned and Deceived, the short CTTD theme is heard.

Availability: Uncommon. Thanks to Sony's habit of plastering over former logos with their more recent ones, this logo isn't quite as easy to find as its sister logo of 1993's CPT, but it's still not too hard to find on certain sources.

• It originally appeared on The Edge, Mad About You, season 1 and early season 2 episodes of Early Edition, Malcolm & Eddie, TriBeCa, The Nanny, Hudson Street, Ned and Stacey, and the remaining seasons of Forever Knight, among other shows and TV movies, but recent broadcasts of most series plaster this logo over with the Sony Pictures Television logo.
• However, this logo is currently seen on Annie: A Royal Adventure on most current prints (VHS, DVD, TV broadcasts, digital prints...), the first two seasons of Mad About You on DVD, a surprise appearance on the pilot episode of My Two Dads (plastering the 1986 logo) seen on the DVD release of the first season from Shout! Factory, the first season of Malcolm & Eddie on DVD also from Shout! Factory with seasons 1-3 on Fuse retaining the logo, the first three seasons of Early Edition last aired on FamilyNet and Syfy, the VHS release of the 1994 TV movie Next Door (the Amazon Prime print has it cut alongside the Showtime Networks credit notice that followed), the first season of Mr. Show on DVD, and appears on all but five episodes (those having the CTTD logo) of The Edge on DVD.
• It also appeared on episode 8 of The Jeff Foxworthy Show instead of the CPT logo on TBS (probably due to the editing mistake or maybe a plaster), and it's also retained on Crackle's print as well.
• It also appeared on From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One, and is retained on Sony Movie Channel's broadcast and digital prints.
• This is retained on Sony Movie Channel airings and the Crackle print of the 1997 TV movie, Home Invasion.
• On Blu-ray, this can be seen on the Australian release of To Sir, With Love II, in which it's also intact on the US Sony Pictures Choice Collection DVD-R release and iTunes/Amazon/Google Play/Vudu digital prints. However, the Sony PAL DVD and a True Movies UK broadcast has it plastered by the 2003 Sony Pictures Television International logo.
• The Sony Pictures Choice Collection DVD-Rs of Dead By Sunset and Never Say Never: The Deidre Hall Story (alongside digital prints of the latter) retains this as well. It may also be preserved on the Sony DVD-R of The Disappearance of Vonnie as well.
• Outside of the U.S. may have this logo in several countries, but others will have the SPT logo.

Editor's Note: Like CPT's logo at the time, it's a still shot of an elegant painting with some glorious fanfares. Likewise with Columbia, this logo appeared about a year before movies had their own version of this then-new Pegasus in 1993.

Columbia TriStar Television

1994–Present

The 1993-Present logo with the byline (1994-Present).

1st Logo (September 10, 1994-Present)

Nickname: "CT Boxes", "Split Boxes", "Still Boxes"

Logo: On a solid blue background, we see two boxes, the left one contains the Columbia Torch Lady ('90s version), and the right one contains the TriStar Pegasus (again, '90s version over Columbia cloud background). Above the logo, "COLUMBIA TRISTAR" is seen, with the words positioned over their respective logos, and on the bottom is the word "TELEVISION" and the standard Sony Pictures Entertainment byline.

Trivia: This is basically Columbia TriStar's home video logo, but "HOME VIDEO" is edited out to put "TELEVISION" in, the background is solid blue, both boxes have a very thin black border instead of a regular gold border, and a Sony byline is added.

FX/SFX: Just a simple fade in and fade out or none. On GSN as well as Project G.e.e.K.e.R., the logo fades out like the 1992 CPT logo, the names and bylines dims out first, then the background and logos fade out, and the names fade out.

Music/Sounds: A re-arranged version of the infamous CPT '93 theme done by Steven Kaplan.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• Like CPT, from 1994, the logo theme was re-orchestrated.
• From 1996-2000, the logo would fade out at the last note. This wouldn't happen on Jeopardy! or Wheel of Fortune.
• On some episodes of Early Edition from the 4th season such as "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", it uses the 1993 TriStar Television theme.
• On the VHS promo for Godzilla: The Series, it's silent, except for non-U.S. releases that carries the logo theme. It was also used on Jeopardy! on the Philips CD-i.
• On some airings of season 4 Early Edition episodes, the 1993 TriStar Television music is heard over the logo.

Voice-overs: From September 1994-November 1996 on Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, there were different announcements over the logo and fanfare:

• Jeopardy! (Johnny Gilbert):
  1. (September 1994-1995): (On the credits) This is Johnny Gilbert speaking. (Later turns to the Jeopardy! title card) (on the CTT logo) Jeopardy! is a production of Columbia TriStar Television. (on the 1990 King World logo) Distributed by King World.
  2. (1995-November 1996): (On the credits) This is Johnny Gilbert speaking. Jeopardy! was created by Merv Griffin. (on the Jeopardy! title card) Produced by (on the CTT logo) Columbia TriStar Television. (on the 1990 King World logo) Distributed by King World.

• Wheel of Fortune:
  1. (September 1994-Early 1995): (on the Wheel of Fortune/Califon card with the drum roll) Wheeeeel of Fortune is produced by (on the CTT logo) Columbia TriStar Television! (on the King World logo) Distributed by King World!
  2. (Early to summer 1995): Created by Merv Griffin. (On the Wheel of Fortune/Califon card with the drum roll) Wheel of Fortune is produced by (on the CTT logo) Columbia TriStar Television! (on the King World logo) Distributed by King World.
  3. (September 1995-1996): This is Charlie O'Donnell speaking. Wheel of Fortune was created by Merv Griffin. (Later turns to the Wheel of Fortune/Califon card with drum roll by a page flipping effect. O'Donnell would sometimes announce on this card) (On CTT logo) Produced by Columbia TriStar Television. (On the 1990 King World logo with the theme) Distributed by King World.
  4. (Johnny Gilbert) (November 1995) (on the Wheel of Fortune/Califon card with the drum roll) Wheeeeel of Fortune was created by Merv Griffin! (on the CTT logo) Produced by Columbia TriStar Television. (on the 1990 King World logo) Distributed by King World.

This was the time when both game shows were taken over by Columbia TriStar Television.

Voice-over Variant: A rare variant just like the 1997 logo. Charlie O'Donnell says "Columbia TriStar Television" over the fanfare. This is also presumably done to blend in with the spiel at the end of the program and cover up the end reference to King World. This happened in 1997.

Availability: Actually quite rare.

• It appeared on GSN up until their infamous "Dark Period", then was replaced with the then-current CTT logo.
• It was spotted on Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune (both until spring 1997), Men in Black: The Series (until 2000), Channel Umptee-3, Jumanji: The Series, several S1 episodes of Godzilla: The Series, and some network shows. Usually during this time, however, whatever logos the shows were always using were used; "C-T mania" did not start until 1997.
• Was last seen back in 2002 on reruns of Men in Black: The Series on Nickelodeon's short-lived "SLAM!" block. Although the said show was last seen on The Hub (now Discovery Family), the CTT logo was replaced by the SPT logo there.
• It can also be found on VHS releases of the 1998 movie Godzilla on a Godzilla: The Series promo.
• Was also seen on The Dana Carvey Show episode "The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show" on DVD, several early season 4 episodes of Early Edition on FamilyNet and Malcolm & Eddie, as well on a French airing of some episodes of Just Shoot Me! and UK airings of certain season 7 episodes of Mad About You.
• When GSN reran the 1994-1995, 1995-1996, and 1996-1997 seasons of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune over a decade ago, this logo was plastered by the 1997 CTT logo and keeping the voice-overs from the '94-'95 and '95-'96 seasons intact.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (February 20, 1995-Present)

Nicknames: "CT Boxes II", "Split Boxes II", "The Sliding Boxes", "The Boxes of Boredom"

Logo: It's almost the same as the sky variant of the 1995 Columbia TriStar Home Video logo, except "TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION" replaces "HOME VIDEO" and the Sony byline was intact. Plus, the cloud background in the TriStar box has been replaced by the one from its movie logo and the text has the drop shadow effect.

Standard Variant: Depending on the unit that the show originated (Television, Television Distribution, or Domestic Television), the logo was modified accordingly.

Variants:

• The Television variant of this logo was introduced in February 1997, with it having a number of differences to the Television Distribution variant. In this version, the word "TELEVISION" along with the Sony Pictures byline, do not have the drop shadow effect while the words "COLUMBIA TRISTAR" still have the drop shadow effect intact. Plus, the logo has the red-pink tint and the Sony byline is in a different font (as Helvetica).
• There's a version used for CTTD, where a darker box with the animation of the clouds (footage re-used from the 3rd CTHV logo) zooms back and then splits to form the logo (similar to the 1993 Columbia TriStar Home Video logo). This version was seen on Walker, Texas Ranger, Seinfeld, and Born Free: The New Adventures.
• On widescreen international versions of some programs such as season 2 of The King of Queens and seasons 3-5 of Dawson's Creek on French airings, there is a widescreen version of the CTT and the CTDT logo.
• On 1997-2002 episodes of Jeopardy!, there would be a freeze frame effect at the end of the logo. The logo would sometimes fade out instead of disappearing.
• Starting in late 1999 on some series, the logo was expanded in ratio size in observance to High Definition programming. This version has been nicknamed "Enhanced Boxes of Boredom". The animation here is a bit cheaper and is filmed, the Torch Lady along with her cloud background both have a zooming out effect as the box splits, the TriStar Pegasus animation is slowed down a bit, the boxes have a thin white border and the text doesn't have the drop shadow effect and are in blue color. The "Television" and "Television Distribution" units were merged together on October 25, 2001, forming Columbia TriStar Domestic Television with "DOMESTIC TELEVISION" below the boxes with the SPE byline a bit smaller.
• There is an off-center version of the 2001 byline variant which was spotted on a 2004 airing of Jackie Chan Adventures on Cartoon Network.
• There are three versions of the Domestic Television variant of the logo. The first version is where the logo is up close and looks like the boxes are almost touching the screen. The second version is where the logo is in the letterbox format, stretched to fit the screen. The third version is where the logo is in the far-distance known as the "Open Matte" boxes and the SPE byline is a bit bigger and not bold.
• There also was a variant featuring an "in association with" on the top left corner of the logo on CTTD.
• There are also black and white variants of all three logos.
• On some TV movies like Rag & Bone, Into Thin Air: Death on Everest, and Double Platinum, there is a filmed version of the logo for CTT.
• On German shows such as Powder Park and Rita's Welt (translated as Rita's World), there is a still in-credit version of the CTTD logo superimposed into the credits. Plus, "TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION" is replaced with "FILM UND FERNSEH PRODUKTIONS GMBH" (translated in English as "FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS LTD") and it doesn't have a drop shadow effect.
• On several Columbia TriStar Television Distribution-produced shows like The $treet, the words "TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION" are set in Eurostile Thin, while the Sony byline is set in Futura Medium. Plus, the words (except for "COLUMBIA TRISTAR", which is the only text remaining in its standard font) don't have the drop shadow effect.
• There is another version of this variant seen on a handful episodes of What About Joan?, in which the logo is stretched to 4:3 and the text "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" is seen above to the left.
• An extremely rare filmed variant for CTDT exists and appears on the TV movies Blood Crime and Breakaway (also known as Christmas Rush). Both movies can be found on DVD.
• On DVD prints of the Get a Life episode "Married", the logo stutters and shakes, presumably due to a master tape error (à la The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "Dadzilla").
• There is also an extremely rare enhanced variant for CTTD. So far, it has been seen on the TV movies The Linda McCartney Story and First Shot (the latter using a filmed version), which were last seen on Sony Movies (however, a recent airing of the latter had SPT instead, while the DVD has Domestic Television instead). It can be also seen on some episodes of the final season of V.I.P. on CTV.ca.
• A still version was seen on ATF (1999).
• On original airings of the Seinfeld episode "The Betrayal", the Television Distribution logo plays in reverse while the audio plays forwards (the Castle Rock Entertainment Television logo, which is also in reverse video and forward audio, follows the logo, adding more to the "backwards" effect presented in the Seinfeld episode).
• A warp speed version of CTDT (with the ending theme) was spotted on an Escape (now Court TV Mystery) airing of The Juror.
• A black-and-white version of the Television Distribution variant (apparently in telecine format) was spotted on a Retro TV print of the Naked City season 2 episode "The Day It Rained Mink". This plasters the original Screen Gems Torch Lady logo.

FX/SFX: The boxes fading in and sliding, and the animation of the Columbia and TriStar theatrical logos in the boxes.

Music/Sounds: Same as the last logo. NBC, CBS and ABC airings used their generic themes. Starting in 1999 with CTT (and later CTDT), the first note is cut off.

Music/Sounds/Voice-over Variants:

• Sometimes a shorter version of the jingle is used, only about the second half of the long version. This version of the music sounds like a re-orchestration and not a truncation of the regular logo. This is mostly seen on the "TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION" variation of the logo. However, it was also used on the "DOMESTIC TELEVISION" variant of the logo on 2001-2002 episodes of V.I.P.
• On some TriStar produced shows, the 1992, 1993, and 1997 TriStar Television themes were used. However, some shows produced by CTT such as Cupid used the 1993 TriStar Television theme as well. This was started in 1997. On some current prints of the TV movie The Advocate's Devil, the TriStar theme plays over the filmed version.
• The 1988 CPT theme was also heard on this logo on several Three Stooges shorts part of Stooge TV on The Family Channel, particularly Goof on the Roof. Short version of CTTD only.
• On The Jeffersons episode "984 W 124th Street, Apartment 5C" aired on Me-TV, the 1988 CPT theme is heard under the CTTD logo due to botched plastering.
• The 1993 CPT theme was also heard on the CTTD logo on 1996-2001 episodes of Ricki Lake and the 1999 CTT logo on Phantom Investigators and Bette.
• On several 2001-2002 episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures, there was a high and a low tone included based on the theme song. On the short-lived series Secret Agent Man, it used the standard, high, low, and very low tone variants.
• On Married... with Children: The Most Outrageous Episodes: Volume 2, at the end of the episode "If Al Had a Hammer", the Sony Pictures Television logo music is heard on the third version of the CTDT logo.
• On CourtTV Mystery's airings of the film Eyes of Laura Mars, the SPT theme is heard over the 1996 CTTD logo.
• On Crackle prints of the Sheena episode The Fool Monty, the high pitched SPT theme plays over the alternate "Eurostile Thin" CTTD logo.
• On some Game Show Network reruns (mostly old episodes of Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune (excepting the 1988-1990 seasons), and Headline Chasers), Charlie O'Donnell says "Columbia TriStar Television" over the fanfare. This is presumably done to blend in with the spiel at the end of the program and cover up the end reference to King World. On the 1994-1995 and 1995-1996 seasons on both shows, the original voice over is intact, but plastering the 1994 logo with this logo. This even happened on reruns of game shows where this situation was not needed, such as the 1976 network version of Break the Bank, and on a rerun of The $25,000 Pyramid finale on New Year's Eve 1999, as there was no voice over in the end.
• On the CTT logo in 1999, it sometimes plays the last half (2 1/2) notes of the short CTTD theme and was heard on Dilbert. One variant is even higher.
• On the end of the VHS promo for Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (found on the 2002 VHS of Spider-Man), the music is silent on the second version of the CTDT logo.
• On the short-lived series The $treet, only the final note of the logo music is heard on the CTTD logo.
• Some episodes of Father Knows Best on Antenna TV have the Colex Enterprises logo music playing over this logo. This is due to a really bad plaster.
• In other cases, the ending theme of the show plays over it.
• One S2 episode of The Guardian had the CTDT logo silent.
• On international printings of the 1999 Annie remake, the two first notes are cut off.
• On one S1 episode of The Guardian on DVD, the CBS Television Distribution theme is played on the CTDT logo due to a plaster.
• There is another version of the CTT theme that has a reverb effect and the last note cut short.

Availability: Uncommon.

• It's not very hard to spot despite being less common than before, although it's mainly on near-recent prints of shows reran on cable, like Walker, Texas Ranger on Cloo, the first season of The Guardian on TV Guide Network (later renamed TVGN, and currently Pop), and most of the final season episodes of Early Edition last seen on FamilyNet, TV Guide Network and Syfy.
• It also occasionally appeared on Sony-owned programs on GSN like Russian Roulette, seasons 1-5 of Hollywood Squares, the Donny Osmond version of Pyramid, and the short-lived Party of Five spin-off Time of Your Life, in which CTV Throwback's prints retain it. It also appeared on every episode of Harold and the Purple Crayon on HBO Family--even though it no longer airs nowadays, the CTT logo always remained on the show and was never plastered over with any other logos. However, the DVD releases and CTV Throwback prints plaster it with the Sony Pictures Television logo.
• The CTDT logos can also be seen on season 2 DVD releases of All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Good Times, and The Jeffersons, and a couple episodes on the season 4 DVD release of Punky Brewster (with the NBC Enterprises or NBC Universal Television Distribution logo following it, this was kept on one episode on Peacock but with the 1982 CPT and the current NBCUniversal Television Distribution logos following this logo), and was last seen on reruns of Mad About You on Antenna TV (plastering the 1992 TriStar Television logo), among others. CTTD or CTDT can also be spotted on several Sony classic movies on TCM occasionally.
• As for the high and low tones, they're extinct and were last seen on most season 2 episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures when it was reran on Cartoon Network. Current prints of season 2 plaster the logo over with the SPT logo (like when it popped up on Disney XD at one point). The low-tone variant was also seen on the short-lived series Secret Agent Man when it was aired on UPN. CTTD can be found on Sleepless in Seattle and The Quick and the Dead on TBS and TNT, The Jeffersons episode "Lunch with Mama" on TV One, and some films on ThisTV like Swamp Thing, Casualties of War or 1941. The latter title was followed by the SPT logo. CTDT was found (followed by SPT) on the Married... with Children episode "Have You Driven a Ford Lately" on TBS.
• The short version was commonly seen on the animated version of Dilbert (also on UPN and preserved on Russian airings). It was also last seen on 1998-2002 episodes of Dawson's Creek on The N (now TeenNick). However, it's preserved on the first two season DVDs of said show.
• The "open matte" version was seen at the end of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner on Centric. The first filmed version appeared on some TV movies like Rag & Bone, Into Thin Air: Death on Everest, and Double Platinum, and is preserved on the DVD releases of the latter TV movies.
• A widescreen filmed variant of the 1999 Columbia TriStar Television logo was spotted on an HBO Asia airing of Call Me Claus (followed by the 2014 version of the Sony Pictures Television logo) and the Hulu print of the 2000 TV movie The Three Stooges (followed by the 2002 Sony Pictures Television logo).
• The black-and-white variant of CTT can be seen on several episodes of The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin on Antenna TV, and the episode "Yo-o Rinty" used the 1993 TriStar Television theme with it. It also appears on several episodes of Gidget on Antenna TV, which happens to be TV Land's prints plastering the Screen Gems "S from Hell".
• On Netflix, this can be found on most episodes of The Tick.
• CTDT can also be found on S1 episodes of The Shield on Crackle and the region 1 DVD release. It can be also found on BounceTV's airings of Blue Streak.
• The CTTD logo first appeared on Stooge TV, a Three Stooges hour program on The Family Channel in 1996. This can also be found on the Seinfeld 100th Episode VHS tape released in 1995 as part of a promotion with General Mills.
• Both CTT and CTDT variants can be found (in HD) on S1 episodes (and the first four S2 episodes) of The Guardian on iTunes and Paramount+. The CTTD logo is also seen on five episodes of The Edge (while the rest retain the 1992 TriStar Television logo) on DVD, which can be bought here.
• The "darker box" variant of CTTD has also been seen on two early 2000s pitchreels for revivals of The $100,000 Pyramid and The Gong Show on Wink Martindale's YouTube channel.
• The enhanced variant of CTTD is ultra rare as most shows using kept using the standard variant until CTDT took over in 2001.
• The "Eurostile Thin" version of CTTD is a tough one, but it can be currently seen on season 2 episodes of Strong Medicine on Start TV, as well as on The Roku Channel and Tubi prints. It also appeared on V.I.P. and Sheena (both of these being first-run syndication shows), as well as on some episodes of Oh, Baby (in which the CTV Throwback prints retains it) and season 2 of the the Showtime original series Rude Awakening, among others.
• The logo was also shown surprisingly intact on PBS Kids Sprout (now Universal Kids) airings of Dragon Tales.
• The CTTD version appears on season 1 episodes of Sledge Hammer! last seen on Me-TV, following the New World Television logo and followed by the SPT logo, and was seen on at least one episode of The Donna Reed Show on Me-TV.
• It can also be found on Australian airings of The King of Queens on Channel Eleven and current international prints, usually followed by a CBS Broadcast International or CBS Studios International logo.
• CTT makes a surprise appearance on Laff's print of the film If Lucy Fell.
• It also surprisingly appeared on one episode of Barney Miller on the Shout! Factory DVD set.
• When CTT became SPT in 2002, the third version of the CTDT logo (also known as the "Open Matte" boxes) was used until 2003 on the 5th season of Hollywood Squares (H2) in syndication. The first two versions ended in 2002.

Editor's Note: This logo is a mixed bag for many people. On one hand, it's a well-animated and scored logo for the era, with the help of the re-orchestration and usage of the CPT. On the other hand, this logo was disliked by people for several years due to its over-common presence and usage of plastering old logos. This logo would also pale in comparison to the Sony Pictures Television logo, which plasters logos in a much worse manner and on a larger scale.

Sony Pictures Television

1st Logo (September 7, 2002-)

Nicknames: "The Shining Bars", "The Bars of Boredom", "The Bars of Annoyance", "The SPE Parallelogram", "SPE Bars", "The Flash"

Logo: Against a lined background, the words "SONY PICTURES TELEVISION" (all in the Sony typeface and stacked word-by-word with "SONY" being largest) emerge and zoom away downwards from the screen. The three words aren't directly stacked at first, but as the animation progresses, they slide into place. A horizontal line is drawn between the "PICTURES" and "TELEVISION". While this happens, a flash of light appears on the left side of the screen, and the lines in the background themselves back away as well, eventually moving back to the upper part of the screen and into a diagonal pattern to form the logo. The flash dissipates and we see an oblong orange-white glare surrounding the logo and words, which shrinks into the bars to give it a shine. The finished logo appears against a shaded navy blue background. The logo is a striped parallelogram.

Trivia:

• This logo first appeared as a print logo in Fall 1991 on broadcasting ads in magazines such as Variety, around the time when SPE was founded.
• This logo was animated by "Rick Scott" at Tigar Hare Studios, also known for their work on the 2011 Technicolor logo.

Variants:

• A rare filmed variant of the logo exists.
• There is a longer version of this logo featuring an extreme close-up of the "stacked" names at the beginning of the animation. It starts off with a bright white light and later reveals the names as the light dies down. While the logo finishes, it shows a longer shot of the logo.
• There is an even shorter version of this logo that starts from where the 3rd-to-last note of the theme plays. This version began appearing in July 2003.
• In 2004, the phrase "DISTRIBUTED BY" appeared above the logo, it was still until it faded in above the logo on the 2006 version of Chain Reaction and season 4 of The Newlywed Game both on GSN, but the font is in Times New Roman on those said game shows. Early shorts on Crackle's C-Spot has the phrase above the name rather than the logo. For the rest, the phrase was placed on a black screen, which later fades to the SPT logo.
• In 2005, an updated widescreen version was introduced. It consists of just a solid blue lighting effect in the lower right-hand corner of the screen, where the reflection of the Bars would usually be. Sometimes this version was squashed to fit a 4:3 TV, and has been featured on several movies, first-run production, and classic series on television and DVD.
• There is also a black & white variant for classic shows by Screen Gems.
• In 2008, there is a black screen that reads "DISTRIBUTED BY" before the SPT logo. This only appears on web shows on websites like Crackle, MySpace, YouTube, and Hulu, among others such as C-Spot or Penn Says.
• Another variant has "DISTRIBUTED BY" in a small font above the SPT name rather than above the SPT logo. This appeared on early shows on Crackle.
• On pre-2011 episodes of Watch What Happens: Live, the logo is a still shot on a gray-like background.
• In 2010 on The Three Stooges short "The Sitter Downers", the 2005 logo is in black & white.
• Starting on the 4th season of The Newlywed Game, the text reads as "DISTRIBUTED THROUGH" above the logo.
• Sometimes, the logo can appear a little up-close.
• There is also a version with extra brightness on both 2002 and 2005 versions in color.
• On Robot Chicken since season 6, Houdini and Doyle and the TV movie Grave Halloween (alebit with a fade-in/fade-out), there is a still version of the logo. On the 2021 Lifetime TV movie The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice, a still shot of the Sony Corporation logo is seen first, then cuts to this.
• A superimposed in-credit variant exists. This can be found on international shows like Niñas Mal.
• Starting with the second season of Masters of Sex and newer episodes of Wheel of Fortune, The Dr. Oz Show, and Jeopardy!, the Sony Corporation logo is seen first. Then, the light flashes to reveal the short SPT logo. Some shows, such as The Young and the Restless, syndicated reruns of Seinfeld, and shows co-produced by SPT subsidiary Embassy Row still do not use this variant.
• On a PAL release of The Real Ghostbusters, the long version is used but the normal music is heard.
• On an April 16, 2017 HBO Signature Caribbean airing of Pixels, the logo was silent, but the music played 5-6 seconds after the logo cut to black.
• A scoped version exists. This can be similar to 21:9, or letterboxed 4:3 being stretched in widescreen 16:9.
• On #FreeRayShawn, the logo is still and shares screen with the Fuqua Films logo.

FX/SFX: The words flying down, the bars zooming back and tilting, a white flash and a glare shrinking into the bars.

Music/Sounds: A majestic 5-note orchestral theme composed by David Kurtz, which sounds vaguely similar to the Habanera section of Bizet's opera Carmen.

Music/Sounds Variants:

• The long version has a descending piano tune before the main fanfare (which is a bit re-orchestrated), and the last note is held much longer.
• Another music variation has only the last three notes of the theme re-arranged. This version began in July 2003.
• In later years, the music has become a bit more orchestrated.
• In 2005, there is another short version with the last half of the animation of the standard animation of the logo. Used on the ultra short-lived series Sit Down, Shut Up and several final season episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures.
• Sometimes, when used along a co-production or co-distributor ID, the first few notes of the music for this logo will play over the last few seconds of said ID before going into this visual logo. This has happened on such syndicated shows as Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, back when King World Productions (now "CBS Television Distribution") was still in operation. But now until October 2007, the CTD music plays on the CTD logo, and the SPT theme plays on the SPT logo.
• Sometimes, the logo used the Columbia TriStar Television theme until 2014. The theme can still be heard on some syndicated airings of Good Times via TV One.
• Two more versions exist by having a high and low tone starting in 2003.
• Another version exists having a bell-type twinkle mixed into the standard theme.
• A very high tone version of the music was used on some S4 episodes of Married... With Children on its DVD release. It could sometimes be used on certain TV airings of theatrical films, possibly due to the NTSC versions being in high tone.
• On some shows like The King of Queens (2004-2007 episodes) and other shows, the end theme plays over this logo.
• Middle season local reruns of Good Times and Sanford and Son would have the first four notes of the standard theme playing first, followed by the finishing of the final notes from the SPT long version theme.
• Up until 2012, the Sony Pictures Television International sounder was sometimes used, particularly on the Mill Creek DVD release of the Nickelodeon original movie The Last Day of Summer (the original DVD release from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment doesn't have it), DVD releases of shows like Married... With Children, on Antenna TV's print of the Sanford and Son episode "Sanford and Gong", and on DVDs of The Berenstain Bears (1985) that SPHE released.
• There is also a silent version (sometimes on movie networks like Starz and Encore).
• Another variation would have the 1993 CPT theme. This happened on several reruns of Just Shoot Me! on TV Land. R2 DVDs of T.J. Hooker and the 2nd season of Party of Five also have this variation if you select the French audio track.
• A variant exists that has the 1993 CPT theme overlapping the SPT theme. This was spotted on an Antenna TV airing of the Good Times S4 episode "Michael's Great Romance".
• A few episodes of The Jeffersons from the 1980-1981 season last aired on TV One have the SPT and the short CTTD themes playing at the same time.
• On The Three Stooges short "Cash and Carry", there is a 2005 low tone version.
• On Antenna TV's print of the All in the Family episode "The Jeffersons Move Up," the short Columbia TriStar Television theme is heard.
• One S1 episode of That's My Mama! on DVD ("Clifton's Con") has the 1982 CPT music over this logo.
• On the CTHE DVD print of the S3 Married... with Children episode "The Gypsy Cried", it has the first note of the 1988 CPT theme before going into the SPTI theme.
• On several international prints of May-June 2013 episodes of Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless, the 1994 TriStar Television theme is heard.
• On the Mill Creek S4 DVD of Married... with Children, the episode "Hot Off the Grill" has the 1988 CPT theme playing over this logo.
• One 4:3 airing of the TV movie Breakaway has the Columbia TriStar Domestic Television music play over the logo.
• On the Me-TV print of The Facts of Life S5 episode "Brave New World Part 2", a sloppy plaster job results in the theme playing before the logo itself appears.
• On the NTSC DVD print of the mini-series Comanche Moon, the second CBS Paramount Television logo's music plays (and vice-versa), due to an editing error.
• On current prints of the 1931 film Arizona, the movie's score finishes over the logo after the end title fades out, as the music originally ended over a black screen.
• One S2 episode of The Guardian on Russian airings has the CBS Television Distribution theme played on the logo.

Availability: Ultra common. In fact, it might be the most common logo in history.

• Seen on new series and a staggeringly tremendous amount of new prints of classic shows, off-net syndication series, TV movies and theatrical films on television. It's quite infamous and annoying for removing and replacing old logos on many pre-2002 Sony TV programs and movies. The only four pre-2002 shows that do not have this logo are Walker, Texas Ranger on USA Network and the defunct Cloo, All in the Family on GetTV and Sony Crackle, the original One Day at a Time on Antenna TV and The Jeffersons on Me-TV. However, this may or may not appear at the end of of movies, notably the recent ones.
• It appears on shows produced by Adelaide Productions, Sony's television animation studio, as they do not have their own logo.
• The long version is not as common as the standard version, but it was seen on every episode of Jeopardy! from 2002-2007, The Nate Berkus Show, the DVD release of All in the Family: The Complete 3rd Season, and the DVD release and Crackle prints of Odyssey 5 (except for "Astronaut Dreams", which uses the normal version instead), but it may appear on some classic and off-network shows. It also appears at the end of every episode of The Three Stooges DVD Collection volume sets, beginning in the second volume, and can also be found on many other TV on DVD releases from 2002-04 (from 2005 onward it went to the standard version).
• The low tone theme is uncommon and was last seen on early episodes of Stuart Little: The Animated Series on HBO Family and the 1976 TV movie Banjo Hackett on DVD, while the high tone (both 2002 and 2005 versions) appears on The Boondocks on Adult Swim and Netflix, many Three Stooges shorts on IFC, among other shows and certain films on television.
• The scoped version can be seen on CBS airings of S.W.A.T. and some theatrical films on TV.
• As for the short version, it's fairly common and it appeared on The Shield on local syndication and Spike (now Paramount Network), the ultra short-lived series Sit Down, Shut Up on FOX, and reruns of Joan of Arcadia and Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.
• The version with the SPTI theme was spotted on the 1971 film The Anderson Tapes on TCM.
• It can also be seen on Sony Movie Channel in widescreen.
• For series outside the US, it's seen on the series incarnation of the 2007 movie Niñas Mal (translated as Bad Girls) on MTV Latin America and nuvoTV, and Bienvenida Realidad (translated as Welcome Reality).
• This was oddly seen at the end of an episode of The Jeffersons on Antenna TV before the show's credits, with the CTT logo after the credits.
• This also appears at the end of a Roku Channel print (and Sony Movie Channel and ThisTV airings) of Lake Placid.
• As of 2020, this is used in tandem with the third logo, as it still appears on Dr. Oz, The Young and the Restless, and The $100,000 Pyramid, and also on international prints of Sony films and shows they didn't produce.
• It was spotted at the end of a HBO Asia airing of Darrow & Darrow: In the Key of Murder with the ending theme playing over it.

Editor's Note: This logo has earned the dubious honor of being one of the most hated closing logos of all time (along with the 1992 20th Television and 2007 CBS Television Distribution logos, the latter of which often preceeded this logo in shows like Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune). It's wildly infamous for not only its omnipresence, but also how often it plasters logos from previous Sony-owned companies on newer prints of old shows (about 99% of the time - the times where older logos are preserved are usually flukes). The animation isn't awful (and the long version is well-animated overall), but it has a very dull and boring appearance to it, especially since the most common variation uses the most technically simple portion of the logo. This has been said to be the most common logo when it comes to plastering on television. In fact, it even plasters the Columbia TriStar Television logo, which also earned some heat over plastering other logos, but not as much as this. While it does get a lot of hate, the longer variant is more liked (due to not being used for plastering nearly as much) and the logo itself wasn't nearly as hated when it debuted in 2002.

2nd Logo (October 11, 2019)

Nicknames: "SPE Bars II", "The Bars of Boredom II", "The SPE Parallelogram II", "The Flash II"

Logo: On a blue gradient background, a purple flash appears onscreen, covering it. When the flash dies down, the print version of the Sony Pictures Television logo appears. The logo zooms back for a few seconds before stopping completely.

FX/SFX: The flash and the SPT logo zooming back.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: This made its debut on El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, but it's unknown if this logo will replace the 1st logo on new SPT series and newer episodes of existing SPT shows in the near future. It's likely this is simply a custom logo produced for the film.

Editor's Note: Even though the logo can be seen as bland, it's a breath of fresh air from the previous logo.

Sony Pictures Television Studios

(January 7, 2020-)

Nicknames: "The Flash III", "The Flashing Text"

Logo: On a black background, we see the Sony logo. It fades out, and the text:

SONY PICTURES TELEVISION

STUDIOS

appears flashing in the same vein as the 2014 Sony logo at the end of TV commercials.

Opening Variants:

• August 28, 2020: The logo is zooming in, and even the text says "A SONY PICTURES TELEVISION STUDIOS PRODUCTION" (in the font called Clarendon from the Sony logo) while it flashes. The Sony logo does not appear in the beginning.
• January 1, 2021-present: The logo is updated which is similar to the regular logo, but without the flash.

FX/SFX: Only the flashing. Zooming in for the opening variant.

Music/Sounds: The same "ding" sound in G major used in the Sony logo or none. The ending theme may also play over it. Starting with a December 28, 2020 rerun of the November 23, 2009 episode of Jeopardy! and the same day's episode of Wheel of Fortune, we hear a swish followed by a dreamy synth fanfare after the ding sound. There is also a longer version.

Availability: Current, and is used in tandem with the 1st logo. Debuted on One Day at a Time: Promo Special. It started appearing on Sony series later in 2020, such as the 37th season of Jeopardy!, the 38th season of Wheel of Fortune, the 12th season of Shark Tank, and the 4th seasons of The Good Doctor and S.W.A.T. (the 2017 TV series). The opening variant is debuted on the Netflix prints of Cobra Kai, then later in the updated version for the show's third season. Recently, it appeared on the Lifetime TV movies Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer and Salt-N-Pepa. This appeared at the end of FX's print of Holmes & Watson (a 2018 Columbia Pictures film), and may also appear on future airings of old and recent Sony theatrical films on television. Strangely on OWN reruns of Underground, this is seen after the Tribune Studios logo, but the 2002 SPT logo follows afterwards as a failed reverse-plaster attempt. Interestingly, it played before the 2002 Sony Pictures Television logo (whether retained or added) on some shows. Don't expect to see this on The Bleepin' Robot Chicken Archie Comics Special (aired on May 23, 2021), but it is possible to see this on Robot Chicken's upcoming eleventh season.

Editor's Note: Say what you will about the Bars of Boredom, but at least that one had some semblance of creativity. This one (including the early version of the opening variant), on the other hand, is one of the worst of its kind, representing everything wrong with the 21st-century trend of simplistic logos. It doesn't even transition correctly from the Sony logo. In fact, it’s so bland, it was actually once thought to be a placeholder when the logo first debuted. The version with music is slightly better, but not by much.

Copyright stamps

Here is some information about the copyright stamps on the SPT series and TV movies: Note: During the formation of CTT on February 21, 1994, all series were merged under the CTT banner. However, both CPT and TriStar studios still used their respective copyright stamps on their series from 1996-1999:

• 1952-1969: Copyright © [year in roman numerals] Screen Gems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
• 1969-1974: Copyright © [year in roman numerals] Screen Gems, A Division of Columbia Pictures Industries, inc. All Rights Reserved.

• 1994-1998, 1999-: Copyright © [YEAR] Jeopardy Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Used on Jeopardy!)
• 1994-1998, 1999-: Copyright © [YEAR] Califon Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Used on Wheel of Fortune)
• 1996-1998, 1999-2009: Copyright © [YEAR] Adelaide Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Used on animated shows)
• 1996-1998, 1999-2002: Copyright © [YEAR] Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
• 1996-1997: Copyright © [YEAR] ELP COMMUNICATIONS (Used on the final season of Beakman's World)
• 1996-1998, 1999-2003: Copyright © [YEAR] Columbia TriStar Television Distribution. All Rights Reserved. (Used on Judge Hatchett)
• 1996-1998, 1999-2002: Copyright © [YEAR] Columbia Pictures Television, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Used on Ricki Lake)
• 1998-1999: Copyright © [YEAR] Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG. All Rights Reserved.
• 1998-2001: Copyright © [YEAR] Trackdown Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Used on Rock & Roll Jeopardy!)
• 1999-2000: Copyright © [YEAR] TriStar Television, Inc. and CBS Worldwide, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Used on the final season of Early Edition)
• 2001-: Copyright © [YEAR] CPT Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Used on The Young and the Restless and international series)
• 2001-2002: Copyright © [YEAR] CORDAY PRODUCTIONS, INC. All Rights Reserved. (Used on Days of Our Lives)
• 2001-2004: Copyright © [YEAR] Columbia TriStar Domestic Television. All Rights Reserved. (Used on Pyramid)
• 2002-: Copyright © [YEAR] Sony Pictures Television (Inc.) All Rights Reserved.
• 2002-2007: Copyright © [YEAR] Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. and CBS Worldwide, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Used on The King of Queens)