Screen Gems Television/Other

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### Background

Screen Gems was revived as a television subsidiary by Columbia Pictures in 1940. It was formed when Columbia acquired Pioneer Telefilms, a television commercial company founded in 1939 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 1950, *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, 1948, Columbia studio veteran Irving Briskin formed Briskin Productions to oversee all of Screen Gems' productions. On December 10, 1948, 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, 1949, Screen Gems agreed to syndicate the Universal Horror Package from Universal-International for 10 years under the names *Shock* and *Son of Shock*. From 1949-1966, 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 1953, 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, 1960, 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 was suggested by David Gerber, the then-current president of Columbia's television division.

## 1944–1947

Nicknames: "The Splotch"

    Logo: On the same light gray background seen on the last logo, we see a splotch that's outlined in dark gray and filled in black. There is a logo around the phrase "SCREEN GEMS".

Variants:

* There is one version where the stars shining are more animated and differently shaped. Also, there isn't any glow surrounding them.
* Rare version of 1944-1947 Screen Gems logo appears with different font.
* From late 1946 to early 1948, the word "***Film Presentation***" is added inside the splotch.

FX/SFX: None.

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

Availability: Ultra rare.

* It originally appeared on *Tom and Jerry*, *Droopy*, *One Shots*, *Mighty Mouse*, among other shows.
* Currently seen onthe complete first & second season of *Tom and Jerry*on DVD.

Editor's Note: The logo fits well with the company name as the "SCREEN GEMS" is the Splotch. It's a rather peculiar concept that was shelved in favor of the "Touch Lady" years later.

## 1947–1952

Nickname: "The SC Box"

Logo: Like the 1942 version of the 1936 Columbia Pictures logo, we see a SC (Columbia, a representation of the USA) with grey background. The background is between the words "SCREEN GEMS INC." with the letters "***SC***" in Square font above it.

Trivia: The SC Box, aka Columbia, is played by Pittsburgh native Jane Chester Bartholomew, who was discovered by Harry Cohn. (After she left acting in the '40s, Mrs. Bartholomew became a nursing inspector with the Chicago Board of Health. She passed away in 2012.)

Variant: A rare disappearing variant of this logo was seen on *Mighty Mouse*.

FX/SFX: The logo "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, C-T 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 1951, 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", both of 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 Tom and Jerry Show*.

Editor's Note: This was the first use of the "SC Box" 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".

## 1952–1955

    **Nicknames:** "The TV Tube", "Screen Gems-on-TV"

**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.

## 1955–1960

    **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.)

**Variant:** 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.

**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, C-T 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".

## 1960–1963

    **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.

## 1963–1966

**Nickname:** "The Dancing 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:** A straight example of early 60s art decor. Advertising in the 1960s commonly used this style of art.

## 1965–1974

### 1972–1974

    **Nicknames:** "S from Hell", "The Spiral S", "The Filmstrip S", "The Spiral S from Hell", "Scream Gems"

**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 movie *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. 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.

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

**Music/Sounds:**

* Composed 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 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 version of the logo where no music is played, in other words, silence. This was seen 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 played over the logo (said to be composed by Van Alexander, but this is not certain).
* 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, probably due to a plastering error (on at least two episodes).

**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, but sometimes SPT logo can plaster this logo.

**Editor's Note:** For a logo from the Sixties, this features very smooth animation, especially when compared to other logos of the time. However, this logo has gained somewhat of a cult following due to its notoriety for scaring some viewers, even enough to spawn a short mockumentary in 2010 called *The S from Hell*.

## 1974–1977

    **Nicknames**: "CPT Pretzel", "CPT", "The Pretzel"

**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 lettering.

**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 same music was heard being 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.

## 1982–1993

### 1991–1992

    **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:

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.

**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 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*. 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.

### 1992–1993

**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/deteriorated version was recently spotted on an episode of *Fantasy Island*. The sunburst appeared as a brownish color and the text was nearly invisible.

**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.

## 1993–1994

    **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:

* 1992-December 31, 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 1993-2001: A 6-note majestic tune is heard; full of brass instruments composed by Dave Grusin.
* 1994-2001: 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 and *The Dana Carvey Show* episode "The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show" on DVD.
* 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.

**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's seen on Flashback Friday reruns of *The Young and the Restless* on CBS.
* 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.

## 2001–2002

    Nicknames: "CT 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 is intact. Plus, the cloud background in the TriStar box is replaced with the one from its movie logo and the text has the drop shadow effect.

Standard Variants: 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 is 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 the 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 was 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 it's standard font) don't have the drop shadow effect.
* 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 gets glitched up, causing the logo to look like it's from an old VHS tape, presumably due to an image glitch on the master tape (à la *The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3* episode "Dadzilla").
* An extremely rare enhanced variant for CTTD has been seen on the TV movie *The Linda McCartney Story*, along a filmed version seen on *First Shot*. Both variants has been spotted on airings of the films on the Sony Movie Channel. 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 a 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 *Naked City* season 2, episode 15, "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 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.
* 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 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 play 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.
* International printings of the 1999 *Annie* remake have the two first notes cut off on the logo for CTT.

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 last 9 episodes of the short-lived *Party of Five* spin-off *Time of Your Life* on the French European channel NRJ12 back in 2005. 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 Netflix prints plasters the CTT logo 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), 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 a HBO Asia airing of *Call Me Claus* (followed by the 2014 version of the Sony Pictures Television logo) and the Netflix 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 Netflix. 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 logo was also shown surprisingly intact on PBS Kids Sprout airings of *Dragon Tales*.
* The CTTD version appears on season 1 episodes of *Sledge Hammer!* 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*.

Editor's Note: This logo was disliked by people for several years due to its over-common presence and usage of plastering old logos. The negative feelings mostly subsided once the Sony Pictures Television logo came around in 2002 and in an ironic twist, plastered over logos in a much worse manner than this.

Copyright Stamps

Here is some information about the copyright stamps on the CTT 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:

* 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-: 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, 1999-2002: Copyright ©[YEAR] Columbia TriStar Television Distribution. All Rights Reserved.
* 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*)
* 2001-2002: Copyright ©[YEAR] CPT Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Used on *The Young and the Restless*)
* 2001-2002: Copyright ©[YEAR] CORDAY PRODUCTIONS, INC. All Rights Reserved. (Used on *Days of Our Lives*)
* 2001-2003: Copyright ©[YEAR] Columbia TriStar Domestic Television. All Rights Reserved.

Final Notes

In 2002, CTT became Sony Pictures Television. 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.

## 2014–2015

    Nicknames: "S from Heaven II", "S in the Sky", "Crystal Screen Gems", "Crystal Gems", "S in Heaven"

Bylines**:**

* July 22, 2011-April 20, 2012: "A SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY"
* February 14, 2014- : "a Sony Company"

## 2015–present

**Nicknames**: "Ultra Majestic Pegasus II", "The TriStar Pegasus IV", "CGI Pegasus", "Christian Pegasus", "Welcome Back, TriStar Television!"

**Logo**: It starts with the Sony Pictures Entertainment logo, just like Sony Pictures Television. It very quickly irises into the end of the current TriStar logo with the horse just beginning to spread his wings. "TELEVISION" then fades in underneath in the same font as the TriStar logo and spaced out. The byline "A SONY COMPANY" fades in a moment later, in block caps and in a different font than in the regular logo. All of the text appears to be made of solid gold.

**FX/SFX**: The iris transition from the Sony logo, the horse rearing up, and the text fading in. Better animation than the SPT logo

**Music/Sounds**: The 1993 logo theme.

**Availability**: Common. It's seen *The Good Girls Revolt*, *Shut Eye*, and *The Last Tycoon* all on Amazon Video.

**Editor's Note**: This features a neat transition and some magnificent animation from the current movie logo. This is infinitely better than the SPT logo.

Copyright Stamps:

Here is some information about the copyright stamps on the TriStar Television series and TV movies:

* 1986-1988: Copyright © (year) by Tri-Star Television - A Division of Tri-Star Pictures, Inc.
* 1988-1989: Copyright © (year) Columbia Pictures Television, Inc. (used on *My Two Dads* season 2)
* 1988, 1989-1990: Copyright © (year) 12 Year Old Productions, Inc. (used on *My Two Dads* season 1 (last few episodes) and 3)
* 1991-1998, 1999-2000: Copyright © (year) TriStar Television, Inc.
* 1994: Copyright © (year) TriStar Television, Inc./Showtime Networks Inc. (used on the TV movie *Next Door*)
* 1996-1998, 1999: Copyright © (year) Tri-Star Television, Inc. (used on *Malcolm & Eddie*)
* 1998-1999: Copyright © (year) Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG
* 1999-2000: Copyright © (year) Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. (used on the final season of *Malcolm & Eddie*)

## In-credit text versions

### 1947–1962

Tom and Jerry (1951, following Hanna-Barbera in-credit disclaimer)Chilly Willy (1953)Barney Bear (1954)Mighty Mouse Playhouse (1955)Spike and Tyke (1957)Quick Draw McGraw (1959, following Hanna-Barbera in-credit disclaimer)The Flintstones (1960)The Yogi Bear Show (1961)The Jetsons (1962)

### 1965–1974

Adventures of the Seaspray (1967)All About Faces (1971)The Pierre Berton Show (1971)**Logo:** Superimposed over the screen, we see in-credit text that reads:

A SCREEN GEMS, INC. PRODUCTION

**Variants:**

* On *Days of Our Lives*, the text would read as "A CORDAY PRODUCTIONS, SCREEN GEMS PRESENTATION".
* For those co-produced by Hanna-Barbera, it would say "A SCREEN GEMS FILM PRESENTATION, TELEVISION SUBSIDIARY COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION".
* On *Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman*, under the Ben Gradus Productions text says, "In association with SCREEN GEMS INC. and DAVID M. NOYES".
* On the short-lived game show *Line 'em Up*, in 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/Voice-over:** 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* on Boomerang, MeTV, and DVD's of the show.

* It was also seen on *Top Cat* and some first season episodes of *The Jetsons* 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.