An Hanna-Barbera Cartoons/Summary

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## Background

### 7th Logo(September 8, 1979-May 20, 1986, July 17, 1989, June 7, 1990)

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Nicknames: "Swirling Star", "Twisting Star", "Taft Swirling Star", "Rainbow Twist", "H-B Swirling Star"

Logo: On a black background, a white star swirls down from the top, leaving behind a rainbow trail. It then settles into the center of the screen as it twirls, occasionally shrinking and twisting, forming a circular trail. It then twists into the middle of the circle and comes to a stop. The words “Hanna-Barbera Productions” in Belwe Medium font appear below.

Trivia:

* Basically, this is the Taft swirling star as seen on the Taft Entertainment Pictures|Taft International Pictures logo, only rainbow colored. The logo was designed by Saul Bass.
* The logo is referenced, along with many other aspects of Hanna-Barbera history, in the *Wacky Races* reboot episode "The Trial of Dick Dastardly". After resolving the court case, the judge sends the racers back to their world through a recreation of the Swirling Star logo, featuring a soundalike of the original music.

Bylines:

* September 8, 1979-January 31, 1981; January 17, 1986: “A TAFT BROADCASTING COMPANY” (in a white font)
* September 12, 1981-May 20, 1986: “A DIVISION OF THE TAFT ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY”
	+ In 1982, the 1981 byline was altered/amended with "A DIVISION OF" over "THE TAFT ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY".
	+ In 1983, the 1981 byline appears in a large yellow font, and the logo appears smaller in this version.
* June 7, 1990: "A GREAT AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY"
* Post-1988 prints of H-B shows from this era often have the Taft byline blacked out.

Variants:

* In 1990, a special version of this was used at the end of *Jetsons: The Movie*. This features the same animation, but “Hanna-Barbera” is written in the familiar cursive “script” font, first introduced in 1987. This variant also features a Great American byline, and is the only H-B logo to do so. This variant features a majestic version of the Jetsons' doorbell tune instead of the logo's regular music.
* In 1981, the colors on the trail were given a more vivid appearance.
* Beginning in 1984, Hanna-Barbera created an opening logo to use at the beginning of some of their shows. It’s the same as the closing logo but it fades in during the middle of the animation. The text is changed, “Hanna-Barbera” is larger, and a small yellow “PRESENTS” is shown below. Music for this was a sweeping chime sound, though 1980s Jetsons episodes feature a rendition of the Jetsons' doorbell (the “Meet George Jetson” piece of the theme rendered in chimes). This opening variant (the version with the regular music) can still be found at the beginning of every episode of The Smurfs on Boomerang.
* There is a rare variant of this logo seen on some cartoons, in which the trail is dark red and the byline is nearly invisible. This is likely due to film deterioration, which is quite unusual at this time (compared to the Rankin-Bass logo from 1977). This was used only in the early 1980's and is nicknamed "The Red Swirling Star".
* The 1981 variant appears against a primitive-CG starry background in the video A Very Special 25 Years of Hanna-Barbera.
* There is also an extremely rare still opening variant seen on the 1986 feature film GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords, in which there is a large "A Hanna-Barbera Production" byline and the logo is tiny in size.
* A still version of this logo appears at the end of the 1982 Hanna-Barbera feature film Heidi's Song, with a small Swirling Star graphic.
* On an older print of one episode of The Scooby-Doo Show, the logo is moved up a bit so that the Taft byline cannot be seen.
* A rare variant where the Swirling Star plays as usual, but it ends with the letters "HB" in black on top of the star itself and the star itself zooms in to make way for the words "HANNA BARBERA," which zooms out from the center screen to flash in multiple colors before ending in a red color. The music accompanying it is score music from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. This is seen on the 1989 VHS tape Top Cat - T.C.'s Back in Town.
* An extremely rare variant exists on a 1984 Canadian VHS tape of *The Three Musketeers* and in a VHS tape of *The Count of Monte Cristo* where the logo is silent, however when the logo freezes, a note from some other cartoon theme song plays then the ordinary synthesizer music begins.
* On the 1991 promo reel for Cartoon Network's launch, and the TV special A Yabba-Dabba-Doo Celebration: 50 Years of Hanna-Barbera, an I.A.T.S.E. bug appears below the logo.

**FX/SFX:** The star and residue trail. Scanimate effects.

**Music/Sounds:** A synthesized piece that starts out with ascending and descending chimes, mixed with a "whoosh" sound with each revolution of the star. When the star stops, the entire thing culminates in a gentle synth chord as the chimes finish in the background. This was written by Hoyt Curtin.

**Music/Sounds Variants:**

* Some shows have appeared with the first variant with a blacked-out byline, but with the music from the 4th logo. This was chiefly used to update the logo on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, but has spread to other shows as well, including post-1988 reruns of Casper's First Christmas and was also spotted on an episode of Josie and the Pussycats. This instance also happened on a 1982 episode of The Smurfs, entitled "The Adventures of Robin Smurf" and another instance on a 1986 U.S. syndicated rerun episode of The Smurfs. This variant was sort of common, but became rare when Turner updated the prints of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! in 1998, and tacked on the 1994 "Action All-Stars" logo.
* On The All-New Popeye Hour on The Family Channel (now ABC Family), some reruns of the 1979-81 episodes would have this logo and the music on it played in sped-up mode due to time compressing.
* There is a high-toned variant that was seen at the end of one U.S. Boomerang rerun episode of The Super Globetrotters, due to the U.S. Boomerang's prints of The Super Globetrotters airing in PAL format, but on the Warner Archive DVD releases, this is played in the normal tone.
* On the 1986 theatrical re-release of Hey There, It's Yogi Bear, the film's opening music cue plays over the "presents" variation of the logo. At the end, the standard version of the logo plays silent.
* On VHS releases of *The Greatest Stories: Tales from the Bible*, the logo is silent.

**Availability:** Common in its “unaltered” form, though many prints still have the logo's Taft bylines blacked out or bylineless. Currently seen on The Smurfs on Boomerang, and was also shown on Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, the first two seasons of The Snorks, The Yogi Bear Show, Josie and the Pussycats, Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, most 1982 episodes of Richie Rich, a few existing 1980s syndicated remastered episodes of Top Cat, the 1984-85 season of The Jetsons, and The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo when last rerun on Boomerang. Very interestingly, this logo (w/ Taft byline) appears right after the "Zooming H-B" on the DVD releases of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, and The Flintstones Comedy Show. It also recently appeared after the "Zooming H-B" logo on the former's episode "Focus Foolery" when last rerun on Boomerang as well. The H-B Presents logo with the "Meet George Jetson" chimes is extremely rare and so far it has been spotted on The Jetsons episode "A Jetson Christmas Carol". On some releases of Jetsons: The Movie, this logo appears for only a split second before the Universal logo appears. The blacked-out byline version appears at the end of DVD prints of Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf. There are also some prints with this logo (with b/o byline) actually plastering the next logo. The film deterioration variants are rare, but were last seen on some episodes of Josie and the Pussycats and The New Scooby Movies episode "Scooby-Doo Meets Batman & Robin". The "A Hanna-Barbera Production" variant is extremely rare as well. On The Scooby-Doo Show episode "Jeepers! It's the Jaguaro!", it has the 1981 logo version of the Swirling Star plastering the 1974 H-B logo. Sadly, this plasters logos on VHS releases of Tom & Jerry Kids. This was also seen on the 1985 TV special/pilot episode of Pound Puppies. The "presents" variant was also seen on Challenge of the GoBots and The Flintstone Kids, as well as at the TV movie Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf and least one episode of Wake, Rattle & Roll (odd for the latter two, considering the logo was no longer used by this point); it was also used as part of the intro for The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (the syndicated cartoon block). The logo has also seen on some pre-Turner prints of The Scooby-Doo Show on the Australian version of Cartoon Network. It was also previously seen on season 1 reruns of Shirt Tales and plastered over with the "CGI Swirling Star" on season 2 reruns on Boomerang. This version and the "CGI Swirling Star" below plastered the H-B Rainbow logo on Boomerang's reruns of Scooby's All Star Laff-a-Lympics.

Scare Factor: Low. The animation, combined with the music can startle some, but this logo is still a favorite of many and is very popular.