Calico Media

Background: Lance Media was formed in 1979. On October 4th, 1992, Argosy Media bought Lance Media outright, absorbed it into Calico Film Distributors, and renamed it to Calico Media. As of 2010, over 3,000 people work at Calico Media.

## 1st Logo (1979-1983)

Nicknames: "Cheap Space", "The Rainbow", "Spacebow"

Logo: On a space background, "Lance Media Presents," (the font and alignment depends on the show) in yellow with a green outline, spins horizontally and settles onto a rainbow. The rainbow then turns red.

FX/SFX: The space background, the rainbow, and the text...

Cheesy Factor: ...which began to look dated, and it deteriorated HORRENDOUSLY, but it wasn't discontinued until 1983! Plus, it appears to be a ripoff to the 1976 New World Pictures logo. It is logically shown that a rainbow in space is impossible, and even it changing colors, let alone a single color, is also impossible to replicate. The background is also very cheap, like someone put some dots on some black construction paper with a pen. The animation is also very primitive, and it is very clear that the text is chroma-keyed because of the green outline. The color-changing of the rainbow is done very poorly because everything moves to a different position slightly. This logo is an obvious product of it's time.

Music/Sounds: None, or the opening to the show.

Availability: Seen on all shows distributed by the company until 1983.

Scare Factor: Low to Medium. People would often laugh at this logo, commonly after it was "discontinued."

## 2nd Logo (1983-1992)

Logo: On a brown background, the word "LANCE" in orange zooms in. After that, the word "MEDIA" zooms out. Then, the orange box outline fades in.

Variant: This logo received a most appropriate sendoff at the end of an airing of (TBA) on October 1, 1992. The logo began as it normally would, but the logo stopped halfway through and the background turned into a space background. As the box outline faded in, the logo then spun and flew away into the distance. After that, everything slowly faded to black.

FX/SFX: The zooming, the fading.

Music/Sounds: The end theme of the show or None.

Availability: Rare.

Scare Factor: Low.

## 3rd Logo (1992)

Nicknames: "Salli!", "Prototype Salli"

Logo: Same as the 1982 Argosy Media logo, but the cat is a calico, has blue eyes instead of green, and has eyelashes (to signify that it is female). Also, the flag reads "Calico" and the byline reads "A Division of Argosy Media".

FX/SFX: None. Sometimes, the logo would fade in and fade out.

Music/Sounds: A short guitar/bass note, the closing theme of the show, or none.

Availability: Very rare. This is the very first logo featuring Salli, who would eventually become more anthropomorphic. Also, this is a placeholder logo, a logo that is used on a show when the new one isn't quite ready yet.

Scare Factor: None for the silent version. The one with the guitar note is low.

## 4th Logo (1992-1993)

Nicknames: "Salli II", "Salli Takes Form"

Logo: Same as the 3rd logo, but Salli is redesigned to look more anthropomorphic (complete with clothes, humanoid mammaries, and human-like hair), the flag is removed, and the "Media" text now reads "Calico Media".

Trivia: The version of Salli seen on this logo was designed by Ellen Peck.

Variants:

* There is a variant the colours of everything (except for Salli) is inverted.

FX/SFX: The fade in and fade out of the logo.

Music/Sounds: None or the closing theme of the show.

Availability: Very rare. This is just another placeholder logo, but this time they've actually designed the new look for Salli. This is one of the first appearances of the "anthro-cats", as later seen in *The Aaron Show* and *The New Aaron Show*.

Scare Factor: None.

## 5th Logo (1993-)

Nicknames: "Salli III"

Logo: We see a bedroom, similar to Salli's room in *The Aaron Show*. Salli runs into the bedroom and sits down on the bed. She waves at the camera while the text "CALICO MEDIA" fades in at the top.

Bylines:

* 1993-1995: None
* 1995-1996: An International Family Entertainment Company
* 1996-1999: A Shaw Communications Company
* 1999-2003: No byline. Calico Media was owned by Corus Entertainment at the time. Possibly an editing mistake.
* 2003-2015: An Argosy Media company
* 2006: An Argosy/MTM Company (seen on a few TV movies released in 2006)
* 2007-2015: AN MTM ENTERPRISES COMPANY (Rare; seen only on TV movies and dubbed prints of old MTM, TVS, and Argosy shows)
* 2015-present: A Cairo/MTM Entertainment Company
* 2016-present: A Division of Argosy Media, A Cairo/MTM Company (seen only on TV movies and dubbed prints of old MTM, TVS, and Argosy shows)

Variants:

* A still version was found on a few shows.
* Early years have the logo zoomed in. The standard version was introduced in 1994.
* Sometimes, this logo would have a copyright stamp on the bottom.
* Starting in 1995, a byline was added to the logo at the bottom of the screen.
* On reissues of Aaron's Camping Trip, Salli is outside at night, sits down on the grass, and there is a spotlight casting over her.
* By late-2007, coinciding with the launch of their website, calicomedia.com, a website link for the site is on the logo, below the byline.
* By 2010, the bedroom was redesigned, looking more like Salli's room in the show, but still with a few differences.
* On some co-productions, the text "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" is seen above the company name.
* The pilot of Making Stuff had the logo off-center due to tape distortion.
* The logo is cut short on reruns of the failed pilot called One of Us Can Save Kids.
* An extended version is occassionally used where the logo stays on screen for 6.5 seconds longer.
* A version exists on shows distributed by the company that features the words "DISTRIBUTED BY" above.
* On Earth's Last Hours, Salli's clothes have a grey and yellow color scheme. This was quickly plastered by the Cairo/MTM Distribution Group logo on reruns and the re-release of the TV movie. The original DVD has this logo intact with the byline reading "AN MTM ENTERPRISES COMPANY".
* Sometimes Salli's clothes have a light blue and dark yellow color scheme. This variant was used sometimes from 1993 to 2007. This variant was byline-less until 2005 when the byline "An Argosy Media company" was added to the logo.
* Sometimes, the logo looks badly drawn.
* Salli's design may vary.

FX/SFX: Salli running in and sitting down.

Cheesy Factor: The animation seems rough. The badly drawn version looks VERY UGLY.

Music/Sounds: None, the ending theme of the movie or show, or a cute little ditty (named Salli's Ditty),

Music/Sounds Variants: On one rerun of Road Rash, the logo has the 1st Argosy Media logo's music due to sloppy editing.

Availability: Current. Can be seen on shows from the company. Some of the only shows not to use this logo are shows that have the MTM Network logo at the end and MTM Network weather forecasts. One show from MTM Network that contains the logo is Delphine. The "Argosy/MTM" byline variant was beautifully restored on the 2012 UK DVD and Blu-ray releases of the Aaron and Friends: All Grown Up TV movies, distributed by ITV Studios Home Entertainment; ironically enough, later prints of these TV movies aren't so lucky; except for Aaron and Salli's Wedding Day, this logo was plastered with the 2013 ITV Studios Global Entertainment logo on post-2015 UK reruns, the Cairo/MTM Distribution Group logo on US and English-Canadian prints, or the short (television) version of the current Séville logo on French-Canadian prints. The "MTM ENTERPRISES" byline variant was seen on the S4C Welsh prints of WKRP in Cincinnati; this variant was sadly plastered with the Cairo/MTM Distribution "Star of Boredom"! This logo is also used to plaster TVS Production endcaps.

Scare Factor: None; this is a very popular logo among many, mainly the user KamafaDelgato021469zback.