...when I was a kid, the spinning diamonds ITC logo drove me nuts. I imagined the thing was going to drill its way through the screen into me ;-) ...I used to know a woman from Leeds who had much the same childhood reaction to that seagull-like Yorkshire Television logo...
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...when I was a kid, the spinning diamonds ITC logo drove me nuts.
I was cool with that one, 'cause it meant the Muppets were coming on. Also, for some reason, this stuff was more scary when it was at the end of shows rather than the beginning.
Another freaky one was when CBS used to have the eye wallpaper at the end of their dramas with those big, blaring musical signatures ("Perry Mason" & "The Twilight Zone" were the worst).
I was cool with that one, 'cause it meant the Muppets were coming on. Also, for some reason, this stuff was more scary when it was at the end of shows rather than the beginning.
Another freaky one was when CBS used to have the eye wallpaper at the end of their dramas with those big, blaring musical signatures ("Perry Mason" & "The Twilight Zone" were the worst).
Corky Marlowe said:
My dad would always tell me that the CBS eye at the end of the Twilight Zone use to scare the hell out of him! Understandable too!
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kirkiefan
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MCA-TV's early 50s film reel logo sometimes displayed alongside a creepy and shadowy art-deco styled "REVUE in hollywood" logo seen at the end of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" among others...this would be later replaced by a comparatively more contemporary version of the " filmstrip" Revue logo and the MCA-tv diamond arrowhead logo first introduced at the end of "Leave It to Beaver" and "Wagon Train"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueG5-Yeg5hQ&feature=relative
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueG5-Yeg5hQ&feature=relative
notalkallstatic said:
That is still shown by Sci-Fi at times when they have uncut TZ episodes during marathons.
Not a logo, but I hated any show that featured someone kicking in a TV (which Fred Mertz seemed to do on a regular basis, and it was part of the Twilight Zone open). Last time we did this thread I mentioned the Dash (detergent)commercial which used to send me running from the room (someone shouting "Dash! Dash! Dash!"), and a baseball game where the camera was scanning the sky trying to follow "a high fly ball" on a black and white TV kinda made me seasick.
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kirkiefan
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Here's a follow-up on the evolution of the "Revue In Hollywood" logo from the Closing Logos website:
http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Revue+Studios/Universal+Television+Entertainment
Also a follow-up on the "Film Reel from Hell" and "Arrowhead" MCA logo used in conjunction with Don Fedderson's logo from the closing credits of "The Millionaire" and "My Three Sons."
http://www.closinglogos.com/page/MCA+TV?t=anon
http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Revue+Studios/Universal+Television+Entertainment
Also a follow-up on the "Film Reel from Hell" and "Arrowhead" MCA logo used in conjunction with Don Fedderson's logo from the closing credits of "The Millionaire" and "My Three Sons."
http://www.closinglogos.com/page/MCA+TV?t=anon
I hated the whole look of the Don Fedderson logo;
I always thought the word "FEDDERSON" was going
to jump out at me (for that matter I thought the
opening graphic of "The Millionaire" was going to
do the same thing, but I still wish somebody would
pick up that show).
Interestingly, although Fedderson used the logo
on the original "Do You Trust Your Wife?" with
Edgar Bergen, he didn't use it on "Who Do You
Trust?" with either Johnny Carson or Woody Woodbury.
There it was just a simple graphic: "A DON FEDDERSON
PRODUCTION." And on Lawrence Welk it was a simple
"Syndication by DON FEDDERSON PRODUCTIONS."
I always thought the word "FEDDERSON" was going
to jump out at me (for that matter I thought the
opening graphic of "The Millionaire" was going to
do the same thing, but I still wish somebody would
pick up that show).
Interestingly, although Fedderson used the logo
on the original "Do You Trust Your Wife?" with
Edgar Bergen, he didn't use it on "Who Do You
Trust?" with either Johnny Carson or Woody Woodbury.
There it was just a simple graphic: "A DON FEDDERSON
PRODUCTION." And on Lawrence Welk it was a simple
"Syndication by DON FEDDERSON PRODUCTIONS."
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rickradio
Guest
WGBH, Boston's logo on PBS was always hard for me to watch. I should say "listen to," because the visual didn't bother me like that synthsizer did. It ALWAYS sent chills thru me.
I meant to ask: Would anyone on here know which production-music piece (what title, which composer and which company) was used for many years as the sounder at :00, :20 and :40 on 1010 WINS as per the ad on this clip (heard at 0:48-1:17):Corky Marlowe said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcPelzoDiRk
There've been a few people over the years who thought that music to be a bit scary (not necessarily myself) . . .
rickradio said:
It seems like beginning in the 70's a lot of production companies made it a point to use synthesizer music that they may have thought sounded good at the time, but they sound really terrible now.
At least now a lot of closing logos have softer music or none at all.In the early days of Showtime (late 70's), before each film ran, they would run an animated intro which depicted a silhouetted woman who resembled a cross between the Statue of Liberty and the Columbia Pictures lady who would wave a wand and stars would move all around her. Then she would suddenly freeze. The music playing under sounded straight out of a downtown elevator.
It looked and sounded very creepy.
Hard to imagine now, but Showtime in those days used to sign off after whatever film ended after 10pm. But on weekends, and they made a big deal of it in their program guide, they would stay on 'til 11:30 or so. Such night owls, they were.
It looked and sounded very creepy.
Hard to imagine now, but Showtime in those days used to sign off after whatever film ended after 10pm. But on weekends, and they made a big deal of it in their program guide, they would stay on 'til 11:30 or so. Such night owls, they were.
I've never received Showtime on cable or satellite, but I somewhat remember HBO's classic opening from the early 80's, particularly the music. Nothing very scary about it, but as a horny juvenile I equated that opening (depending on the movie) with the possibility of seeing a naked woman for maybe 10 seconds ;D
Before the internet, I never knew there was that much interest in production company logos. About the only one that ever unnerved me was at the end of Dragnet. However, the theme music and credits from "The Edddddge....of Night!" sent me flying from the room as a tike
Another creepy, long-gone memory was the short, pre sign-off newscasts that certain stations did. Just audio of the news person, with the station id slide on the screen. Call me weird, but I found 'em a little unsettling, mostly when I was staying up that late for the first time! I first heard of John Belushi's death via one of those
Before the internet, I never knew there was that much interest in production company logos. About the only one that ever unnerved me was at the end of Dragnet. However, the theme music and credits from "The Edddddge....of Night!" sent me flying from the room as a tike
Another creepy, long-gone memory was the short, pre sign-off newscasts that certain stations did. Just audio of the news person, with the station id slide on the screen. Call me weird, but I found 'em a little unsettling, mostly when I was staying up that late for the first time! I first heard of John Belushi's death via one of those
Corky Marlowe said:
...in my case, this was about ten years earlier, when it meant shows like "The Prisoner," "The Saint," "Secret Agent," "UFO" and "Strange Report" -- hardly kiddie fare ;-) ...
Corky Marlowe said:
...one of the guys who did that at both CKLW and KHJ was Lee Marshall, who went on to work as a pro wrestling commentator for both Verne Gagne (AWA) and Ted Turner (WCW). Last I heard, Lee was in some administrative capacity at a station in Ventura County, California...
wbhist said:
...I don't know, but WMAQ-AM Chicago also used that one once Westinghouse bought the station from NBC...
...and there's also that Westinghouse Broadcasting corpoate font. Cool to a grownup, but some of those angles could sure look creepy to kids when the "W" was flashed at the end of "The Mike Douglas Show" or the "3" was outlined at the beginning of the '70s-era "KYW-TV Eyewitness News" in Philadelphia...
dxnemo78 said:Hey, I was WAY older than 16 when I figured that 1 out ;D :Mark said:
And the old Columbia Records logo was an ear, correct ??:-\
...I thought the Columbia/CBS Records logo was a phonograph stylus...
Ultimajock said:dxnemo78 said:Hey, I was WAY older than 16 when I figured that 1 out ;D :Mark said:
And the old Columbia Records logo was an ear, correct ??:-\
...I thought the Columbia/CBS Records logo was a phonograph stylus...
Personally I thought it was a record that resembled an eye.
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