Cardea-Schenck-Baskin-Shulman

(December 30, 1984-April 5, 1987)
Nickname: "Fox with a Cigar"

Logo: Against a gold background, a cartoon fox apparently wearing a hunting cap is seen on the left in a light blue circle smoking a cigar, the smoke of which is rising continuously (the cigar butt is also glowing). The names "CARDEA", "SCHENCK", "BASKIN", and "SHULMAN" are to the right, and they are stacked on top of each other, each succeeding name moved one space over to the left (this is all in gold). They are bracketed on top and bottom by two thick gold lines and two thin gold lines; thin outside, thick inside. "in association with" in lowercase is below. The arrangement of this vanity card is thus:

CARDEA SCHENCK BASKIN SHULMAN

in association with

Afterwards, the Columbia Pictures Television logo of the time appears.

Variant: On Still Crazy Like a Fox, the background is brown instead of gold, and it instead says: A SCHENCK/CARDEA PRODUCTION

and the same cartoon fox is seen below (but the smoke is not there and the cigar butt doesn't glow), with the "in association with" below that.

FX/SFX: The cartoon fox smoking the cigar, and the smoke rising therein.

Music/Sounds: The last bars of the closing theme of Crazy Like a Fox.

Availability: Seen on the CBS detective series Crazy Like a Fox, and on the 1987 reunion film Still Crazy Like A Fox. Apart from that, it's pretty much extinct, unless the show gets a DVD release.

Scare Factor: Minimal, because of the smoke rising from the cigar.