Paramount Television (CBS)

NOTE : Has no relation to its earlier divisions of the time period.

Background
Its origins go back to 1950 when then-husband-and-wife comedy duo, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball (hence the name of the company), producing very successful TV shows and films between the 1950s and 1960s as "Desilu Productions". In 1960, Desi Arnaz sold the pre-1960 shows to CBS since Ball and Arnaz couldn't work with each other anymore. They later divorced the same year. Until 1962, Arnaz sold his holdings of Desilu to Ball. In 1967, she sold Desilu to Gulf+Western Industries, which merged Desilu with Paramount Pictures, the company became the television arm of Paramount in July renaming it to "Paramount Television (CBS)" months later, while she formed her then-new company "Lucille Ball Productions, Inc." and Desi Arnaz formed his own company named "Desi Arnaz Productions". Its sales division was merged with "Paramount Television Enterprises" to became "Paramount Television Sales". In 2004, Viacom merged Paramount Network Television and CBS Productions to form the "CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group" at the same time it merged Paramount International Television and CBS Broadcast International to form "CBS Paramount International Television" (currently known as "CBS Studios International"). On December 31, 2005, the Viacom/CBS split took effect and Viacom changed its name to the CBS Corporation at the same time it created a spin-off company that bears the Viacom name. On January 17, 2006, CBS Corporation merged the CBS Paramount Network Television Entertainment Group, CBS Paramount International Television, and Paramount Domestic Television into the CBS Paramount Television Group, but the on-air logo for PDT remained the same until Memorial Day 2006, when the first CBS Paramount Television logo debuted. As for the network version, the PNT and CBS Productions logos were used before the CBS Paramount Network Television logo debuted on June 10. However, it was renamed as "CBS Television Studios" in May 2009 after CBS lost to license to the Paramount name it had for three years.

Desilu Productions
=== 1st Logo (1951-1963) ===  Logo:  Desilu did not use a logo until 1952. As superimposed or scrolling on the end credits, we see the text: A  DESILU PRODUCTION  From 1951-1952, the copyright stamp fades-in below. From 1952-1963, this would fade to the "script" logo.

 FX/SFX:  None.

 Music/Sounds:  The closing theme from any television program.

 Availability:  Seen intact on all I Love Lucy episodes on Hallmark Channel, MeTV and DVD. This was also seen on The Untouchables (1959) and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour and sometimes on older TV Land airings.

=== 2nd Logo (1952-March 11, 1968) ===  Nickname:  "Desilu Script"

 Logo:  Over a specialty backdrop, we see the words "FILMED IN HOLLYWOOD BY" ("Filmed in HOLLYWOOD and MEXICO by" on The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour). The word "Desilu " is written in a cursive font, either in black, white, or in a 3D-ish appearance. Then, a round ball dots the "i". The copyright information appears at the bottom. This phrase was shortened to "FILMED BY DESILU" in 1957.

 Variants: 
 * There is a still in-credit variant appeared on filmed location TV shows.
 * Another in-credit logo has the Desilu script name between "A" and "PRODUCTION"
 * At the beginning of some programs, the word "Presents" is seen below.
 * For Desilu Sales, Desilu's distribution arm starting in 1962, the text "Distributed by Desilu Sales, Inc. " is seen in a script font on a gray background.

 FX/SFX/Chesy Factor:  The "drawing effect", made with primitive animation.

 Music/Sounds/Voice-over:  Music played during the end of the show. Some I Love Lucy episodes have an announcer saying, "I Love Lucy is a Desilu Production". Sometimes, it's even followed up with "Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz will be back next week at this same time".

 Availability:  Found superimposed on shows like I Love Lucy, the unaired Star Trek pilot episodes, The Lucy Show, and The Untouchables (1959). The in-credit variant was seen on some filmed-on-location shows, such as The Andy Griffith Show, I Spy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Joey Bishop Show, The Real McCoys, Make Room for Daddy, The Tycoon, and That Girl, among others.

 Editor's Note:  The animation in this logo is primitive, but it's well-remembered by fans of I Love Lucy and Star Trek.

 Final Notes:  This logo was used on the final two seasons of The Lucy Show, which used the 1966 Desilu logo and the 1968 Paramount Television logo at the end.

=== 3rd Logo (1966-December 1967) ===  Nicknames:  "Merging Circles", "Multi-Colored Circles", "Color Desilu Logo"

 Logo:  On a black background six multicolored ( red, pink , and orange ) circles surround a white one and then merge together with it to form a blue circle, which backs away upward as the word "Desilu " is written in a yellow cursive font. As the circle takes its place over the "i," it turns white.

 Variants: 
 * When Desilu merged with Paramount Pictures in 1966, the Paramount copyright stamp and print logos would appear under it.
 * On Star Trek reruns from 1978 onward and on Blu-ray releases of Season 2, the Paramount copyright is chyroned in. Then they would cut to the then-current Paramount Television logo, 2006 CBS Paramount Domestic Television "Eye in the Sky" logo, or the 2007 CBS Television Distribution logo afterward. Some older prints will have the logo with the chyroned Paramount copyright, but will not be followed by any Paramount logo. This has been seen on the 1980 Paramount Home Video releases of Star Trek: Television Classics, Volumes 1-5. A version with a pink tint, due to film quality, can be found on the 1984 Laserdisc release of The Menagerie: Parts I & II under the Television Classics collection. Original airings and Blu-ray releases of Season 1 will either have just the logo or with the 1967 Paramount-Norway copyright. When the series aired on Me-TV and H&I, the Desilu logo will either have the 1967 Paramount-Norway copyright (for season 2) or the 1978 Paramount copyright (for season 1) if the succeding logo (CBS Paramount or CBS Television Distribution) does not have a copyright. On the other hand, if the Desilu logo does not have either copyright, the logo will be bylineless and the copyright will be placed on the succeding logo.
 * There was a red Desilu logo seen on Mission: Impossible.
 * There's another variant where the year appears as "1967" instead of its Roman numeral equivalent.
 * On recent prints of a few 1967 episodes of Mannix, a 1996 copyright stamp for CBS Studios is used (the 1967 stamp is retained on most other episodes from the year).

 FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor:  The circles merging in a kaleidoscope fashion, moving, and changing colors, the "drawing" effect. Again, primitive animation.

 Music/Sounds:  A five-note horn fanfare; starts on a light note as the circle forms. Would later be used on Paramount Television's 1st logo. Sometimes this music would play faster. All were composed by Wilbur Hatch.

 Music/Sounds Variants: 
 * Season one episodes of Mission: Impossible would sometimes have "bump" music (the basis for the "M:I" theme) as the fanfare. This was also reportedly seen on non-remastered versions of the Star Trek episode, "Charlie X".
 * Some season two episodes of Mission: Impossible episodes had a battling loud rendition of the fanfare. This would later be used on Paramount Television's first logo in early 1968.
 * In other cases, it's silent.
 * On the original effects version of the Star Trek episode "Return to Tomorrow" as seen on the "Roddenberry Vault" compilation, the final note of the early 1968 Paramount Television logo's music can be heard for a split second after the Desilu logo finishes and just before the CBSTD logo begins. This is most likely an editing mistake made while inserting the Desilu logo over the original Paramount logo.

 Availability:  Uncommon. It was last seen on Star Trek reruns on TV Land and in local syndication and some Mission: Impossible episodes on the former ALN (now "Youtoo America"). Also intact on episodes 1-16 of Mannix, as well as The Lucy Show. When Star Trek is shown on Canada's Space: The Imagination Station, this logo is presumably kept with the Paramount copyright while Paramount's logo is cut. Season one of Mission: Impossible on DVD retains this logo with the Paramount copyright byline. The first two seasons of Star Trek (1966) on Blu-ray have retained this logo (followed by the CBS Television Distribution logo), with it strangely replacing the January-September 1968 Paramount Television logo on the second half of season 2.

 Editor's Note:  The animation is still primitive here (and the battling loud version of the fanfare may startle some viewers), but again, this is a well-loved and memorable logo by many.

Paramount Television
===1st Logo (January 1-September 1968)=== Nicknames : "Rising Circle", "Iris-in Circle", "Dark Mountain", "Changing Paramount Text"

Logo : On a blue background, we see a black mountain and the words "A Gulf+Western Company" in white. Suddenly, a white filled-in circle border makes an iris-in effect behind the mountain. The "Paramount" name, which is written in its majestic script font and appears in black, pops in while 22 white stars appear around the border, starting in the middle and going downward. The word "Paramount" immediately moves upward to make room for "Television" below it, in the same typeface. Below the logo are two subtitles, both in white: "COPYRIGHT © MCMLXVIII BY PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" in a more standard type, and "Paramount Pictures Corporation" in the Paramount logo font.

Variants : One of 6 visual variants were used:
 * For 2/3 of its existence, a small pre-1968 Paramount's print logo appeared alongside the copyright information, while the rest of the 1968 mid season had just the text.
 * Variants 3 and 4 had the standard format as the first two, with the addition of the Norway Corporation, as credited on Star Trek.
 * For variants 5 and 6, the logo appears with the copyright, but without the Gulf+Western byline. This was featured on Mission: Impossible and Mannix, respectively.

FX/SFXr : The "sunrise" effect, the stars, and "Paramount" changing into "Paramount Television".

Music/Sounds : The two main themes from Desilu Productions.

Music/Sound Variant: A high-tone variation exists from both themes. which as generally on a PAL prints of shows.

Availability : Very rare as this was extremely short-lived. It was seen on early 1968 episodes of Mission: Impossible on ALN (now Youtoo) and can be seen on videocassettes of Star Trek episodes aired during that time period. The last 13 episodes of The Lucy Show also had this logo, but both this and the Viacom "V of Doom", which appeared after the logo in syndication, have been edited over with the current Paramount logo by now. On the DVD prints of the Mannix season one episodes "Deadfall (Part 1)" through "The Girl in the Frame," the logo is plastered by a screen with the show's logo and a 1996 copyright stamp. This logo is strangely replaced by the Desilu logo and the CBS Television Distribution logo on the Star Trek Season 2 Blu-ray set.

Editor's Note : This is the first animated Paramount Television logo. This also might be a prototype of the Paramount print logo that made its debut in the same year.

=== 2nd Logo (1968–1969) ===

Nicknames : "Late '70s/Early '80s Mountain", "Blue Mountain", "Killer Mountain", "Blue Mountain of Doom/from Hell"

Logo : We see only the finished product of the 1975 movie logo, but more defined this time. The mountain has been modified to give more room for the word "Television" by compressing the mountain about one viewer's inch and downgrading the amount of indentations (or impressions) to 4 from its standard of 5. On a sky blue background, we see a near-circle made by 22 white stars. The near-circle contains a navy blue backdrop and a flat mountain in another shade of blue with the word "Paramount" in white above it. Below the mountain are the words:

A Gulf+Western Company

The word "Television" comes from the right and slides in below "Paramount". Same alignment as the first logo.

Variants :


 * By around 1982, a new version of the Paramount Television logo was introduced, utilizing the standard template of the main logo with all 5 indentations intact. As a result, the word "Television" overlaps the tip. This was mainly used on Webster, though the premiere episode, "Another Ballgame", used the regular variant with the 1981 theme.
 * Toward the end of the run of The Brady Brides on Fox Family in 1999, a still shot of this logo was shown before the compressed credits (a la the "CGI Mountain" logo).
 * From 1985-87, Paramount used videotape trickery. Instead of letting the film clip roll as usual, what they do is show a still of the logo with just "Paramount". Then they allow "Television" to slide in, and then it reverts back to a still image. This can be seen on the first two seasons of MacGyver and a few early episodes of Friday the 13th: The Series.
 * Filmed and videotaped versions exist.
 * On some TV specials, a still variant of the movie logo (without the sliding word "Television") was used.
 * At the start of a 1982 outtake reel of The New Odd Couple, after "Television" slides in, the entire mountain's backdrop is replaced with a man barking like a dog. At the end of the outtake reel, immediately after the word "Television" slides in, the entire logo explodes as laughter is heard in the background. (You can view the outtake reel here).
 * On a MeTV airing of Happy Days season 6 episode "Kid Stuff", the white areas (the stars, company name, G+W byline, and registered trademark symbol) has sort of a reddish tint to it. This is most likely due to film deterioration.
 * Film-deteriorated variants exist on a Me-TV airing of the season 6 Happy Days episode "Kid Stuff" and the DVD print of the season 2 Petrocelli episode "Face of Evil."

FX/SFX : The word "Television" sliding in like a piece of construction paper (in a South Park style).

Cheesy Factor : The "Television" sliding in looks REALLY choppy and amateurish, like a long piece of construction paper!

Music/Sounds : A slower version of the Lalo Schifrin jingle first heard with "Split 2". There were many variations throughout the '70s and '80s. There is also one completely different theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith used in 1977. And here are the music variations on this logo. This is going to get complicated, so let's explain this simply:


 * 1975-1976: Marching band rendition of the Lalo Schifrin jingle.
 * 1976-1977: An 8-note horn fanfare composed by Jerry Goldsmith. A high tone theme also exists.
 * 1977-1978: Redone version of Jerry Goldsmith's jingle, sounding a little slower and more majestic.
 * 1978-1979: Slowed down version of the Schifrin jingle.
 * 1979-1985: The infamous medium tempo version with a xylophone in the background.
 * 1980-1983: Slower, xylophone driven version.
 * 1981: A rare version of the 1979 variation in which the xylophone has been made more apparent. Has only been spotted on the Happy Days episode "Baby, It's Cold Inside".
 * 1981-March 28, 1985, October 9, 1986, December 16, 1987: Another medium tempo version (most common on Family Ties) which ends in a harp flourish. There have been other variations of this theme.
 * 1982-1987: Two bombastic horn-driven versions used. Xylophone accompanied on the first horn-driven version and what might sound like a harp on the second horn-driven version. The 2nd most infamous.
 * 1986-1987: A reverberated version as heard only on season 2 of MacGyver. There is also a less reverberated version.

Music/Sounds Variants :


 * This logo was used with the 1972 "Split Rectangle #2" music on nearly all season 1 and season 2 episodes of Happy Days when they aired on The Hub (now Discovery Family).
 * On reruns of Mannix from 1983, this logo used the previous three logo's themes:
 * 1) The 1967 Desilu jingle (on episodes aired after January 1, 1968)
 * 2) The 1968 Split Rectangle music (season 2)
 * 3) The 1969 Split Rectangle music (both music versions; season 3 and part of season 4)
 * 4) The 1970 Split Rectangle music (seasons 4-5)
 * 5) The 1972 Split Rectangle music (seasons 6-7 and most of the final season)
 * 6) The 1974 Split Rectangle music (early final season episodes - specifically the fall 1974 period)
 * The tall-peaked variant with the 1979 jingle can be spotted on the Happy Days S5 episode "The Apartment" and the season 5 Taxi episode "Arnie and the Kids."
 * A high-tone variant exists on PAL prints on shows.
 * In exceptional cases, the closing theme of the show or TV movie was used, or none.
 * The first few notes of the 1982 variant played on the last few seconds of The Georgian Bay Ltd. logo on the DVD print of the season 2 Webster episode "That Uh-Oh Feeling", and a couple others.
 * On an episode of Working Stiffs, the jingle is played quietly.

Availability : Uncommon. It was retained on Family Ties and most episodes of Happy Days when last seen on Hub Network (now Discovery Family), insp tv, and MeTV, some episodes of Friday the 13th: The Series on Chiller, and the first two seasons of MacGyver on Cloo, Netflix, and DVD. It also appears on DVD releases of the first through fourth seasons of Webster from Shout! Factory (the Paramount logo on S1 would be the standard version with 1979 music [standard version meaning the one with the space between the mountain and "Paramount"] and the Paramount logo on some S2 episodes would use the 1982 tall-peaked variant, though on some international reruns and a few DVD eps., it would use the standard version). These days, even local repeats of seasons 1-5 of Cheers (once seen as the best source of this logo) have this plastered with newer logos, although local prints of the season 5 episode "Norm's First Hurrah", and Australian airings of most of that season, retain the original Blue Mountain logo. Was also seen on 1981-1987 episodes of Solid Gold as well. This logo also made a surprise appearance at the end of Australian airings of both parts of the Mork & Mindy episode "Mork vs. the Necrotons" and one episode of Laverne & Shirley. On VHS, this is retained on Mork & Mindy Vol. 1 (and possibly other volumes), Cheers: Vol 1 - Give Me a Ring Sometime, and a Greek-subbed VHS of Friday the 13th: The Series, and the silent version can be found on the VHS release of A Woman Called Golda. It was also seen on the 1978 miniseries Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (and its sequel Smiley's People) and the short-lived Police Squad!.

Editor's Note : One of the more fondly remembered television logos, mainly due to its charm and cheesiness.

6th Logo (1987-August 27, 2006)
Nicknames : "CGI Mountain", "Mountain of Monotony", "Majestic Mountain", "'90s Mountain", "Star Wars Mountain", "Mountain of Annoyance", "Boring CGI Mountain"

Logo : We see only the finished product of the 1986 movie logo. It is sometimes still, while other times it has the animated clouds moving westward in the background.

Bylines : On the bottom, the following bylines were used:


 * 1987-October 1989: "A Gulf+Western Company" (aligned similarly to the last logo)
 * October 1989-95: "A Paramount Communications Company" with a line above the byline. From 1989-92 and 1994-95, the byline was in gold. From 1990-95, the byline was in white.
 * 1995-2006: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (styled after Viacom's logo of the era), with a line above the byline.

Variants :


 * An early variant of this logo with a "75th Anniversary" text appeared on early 1987 episodes of Entertainment Tonight.
 * On some shows such as Taxi on TNN (now Spike TV), the logo (with a Paramount Communications byline) was plastered over the Blue Mountain's music and older Bosom Buddies reruns on TBS, the logo [with a Gulf+Western byline] was plastered over the Blue Mountain's music, too. This also happened when Fox Family (now Freeform) showed episodes of Mork & Mindy and The Brady Brides, but used the Viacom mountain. This version can also be found on repeats of several Mork & Mindy episodes when they last aired on the Hub Network (now Discovery Family). If you haven't seen already, this run of The Brady Brides also had another unique occurrence.
 * Strangely, when Nicktoons were syndicated to some local stations around 1994, this logo was seen, but like Taxi, had the 1975 logo's music.
 * There is a special bylineless version which appears on a Star Trek: Voyager special and in the opening of some episodes from Cinar's (now DHX Media) The Busy World of Richard Scarry.
 * Starting in 1995, when the logo is shown closer, it's from Paramount Network Television. However, if it's further away, it's from Paramount Domestic Television.
 * There is a grayscale variation seen on reruns of black & white shows such as seasons 1-5 of The Andy Griffith Show.
 * This logo can be in 4:3 or 16:9 (only the 1995 network variant has a 16:9 variation, which debuted in 1999).
 * During the Paramount Communications era, airings of TV movies would close the movie with the full logo's animation and then fade out before the byline faded in, technically creating a bylineless TV variant.
 * The 1995 network variant often appeared with a noticeably chyroned Viacom byline, and was a still variant.
 * Starting in 1990 on Entertainment Tonight, this logo is seen in-credit, inside the area where superimposed footage plays during the credits.
 * One variant featured a green and purple sky with the sky changing back to normal after the logo faded in. This was seen on an August 2017 rerun of Have Gun, Will Travel on H&I. It was most likely an error.
 * During the credits on a 1994 airing of Wings, the Paramount Communications era logo appears with a very large mountain, small stars, and a small Paramount wordmark, possibly because of the small space in the right side of the screen. The Paramount Communications byline even takes up 2 lines instead of 1 line like the original logo.

FX/SFX : None or the clouds moving westward in the background.

Music/Sounds : A re-orchestrated version of the last six notes to Paramount Pictures' 1987 theatrical fanfare, which sounds suspiciously similar to the Star Wars theme (but it's actually a re-arrangement of Elsie Janis/Jack King's Paramount on Parade by Jerry Goldsmith, first heard on trailers for Paramount Pictures since 1976). There are two arrangements of the theme. Many of these logos are plastered onto old shows with no music.

Music/Sounds Variants : As already mentioned, this logo used the themes from the previous logo:


 * 1987 logo with 1980 theme.
 * 1989 logo with gold byline with the 1970 and 1978 themes.
 * 1990 logo with 1978 and 1979 themes. The version with the 1978 theme was spotted on Me-TV's print of the Taxi episode "Jim and the Kid", while the version with the 1979 theme was spotted on an Australian airing of Taxi.
 * 1995 domestic logo with 1972, 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1981 and 1982 themes. The 1978 theme variant was seen on most episodes of Mork and Mindy on Syfy, while a few had the 1981-B theme variant. The 1982 theme variant was seen on most episodes Happy Days.
 * On The Busy World of Richard Scarry, the logo appeared at the beginning with the show's theme playing and the mountain faded into a mountain in the show.
 * Starting in 1989, the two arrangements of the logo's music sounds somewhat like a re-orchestration of the first few seconds of the Star Wars-like theme, but sped up.
 * On some episodes of Gomer Pyle, USMC and most episodes of The Lucy Show on Me-TV, the "V of Doom" music in warp-speed is heard with the 1995 domestic logo. This may be due to an extremely poor plaster job.
 * On a few episodes of Gunsmoke last aired on Encore Westerns, the Viacom "V of Steel" music in normal speed would be heard with the 1991 logo. The music would jarringly cut after the logo fades out.
 * On an episode of Entertainment Tonight, aired May 16, 1990, the logo is silent, out of a show of respect to Sammy Davis, Jr. and Jim Henson, who both passed away that day, which the episode was about.
 * A low-toned version was spotted on an episode of Family Affair on Me-TV.
 * On a 2013 Encore Westerns airing of one episode of Have Gun - Will Travel, the music comes in about a second late.

Availability : Common. The silent variant appears at the end of Nickelodeon shows on VHS, such as Rugrats and Blue's Clues. The 1990 logo with the white Paramount Communications byline made its final regular appearance on The Marshal season 1 episode "The Great Train Robbery", aired on February 11, 1995, while its final overall appearance was on The Laverne & Shirley Reunion. The 1995 logo with the Viacom "V of Doom" music was seen on episodes of Gomer Pyle, USMC on Me-TV.
 * The Gulf+Western variation was once found on later Family Ties episodes (seen intact on recent airings such as those on Antenna TV), and 1987-1989 Cheers episodes in syndication, but the 1995-2001 Domestic logo usually plasters over them now, though it was found on Friday the 13th: The Series on Chiller and certain episodes on Syfy. On Netflix, the Gulf+Western version has also turned up on the final two seasons of Family Ties (plastered on DVD) and seasons 3-4 and the first 4 season 5 episodes of MacGyver. On current series (syndie and network), the 10th logo shows up. The short-lived 1988-89 game show Wipeout (with Peter Tomarken) had this as well, and it was retained when the USA Network reran from 1989 to 1991.
 * The 1995 logo was also used to plaster Viacom logos (hence the appearance on TV Land airings of The Andy Griffith Show, the 1970 Harlem Globetrotters cartoon, Cannon, color Gunsmoke episodes (and some black and white episodes), Petticoat Junction, Family Affair, Gomer Pyle USMC, Hawaii Five-O, I Love Lucy, My Three Sons, The Honeymooners, and the official YouTube print of Don't Give Up the Ship. Officially 2000's French prints "A Dream for Christmas" uses the fanfare at the end, As of 2000's French prints "Terror in the Wax Museum" It is unknown if this applied to TV Land airings of The Dick Van Dyke Show, seasons 1-8 of Matlock, The Devlin Connection, The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle, and Perry Mason).
 * The 1995 logo also appeared at the end of various episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies around 2000 on Nick at Nite. These same prints also aired on TV Land in the early 2000's.
 * It also appears on Frasier on Lifetime and Hallmark Channel and DVD box sets, Cheers on Hallmark Channel and Netflix, Me-TV, Reelz Channel, and WGN America and on DVD up to season 8, the final season of Matlock (S8 DVDs use the CTD logo instead), the second season of Diagnosis Murder on Me-TV and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (S2 DVDs use the CBS/Paramount "Wallpaper" logo instead), Star Trek: The Next Generation when it was on WGN America, the first two seasons of Soul Food: The Series on TV One, The Lucy Show, Mork & Mindy and Sabrina: The Teenage Witch (except for seasons 1 and 7) on Antenna TV and when last seen on Hub Network (before the rebrand to Discovery Family), The Dead Zone on Cloo, early 2000's TV Land airings of The Fonz & the Happy Days Gang, which was followed by the 1981 Hanna-Barbera "Swirling Star" logo, the 1970 Harlem Globetrotters cartoon, Cannon, Me-TV airings of Taxi, The Odd Couple, a 2013 airing of Return to Mayberry (after the Viacom "V of Happiness"), and 1998-99 VH1 airings of Solid Gold.
 * The 1990 and 1995 variants appear on Wings on USA Network, DVDs use CBS Paramount Domestic Television starting with season 4, and later seasons use CTD.
 * The 1989 logo with the gold Paramount Communications byline officially ended on January 27, 1995 and was used on The New Price Is Right, hosted by The Young and the Restless' Doug Davidson, but can still be found on DVD and Netflix's prints of seasons 5-7 of MacGyver and the first season DVD of Wings. Get TV airings of The Boy Who Loved Christmas retains this logo though it's followed by the CBS Television Distribution logo. It also made a surprise appearance on the 1993 un-aired pilot Gloria Vane. Just like above, any local syndication prints and all recent CBS DVDs from 2007 onward would have this logo replaced by the CBS Paramount Domestic/Network Television or CBS Television Distribution logos.
 * Star Trek: Enterprise season 1 reruns on Netflix and DVD retain this logo, while they are replaced by the CBS Television Distribution logo on the 2013 Blu-Ray set.
 * Was also seen on the final 2 seasons (1st-run syndication-era) episodes of Webster. On the initial U.S. syndication reruns of the 1st 4 seasons of Webster, the 1987 logo plastered the "Blue Mountain" on all but a select few episodes, as did the 1995 Domestic logo on much later U.S. syndication reruns after 1995.
 * It has also been spotted on Have Gun – Will Travel and Petticoat Junction on Me-TV and H&I, plastering any Viacom logos that may have been there previously, as well as The Wild Wild West on H&I, and more recently, Me-TV (black-and-white episodes of Petticoat Junction use CTD while current color prints of The Wild Wild West use the CBS/Paramount "Wallpaper" logo though french airings overseas retain this logo). CBS Justice airings Gunsmoke one episode during the 1987 Paramount fanfare. This was also used on USA Network's airings of the 1st 4 seasons of Nash Bridges (after the Rysher Entertainment logo), though H&I airings plaster this logo with the CBS Television Distribution logo on seasons 1-4 and retain it on the last 2 seasons. It has also recently been spotted on one episode of Rawhide on H&I and at least one episode of The Phil Silvers Show on Decades that was broadcast on December 1, 2018. H&I airings of JAG also leave this logo intact. It was also intact on an episode of The Twilight Zone that aired on the Portuguese version of the USA Network and one episode of Hogan's Heroes on Forces TV in the United Kingdom and First Blood on syndication with fanfare at the end followed by Trifecta Entertainment & Media logo.

Editor's Note : It's mostly a still shot of the 1986 movie logo, which is fine enough. It also began Paramount's full time practice of using their movie logo as their de-facto television logo. However, the 75th Anniversary was largely wasted, as it only appeared on late 1987 episodes of Entertainment Tonight, while other shows during the period would instead use the standard Gulf+Western variation, before its use on films in 1988. In addition, this logo (mostly the 1995 variants) was notorious at the time for its prevalence of plastering older logos, mainly ones from Paramount TV and Viacom. Despite the stigma, this would end up paling in comparison to CBS Television Distribution when it debuted in 2007 and plastered logos on a bigger scale.Originally, this logo was changed to the final logo in 2002; however, on The Dead Zone, the 1995 network variant was kept until 2006.

===7th Logo (In-credit variant) (1987-1989)=== Logo : Just an in-credit text that says:

Distributed by ———————— Paramount Television Domestic Distribution, Inc.

FX/SFX : None.

Music/Sounds : The closing theme to the show.

Availability : Extinct. Appeared on the first two seasons of Geraldo, which, like other talk shows, is never reran after their original broadcast run finishes.

8th Logo (7th official logo) (February 2002-August 27, 2006)
Nicknames : "CGI Mountain II", "Ultra Majestic Mountain", "2000s Mountain"

Logo : We see only the finished product of the 2002 movie logo, with the movement of the clouds being the only animation.

Variants :


 * The 90th Anniversary version was used from February through December 2002.
 * Just like the 6th logo, this logo exists in both 4:3 and 16:9.
 * Just like the 7th logo; when the logo is shown closer, it's from Paramount Network Television. However, if it's further away, it's from Paramount Domestic Television.
 * There was a still shot of the domestic version, Seen a Lifetime and Cozi TV airing Frasier and syndie airings Montel and a PlutoTV print Sabrina The Teenage witch.
 * There is also a silent version of this logo.
 * On the short-lived drama Blind Justice, it shows a portion of the end of the animated movie logo.
 * On Entertainment Tonight and The Insider, when the ending credits crossfade to the logo, the logo is still for a split second, then when the fanfare plays, the clouds start moving
 * A filmed version of the 2003 Domestic logo exists.
 * A rare superimposed version of the 90th Anniversary variant was used on 2002 episodes of Entertainment Tonight.

FX/SFX : Only the clouds moving westward in the background, except on Blind Justice which shows the end animation from the movie logo.

Music/Sounds : The same 1987 theme from the 6th logo or silence.

Music/Sounds Variants :
 * Like the 6th logo, the 1989 version of the theme is used on most shows from Paramount Domestic Television. However, on some shows from PDT, like Dr. Phil, Montel, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider and Hot Ticket, the original 1987 version is used.
 * Also like the 6th logo, on network shows with 5.1 surround sound, like Frasier and Becker, the fanfare is slightly re-orchestrated.
 * Some shows from Paramount Network Television, like NUMB3RS, Threshold and season 2 of The 4400, use the 1989 version of the theme on the Network logo.
 * The most common short version of the theme has all 6 notes of the 1987 theme playing, with the last note being shorter.
 * Some shows like the first two episodes of season 2 of NUMB3RS and original UPN airings of seasons 2 through 5 of One on One use the last 4 notes of the 1987 theme.
 * Strangely, episode 2 of season 2 of One on One on Netflix and Bounce TV used the aforementioned variant, while all other episodes used the short 6-note theme.
 * The fanfare is played in mono on Second Time Around, Everybody Hates Chris, South Beach, the TV movie Comfort & Joy, and season 1 episodes of Girlfriends on TV One and Cleo TV.
 * S1 DVD episodes of Taxi use the 1978 Paramount Television theme.
 * A generic variant of this logo with the 2006-2009 CBS Paramount Television theme was spotted on one episode of Everybody Hates Chris on Nick @ Nite.
 * The DVD prints of season one of Laverne & Shirley use the 1975 Paramount Television theme.
 * On Me-TV airing one episode Laverne & Shirley using 1981 Blue Mountain music background then plays 1987 theme.
 * On some shows, like Judge Judy from mid-season 6 to mid-season 10, the end theme of the show is heard.
 * Andy Richter Controls the Universe used the Fox generic theme in 2002 when it aired on Fox.

Availability : Although this logo is falling victim to plastering (by way of the CBS Paramount Domestic/Network Television or CBS Television Distribution logos), it's still common.
 * It still appears on reruns of several shows, such as pre-2006 episodes of Girlfriends on WE tv and BET (plastered on DVD), the first 3 seasons of NCIS on USA Network before falling to compressed credits which use the CBS Television Studios logo, Frasier on Lifetime and Hallmark Channel and on the DVDs of seasons 10 and 11, One on One on BET, Sabrina the Teenage Witch on Antenna TV and when last seen on Hub Network (except season 6, before the rebrand to Discovery Family), Everybody Hates Chris on Nick @ Nite, TeenNick, BET, and local syndication, The Parkers on BET, Soul Food: The Series on TV One (plastered on DVD), Blind Justice on Sleuth, 2004 syndicated late-night airings of Perry Mason Returns, which followed the 1990 Viacom "Wigga Wigga" logo, and syndicated reruns of the first two seasons of Numb3rs, followed by the CBS Television Distribution logo. Also appeared at the end of a 2016 Showtime 2 broadcast of Universal Soldier. The final show to use this logo was Deadwood.
 * The 90th Anniversary variation is uncommon and can be seen on 2002 episodes of One on One on TeenNick, Star Trek: Enterprise on Syfy, and 2002 episodes of Frasier on Hallmark Channel and Netflix, but not on DVD, it was also seen on an episode of Clueless and seen on local reruns of Nash Bridges. It also appeared on several first-run syndicated shows which were Entertainment Tonight, Dr. Phil, Judge Judy (mid-seasons 6-10), and Montel. This was also seen on Becker when it was last shown on WGN America and on H&I's of 2002 episodes of JAG and 2002 episodes Sabrina the Teenage Witch (used the 90th logo) and Star Trek: Voyager on syndication As seen Channel 4+1 airing Frasier (because the 2002 90th Anniversary logo is shown) and also 2002 syndie airings Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
 * As for the Paramount Domestic Television variant, it survives on Deadwood on Audience Network on DirecTV and on reruns of Judge Joe Brown on Bounce TV. This logo has been used to either follow or plaster older logos on some reruns of some shows such as The Andy Griffith Show (following the 1951 CBS logo), Laverne & Shirley (plastering the 1975 and 1995 logos), and Hogan's Heroes on the recently nationally-expanded Me-TV reruns. Seasons 2-4 of Star Trek: Enterprise on DVD and streaming (at least Netflix) retain this logo, while they are replaced by the CBS Television Distribution logo on the 2013-14 Blu-ray sets.

Editor's Note : This is the final Paramount logo seen on television until six years later.

Copyright Stamps : Here is some information about the copyright stamps on the Paramount TV series:
 * 1968-1990: Copyright © [YEAR] by Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
 * 1985-1988: © [YEAR] by Paramount Domestic Television and Video Programming. All Rights Reserved.
 * 1990-2006: Copyright © [YEAR] by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
 * 2006: Copyright © [YEAR] by CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.