Dan Curtis Productions

1st Logo
(1966-1971)

Nickname: "DCP"

Logo: Scrolling up in the credits of Dark Shadows, we see a superimposed logo with stylized text (the first letters of each word are in boxes) as follows:

Dan

Curtis

Productions, inc.

copyright © (year)

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Variants:


 * On some 1970-71 episodes, a text-only version was used as follows:

DAN CURTIS

PRODUCTIONS, INC.

copyright © year


 * Another variation, seen on the 1969 TV movie Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon, is like the stylized-text version used on Dark Shadows, except this copyright disclaimer is used:

© MCMLXIX DONNYBROOK PRODUCTIONS, INC.

All rights reserved

FX/SFX: The text scrolling.

Music/Sounds: The end theme of Dark Shadows, and/or a deep voice-over with a echo/stutter-like effect saying, "Dark Shadows is a Dan Curtis Production."

Availability: Found on all episodes of the original Dark Shadows TV series, which ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971.

2nd Logo
(1973-75)

Logo: An in-credit text that reads:

A

DAN

CURTIS

PRODUCTION

(IN ASSOCIATION WITH)

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The end-title theme.

Availability: Seen on the TV movies The Norliss Tapes and Kansas City Massacre.

3rd Logo
(1991-1992)

Logo: An in-credit text that reads as "DAN CURTIS PRODUCTIONS, INC." with the text "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" in a smaller font below.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The end-title theme.

Availability: Rare. It was only seen on the short-lived Dark Shadows: The Revival.