Sonnenfeld Josephson Worldwide Entertainment

Background : This is Barry Sonnenfeld and Barry Josephson's production company. It was later shut down and the team split. Sonnenfeld formed Right Coast Productions, while Josephson formed Josephson Entertainment.

(August 4, 1998-April 5, 2002)

Logo : We zoom out from a counting-down screen to a field with a blue sky above and a tree line far away. Then we keep zooming out to the faces of the company's co-founders shown in the left and right halves of the edge. The countdown screen goes to 2 and switches off, and some paper litter rolls the field, as we zoom out on a white background to see the text "Sonnenfeld", near the top left corner of the scene (now enclosed in a box), "Josephson" at the bottom right edge of the logo, and "worldwide entertainment" below.

Variants :


 * On The Crew and Big Trouble, the logo is slowed down, showing the complete countdown animation and the ending scene is inverted.


 * On The Tick, a widescreen version of the normal logo exists, with white vertical lines shown while the logo is animating, before the faces appear.


 * On Maximum Bob, and earlier episodes of the 1998 revival of Fantasy Island, the words "in association with" is shown below the logo as the countdown disappears.

FX/SFX : The animated countdown, clouds and paper.

Music/Sounds : A 3-note guitar tune combined with ticking and a sudden beep.

Music/Sounds Variants :


 * On Big Trouble, the logo is silent.


 * Original ABC airings of Fantasy Island used a generic theme.


 * On The Crew, the opening theme plays over the logo.


 * On Secret Agent Man, the logo's theme is in standard, high, low, and very low tones, depending on the episode.


 * On one episode of Secret Agent Man, if you look closely, the Columbia TriStar Television theme appears when the logo appears, then it cuts midway to the normal logo's theme.

Availability : The TV version appeared on Maximum Bob, the 1998 revival of Fantasy Island, Secret Agent Man and the 2001 version of The Tick. The movie version appeared on The Crew and at the end of Big Trouble.

Editor's Note : None.