Turner Home Entertainment

Logo descriptions by wisp2007

Logo captures by wisp2007 and V of Doom

Video captures courtesy of Joseph Sobora (TheRedBaron1985)

Background: Turner Home Entertainment, Inc. was founded on July 29, 1986 by Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System to distribute the RKO Radio Pictures library on videocassette and, from 1987 to 1999, license the pre-1986 MGM and pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries to MGM/UA Home Video. In 1994, when Turner bought out the New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment studios, Columbia TriStar Home Video sold the distribution rights of New Line Home Video releases to Turner Home Entertainment. Turner also handled the rights to shows by Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network, as well as PBS Home Video releases from 1994-1997, and video releases from World Championship Wrestling. In 1997, a year after Turner merged with Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery), Turner Home Entertainment was dissolved into Warner Home Video, although it remained in a limited fashion until 1999.

1st Logo (1986)

Logo: On a black background, we see the Turner logo zooming in with the part of the "T" longer. Below "urner" is "HOME ENTERTAINMENT."

FX/SFX: The zooming.

Music/Sounds: None

Availability: Only seen on the 1986 VHS of The Great American Bash.

Editor's Note: The logo looks like it's from the 1970s as the zoom-in is very rough. But this is a placeholder after all.

2nd Logo (1987-90)

Logo: On a dark red/black gradient background, the words "TURNER HOME ENTERTAINMENT", in a fancy blue font, fly from the top of the screen, stopping in the middle.

FX/SFX: Cheap all around.

Music/Sounds: A harsh, droning synth. It sounds identical to the music of the U.S.A. Home Video logo.

Music/Sounds Variant: A silent version exists.

Availability: Very rare.

• This logo can be seen on reprints of some RKO Home Video tapes and the original home video release of Laser Mission.
• The silent version appears during the documentary portion of WWE Home Video's Starrcade: The Essential Collection.

3rd Logo (January 23, 1991-1993)

Nickname: "The Filmstrip"

Logo: On a space background we see a blue filmstrip flying which becomes a blue light. Then the words "TURNER", "HOME" and "ENTERTAINMENT" Turner Home Entertainmentin the same font used in the previous logo and in CGI fly out one by one from the center of the screen and stop in the middle as a grass background appears.

Variants:

• The logo plays normally, but it is half-superimposed to a background with two men riding on horses during the evening time.
• An international version has the logo forming on a black background before a purple reflective sphere appears below it. "INTERNATIONAL" in spaced out plain white letters fades in, also having a reflection.
  • A still version set upon a black background exists. It was only used during a promo for Tom and Jerry Kids, which can be found on the 1992-94 UK video releases of The Banana Splits and Friends Show, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Fun with the Flintstones, and Scooby-Doo: What a Night for a Knight, among others.

FX/SFX: The filmstrip, the words flying. The space background seems detailed.

Music/Sounds: A chorus tune and a drumbeat, followed by four chorus notes when the words fly.

Music/Sounds Variant: Sometimes, the logo is silent, which is mostly on the international variant.

Availability: Rare.

• Seen on Turner video releases from the era, such as Reflections on Citizen Kane: Fifty Years and Tom & Jerry Kids tapes.
• The half-superimposed variant comes from a John Wayne promo on the VHS release of Montana.
• The "INTERNATIONAL" variant of this logo appears on UK releases from 1992-97, such as The Banana Splits and Friends Show, Top Cat: The Golden Fleecing, Yakky Doodle: Out of Luck, Duck, A Flintstone Family Christmas, Dastardly and Muttley: Home Sweet Homing Pigeon, Scooby-Doo: What a Night for a Knight, Yogi the Easter Bear, The Flintstones: Dino's Two Tales, Wacky Races: Bumper Edition, and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop: Bumper Edition from First Independent.

4th Logo (1993-November 17, 1998)

Nicknames: "Turner Mansion", "Tara on Techwood"

Logo: Same as the movie logo, only "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" replaces "PICTURES".

Variants:

• There is a still version of the logo that appeared on early releases. A different font is used as well.
• Some promos would have the mansion in an oval, just like the print logo.
• Another promo variant exists where it has the mansion in the oval but after the animation ends, the Turner Home Entertainment text turns brown just like the Turner Pictures logo. This can be found on the 1996 VHS of Jonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects.
• There is another promo variant where it has the regular logo but it's still and has has "Also from" above it. It can be found on the 1996 VHS of Classic Jonny Quest.
• A variant exists where "Coming Soon To Home Video From..." in yellow appears in a black background, then it fades to the Turner Home Entertainment logo.
• A variant where the logo is next to the Hanna-Barbera logo exists.
• Another variant exists where the logo is small during a promo.
• Yet another promo variant exists where in a yellow-blue gradient background, we see "And now an important message from KINDERVISION AND TURNER HOME ENTERTAINMENT", along with the mansion animating like usual.

FX/SFX: Same as the movie logo.

Music/Sounds: Same as the movie logo.

Music/Sounds/Variants: The still version is silent. The version with the oval and the text turning brown has a "rattling" noise, followed by a cartoony "plunk" sound effect. The "Coming Soon To Home Video From..." variant has an announcer but no background music.

Availability: More prolific than the movie logo, but still rare.

• It can be seen on several early-mid-Nineties Cartoon Network Video tapes, which are your best bet as several were released in the channel's early years (with some remaining in print after the Time Warner merger).
• New Line Home Video releases from 1995-96 have this logo too, such as Mortal Kombat, Safe Passage, Sev7n, The Mask, Dumb and Dumber, Friday, The Adventures of Pinocchio, and Pie in the Sky. This also appears on The Swan Princess and WCW releases from 1993-98.
• Also seen on 1994-97 PBS Home Video releases such as Adventures from the Book of Virtues and Baseball.
• The still version is seen on most RKO Video Collection releases from this period, as well as some Flintstones tapes, In Search of Dr. Seuss, and Gettysburg.
• The "Coming Soon To Home Video from..." variant is seen on the VHS of Timeless Tales: The Emperor's New Clothes.
• The variants with the Hanna-Barbera logo are seen on promos for Hanna-Barbera releases.
• The Kindervision variant can be seen in a promo on the VHS of A Flintstones Christmas Carol.