Paramount Television

1st Logo (September 1, 1914-April 27, 1919)
Nicknames: "Still Mountain"

Logo: Same as the theatrical 1914 logo.

FX/SFX: Same as the 1914 theatrical counterpart.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Near extinction. Spotted on The Roaring Road.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (December 7, 1919-July 26, 1930)
Nicknames: "Still Mountain II"

Logo: Same as the theatrical 1917 logo.

FX/SFX: Same as the 1917 theatrical counterpart.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Ultra rare. Seen on Victory.

Editor's Note: None.

3rd Logo (August 2, 1930-February 1952, October 11, 1993)
Nicknames: "Still Mountain III"

Logo: Same as the theatrical 1927 logo.

Variants:
 * On The Silent Enemy, the camera settles at a higher angle at the end.
 * A videotaped version of this logo was seen on Flaming Feather.
 * Sometimes, the logo would be tinted in orange-red (from October 18, 1935-March 21, 1942), orange-yellow (from November 8, 1930-May 2, 1931) or blue-gray (from August 2, 1930-October 25, 1935 and April 2, 1942-December 6, 1951).
 * Sometimes, Picture is replaced with Release.
 * In 1946, the colors in the logo were changed.
 * In 1950, the logo was slightly enhanced.

FX/SFX: Same as the 1927 theatrical counterpart.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 1937 Warner Bros. Pictures logo and the 6th logo.

Availability: Rare.
 * On current prints that Universal owns from the MCA package, the 1997 or 2012 Universal logo precedes it.
 * This logo with the fanfare makes a surprise appearance on the 1993 unaired pilot Gloria Vane, aired on October 11, 1993.

Editor's Note: None.

4th Logo (April 12, 1952-May 24, 1954)
Nicknames: "Still Mountain IV"

Logo: Same as the theatrical 1950 logo.

FX/SFX: Same as the 1950 theatrical counterpart.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 1937 Warner Bros. Pictures logo and the 6th logo.

Availability: Extremely rare. It was first seen on Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick, released on April 12, 1952. It was also seen on the Season 3 finale of I Love Lucy: The Sublease, aired on May 24, 1954.

Editor's Note: None.

5th Logo (1954-1976)
Nicknames: "Still Mountain V"

Logo: Same as the theatrical 1953 logo, although it could be either matted or cropped to fit TV screens.

Variants: Everytime the theatrical counterpart was updated, this logo was updated. However, the "A Paramount Picture" version reappeared in a 1969 film called "Hello Down There" and the 1968 version without the registered trademark "®" symbol reappeared on the fifth episode of The Lost Islands.

FX/SFX: Same as the 1953 theatrical counterpart.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 1937 Warner Bros. Pictures logo and the 6th logo

Music/Sounds Variants:


 * 1968-1969: A majestic 7-note horn fanfare.
 * 1969-1970: An extended version of Frontiere's "Closet Killer" jingle; at least two arrangements are known to exist.
 * 1970-1971: A fast-paced piece composed by Lalo Schifrin.
 * 1971-1972: A soft extended horn-driven variation of the Schifrin arrangement introduced in the previous logo.
 * 1972-1976: generally the closing theme of the show, or none at all.

Availability: Rare.

Editor's Note: None.

6th Logo (January 1-September 1968)
Nicknames: "Rising Circle", "Iris-in Circle", "Dark Mountain", "Changing Paramount Text", "Gulf+Western Mountain"

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.

Main 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.

Other Variant: A B&W variant exists on 16mm prints of said colors.

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

Music/Sounds: The two main themes from the 1966 Desilu Productions logo. The battling loud version of the fanfare was only used in early 1968, typically for the bylineless variant.

Music/Sounds Variant: A high tone variant exists for both themes, which is generally heard on PAL prints of shows.

Availability: Very rare as this was short-lived, but it is not too difficult to find.
 * It was seen on Mannix and early 1968 episodes of Mission: Impossible on ALN (now Youtoo America) and is intact on DVD releases of the show.
 * It can also be seen on videocassettes of Star Trek episodes aired during that time period.
 * The last 10 episodes of The Lucy Show also had this logo and it is retained on the S6 DVD release.
 * 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.

7th Logo (September 1968-December 20, 1969)
Nicknames: "Split Rectangle", "Yellow Split Rectangle", "Benevolent Rectangle", "The Closet Killer", "The Bumper Sticker", "Split Box", "Gulf+Western Mountain II"

Logo: Against a yellow background is a blue rectangle which is split into two sections; the left and the larger rectangle contains the words:

PARAMOUNT TELEVISION A DIVISION OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION

Besides the last line, all are set in Eurostile font (the company byline appears to be set in Trade Gothic font). "PARAMOUNT" has the largest typeface, and the other two lines are progressively smaller. On the smaller right side of the rectangle is a Paramount logo with a blue border and white mountain. The picture zooms-up to the logo, which kind of looks like a blue and white version of the "Rising Circle" logo ("A Gulf+Western Company" and copyright message appears at the bottom of the white mountain) except the word " Television " is not present. Also, the copyright stamp appears when the picture zooms in.

Trivia: A similar version of this and the next logo were used as the print logo for Paramount's record division of the time, Dot Records, from 1968 to 1971.

Variants:
 * There was a variation seen on Here's Lucy in which the mountain has no bylines or copyrights.
 * Around September-November 1968, the word "CORPORATION" is missing on the rectangle on some shows.
 * Star Trek has a special variant with Norway Corporation credited.
 * On shows like Mission: Impossible and Mannix and TV movies, this logo appears with the copyright only. This will linger on through the first 2 months of M:I's 4th season and Mannix 's 3rd season, as the first 4 episodes didn't feature the copyright on the ending theme just yet.
 * On some late '90s PAX TV airings of season 1 episodes of Here's Lucy, this logo (along with the Lucille Ball Productions and Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, Cable & Network Features logos {the latter replacing the Telepictures "Rollercoaster"}) was played at warp-speed before the compressed credits. On other airings on the same network, the logos would cross-fade into the next one before fading to black.
 * An in-credit version with " in association with " above the print logo with the byline can be seen on 1968-69 episodes of the game show You Don't Say!.

FX/SFX: The sudden zoom-in.

Music/Sounds:


 * September 1968-1969: A majestic 7-note horn fanfare.
 * September-December 1969: The music from the next logo.

Availability: Extremely rare, as it is usually not intact on many common prints of the TV shows it was on.
 * This was seen on Mission: Impossible on ALN (now Youtoo America), season 3 of both Mannix and Star Trek 's 1999/2004 Paramount DVD releases, several Star Trek episodes on CBS's YouTube channel and when they were aired on TV Land, as well as the 1969 TV movies The Immortal (which is intact on current DVDs), The Young Lawyers, and Seven in Darkness.
 * It is intact on season 1 of Here's Lucy on Amazon Prime Video.

Editor's Note: This logo resembles a bumper sticker, which could be a tongue-in-cheek reference to Paramount's then owner at the time.

8th Logo (September 1969-1975, October 10, 1988-May 14, 1990, October 1, 2012-February 19, 2013)
Nicknames: "Split Rectangle II", "Red Split Rectangle", "Malevolent Rectangle", "The Closet Killer II", "Bumper Sticker II", "Split Box II", "Gulf+Western Mountain III"

Logo: Same appearance as the 4th logo except the background is red, the larger rectangle is blue, the Paramount mountain and the stars around it mountain are blue, and the smaller rectangle is white (the mountain is cut off at the bottom in this version). The zoom on the square is still intact.

Variants:


 * The placement of the registered trademark "®" symbol is either close to or under the last star on the right side of the near-circle.
 * A version exists with the Paramount copyright. This was seen between 1969-1971.
 * On Mission: Impossible, Mannix, and some TV movies from the era, this logo appears with the copyright only.
 * A still variant with the text "IN ASSOCIATION WITH" above exists on The Brady Kids. Later episodes had "IN ASSOCIATION WITH AND DISTRIBUTED BY" above it instead.

FX/SFX: Same as the previous logo.

Music/Sounds:


 * 1969: An 8-note horn-driven jingle written by Dominic Frontiere a.k.a. "The Closet Killer". Notes 4-7 are louder. This applied to most of the 1969 fall season.
 * 1969-1971: An alternate "Closet Killer" theme. This one is noticeably slower with the first three notes and faster for the rest.
 * 1970-1974: An 8-note sped-up, tinkly horn fanfare, composed by Lalo Schifrin. Known only as the "Color ID".
 * 1972-1975: A thick pounding drum rendition of the Schifrin fanfare.
 * 1974-1975: A more dramatic rendition, sometimes referred to as the "Pound & Drop" version. This signature will eventually be redone for the then-upcoming "Blue Mountain" logo.

Music/Sounds Variants:


 * An extreme high tone version of the "Closet Killer" was used.
 * On the first episode of The Magician, it used a sped-up version of the 1972 music variation heard in the next logo.
 * When TBS aired The Brady Bunch around the late 1980s or early 1990s, one S1 episode had the first version of the "Closet Killer" in low-tone.
 * On the War of the Worlds TV series episode "Eye for an Eye" on its DVD release, it uses the 1987 fanfare, due to a reverse plastering error.
 * In rare cases, it used the closing theme of the show/movie or was silent, such as the 1973-74 animated Star Trek series and the 1975 TV movie The Legend of Lizzie Borden.
 * An off-sync variant was spotted on an episode of The Brady Bunch. The "Closet Killer" music would begin during the black screen between the credits and the logo, before the logo appears. As a result, part of the logo was silent.

Availability: Uncommon.


 * This was seen on Mission: Impossible on ALN (now Youtoo America) and on a number of shows and TV movies, but a lot of it have been replaced with either the 6th, 8th, or a later logo (mostly CTD currently). An example of this would be the "The Complete Series" DVDs of The Brady Kids, which plaster this logo with the CBS Television Distribution logo.
 * The 1969 versions are rare and it can be seen on The Brady Bunch DVD box sets, as well as on Me-TV airings of the show. It's also intact on The Odd Couple on DVD, Me-TV and Decades. Me-TV airings of Love, American Style have this as well.
 * The 1970 version is uncommon. This version has been spotted on all S1 episodes of the 1989 War of the Worlds TV series on its DVD release, as well as The Immortal, Longstreet on DVD, season 1 of The Odd Couple on DVD and Me-TV, local reruns of Love, American Style (such as airings on Decades and Me-TV), and The Brady Bunch on DVD and Me-TV airings. This variant was "revived" on What Was Carol Brady Thinking?, part of the former NickMom block on Nick Jr.
 * The 1972 version is rare and was spotted on S1 and some S2 episodes Happy Days episodes, which includes the season 1 DVD boxset, Me-TV and older Discovery Family airings in the US (latter of which was called Hub Network at the time), as well as UK Gold airings in the UK. Other shows where this has been spotted on is The Magician on DVD, season 1 of Petrocelli on DVD and older airings on AXN Crime, and The Brady Bunch on DVD and Me-TV airings.
 * The 1974 version is extinct and was only spotted on episodes of The Odd Couple, and was plastered with the 1995 Domestic logo.
 * The silent version can be seen on a few programs like The Devil's Daughter and The Legend of Lizzie Borden, which are retained on their DVD releases. The animated Star Trek series also has this, which has been seen on Netflix, DVD and Blu-ray box sets, and recent H&I (Heroes and Icons) prints. Not all prints have this, as some plaster it with the 1995 Domestic logo.
 * The bylineless version is extremely rare and was recently spotted on a 1970 episode of The Brady Bunch on Me-TV and on the Mission: Impossible S6 episode "Blues" on Decades.

Editor's Note: Same as above. Of the two "Split Box" logos, it's the more recognizable version that's also infamous by some viewers for its animation and early Frontiere themes. Also, the 1970 theme would become Paramount's de-facto television theme for the following 17 years.

9th Logo (September 9, 1975-1988)
Nicknames: "Late 1970s Mountain", "1980s Mountain", "Blue Mountain", "Gulf+Western Mountain V"

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 is the Gulf+Western byline in the same alignment as its movie counterpart. The word " Television " comes from the right and slides in below " Paramount ". Same alignment as the 3rd logo.

Variants:


 * This comes with or without a registered trademark "®" symbol under the right side of the near-circle.
 * This exists as both filmed and videotaped versions.
 * By around 1982, a new version of the Paramount Television logo is released utilizing the standard template of the main logo with all 5 indentations intact. As a result, the word " Television " overlaps the tip. You may notice on this that the portion of the "Television" logo that touches the mountain peak is a brighter white; this is due to "chroma-keying," per Benjamin Edge on Club CBS Television Studios on Facebook.
 * Depending on the film quality, the colors may vary from dark blue, all the way to a whitish-blue color. It has even been spotted in a reddish tint on the CBS DVD/VEI release of Petrocelli, specifically on the print of the season 2 episode "Face of Evil". A similar red-tinted version was found on a Me-TV airing of Happy Days season 6 episode "Kid Stuff", which mostly effected the white parts of the logo.
 * In the later usage of this logo, Paramount used some videotape trickery on some of their prints with this logo. Instead of letting the film clip roll as usual, what they do is show the still of the logo with just " Paramount " showing. Then it quickly fades into the animation of " Television " sliding in from the right, which then reverts back into a still image (this time, of the completed animation). This can be seen on the first two seasons of MacGyver, a few early episodes of Friday the 13th: The Series, the short-lived revival The New Love, American Style, the CBS sitcom The Cavanaughs, and the TV movie The Jesse Owens Story.
 * A similar variation to the one above exists of the filmed variant becoming a still image after " Television " slides to its place, and the logo fades to black slower than usual.
 * On the first episode of Webster in 1983, instead of the bombastic 1982 logo with " Television " sliding in in front of the mountain, the standard version (with " Television " coming into its usual place between " Paramount " and the mountain) is used, with the 1981 sounder.
 * On The Brady Brides, a still variant of this logo (without the sliding word " Television ") was used.
 * Another still variant exists with " Television " present. This was spotted on an USA Network airing of The Associates episode "The Censors".
 * On the first two episodes of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, an in-credit variant was seen. On top is the text "Produced in association with PARAMOUNT TELEVISION", and below it is the print logo with the G+W byline in one line inside a square.

FX/SFX: The word "Television" sliding in.

Music/Sounds: A slower version of the Lalo Schifrin jingle which was first heard with 5th logo. There were many variations of this jingle throughout the '70s and '80s. There is also one completely different theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith used in 1977. A brief explanation of the jingles goes as follows:


 * September 9, 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.
 * 1977-1979: Redone version of Jerry Goldsmith's jingle, sounding a little slower and more majestic.
 * 1978-1980: Slowed down version of the Schifrin jingle.
 * 1979-1988: The infamous medium tempo version with a xylophone in the background.
 * 1980-1983: Slower, xylophone driven version.
 * December 8, 1981: A rare version of the 1979 variation in which the xylophone has been made more apparent. This jingle 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 which ends in a harp flourish. There has been other slight variations of this theme, and is most commonly found on Family Ties.
 * 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.
 * A stereo version of the aforementioned theme exists, and can be heard on shows like Cheers, All is Forgiven, and The Tortellis.
 * September 22, 1986-May 4, 1987: 2 different reverberated versions were used, and was heard only on season 2 episodes of MacGyver.

Music/Sounds Variants:


 * This logo was used with the 1972 "Split Rectangle II" 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:
 * The 1967 Desilu jingle (on episodes aired after January 1, 1968)
 * The 1968 Split Rectangle music (season 2)
 * The 1969 Split Rectangle music (both music versions; season 3 and part of season 4)
 * The 1970 Split Rectangle music (seasons 4-5)
 * The 1972 Split Rectangle music (seasons 6-7 and most of the final season)
 * The 1974 Split Rectangle music (early final season episodes - specifically the fall 1974 period)


 * In exceptional cases, the closing theme of the show or TV movie or nothing at all was used.
 * The first few notes of the 1982 logo played on the last few seconds of The Georgian Bay Ltd. logo on a few episodes of Webster DVD's, such as the S2 episode "The Uh-Oh Feeling."
 * An unknown show had a Moog theme playing over it.

Availability: Uncommon.


 * It's been spotted on Family Ties and most episodes of Happy Days when last seen on Hub Network (now Discovery Family), INSP TV, and Me-TV. It was seen on some episodes of Friday the 13th: The Series on Chiller (but not on DVD, nor on local airings), the first two seasons of MacGyver on Cloo, Me-TV and Netflix, and on the first and second season DVD releases of MacGyver from Paramount Home Entertainment. It also appears on recent DVD releases of the first four 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 a few S2 episodes and the entire 4th season would use the 1982 tall-peaked variant, though on some international reruns and DVD episodes, it would use the standard version).
 * Other programs it was seen on was 1981-1987 episodes of Solid Gold (the silent 1995 Domestic logo plasters over this logo on VH1 airings from 1998-99), DVD releases of Angie, Best of the West, Future Cop, The Bad News Bears, The Powers of Matthew Star, season 2 of Petrocelli (on DVD and on AXN Crime airings), Having Babies III on Amazon Prime Video, and The Winds of War miniseries on DVD.
 * This logo is also retained on the DVD's and Blu-rays of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (the 1979 BBC TV series) and its sequel Smiley's People, as well as the short-lived Leslie Nielsen sitcom Police Squad! and the 1980 miniseries Shōgun.
 * Internationally, this logo also made a surprise appearance at the end of Australian airings of some episodes of both Mork & Mindy and Laverne & Shirley, as well as an episode of Taxi.
 * On VHS, this is retained on Mork & Mindy Vol. 1 (and possibly other volumes) and the silent version can be found on the VHS and the PAL DVD release of A Woman Called Golda.
 * It is unknown if this was seen on 1970s/1980s prints of The Lucy Show.
 * Paramount (Viacom) has plastered this logo with either the 1995 or 2003 Domestic logos on one local rerun episode of Cheers from S5 called "Norm's First Hurrah" and Aussie airings of most season 5 episodes of said show retained this logo. However, any new prints on local broadcast and later DVD prints would have this logo replaced by the CBS Television Distribution logo.
 * The tall-peaked variant with the 1979 jingle has been spotted on the Happy Days S5 episode "The Apartment", the 1983 Australian miniseries Return to Eden, and some season 5 episodes of Taxi like "Arnie Meets the Kids".

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

10th Logo (May 5, 1987-August 27, 2006)
Nicknames: "CGI Mountain", "Majestic Mountain II", "Mountain of Monotony", "'90s Mountain", "Star Wars Mountain", "Gulf+Western Mountain VI", "Viacom Mountain", "Still Mountain II"

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:


 * September 13, 1987-October 1989: "A Gulf + Western Company" (aligned similarly to the last logo)
 * October 1989-May 23, 1995: " A Paramount Communications Company " with a line above the byline. From October 1989-May 21, 1992 and September 12, 1994-January 27, 1995, the byline was in gold . From September 17, 1990-May 23, 1995, the byline was in white.
 * February 6, 1995-August 27, 2006: "A VIACOM COMPANY" (styled after Viacom's logo of the era), with a line above the byline.

Variants:


 * A variant of this logo with the " 75th Anniversary " text appeared on late 1987 episodes of Entertainment Tonight.
 * At the end of a 1987 outtake reel of Star Trek: The Next Generation, this variant was shown first as a still picture, then the logo was seen animating in reverse, beginning with the " 75th Anniversary " text fading out and continuing to the stars rolling and flying away. The logo then cuts to a clip of another mountain exploding from an episode of said show. The last episode of the second season of MacGyver has the prototype 75th Anniversary variant.
 * There is a special bylineless version which appears on a Star Trek: Voyager special and on the opening of some episodes from Cinar's (now "WildBrain") The Busy World of Richard Scarry.
 * This logo can be in 4:3 or 16:9 (only the 1995 network variant has a 16:9 variation, which debuted in 1999).
 * 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.
 * Strangely, some network TV shows from 1995-2002 used the Network logo for Paramount Domestic Television.
 * There is a grayscale variation of the 1995 Domestic logo seen on black & white syndicated reruns such as on The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons, The Beverly Hillbillies, and The Honeymooners on TV Land, and mid-90's prints of The Wild Wild West though most B&W shows use the color version (such as Have Gun, Will Travel prints and non-TV Land airings of B&W Gunsmoke episodes).
 * During the white-byline-Paramount Communications and Viacom eras, 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.
 * Similarly, the French version of Entertainment Tonight (known as Exclusif or Exclusif ce soir, and aired between 1998-2002 on TF1) has a split-screen variant with the Case Production logo (even using the sound of said logo) which is seen at the beginning and ending of the program.
 * On original NBC airings of Frasier and Wings, the logo is part of the split-screen credits; the stars, "Paramount" text and the byline are drastically smaller to fit inside of it. The Paramount Communications byline now spans across two lines here.
 * On The Busy World of Richard Scarry, the logo appeared at the beginning with the show's theme playing in the background, and the mountain fades into a mountain in the show.
 * 1987 episodes of Entertainment Tonight have the logo still for a second before the fanfare plays and the clouds start animating.
 * The 1999 variant was only seen in all episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog.
 * A bad Blue Mountain plastering error appeared once: the Blue Mountain logo started, but was cut off by this logo. This is most likely due to a bad plastering error.
 * The domestic version of this logo is zoomed in on 2000s prints of The Invaders.
 * The first two episodes of Season 3 of Friday the 13th: The Series had animated clouds on the 1989 gold Paramount Communications variant.
 * A filmed version exists.

FX/SFX:


 * 1987-1995: None.
 * 1987-1989; 1990-1995: Only the clouds moving westward in the background.
 * 1995-2006: (Network and domestic television): Same as first two.

Music/Sounds: A re-orchestrated version of the last six notes to Paramount Pictures' 1987 theatrical fanfare, which is a re-arrangement of Elsie Janis/Jack King's Paramount on Parade by Jerry Goldsmith, first heard on trailers for Paramount Pictures since 1976, and is in the key of B♭ major. (Lalo Schifrin is credited as composer of this theme on the Star Trek: Enterprise soundtrack.) It may remind some viewers of the Star Wars theme (hence the nickname "Star Wars Mountain"). There are two main versions of the theme. The second version, which officially debuted in 1989, has the first note of the fanfare and the last note's echo in a slightly lower pitch. Many of these logos are plastered onto old shows (mostly on TV Land airings, as well as TV movies) with the logo being silent.

Pre-1987 Paramount Television Music/Sounds Variants: As a result of poor attempts at plastering, each variant of the logo was spotted with the following themes from the 4th, 5th, and 7th logos:


 * 1987 logo with 1979 and 1980 themes, reportedly spotted on older Bosom Buddies reruns on TBS.
 * 1989 logo with gold byline with the 1970 and 1978 themes.
 * 1990 logo with 1970, 1972, 1976, 1978 and 1979 themes. The version with the 1976 theme was spotted on 90s prints of the TV movies Nero Wolfe and Delta Country U.S.A., the version with the 1978 theme was spotted on Me-TV's print of the Taxi episode "Jim and the Kid", and the version with the 1979 theme was spotted on an Australian airing of Taxi.
 * 1995 domestic logo with 1968, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982 themes. The 1978 theme variant was seen on most episodes of Mork & Mindy on Syfy, while a few had the 1981-B theme variant, an early 2000's airing of The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang episode "Westward Whoa!" on TV Land used the 1980 theme variant, and the 1968 theme variant was seen on a French airing of Mannix. Several reverse plaster spottings involving Blue Mountain jingles include Fox Family (now Freeform) airings of The Brady Brides, repeats of several Mork & Mindy episodes when they last aired on older Hub Network and Fox Family airings, and an early 2000's airing of The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang episode "Westward Whoa!" on TV Land.

Other Music/Sounds Variants:


 * On Judge Judy (season 4 to mid-season 6), Judge Joe Brown (seasons 2 & 3), the final 2 seasons of Judge Mills Lane in syndication (and on Pluto TV), the final 2 seasons of Nash Bridges, and The Adventures of Corduroy, the end themes would play over the 1995 Domestic or Network logo.
 * 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 and were the focus of the episode.
 * At the end of a 1987 outtake reel of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the last note from the 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series theme music (aka "Theme from Star Trek"), is heard, followed by the 1967 Desilu logo's music, the 1979 Paramount Television theme, and some suspenseful music sounding like the theme music from the 1975 film Jaws before finally concluding with an explosion sound.
 * A low-toned version was spotted on some episodes of Family Affair on Me-TV and Decades, which plastered older Viacom logos.
 * A version exists that has the last note of the theme cut short.
 * Another version exists that uses the last 4 notes of the theme.
 * On the 2001 remaster and HD remasters of Cheers, 2000s prints of The Love Boat, an episode of season 3 of 7th Heaven on Hulu, and seasons 2 through 6 of Charmed on DVD, the 1989 version of the theme is slightly re-orchestrated and has a different echo at the end.
 * On some episodes of Gomer Pyle, USMC when they were aired on Me-TV and possibly other shows formerly distributed by Viacom, the "V of Doom" music in warp-speed is heard with the 1995 domestic logo. Similarly, mid-1990s prints of Our Miss Brooks have the 1995 Domestic logo with a low-toned regular 1976 "V of Doom" reverse-plaster.
 * 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 1995 domestic logo due to sloppy plastering. The music would jarringly cut after the logo fades out.
 * Reportedly, TubiTV's print of the 1990 film Men at Work had the Viacom "Wigga Wigga" music with V/O play over the 1995 domestic logo due to sloppy plastering.
 * The first episode of The Invaders on a foreign DVD set had the 1995 domestic logo intact but with the 1988 Worldvision "Whoosh Globe" music playing over it due to sloppy plastering. This also was spotted on some early 2000s prints of The Love Boat episodes.
 * A February 2019 rerun of Nash Bridges on H&I used the CBS Television Distribution music with the 1995 Network logo. This is most likely a reverse plaster.
 * On a TV Land airing of the Happy Days episode "Guess Who's Coming to Christmas" in July 2003, a split second of the previous logo's music can be heard and it then abruptly cuts to the regular theme of this logo, probably because of a poor plastering job.
 * On syndicated airings of Taxi, the 1982 theme from the previous logo is heard faintly before it is cut off by this logo's fanfare.
 * One CBS Justice print of an episode of Gunsmoke had the Viacom "V of Doom" music play faintly under the 1995 Domestic version of this logo.
 * Network airings on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC used a generic theme instead.
 * On the 1988 game show Wipeout and the pilot of What's Alan Watching?, the 1987 theme is slightly re-orchestrated.
 * Starting in 1997 on network shows with 5.1 surround sound, like Frasier and Becker, the fanfare is slightly re-orchestrated.
 * Starting in 1995, most shows from Paramount Domestic Television used the 1989 version of the theme. However, on shows from PDT like Entertainment Tonight and Hard Copy, the 1987 version is used.
 * Season 1 episodes of Girlfriends had the fanfare played in mono.
 * The 1988 version of Mission: Impossible plays the 1989 version of the fanfare on this logo.
 * On at least one Season 8 episode of Happy Days, the 1979 fanfare is heard faintly on the 1995 Network logo.

Availability: Common. The 1995-2002 Viacom variation plastered over previous logos before being plastered by the CBS Television Distribution logo.


 * The Gulf+Western variation was once found on later Family Ties episodes (seen intact on recent airings such as those on Antenna TV), 1987-1989 Cheers episodes in syndication, and Friday the 13th: The Series on Chiller and certain episodes on Syfy. On Netflix, the Gulf+Western version has also turned up on the last 2 seasons of Family Ties (plastered on DVD), as well as seasons 3-4 and the first 4 season 5 episodes of MacGyver, which can also be seen on Pluto TV. 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 (episodes can be found on YouTube). This variation usually gets plastered with the Viacom variation.
 * The silent Viacom bylined 1995 logo was used to plaster Viacom logos. Since Viacom owns TV Land, many airings of Viacom shows had their logos plastered by this one. These prints are still used, and you may come across some of them if you watch some of these shows that TV Land had aired. Some of these shows include The Andy Griffith Show, the 1970 Harlem Globetrotters cartoon, Cannon, color Gunsmoke episodes (and even some black and white episodes), Petticoat Junction (also seen on Me-TV and H&I airings), Family Affair, Gomer Pyle USMC, Hawaii Five-O, I Love Lucy, My Three Sons, The Honeymooners, The Fonz & the Happy Days Gang, and The Beverly Hillbillies (these prints were also used for Nick at Nite airings). 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.
 * Non-TV Land programs that used the silent variant are Frasier on Lifetime, Hallmark Channel, and DVD box sets, Cheers on Hallmark Channel, Netflix, Me-TV, Reelz Channel, WGN America, and DVD prints up to season 8, the final season of Matlock (S8 DVDs use the CBS Television Distribution 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 prints, Mork & Mindy prints, Sabrina The Teenage Witch on Antenna TV and when last seen on Hub Network (before the rebrand to Discovery Family), The Dead Zone on Cloo, Me-TV airings of Taxi, The Odd Couple prints, a 2013 airing of Return to Mayberry (after the Viacom "V of Happiness"), 1998-99 VH1 airings of Solid Gold, Have Gun – Will Travel and The Wild Wild West airings on Me-TV and H&I (as well as The Wild Wild West airings on mid-1990's TNT airings, current FETV airings, and French-localized prints), USA Network's airings of the 1st 4 seasons of Nash Bridges (H&I airings of these seasons have the CBS Television Distribution logo, but is still found on the last 2 seasons when aired), Rawhide on H&I and Me-TV [though scarcely appearing], The Phil Silvers Show on Decades [also scarcely appearing], H&I airings of JAG (except seasons 3 and 4), Portuguese-localized The Twilight Zone episodes on USA Network [though scarcely], and Hogan's Heroes on Forces TV in the United Kingdom [though scarcely]. It was also seen on 2000 syndicated airings of some Sabrina the Teenage Witch episodes and is intact (with the end theme playing over) on Judge Mills Lane on Pluto TV.
 * 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.
 * 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 lasted until January 27, 1995, and during its lifespan was used on the syndicated 1994-1995 The New Price Is Right show, DVD and Netflix's prints of seasons 5-7 of MacGyver, the first season DVD of Wings, Get TV airings of The Boy Who Loved Christmas, and the 1993 unaired pilot Gloria Vane.
 * 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.
 * Star Trek: Enterprise season 1 reruns on Netflix and DVD retain the 1995 Viacom-byline logo, while they are replaced by the CBS Television Distribution logo on the 2013 Blu-ray set. This was also seen on the final 2 seasons (1st-run syndication-era) episodes of Webster.
 * This logo makes a surprise appearance with the fanfare on digital prints of Don't Give Up the Ship, the 1997 VHS release of It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown after the said special's closing credits and on a demo VHS tape of Boohbah: Comfy Armchair following the Dot variant of the PBS Kids Video logo.
 * This logo also apears on Exclusif Ce Soir, a short-lived French adaptation of Entertainment Tonight that used to be shown on the TF1 network.
 * An airing of the Star Trek episode "Coda" on Australian channel FOX Sci Fi retained the 1995 variant.
 * This logo is intact on the pilot episode of the UPN sitcom Girlfriends on Netflix (the rest of season 1 uses CBS Paramount Television).
 * Although the logo was updated in 2002, The Dead Zone still used the 1995 network variant until 2006.

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 version was largely wasted, as it only appeared on 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 wide prevalence during its lifespan, primarily due to plastering older logos, mainly ones from older Paramount TV and Viacom. Despite its notoriety, this would pale in comparison to the later CBS Television Distribution, which plastered logos on a larger scale.

11th Logo (In-credit variant) (September 7, 1987-1989)
Logo: Just in-credit text that reads:

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

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.

Availability: Extinct. Appeared on the first two seasons of Geraldo. It has been kept intact within prints available on the streaming service Nosey, but not with this logo.

Editor's Note: None.

12th Logo (September 24, 1999-April 14, 2000)
Nicknames: Millennium Paramountain

Logo: In a sunset environment, we see the Paramount mountain with the stars and company name in place, but without a byline. Several other mountains can be seen in the background. The camera then zooms in, working its way to the back of the mountain. Afterwards, we see a lens-flare effect, then the logo fades out.

Variant: On Virtual Nightmare, the logo is in black and white.

FX/SFX: The camera rotating, the lens flare effect. This was done by Pittard Sullivan.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 10th logo.

Availability: Rare. Only seen on Paramount's version of the fourth season of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Virtual Nightmare.

Editor's Note: This showcases nice CGI for its time. It also appears to be the base for the Paramount Classics logo, which virtually has the same animation albeit in reverse.

11th Logo (9th official logo) (May 2002-June 23, 2012)
Nicknames: "CGI Mountain II", "Mount Paramount", "2000s Mountain", "Star Wars Mountain II", "Viacom Mountain II", "Still Mountain III"

Logo: We see only the finished product of the 2002 movie logo, with the movement of the clouds being the only animation. Like the 6th 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.

Variants:


 * The 90th Anniversary version appeared from May 2002 through December of that year. A still version of this variant was seen on Montel, a prototype version of this variant was seen on the video game for The Sum of All Fears and a closer up version was seen at the end of a promo on the We Were Soldiers VHS.
 * Some shows with the 90th Anniversary version have the logo's colors appear enhanced.
 * Just like the 6th logo, this logo exists in both 4:3 and 16:9.
 * A 4:3 pan-and-scan version of the Network logo exists.
 * Also like the 6th logo, some shows broadcast in 4:3 strangely used the Domestic logo for Paramount Network Television.
 * There was a still shot of the Domestic version that was used on Montel as well as Lifetime, Cozi TV, and other syndicated airings of some episodes of Frasier.
 * A filmed version of the 2003 Domestic logo exists.
 * A filmed version of the 2003 Network logo also exists. It can be seen on shows like season 6 of Becker and the short-lived shows It's All Relative (on later episodes) and A Minute with Stan Hooper.
 * On Deadwood and the short-lived UPN sitcom Love, Inc., a still shot of the Network logo is used.
 * On some Paramount Network Television shows from 2004-2006, the clouds move at a slightly faster pace than the movie 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 credits crossfade to the logo, the logo is still for a split second, then when the fanfare plays, the clouds start moving.
 * A silent 4-second long version of this logo exists. It's basically the videotaped closing variant of the 2003 movie logo. A filmed version also exists.
 * On later season 4 and season 5 widescreen episodes of Becker and early episodes of It's All Relative, the logo is slightly zoomed in.
 * The normal version of the 90th Anniversary variant was only seen on the first episode of Codename: Kids Next Door.
 * On some shows from Paramount Domestic Television since 2008, the "Distributed By" text from the animated movie logo is shown.
 * On Season 1 of The Amazing World of Gumball, How to Be a Gentleman and mid-Season 9 of Dr. Phil, the Viacom byline is switched to it's 2006 font.

FX/SFX: Only the clouds moving westward in the background or none. On Blind Justice, it shows the end animation from the movie logo. Sometimes, the logo utilizes a simple fade in and fade out, like its movie counterpart. The fade transitions occur mostly on the Domestic version of the logo.

Music/Sounds: The same 1987 theme from the 8th 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 Season 1-early Season 9 of 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.
 * Television airings of Hey Arnold: The Movie and Rugrats Go Wild use the last 4 notes of the 1987 theme.
 * Season 2 of "One on One" also used the aforementioned variant.
 * 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.
 * On some shows, like Judge Judy from mid-season 6 to mid-season 10, the end theme of the show is heard.
 * S1 DVD episodes of Laverne & Shirley use the 1975 Paramount Television theme.
 * A Me-TV airing of an episode of Laverne & Shirley used the 1981 version of the 7th logo's fanfare before the 1987 fanfare cuts it off.
 * A Me-TV airing of the Laverne & Shirley episode "The Rock & Roll Show" uses the 1982 version of the 7th logo's fanfare.
 * Network airings on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC used a generic theme instead.
 * A variant of the network logo with the 2006-2009 CBS Paramount "Domestic" Television theme was spotted on one episode of Everybody Hates Chris on Nick at Nite, probably due to a reverse plastering error.
 * On Bounce TV airings of the December 1, 2004 and January 5, 2005 episodes of Judge Joe Brown, the CBS Television Distribution theme is played over the Domestic variant due to sloppy reverse plastering.

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 to find.


 * It still appears on reruns of several shows, such as pre-2006 episodes of Girlfriends on BET Her, TV One, Cleo TV, CW Seed and Netflix (plastered on DVD by CBS Paramount Domestic Television or CBS Television Distribution), the first 3 seasons of NCIS on USA Network before using compressed credits (which use the CBS Television Studios logo), Frasier on Lifetime and Hallmark Channel as well as the Complete 10th and 11th seasons DVD box sets, One on One on Bounce TV (as well as on Netflix), every season of Sabrina the Teenage Witch besides season 6 on Antenna TV, Fuse, and when it was last seen on Hub Network (before the re-brand of Discovery Family), Everybody Hates Chris on Fuse, The Parkers on BET and Centric, Soul Food: The Series on Aspire (plastered on DVD), Blind Justice on the now-defunct Sleuth network, 2004 syndicated late-night airings of Perry Mason Returns (which followed the 1990 Viacom "Wigga Wigga" logo), some syndicated reruns of the first two seasons of NUMB3RS (followed by the CBS Television Distribution logo) and Fox Reality Channel reruns "Maximum Exposure" (after the First Television and RTV News logos) and it surprisingly appeared at the end of a 2016 Showtime 2 broadcast of Universal Soldier. The final show to use this logo was Deadwood. The logo was previously seen on Nick @ Nite, TeenNick, and BET.
 * The 90th Anniversary variation is uncommon and can be seen on 2002 episodes of One on One on Bounce TV and Netflix, the first 4 episodes of Codename: Kids Next Door on Nickelodeon, Raising Dad on The WB, 2002 episodes of Do-Over on The WB, Star Trek: Enterprise on Syfy, Prime Video, Hulu and Netflix, 2002 episodes of Frasier on Hallmark Channel and Netflix (but not on DVD), Season 2 and 3 episodes of Girlfriends on TV One, Cleo TV and Netflix (season 2 is plastered by CBS Paramount Television on Netflix), a syndicated episode of Clueless, local reruns of Nash Bridges, later Season 6 episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch on Antenna TV, Becker on Pluto TV and when it was last shown on WGN America, and on H&I's airings of 2002 JAG episodes. This also appeared on several first-run syndicated shows which were Entertainment Tonight, Dr. Phil, Judge Judy (mid-season 6-10), and Montel.
 * The 2003 Paramount Network Television variant was seen on Codename: Kids Next Door and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
 * As for the 2003 Paramount Domestic Television variant, it used to be seen on Deadwood on the now-defunct Audience Network, and is currently seen on reruns of Judge Joe Brown on Bounce TV. This logo had 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), Hogan's Heroes on Me-TV reruns, the first episode of season 1 of Beverly Hills 90210 on Hulu (following the 1989 Worldvision Enterprises logo), syndicated airings of Sabrina the Teenage Witch (following the 1990 or 1999 Viacom Productions logos), and when SOAPnet (now Disney Junior) aired the pilot of Melrose Place.
 * Season 2-4 episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise on H&I, Paramount+, Prime Video, Netflix, Hulu, and DVD retain this logo (which is replaced by the CBS Television Distribution logo on the 2013-14 Blu-ray sets).
 * The version with the fanfare makes a surprise appearance at the end of the Dora the Explorer: It's a Party! VHS.

Editor's Note: Like the 8th logo, it's mostly a nearly still shot of the 2002 movie logo (because the background is still animating), which is fine enough. However, some people may confuse this logo with the closing logo of the movie counterpart, as the television counterpart sometimes fades in and fades out and is sometimes silent, while the movie counterpart is the same, but always happening and always silent. Also, it should be noted that the television logo debuted in February 2002, a month before the movie logo followed suit in March 2002, and this is the final Paramount logo seen on television until nearly six years later.

14th Logo (June 11, 2012-February 25, 2021)
Nicknames: "Mount Paramount II"

Logo: A still open matte version of the 2011 logo with the clouds moving.

FX/SFX: The clouds.

Variant: In 2012, the 100th anniversary text is on the logo.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 11th logo.

Availability: Extremely rare. Seen on some Paramount shows from 2012 to 2021. Also shown on Paramount Television's version of The Amazing World of Gumball and Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? on Nickelodeon.

Editor's Note: None.

15th Logo (September 14, 2021-)
Nicknames: "Mount Paramount III"

Logo: A still open matte version of the 2012 logo with the clouds moving.

FX/SFX: The clouds.

Variant: In 2012, the 100th anniversary text is on the logo.

Music/Sounds: Same as the 11th logo.

Music/Sounds Variant: Sometimes, the 2015 Paramount Television theme plays during the logo.

Availability: Current. First seen on Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Editor's Note: None.

Copyright Stamps
Here is some information about the copyright stamps on Paramount TV series:


 * 1914-1985: Copyright © [YEAR] by Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
 * 1985-1990: © [YEAR] by Paramount Domestic Television & 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.