40 Years From Desilu To CBS Paramount: 1966-2006

[hambre1979dodge]

Para servir a usted 0:36

[hambre1979dodge]

1987 Mission imposible de paramount

[MrCTelevision]

The logo at 1:47 is taken from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

[hambre1979dodge]

bien de mi vida

[MJandST2926]

CBS Paramount: seen after Criminal Minds, as well as ABC Studios :D

[hambre1979dodge]

desilu y paramount tv

[westport17782010]

aahhh... The Old Classic Paramount Logos (Odd Couple,Star Trek)

""Just Like Grandpa Television used to make"" LOL!!!*

[riceQkiwi]

Paramount 1975 With 2002 theme 1:00

[riceQkiwi]

logicsmach 1:08 star trek

[EmobagelsRAGE]

0:43 Zelda, much?

[riceQkiwi]

1:10 JOHN LOVES MARTY END MOVIE

[riceQkiwi]

paramount with 1994 theme 1:04

[riceQkiwi]

paramount with spongebob squrepants voiceover theme 1:27

[markusdude1]

The one @ 0:36 is my favorite!

[Medevila]

1:45 they get the jingle right

[Coolasion]

WTF, The Latest Paramount intros were awesome, CBS f***ed it up!

[angelpichu1]

i have never heard of the one @ 1:00

[QueenNostalgia]

This is a very nice collection! I miss the big blue mountain!

[Thekinggamelon]

0:07 That one got the sound covered!

[Thekinggamelon]

0:58 What series it's this?

[GDelva2003]

the CBS/Paramount logos from 2:06 - 2:17 remind me of when I was not in school and when I also used to sit home in front of the computer and TV and just Chill.

Man those were some good times...

[Toadybear03]

1:46-2:05 i kept waiting for the Star Wars writing to scroll XD

[cubanita1101]

Hasn't CBS been around for a WHILE now even when It was Desilu ?

[cubanita1101]

i remember the last one if Paramount :P i never knew at the time that it used to be Desilu un til i became a Big Lucy Desi Fan :D

[Natedog421]

from 0:33 to 1:01, they have different versions of the music and the same logo gets annoying

[1990monkeygirl]

Desilu to Paramount to MOTHER F**KING VIACOM!

[arrowhead5543]

Around 1:37, I got sick of "Dun dun dun dun dun dun DAH DAH-DAH!"

[bees32189]

CBS has taken over paramount now

[CelesteK]

@bees32189 Actually I believe that CBS and Paramount have merged.  :(

[DogPatch1149]

What's the one from 0:12 to 0:15?

[Sparksfuckingryder]

@DogPatch1149 Mission Impossible

[Sparksfuckingryder]

@DogPatch1149 Mission Impossible

[L1ZZ1771]

Only problem with this vid is you see the word Paramount so many times it starts to lose all meaning....

[tomatzu]

Is it just me or are those from 1:46 to 2:06 basically a 2sec Star Wars fanfare?

[Tre404]

TOMATZU: When they debuted, I thought that very same thing! lol...

[youngred88]

all the logo has so many history and thats aewsome

[Metaloverlord3298]

LOL WUT!!!! v of doom became friends with closet killer?

2:03

[100dood]

and 2:03 90th WTH????

[100dood]

O.o

1:48 says 75th aniversary?

but its only 40 years...????

[Tre404]

100dood: 75th Anniversary of Paramount Studios itself.

[arcadian4life432]

1987 to 2003 logos is the best from 1:48 to 2:05.

[bees32189]

2:02

[crazylaura64]

0:22 when did 'television' come in????

it comes on abruptly

[brycemonaghan]

With The "I Like To Play Toys"?

[drkam6]

Excellent! The earlier closings were actually scary! All of a sudden this big fanfare stopping cold! The recent ones are lame in comparison with the older ones.

[ELMERFUDDBUDD]

The driving force behind Paramount's rise was Zukor. All through the teens and twenties, he built a mighty theatrical chain of nearly 2,000 screens, ran two production studios, and became an early investor in radio, taking a 50% interest in the new Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928. By acquiring the successful Balaban & Katz chain in 1926, he gained the services of both Barney Balaban, who became Paramount's president, and Sam Katz, who ran the Paramount-Publix theatre chain.

[ELMERFUDDBUDD]

Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures Corporation, organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies. Paramount was the first successful nation-wide distributor; until this time, films were sold on a state-wide or regional basis.

[ELMERFUDDBUDD]

Paramount Pictures can trace its beginning to the creation in May, 1912, of the Famous Players Film Company. Founder Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time leading to the slogan "Famous Players"

[ELMERFUDDBUDD]

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is the oldest existing Southern California film studio, beating NBC Universal's Universal Studios by a month; it is also the last major film studio still headquartered in Hollywood. Paramount is consistently ranked as one of the top grossing movie studios

[jzcrandall]

The logos that started popping up around 1:04: I could never figure out why it was necessary for the word "Television" to come flying in from the right. I've wondered that since childhood.

[Neville6000]

The only TV show not to have the fanfare music, yet have the Paramount logo is the Aussie TV show The Lost Island from 1975. Just a little FYI.

[klaitu2]

yeah, thanks for drilling that tune into my head.

[Caitlinsexybeast9]

0:58 is not scary

[LOLInAHat]

AHHH! A VIACOM COMPANY!

[mrbiglurch]

OH NOES, it's the Paramount logo! RUUUUUN!!!!! *dum dun dun DAH DAH DAH DAAAAHHHH!!!!!*

[Kongman4547]

I like the theme music

[monkeelover2]

When I was about 8years old, after a Brady Bunch episode, or a Happy Days show, That Paramount logo pops up, and it scared the SHIT out out me!! I mean really scared me! I didn't know what it was at that time.

[AnthonyUK]

In India and pakistan it would be called paraduniya and in turkey paradunya!

[JessieDaughtry]

What show had the logo 0:58-1:01?

[amit790]

Star Trek: The Animated Series

[kindvideo2]

From :33-1:01,it gets really scary...

[TourDeFlexTVJC3]

@kindvideo2 WORD! That give me nightmares when I was little!

[justrus]

I know back then, they were using a whole symphony team to make the themes,nowadays,they use a synthesizer or a computer,and a creative mind!!!!

[bitchesonmytip]

watch history of paramount my video

[JessieDaughtry]

What show had the logo at 1:24?

[oersv]

¿00:37 - 00:40?

[WareWolf1962]

The Valcano Paramount logo is pretty cool.

[WareWolf1962]

Paramount 2008:91st Anniversary

[VCMPCOPS]

1:08 can still be seen on happy days on WGN

[frankd1965]

Desliu was used on "MISSION:Impossible" up to 1968 and "Mannix" for part of the 1967-1968 season.

[JessieDaughtry]

It can? Wow, that's cool.

[metrodfclpt]

:58 Es una variante rara,nonca la habia visto

[tinkiepink56]

Extra Logos

[TheEqualizer1972]

fantastic :)

[Urvy1A]

00:58 is from the Star Trek Cartoon

[AarHan3]

Happy 41st, Paramount TV (1967-2008)!

[LPOSLA]

CBS/Paramount killed the big blue mountain logo on The Famliy Ties DVD Sets so I would'nt buy them period!

[Neville6000]

No duh, since CBS/Paramount owns the show in question. It's their show, they can substitute the logo if they want to.

[braingun64]

40 years of Paramount Tel;evision Majestic Mountain emblem closing themes, leading to

the CBS Paramount Network Television logo in

2006.

[braingun64]

Ready... set... grab the remote!

[seanoue]

My father would like to watch a spoof of those logos.

[AnthonyUK]

The two idents at 1'07" and 1'11" end later versions of Happy Days currently being shown on five us!

[pigeonshouse]

There seems to be a period where they used that 'anthem' for whatever reason. I've only ever seen it on Happy Days though, not on Cheers which was made about the same time as some episides of Happy Days.

[futureguy01]

from witch show is theone at 1:20 with the yellowparamount televison srevice?

[donjabroni]

From the show Solid Gold, first season episode 6 or 7 (don't remember, it's the one with the Commodores as the host)

[ARInternetTelevision]

witch or which? the one or theone? yellowparamount or yellow paramount? Spellchecker does work, you know...

[Tammyyxxx]

eh???

[MissKB24]

I'm confused....

[Simpsonsfan0846]

WTF

[DrLove0378]

Nice! And you even got the one from "Star Trek: The Animated Series."

[jeffw1267]

Yes! I loved that one, and the intro music for that series too. I tell everyone how great it was, but no one seems to remember it.

[AnthonyUK]

I also like the red one with the five bar trumpet jingle do do do do doooooooo!

[toastichedu]

How does that go?

[LPOSLA]

The Lalto Schfren maybe classic but it still was considered to be scary when if first came out if you were kid during the time frame it was released.Too bad they don't make logos with memorable jingles like this anymore but I think the only logo in 2008 that could be mirrored towards the 80's logos with a jingle is the newer version of the Columbia/Sony pictures logo.

[focusFR200]

allright,here's the Real 3rd question(double points here):

3:when they stopped using it?

[focusFR200]

HEY!!!that's the computer-generated "Exploding-stars" logo.I never saw that one before.just 2 questions:

1:when it was produced?

2:Which TV flick's ending credits featured it?

...okay,here's the 3rd question:

3:in which year was it produced?

[tempusfugit0711]

It was actually used I believe, at the end of Solid Gold. It was sometime in the early 80's. It was the only show to have the exploding stars logo.

[donjabroni]

You're right. It was from the first season on the episode with the Commodores as the host.

Not all Solid Gold shows had exploding star.

[AnthonyUK]

I like the two yellow ones!

[Yutzwagon404]

1:46 is the best of all of these!

[reggie44]

Where's the "orange sun"? I think it was a Fred Steiner music cue.

[reggie44]

It's the same music as :25.

[jjann09]

Great montage! AMAZING!!

[PieFights]

from 1:47 on it's the CGI Mountian with the fanfare that they used at the end of STNG.

[OmicronXI]

Great montage! I never knew there were so many variants for the 'blue' logo in the '80s...

[xcamerawomanx]

wow

[alun101]

Thanks for that - I used one for a vid I was making

[JMFabianoRPL]

Oh, and no Desilu with Paramount/Norway copyright info?

[kennyjohnson94]

Yeah, I was hoping I would see that in this one.

[JMFabianoRPL]

Am I the only one who was more surprised by the Schifrin version(s) of the Split Box than of the Closet Killer (which I LIKED)?

[sweetchaii]

OMG. nobody would have ever known that Desi Arnaz started all this, thats a real shame you know.

[PieFights]

Actully it was Lucy who started it all

[ECG3485]

Paramount's first TV venture was KTLA, they founded the Los Angeles station in 1946. They idn't go into television production until the Desilu purchase 20 years later, when Star Trek came out.

[mkbell2003]

Desilu was really BIG! To date, the revenue from "I Love Lucy" is still raking in money.

Lucille Ball was overwhelmed in running the studio and being a star. So, when an offer from Gulf & Western came in, she sold it all.

For $20 million (in 1967 dollars). Interesting how her offspring don't work much these days. Their Mom left them some loot and they have since cashed in on her image through merchandising.

[ndapro2007]

what the crap it isint scary in the dark for me!!!

[ndapro2007]

Great Vid anyhow

[samsticka]

The one at 1:26 sounds kind of flat.

[samsticka]

Actually, I meant 1:27.

[mrgrant888]

The one at 1:07 sounds like Jerry Goldsmith's style.

[samsticka]

That's because it is him.

[kalanike]

all of these scare the living crap outta me, but i kinda like the paramount openings for night at the roxbury and coming to america. at least those don't make u crap yer pants at 2 in tha mawnin'...LOL

[TurtleDove81]

LOL... amazing the mountain with the stars can feeak you out at 2 in the morning

[TheAdmiester]

At 1:24?

[vfreeck]

Oh, and Viacom said we can keep their crap (paraphrasing), meaning the logos. I guess that's all we're worth to them.

[Tonyrave]

It's more scary watching this in the dark.

[ACKillingjoke]

...for some odd reason, it is scarier watching this in the dark...

[PowerGirlz08]

MotherBoardsPictures, you need to get rid on the nicktoons blob video, I really don't like it. Or else I'm flagging it!

[MBpictures]

You mind your own buisness! >:(

[MotherBoardsPictures]

Try watching 1:42 with iPod headphones and medium volume. D:

[MWatson15]

I tried it and almost had a seizure

[s4ndwichMakeR]

The one from 0:57 to 1:01 is from the theme of Star Trek - The Animated Series.

[mmoneyitswhereitsat]

NUTTY SIDE PARAMOUNT- 562

[btwokyu]

My favorite is the ones between 1:09 and 1:15 because of the tune.

[vfreeck]

Wow you must be new. That's nothing new. I call Viacom the Destroyer of Entertainment.

On one of the Paramount or Viacom videos, someone from Viacom said that the Videos could Stay.

that was nice of them.

[jonghyunchung]

It is rumored that Viacom removed thousands of videos off YouTube. Good thing they didn't remove this, because Paramount = Viacom.

[MrBertstown]

Now I know why Mel Brooks made fun of them in 'Silent Movie'.

He called them Engulf and Devour!

[EricandDish]

Love the jingles that Lalo Schrifin did (Mission: Impossible, Cool Hand Luke, The President's Analyst, Bullitt, Dirty Harry) but I still hate the blue logo. Talk about butt ugly!

[bjsparntz]

Milhouse

[LancerEvoX811]

1:11 and 0:53: THE BEST ONES!!!

0:36 and 0:20: SCARY!!!!

[vfreeck]

Yea, I like the one at 00:58, but the actual music to the one at 1:24 (the Sythy Music that can be heard on the Home Video Version) I just can't get into.

[vfreeck]

yea

[SexyGirl79]

The music at the 58 second mark

[vfreeck]

Yes way. It just doesn't have that traditional Paramount taste in it. The actual music to it is worse. I like th eCLoset Killer better. The reason it's like that is because they're making a big deal that it's Paramount. The orvhestra (especially on the last one) is so nice and nostalgic.

[vfreeck]

The one at 1:24 gets me the most. The worst logo ever.

[randomchannel134]

NO WAY MAN!!!!

[toadiesplace]

The versions from :34 - :45 are down right sinister and creppy!

[vfreeck]

The one at 00:58 is so cute. I love it.

[SexyGirl79]

Same here. It sounds like the ending of a variety show like Carol Burnett or Flip Wilson.

[akiraman26]

because viacom and paramon merged-i think

[supremetaco]

Viacom bought Paramount in 1994.

[frankd1965]

Lucille Ball sold Desilu in 1967 to Paramount Studios. Mannix was the last show from Desilu studios.

[vfreeck]

And they really did miss some of the present Paramount logos with the Viacom Byline.

[vfreeck]

I loved all of these. I think the first ones of the red ones may get a bit frightening because of the low key sound, but hey, there shouldn't be any scare factor.

[WillWill45]

The Lalto Schfren jingle is the best.

[wildman78]

I lost count on how many times they played that jingle

[88HJS]

I counted 13 Schifrin jingles.

[halomasterchief14]

WHY was the logos called "CLOSET KILLER"

[MotherBoardsPictures]

Because the music resembled a moment from a 1950s' horror film and I think they were shorthand known to be Closet Killer films. It's just my theory. =|

[JohnnyL9605]

Closet Killers?? LOL

[SearsRoebuckandCo]

which one is the Closet Killer? 00:34?

[wsr216]

This is so funny...for years I thought I was the only one who got the crap scared out of me by the Paramount "Closet Killer" music...if I was watching a Paramount show I'd dive for the channel changer if I saw the red background split box...now I find that not only did other people find that music scary, but that the "Closet Killer" nickname evolved for it.

Great job compiling these clips!

[Herbert7J]

It is comforting to know that I wasn't the only one who had the hell scared out of him over studio tags. Three in particular: the ending of "The Monkees" with the still of Peter Tork screaming, and the Screen Gems logo always gave me a feeling that the world was ending, and it made me freak as a child. Ditto the Transamerica/United Artists tag at the end of "The Mothers-in-Law" that blasted LOUDLY, and finally--the Paramount zoom.

[NYYMGMG]

The last Desilu logo shown is kind of scary to me. Nobody seems to discuss that one though.

[jonghyunchung]

If you could try pasting the 1969-75 logo after any Mr. Rogers Neighborhood closing, that would be interesting.

[ChristianWithNES]

None of these scare me, Although I can see why they scare some.

[SearsRoebuckandCo]

exactly.

[thrillainvanilla07]

when was that starburst one used? Ive never seen that one?

[Imaxination80]

Maybe 1979, it's identical to the home video logo.

[TheAdmiester]

Apparently it was from 1977 to 1981, but I might be wrong, I got it off the internet.

[supremetaco]

That was for Paramount Television Service, which was supposed to be a new television network but plans for it never materialized, so they just used it as a closing logo. It's pretty much extinct; the only time I've ever seen it was on "Solid Gold."

[donjabroni]

The precursor to UPN? If they were going to have the same type of shows for that network as they did for UPN then thank god it never materialized.

[supremetaco]

LOL

[karaloyal]

Friday nights were really a nightmare world for the logo-sensitive, huh? Brady Bunch followed by Partrige Family...

[racingformusic]

To Sharp 10304:

You said you had nightmares over the Paramount Blue Screen, I used to have the same nightmares, except it was over the dic Bedroom production with the creepy music in that production, so, you're not alone bud.

[spongey98]

I Thought That Paramount Was Founded In 1912.I Think That`s The Year, And It Says That On Wikipedia.

[robosapiencam]

It WAS founded in 1912 and it took over Desilu in 1968 and I like the Paramount jingle that goes Dun DunDunDunDun Dun Dun!