The History Of Mark VII Limited Hammer Logos *UPDATE*

[rockergirl83]

Just 2 days ago, I saw a brand new mark vii logo after a show or movie my husband was watching. I'm trying to see if I can find it here on youtube.

[Windows7Guy100]

@rockergirl83 Was it this? (You Know)/watch?v=Un0DKKPRoRM

[thegabe2140]

no hammer at 1:28

[Shawnaluvsoc]

Is VII for 7????

[TheJBRASS]

40aceres

[rann809]

SKULL

[ChannelDuncan]

they sound like williams street

[RONALD511]

That Guy with the Hammer came to work one-nice-Quite-Day and Smashed The Living Fuck outta that Spider !!!

[DrPhatkatt]

Williams Street!

[AccurateMistake]

...Am I the only one who thinks the hands look all sweaty and dirty and gross?

[HMFREAK29]

@AccurateMistake

yeah, and pobably because he was workin hard; plus you never see the face cause its a short logo

[Blackroo1967]

@AccurateMistake Well, the guy supposed to be working a iron-worker's forge and engraving

metal. Indeed, your hands won't be too clean working over a hot machine that heats and softens

steel and other metals.

[HitlerOnTheRoof]

I would like to see a showdown between Mark VII productions and Quinn/ Martin productions.

[HCShannon]

STOP HAMMER TIME!

[LJK193]

@HCShannon Can't touch this

[LFWISKOOLreturns]

SKULL

[treatyoself2tee]

its not a stupid spider!!! IT WAS FILMED ON A FLAGSHIP!! so a hairball from cat got caught by the projector

Does that clear anything up?? GOOD!

[RacerXGTO]

1:00 I remember those after most every (original) Twilight Zone series. When you're 4 years old, you get freaked out by things like that.

[4string59]

@RacerXGTO Twilight Zone was never a Mark VII production, it was Cuyuga.

[Tmetrvlr]

The 1971-74 Hammerless theme was probably the most unlikeable one.

[CraigFoye80]

His name is the late Jack Webb.

[BEASLAND000]

[ghost!]

[cameron20101000]

0:08 spider!

[ravenousking19]

Am I weird or are these good for nightmare fuel?

[systemofrage]

Spider!!! =P 

[Tigerman1138]

Thank you Nick at Night for showing me Dragnet when I was younger... a Mark VII Production!

[Mriohony]

0:07 spider?

[sexymama1966]

that jack webb has some sexy hands but that logo scared the crap out of me

[fallingupward1]

0:08 almost looks like there is a spider crawling into the frame or something. Oh well, he could always just wind back one more time and crush it with that big-ass hammer.

[extremehockeyfan]

he almost hits the camera with the hammer in some of them xD they should show the outtake version where he hits his hand with the hammer xD

[4string59]

It used to scare me too...don't know why. I read on Wikipedia that it was actually Jack Webb's hands. Stands to reason, since it was his production company.

[rolko52]

As a kid, this used to scare the crap out of me!

[GoldhillToons]

These logos are scary!

[reluctantpopstar]

People, at the end of the first logo, it was not a spider, it was an actually piece of crumpled up hair or dirt that got caught in the projector as the film went through. Film was sticky so a lot of times dirt would adhere to it and get caught in there as the film wound itself up back on to the reel.  That thing sure did look like it was in the shape of a spider, I will give you that. But it was only dirt.

[joman66]

@reluctantpopstar i wish that can be backed up.. no worrys..

[fallingupward1]

@reluctantpopstar Aw, but it's a lot more FUN to pretend it was a spider!

[DDBOMBER11]

1:19 willams street.

[DDBOMBER11]

0:34

like rambo!

[DDBOMBER11]

BANG! BANG!

[Tomservo3Alt]

Sound familiar? That's because the music in this logo is used by Williams Street.

[syndicate1]

I am not trying to be a jerk, in posting this, but I wanted to say that there is one missing..... I have seen all of these variations on the mark 7 logo, and the one from "the rockford files", isn't included in this collage.....

[Meridian83West]

@syndicate1 Actually, while "The Rockford Files" was shot at Universal Studios (like the Dragnet shows from 1967-70), it wasn't produced by Jack Webb's Mark VII company. I know because my stepgrandmother used to work for Meta Rosenberg, who was James Garner's manager and the "Rockford Files" executive producer.

[syndicate1]

ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaa!!!!!: did you see the dust speck, at the bottom of the first one?.... it looks like a bug tried to crawl into the projector!.........

[pancakeman22]

We will never forget this logo history!! Farewell, Mark VII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tigerman1138]

The story you are about to see is true...the names have been changed to protect the innocent. DRAGNET! NICK AT NIGHT!

[wr70beh]

I'm glad some people thought these were scary, because I sure did when i was a kid.

I swear I had a nightmare as a kid one time that the guy with the hammer would show his face in the camera and start laughing. He was as greasy looking as the arm was.

[Bestmanme08]

Great new bio (All About Jeffrey Hunter) features Jack Webb! Bio at amazon!

[Bestmanme08]

@Bestmanme08 This All About Jeffrey Hunter book is now at Kindle

[smichelle65]

Spike Lee's "40 Acres and a Mule Productions" logo is based on this.

[ForceMaximus84]

@smichelle65 And they used the sound for Cartoon Network's "Williams Street"

[elkinsinbox]

Look at around the point on 0:08 you can see a bug or something pop up.

[arx455]

yes i see it

[pancakeman22]

Excellent video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[invaderzimfanbase]

LOL

[algomeysa]

I always pictured it was Kirk Douglas or some similar actor making the MARK VII logo, in some Roman epic called THE GUY WHO RAN AROUND POUNDING MARK VII ON EVERYTHING.

[frank87it]

"The Life and Times of Mr. Vii".

[CartoonNothing]

Sounds also used in the Williams Street logo.

[whatuswattingat]

This logo ALWAYS creeped me out!

[JoJoPro13]

I love that logo. It's so coolio <---(cool!)

;)

[JrFLYnnIV]

word

[pannoni1]

The ones for the '70s were probably the most scary due to their quickness (except for maybe the first one which has a spider at the very end!)

[kevineatworld]

@pannoni1 Yeah what the hell was that spider there for? Hella random and creepy.

[angelpichu1]

@pannoni1 poor spider......

[PrincessofPower84]

@pannoni1 Homer: "Oh, oatmeal! What a delightful treat! Oh, wait, there's a bug in it."

Marge: "No, there isn't."

[AllRequired]

The perfect ending to a perfect collection of programs. And the rumble wasn't too loud or heavily pitched, either.

[bashir1980]

Great logo! It's a one-of-a-kind that cannot be beat or topped. They don't make them like they used to. I also heard that on rare occasions, the stamp was hit three times. I gotta see that, too.

[AnasaziTribal]

SKULL!

[yogafan6500]

The legendary Jack Webb created his production company called Mark VII it ran from 1951 to 1979 it was used on classic shows like Dragnet both versions, as well as Adam-12, Emergency, The D.A., O'Hara U.S. Treasury, Hec Ramsey, Mobile One, Project U.F.O., and Sam. it was alos used in the films The D.I., & Pete Kelly's Blues . Great logo. When i've first seen it as a little boy after the ending of Dragnet 1967 it nearly scared me to death but now i'm over that.

[Zordacian99]

this used to scare me cus at the end of emergency-the hammer would get stuck-the guy would pound his Hammer like 4times-that really scared me-I thought he was going to turn and have a scary face

[JojoPandacutie1989]

These logos are cool! ;D

[lno2k6]

I saw the "Mark VII" logo from "The D.I." (1957). An average logo notherless.

[WWE1119]

awesome logos...I love the more recent ones with the hammer like the one at 1:36 and the ones from 1:08 on except for the gold

[samsticka]

Must the hammer engulf the screen like that?

[pbanta62]

Look at the bottom of the screen at the end of the first "smithee" at 0:09. Looks like a bug crawling! LOL! Probably just a bit of dirt on the film, but rolf! He should have taken that hammer and made like "squash!"

[yophilly17]

Wow this took a slight random change to the Gold.

[mrceleb2006]

These are cool logos, except for the "Shocking Gold" variants.

[iswc27]

KONG!...KONG!

Best TV production logo ever! Now with even more variety! Thanks again for sharing, Johnny!

[JohnnyL80]

Thanks!

[Windows7UIRocks]

@JohnnyL80 it it me or do these hammer logos sound like Williams Street

[beatledude64]

1:08 has the same audio as the Williams Street logo.

[vzeu019j]

Great, you've got more! 5/5!