Grub Street/Paramount (1990)

The first variant of the Grub Street logo (static version), which is the production company of David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee, writers from "Cheers" who branched out and became the executive producers of "Wings" (1990-1997) and "Fraiser" (1993-2004).

Grub Street is seen on all episodes of "Wings" and "Fraiser," which can both currently be seen in syndication on USA and Lifetime Television, respectively.

The Paramount logo is the 1987-2001 CGI Mountain (1989-1995 variant) with the "Paramount Communications Company" byline, with a gold byline, which was only used in 1989. It was featured on the pilot episode of "Wings," which leads me to believe it was still being used in April 1990 (when the pilot episode aired), or that the episode was shot at some point in 1989 and the logos were put intact.

In syndication, where I obtained this print from, the logo is nicely preserved. TV Land varied its use of the "Paramount Communications Company" byline logo with the Viacom byline logo, introduced in 1995. USA keeps the "Paramount Communications" byline well-preserved on all early eps from 1990-1994 (post-1994 eps vary in what is used - I believe I've seen both the Viacom and Paramount bylines used on post-1995 eps).

"Wings: The Complete First and Second Seasons," as well as the Complete Third season on DVD preserve the "Paramount Communications byline," but the fourth and fifth seasons use the curent CBS-Paramount logo (though I found a fun mistake on either my 4th or 5th season DVDs - can't remember which one - the current CBS-Paramount logo with the CGI mountain music used - a plastering mistake of the strangest kind.

Well, enough of that! It will take longer to read this than it will to watch!

Enjoy!

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[masterproxl]

The Paramount Television logo has been replaced with the CBS Television Distribution logo.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

@masterproxl - Yes, from season 3 on the CBS logo is on it. My later MacGyver DVDs still have the Paramount, as they were still released prior to the plastering. The seventh season release of that show coincided with the release of Season 1/2 of Wings. Both sets have the CBS Video logo at the beginning of the DVDs , but not anywhere else.

[Teddyx1016]

On Wings on USA Network.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Yes - this was seen on TV Land and it is seen currently on USA. The logo is nicely preserved for TV, but for the DVDs...after season 3 they're plastered on the DVDs.

[1mikie19]

also seen on Frasier.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Yes, with the outro of "Toss Salads and Scrambled Eggs" before it, I think this logo is usually silent on Fraiser.

[Teddyx1016]

Paramount is featured with Wings, on USA Network, the first season episodes. Grub Street is featured with Frasier (1993), and from Wings (1990).

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

This logo combo has never been seen on The Brady Bunch - it is from the first season of Wings, and Grub Street is also featured on Fraiser.

You're thinking of the old Paramount logo with "Closet Killer."