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Hanna-Barbera Productions/Cartoons, Inc.
Logo descriptions by Gene Snitsky
Logo captures by Eric S., Mr. Logo Lord and V of Doom Dedication by sega3dmm
Editions by Mr. Logo Lord, V of Doom, Shadeed A. Kelly, WileE2005 and Bob Fish
Video capture courtesy of ThatLogoDude
In Memory Of William Hanna (1910-2001) and Joseph Barbera (1911-2006)
Background: This company was originally formed in 1944 by MGM animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and live-action director George Sidney as H-B Enterprises in order to produce sponsored films and later television commercials. After MGM shut down its animation studio in 1957, H-B Enterprises became Hanna and Barbera's full-time job, and the company was re-named Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1960, merging after to Taft Broadcasting (later renamed Great American) in 1967. In 1991, the company was purchased by Turner Broadcasting, initially with help from Apollo Investment Group. Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera both went into semi-retirement, yet continued to serve as ceremonial figureheads for the studio. During the late 1990s, Turner turned Hanna-Barbera towards primarily producing new material for its Cartoon Network, which had been built around reruns from the Hanna-Barbera library. In October 1996, Turner was bought out by Time Warner. With William Hanna's death in 2001, Hanna-Barbera was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation, and Cartoon Network Studios assumed production of Cartoon Network output. Joe Barbera remained with Warner Bros. Animation until his death in 2006. The Hanna-Barbera name is today only used to market properties and productions associated with Hanna-Barbera's "classic" works such as The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo.
Hanna-Barbera Productions/Cartoons, Inc.
1st Logo
(1957-1990)
Logo: Not really a logo, but more of an in-credit disclaimer. The words “A HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION” appear on-screen, either at the beginning of a short or at the end of a show. This practice continued well into the 1980s, years after H-B introduced an in-credit logo for its shows.
Variants: While the style of the wording varied from show to show, there were four variants commonly seen:
- “HANNA-BARBERA” is in a “scrawly” font used for crediting the two producers on latter-day MGM shorts and many of the original H-B Productions series. Used mainly on early shorts, in a blue “splotch” on a yellow background.
- “Hanna-Barbera” is in a 60s-esque “cursive” font commonly known as “Tabitha”. Used within a similar “splotch” device, but is also seen at the end of several 1960s series such as The Jetsons and Top Cat.
- The entire wording is in a bold, all-caps font, usually Franklin Gothic Condensed. Seen at the end of many 1960s series, most notably Jonny Quest and The Flintstones. The font would vary for some shows.
- “HANNA-BARBERA” is in a bold, “tubular” font most similar to the latter-day Filmways logo. Used around the late 70s into the 1980s-usually seen on “Challenge of the Superfriends” among others.
FX/Cheesy Factor: None, but the 4th variation is a bit harsh on the eyes.
Music/Sounds: Nothing except whatever theme song was being played over it.
Availability: Common; still preserved on all H-B shows, as it’s in the credits.
Scare Factor: None.
2nd Logo
(1966-1968)
Nickname: "Zooming-Out H-B"
Logo: On a black background, three small orange rectangles appear, the outer two stretching down, the one in the center extending up, then they stretch, break up and multiply to become an orange box containing a large, black stylized “H-B” cutout. Then the box grows to become an orange background, the black H-B zooms out, disappears, and then it cuts to light blue words reading “a Hanna-Barbera Production” with the “a” in a black box. Finally, a yellow stylized “H-B” (using the same style as the black one) slowly fades in.
Later Variant: There’s another version from 1968 featuring nearly the same starting animation, with the rectangles moving the directions they’re supposed to extend instead of stretching before they actually do, but when the black zooming “H-B” disappears, it cuts to a red “H-B” with the text already on it, with the small “a” box being dark blue and the letter in yellow. It features a byline reading “a division of Taft Broadcasting Company” next to a small Taft logo in dark blue text on the bottom.
FX: All the animation in the logos.
Cheesy Factor: Well, the logo seems pretty advanced for 1966. However, Hanna-Barbera has been known for producing cartoons with cheap limited animation, and this includes their logos. Another cheesy thing I can find is that during the rectangle animation on the 1968 version, when it’s nearly finished, it merely cuts to the finished “H-B”.
Music/Sounds: It features four chime-like notes and then three brass-band notes mixed with three chimes. There were two variations of the jingle for each version.
Availability: Rare; the mid-'60s version is still kept on it’s only use, the 1966 NBC live-action/animated special Jack and the Beanstalk, whenever someone decides to show it. The 1968 version is only seen on the live-action/animated TV series The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Scare Factor: Medium to high; the sudden fast-paced animation, blocky abstract design, and fanfare could get to some.
3rd Logo
(1968-1974/2002- )
Nicknames: "The Box," "The Zooming-In H-B"
Logo: On a black background, a large, stylized orange “H-B” begins to zoom right up at the viewer. When it nearly engulfs the screen, the background suddenly becomes a shade of orange. On top of the “H-B”, the words “a”, “Hanna-Barbera”, and “Production” all appear.
Trivia: H-B used two logos using the box design during this period.
Variant: For a short period, Taft’s corporate logo, alongside a byline reading “A division of Taft Broadcasting Company”, appear. This appears to coincide with the logo being used “standalone”, with its own music. Box logos that are appended to the ends of shows and have the show’s music playing usually do not have the byline, though there are some exceptions, such as The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't.
H-B Reborn: In 2002, starting with the release of Scooby Doo and the Legend of the Vampire, the Scooby All-Stars logo was phased out and replaced with a recreation of "The Zooming H-B!" The H-B now zooms in much more smoothly before cutting to the finished logo. This can now be seen on any post-2002 (good-to-appalling) direct-to-video Scooby release, although they are produced at Warner Bros. Cartoons rather than H-B.
FX: The “zooming” H-B...
Cheesy Factor: Very choppy animation, and a sudden “jolt” from the black background to the orange background.
Music/Sounds: A whimsical flute/xylophone jingle written by Ted Nichols, used only when the logo wasn’t attached to the end of the show and had the show’s end credits music playing over it. A little jarring, and a bit scary. You can hear this at the end of the Dastardly & Muttley, Penelope Pitstop, and Josie and the Pussycats closing title tracks on the import HB music CD “Tunes from the Toons: The Best of Hanna-Barbera".
Availability: Fairly common. You can still see the stand-alone variant on most episodes of Wacky Races on Boomerang and the no-byline version on The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, Super Friends, and most episodes of The New Scooby Movies on Boomerang.
Scare Factor: Medium to high for those who aren't used to seeing it; the choppy animation and sometimes scary music that shows used contributes to this. The regular jingle wasn’t that tame either.
4th Logo
(1969-1971)
Nickname: "Multiplying Rectangles"
Logo: A rare variant of 3rd logo. Small red rectangles on the sides of the screen come up, with the outer two going down, and the one in the center going up, multiply until they create a box with a black stylized “H-B” cutout. The box zooms in and becomes a red background, and the “H-B” then fades in as a blue color, then “A Hanna-Barbera Production” and the Taft byline/logo fade in. The
“A” in the H-B text is on top of a red rectangle in the middle of the “H-B” outline.FX: The “multiplying rectangles”.
Cheesy Factor: Still rough but a bit smoother and less in-your-face than 3rd logo. The blue BG makes the text hard to read, though. Also, the rectangle animation simply cuts crudely to the finished “H-B” as the background zooms in.
Music/Sounds: Same as 3rd logo.
Availability: Fairly common; this logo was available on scattered H-B shows as well as the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?. Unfortunately, the latter show has suffered from chronic plastering, first with a blacked out 1979-era swirling star logo, then with the 1994 “action” variant of the “All-Stars” logo. (Why action, we don't know?). This logo can be found on a few Hanna-Barbera DVD box sets, most notably Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons. This is also spotted on Boomerang arings of The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, with the current WB television logo following it. It was also sighted on a recent Cartoon Network rerun of the Scooby-Doo episode "Go Away Ghost Ship," though time-compressed.
Scare Factor: Low to medium; better animation, but still a little rough.
5th Logo
(1974-1979)
Nickname: "Rainbow H-B"
Logo: We start on a pattern of five columns, each filled with the words “HANNA-BARBERA”. The words are colored so that they form a rainbow pattern. Suddenly, the words start disappearing, from the top starting on column 1, and from the bottom starting with the last column. The words disappear until one last “HANNA-BARBERA” is left. That enlarges and “morphs” into a skewed, stylized H-B, filled with a rolling rainbow pattern with numerous “HANNA-BARBERA”s in it. Below, the words “HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTIONS, INC.” appear.
Note/Byline: Starting in 1978, the logo does not enlarge. In this version, a Taft Broadcasting byline, sans logo this time, appears. Some post-1988 prints of H-B shows from this particular period have the Taft byline blacked out.
Variants:
- A fairly rare variant has been seen on a few TV movies of the era. It was a still shot with more solid colors and segmented lines running inside the design.
- A variant features the "H-B" more towards the top of the screen and a large "77" in the same style underneath. There are no "HANNA-BARBERA"s in either figure. This was presumably only seen in the year 1977 and is extremely rare.
FX: The “rainbow” effects used in both the columns and actual logo; the words being “wiped” away.
Cheesy Factor: Better, but the “morphing” effect is cheesy and awkward. The “H-B” looks sorta ugly, and the morphing effect… well, freeze-frame the logo and you’ll see how ungainly it looks.
Music/Sounds: Usually just the end theme of the show. It didn’t have its own music.
Music/Sound Variants: Some repeats would have the 1968-1974 theme, which seems to be synchronized perfectly with the logo. On the DVD print of Scooby Goes Hollywood, it played the 1979 "Swirling Star" logo theme. This was most likely because since the special was from December 1979, it most likely was used to plaster the Swirling Star logo.
Availability: Fairly common; currently seen on The Scooby Doo Show, Hong Kong Phooey, The Super Friends Hour, and Challenge of the Super Friends on Boomerang.
Scare Factor: Low; the design does seem a bit ominous.
6th Logo
(1979-1986/1990)
Nicknames: "Swirling Star", "Twisting Star"
Logo: On a black background, a white star swirls down from the top, leaving behind a rainbow trail. It then settles into the center of the screen as it twirls, occasionally shrinking and twisting, forming a circular trail. It then twists into the middle of the circle and comes to a stop. The words “Hanna-Barbera Productions” appear below.
Bylines:
- 1979-1981: “A TAFT BROADCASTING COMPANY” (in a white font)
- 1981-1983: “A DIVISION OF THE TAFT ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY” (in the same white font; in 1982, the byline was be amended with "A Division of" over "THE TAFT ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY".)
- 1983-1986: "A DIVISION OF THE TAFT ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY" (now in a large yellow font; the logo appears smaller in this version.)
- Post-1988 prints of H-B shows from this era often have the Taft byline blacked out.
Special Movie Variant: Also, in 1990, a special version of this was used at the end of Jetsons: The Movie. This features the same animation, but “Hanna-Barbera” is written in the familiar cursive “script” font, first introduced in 1988. This variant also features a Great American byline, and is the only H-B logo to do so.
Opening Variant: In response to Filmation’s “anklepants” opening logo, Hanna-Barbera responded with their own version. It’s the same as the closing logo but it fades in during the middle of the animation. The text is changed, “Hanna-Barbera” is larger, and a small yellow “PRESENTS” is shown below. Music for this was a sweeping chime sound, though 1980s Jetsons episodes feature the “Meet George Jetson” chimes. This verson can be found at the beginning of every epsode of The Smurfs.
FX: The star and residue trail.
Music/Sounds: Best described as “futuristic synthesized music". We start out with ascending and descending chimes mixed with a "whoosh" sound with each revolution of the star. When the star stops, the entire thing culminates in a gentle synth chord as the chimes finished in the background. This was written by Hoyt Curtin.
Music/Sound Variant: Some shows have appeared with the first variant with a blacked-out byline, but with the music from Logo 3. This was chiefly used to update the logo on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You but has spread to other shows as well, including post-1988 reruns of Casper's First Christmas and was also spotted on an episode of Josie and the Pussycats This variant was sort of common but became rare when Turner updated the prints on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You in 1998, and tacked on the all-stars Action logo.
Availability: Fairly common in its “unaltered” form, though many prints still have the logo blacked out and replaced the logo with the ''action'' variant of the 1994 Hanna-Barbera logo. (Why action, we still don't know?). Currently seen on The Smurfs, Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, The Snorks, The Yogi Bear Show, season two of Top Cat, and the 1984-1985 season of The Jetsons on Boomerang.
Scare Factor: Low; though the music may get to some.
7th Logo
(1986-1992/1998-2002)
Nicknames: “CGI Swirling Star”, "Shining Star"
Logo: An updated version of logo 6, but now done in CGI. The trail is now metallic CGI and the star now realistically twists and turns and has a nice shine effect. The text and byline are in a different font and are slightly smaller.
Byline: Originally created with a version of the third byline of logo 6, but immediately bylineless starting in 1988. Some instances even enlarge the logo so the edit isn’t too noticeable.
H-B for PPG: When The Powerpuff Girls premiered in 1998, the trend for most H-B shows was to get a simple “character portrait” logo. Bucking the trend, PPG used an updated version of this logo! All names and bylines are completely blacked out, and instead the words “HANNA-BARBERA CARTOONS” and the byline "A Time Warner Company" (changed to "An AOL Time Warner Company" in 2001) are used. This lasted until 2002; post-movie episodes of PPG featured a custom version of the current Cartoon Network Studios logo. This variant also appeared at the end of the Dexter's Laboratory special, Ego Trip.
A Close Encounter of the Weird Kind: Several years ago, on an episode of Johnny Bravo, this logo was, weirdly enough, sighted. It wasn't the updated 1998-2002 version, it was the 1988-1992 version. It might have been an editing mistake.
FX: Nice CGI, a good achievement for its time, and brighter colors, but…
Cheesy Factor: Doesn’t work as well as its predecessor for some reason. The path has been changed to look “looser” and it simply doesn’t look as visually appealing as its predecessor.
Music/Sounds: Same as logo 6.
Availability: Uncommon; currently seen on Pound Puppies and several 1982, post-1986 episodes of The Smurfs on Boomerang and A Pup Named Scooby Doo on Cartoon Network. Also added to the ends of some 1960s shows with no logo (very common in the past, but not as drastic nowadays), and is sometimes seen at the end of shows that originally had an older H-B logo or one of the early 1990s in-credit logo variations.
Scare Factor: Low; the music might get to some people.
8th Logo
(1988-1991)
Logo: Basically, a black and white version of Logo 6 next to the cursive “Hanna-Barbera” logo. This is superimposed over the credits, like the earliest H-B logos.
FX: None.
Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.
Availability: On late '80s-era Smurfs episodes as well season two of Tom and Jerry Kids (as a dual credit with Turner Broadcasting, who would ironically end up owning them in 1991). The Tom and Jerry Kids version is more widely available.
Scare Factor: None, as this is a still logo.
9th Logo
(1990)
Nickname: "Happy Birthday Fred"
Logo: Against a stone-like background, Fred Flintstone, in a "caveman tuxedo", is tap-dancing behind a red baseball diamond-like shape and next to a box with the words “THE FIRST 30 YEARS” inside it. Above that in an arc is a sign reading “THE FLINTSTONES” with "THE" in a small black triangle above the arc. Below is the Hanna-Barbera script logo in yellow.
Variant: Some versions use a blue BG, or a BG of animated TV static.
FX: Fred tap-dancing, which is typical H-B animation of the time.
Music/Sounds: The ending of the show’s theme.
Availability: Near extinction; was last seen on Tom & Jerry Kids on Boomerang. Another show that carried this logo was Yo Yogi!
Scare Factor: None.
10th Logo
(1991-1993)
Logo: In-credit like the last logo. We see the words “H-B Production Co.” This could be in any font; in many examples it appears in the H-B script font, but some shows have it in a more generic font. The Addams Family’s first season has a curious hybrid; the script “Hanna-Barbera” logo amid cobwebs, and “H-B PRODUCTION CO.” below it.
FX: None.
Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the show.
Availability: Near extinction; the variants for Addams Family and Tom and Jerry Kids still have this logo, but Dark Water has its plastered over by the 1988 swirling star. Also present on the made-for-TV Flintstones movie, I Yabba-Dabba-Do!.
Scare Factor: None.
11th Logo
(1993-1995)
Nickname: “Muttley Opener”
Logo: On a black background, we see an orange oval with "H-B PRODUCTION CO." below it in small white letter. Suddenly, Muttley comes up in the oval and does his trademark snicker as the "Hanna-Barbera" script logo "writes" itself onscreen in gold letters. This was an opening logo seen before certain H-B programs.
FX: The animation of Muttley, the "writing" of the H-B text.
Cheesy Factor: Muttley's animation isn't very detailed.
Music/Sounds: We hear Muttley's famous laugh, and as the Hanna-Barbera script logo is appearing, we hear a small clarinet piece.
Availability: This was only discovered by us a few years ago; seen on Hanna-Barbera's atrocious 1994 TV special, Arabian Nights.
Scare Factor: Low; the music, laughter, and black background may get to some.
12th Logo
(1993-1994)
Nickname: “All-Star Prototype”
Logo: On a colored background, we see a partial picture of a Hanna-Barbera star inside a geometric shape. Somewhere inside that logo is the “Hanna-Barbera” script logo.
Custom Variants: This was customized for each show produced by H-B during this era, and is available on only that specified show:
- Two Stupid Dogs: Big Dog and Little Dog are laughing inside a rotated square. A yellow “Hanna-Barbera” is along the top. The background is white.
- Jonny Quest: A headshot of Jonny Quest in a vertical rectangle; A green “Hanna-Barbera”, on an angle, is somewhere near the top. Seen not on “Jonny Quest” repeats but on “The New Adventures of Captain Planet”. The background is green.
- Swat Kats: A grinning picture of one of the Kats inside an oval (T-Bone) or verical rectangle (Razor). A yellow “Hanna-Barbera” is seen, slanted and near the top. The background is blue.
- The Addams Family: A headshot of Uncle Fester in a vertical rectangle with a blue "Hanna-Barbera" turned 90-degrees clockwise on the right. This is on a pink background.
- Santa Fred: A headshot of Fred, in Santa hat and outfit, inside a rectangle. The background is snow; the only background that is not a solid color. A yellow “Hanna-Barbera”, slanted down, is near the top. The background is green.
FX: None, as these are all still logos.
Music/Sounds: A sound effect from the company’s extensive library of sound effects. It’s different for each logo. Sometimes the ending of the show's theme plays over the logo instead.
Availability: Uncommon; usually seen intact on these shows. Interestingly, at the end of current prints of The Town that Santa Forgot, the Santa Fred logo shows up, and after it fades out, the “Comedy All-Stars” logo appears. Also seen on The New Adventures of Captain Planet and S1 of Swat Kats on Boomerang.
Scare Factor: None to low; the sound may get to some.
13th Logo
(1994-1999)
Nicknames: “All-Stars”, "H-B Stars"
Logo: On a blurry white background with several colorful abstract shapes flying about, we see a clear square/oval that provides a “clear” view of the flying shapes; the square/oval has the Hanna-Barbera Script logo embossed in it at the top. Suddenly, we see some of Hanna-Barbera’s most famous stars running through the logo, as the square/oval begins to rotate. At the end, one of the stars ends up coming towards the logo, ending in a very extreme close-up of the star. A very small Turner byline appears in the lower right. Later episodes of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest had this logo bylineless.
Variants: There were two similar but very distinct versions of this logo produced; one for Hanna-Barbera comedy shows, one for Hanna-Barbera action shows. The stars, “music”, and logo shape differed depending on the logo. Here are the stars for each version of the logo, in the order that they appear:
- Comedy: Hanna-Barbera’s logo is yellow and in a rectangle:
- Fred Flintstone (as if running or slipping or something)
- Yogi Bear (grinning)
- Huckleberry Hound
- Dino
- George Jetson (with a very classic “what?” expression)
- Elroy Jetson (flying in a pod; the same animation seen in the famous “Jetsons” open)
- Barney Rubble (very hidden, you have to look close to find him)
- El Kabong (Quick Draw McGraw’s Zorro-esque alter-ego)
- Scooby-Doo (with a weird “craning neck” animation)
- Fred (zooms towards the logo; extreme close-up)
- Action: H-B logo is bluish and in an oval.
- Bandit (Jonny Quest’s dog)
- Atom Ant
- Jonny Quest (in his trademark black shirt)
- Dr. Benton Quest (Johnny’s dad)
- The Thing (yes, of the Fantastic Four,and H-B did a series of the Fantastic Four in 1967, even though H-B doesn’t even own the characters!)
- Some strong guy with an arrow from The Herculoids
- Space Ghost
- Birdman
- Zok, the Pteradactyl-like creature from The Herculoids
- Johnny Quest with kung-fu like outfit (another zoom; like he’s kicking into the camera)
FX: Nifty combination of 2D animation (the characters) with cool 3D elements (the H-B shape).
Music/Sounds: Like the last logo, classic H-B sound effects, but there is more than one used during the logo, and they are arranged to create a neat “tune”. The music differs depending on the logo:
- Comedy starts off with the weird horn sound effect from The Flintstones and The Jetsons. Then we hear the sound usually heard as an H-B character starts to run away, followed by a "boing" sound, several comical "fighting" sound effects, and finally the "kabong" sound of Quick Draw McGraw's guitar being broken over someone's head.
- Action features a '60s bass riff playing throughout. First we hear a screech, a jet flying, an elephant, and finally a gong.
Music/Sound Variants:
- The logo has occasionally turned up with the sound FX from its opposite variation. Proof of the "Comedy" variation using the audio from the Action logo has not been confirmed yet, but most TV prints of the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? Episode 7: Never Ape an Ape Man have the Action variant appearing with the audio from the Comedy version, most likely due to an editing mistake.
- There is a low toned variant that appeared on the Top Cat episode The $1,000,000 Derby.
Availability: Common due to the chief means of plastering, though not as bad as you might think; typically on “new” prints of the most popular shows, mostly '60s shows that had an in-credit logo and SG logo/text. In MOST cases, they match the right logo with the right show; the exception are the mid-90's prints of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? which replace the H-B box and swirling star with the Action All-Stars logo. The action all-stars variant also appeared on The Scooby Doo Show on the 1978 episode A Menace in Venace by plastering the 1974 H-B logo on Boomerang.
Scare Factor: Low; the weird horn effect during the comedy logo might get to you, but it’s neat to see all the characters.
14th Logo
(1997-2001)
Nickname: “Time Warner All-Stars”
Logo: Like Logo 12, a still of an H-B star in a shape, usually an oval. The star is always the one that has been featured in the show that has just ended, so there are quite a number of variations. The background is always white. Below the logo, there is a Time Warner byline.
Variants:
- As noted above, each Hanna-Barbera produced original series for Cartoon Network (called Cartoon Cartoons) from 1997 onward had this logo, always with the cartoon’s star, the only exception being Powerpuff Girls, which used a specially created version of the swirling star. This not only included the regular half-hour series but one-shorts, previously called What a Cartoons, that now fell under the Cartoon Cartoons banner (which are now no longer rerun on TV). Thus, there is a large number of variations, more than we can list at the moment, but such a list may come in the future.
- Some of the very early logos had a different style byline. Appearing in an arc-like fashion below the logo are the words “Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. A Time Warner Company”. This was soon dropped. It was mostly used on Cow and Chicken, but also appeared on a few Dexter's Laboratory episodes. Boomerang repeats of Cow and Chicken have it.
- Some Cartoon Cartoons from this period had some animation to include Cartoon Network’s logo; the H-B logo would iris-out, and then a "shiny" version of Cartoon Network’s logo would zoom in. Additional sound effects were used for this. Again, quickly dropped, as CN was putting a specially-created network logo after Cartoon Cartoons. In some cases, there would be a quick fade-out before the CN logo would appear! This was only used during 1998-1999; again, it is still intact on the Boomerang repeats of Cow and Chicken, usually with the byline variant (also appeared on at least one Dexter's Laboratory and Johnny Bravo episode).
- And finally, the background logo was white except in one case; a special Scooby-Doo logo, used for at least some of the made-for-video movies produced by Warner Bros. Animation; in this case, the background was black. There were no sound effects used. It was always followed by the Warner Bros. Animation shield logo. This was used from 1998 to 2001. Also, noteably, this was the only patricular version to feature the byline "An AOL Time Warner Company" from 2001, as seen at the end of Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase.
List of Characters:
- Dexter's Laboratory: A side profile of Dexter in a blue oval. The H-B script is purple.
- Cow and Chicken: Two variants: one with Chicken at the left and Cow at the right with yellow H-B script (common on Boomerang); another has Cow holding Chicken by his neck with apricot-colored script.
- Johnny Bravo: Again, two variants: one with Johnny in a purple oval with yellow H-B script; another features a close-up of Johnny in a light blue oval w/ lime green H-B script. The latter one only appeared on two episodes of the second season.
- I Am Weasel: TBA
FX: None.
Music/Sounds: There was one standard sound effect montage created for this logo, ending in the H-B weird “laughing” sound effect. In 1999, the sound effect montage was switched to a different one that also incorporated classic Looney Tunes sound effects, possibly because of the Time Warner merger.
Availability: Common; survives on reruns of Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, and Johnny Bravo on Boomerang. I Am Weasel's variant only appeared on Cartoon Network due to the Cow & Chicken/I Am Weasel split back in 1999, but it's extinct on TV.
Scare Factor: Low; the laugh could get to some people.
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Southern Star/Hanna-Barbera Australia
(1985-1989)
Nicknames: "Lightning Star", "Cheesy Lightning", "The Thunderclap"
Logo: On a blue space background, a purple star quickly zooms out. It plasters itself firmly at the center of the screen, while a yellow lightning bolt slides in from the top-left behind the star, landing so that the star is in the middle of the lightning bolt. The star rotates a little as the bolt moves to the middle The screen flashes a few times, changing the star to blue and the bolt to gray, and two rectangles slide in from the top and bottom of the screen, behind the star and lightning bolt, the top one yellow, the bottom one purple. When they connect with each other, the colors suddenly swap so that the top one is purple and the bottom one is yellow. In the purple rectangle, to the right of the star/bolt shape, is "A SOUTHERN STAR" in a yellow-colored thin italic font, and in the yellow bottom rectangle is "Hanna Barbera Australia Production" in purple and the font normally used for "Hanna-Barbera Productions" on the swirl logo.
Variants:
- On The Berenstain Bears, a copyright for the Taft-Hardie Group appears under the logo.
- Beginning in 1988, after Southern Star became a fully independent company, the Hanna-Barbera notice was removed, and the text changed to "SOUTHERN STAR PRODUCTIONS" in a different font. In addition, the yellow and purple colors do not switch positions at the end. This version appears on 1988 episodes of CBS Storybreak.
FX: The star zooming out, the bolt, the rectangles.
Cheesy Factor: Off the charts. The star zooming out is cheesy, the animation for the bolt is almost TOO simple, the flashing is just plain awful, and need I mention the suddenly swapping colors for the star-bolt and rectangle? Ugh...
Music/Sounds: The ending of the show's theme, but with a very loud thunderclap sound effect (not from H-B's sound effect library for some reason) edited in with the flash, nearly drowning out the music. On very rare occasions, there will be no thunder crashing. The thunderclap sound was sped up beginning in 1987. This version can be heard on the second season of Teen Wolf and on later episodes of CBS Storybreak.
Availability: The logo was seen on the original Berenstain Bears cartoon, as well as the second season of Teen Wolf [the first season had no logos] and later episodes of CBS Storybreak [most episodes only had a credit for Southern Star, followed by the CBS Entertainment Productions logo]. On the most recent reruns of The Berenstain Bears, in DiC's syndicated programming block, it was plastered by "The Incredible World of DiC" and the current Southern Star logo. The logo can, however, be found on the 1990s Berenstain Bears videos from Random House Home Video.
Scare Factor: Medium; the sudden "thunder" effect will scare more than a few. _______________________________________________________________
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WILLIAM HANNA (July 14, 1910 - March 22, 2001) and
JOSEPH BARBERA (March 24, 1911 - December 18, 2006)
Forever, your names and talent won't be forgotten.
WILLIAM HANNA (July 14, 1910 - March 22, 2001) and
JOSEPH BARBERA (March 24, 1911 - December 18, 2006)
Forever, your names and talent won't be forgotten.
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