Logo descriptions by Codyfinke2
Logo captures by Eric S. & JohnnyL80
Background: Miller-Milkis Productions was a production company for Thomas L. Miller and Edward K. Milkis, which was founded in 1969. When Robert L. Boyett joined the company in 1980, it became Miller-Milkis-Boyett productions. Milkis left the company later on and became Miller-Boyett Productions. Around 1997, Michael Warren ended his partnership with William Bickley and later joined the company and became Miller-Boyett-Warren Productions.Miller-Milkis Productions
(1969-1981)
Nickname: "MM"
Logo: Just an in-credit logo with a criss-crossed bar with the letters "MM" and next to it is the text
--------------------MILLER-MILKIS
--------------------PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Variants:
- On season 1 of Happy Days, it read:
A PARAMOUNT TELEVISION PRODUCTION
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
MILLER-MILKIS
PRODUCTIONS, INC.
- On season 2 of the show, it read:
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
MILLER-MILKIS
PRODUCTIONS, INC.
- Confused yet that no text for another production company is predeceeding it? On season 3 of Happy Days and Season 1 of Laverne and Shirley, the text read:
MILLER-MILKIS
PRODUCTIONS
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
- Starting in the 1976-1977 season, this was added under "MILLER-MILKIS PRODUCTIONS, INC.":
AND
HENDERSON
PRODUCTION COMPANY, INC.
FX: None, just an in-credit logo.
Music/Sounds: The end theme of the show.
Availability: Saved on Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy.
Scare Factor: None; in-credit logos are almost never scary.
_______________________________________________________________Miller-Milkis-Boyett Productions
(1980-1987)
Nickname: "MMB"
Logo: On a blue background, we see a still picture with a criss-crossed bar with "MM" and a "B" added next to the "MM" with a B-shaped box, and under that is
A
miller/milkis/boyett
-------------------PRODUCTION
written in yellow. On other shows such as "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley", it was used as an in-credit notice, similar to the Miller-Milkis one.
FX: None; it's a still logo.
Music/Sounds: The end theme of the show.
Availability: Bosom Buddies was the only show to have this (except for the pilot episode, which had an in-credit notice). The in-credit notice were on the other shows. Both versions remain intact. The in-credit notice still survives on later seasons of Happy Days.
Scare Factor: None.
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Miller-Boyett Productions
1st Logo
(1987-1996)
Nickname: "Miller-Boyett"
Logo: Just an in-credit logo near the center (or bottom) of the screen with an italicized Miller •Boyett
P R O D U C T I O N S
written in a yellow-orange color with a drop shadow effect.
FX: None; just an in-credit logo.
Music/Sounds: The end title theme, simple music, or lines from any show.
Availability: Seen on Full House, Family Matters, The Hogan Family, Perfect Strangers, and Step By Step, among other M-B shows.
Scare Factor: None.
2nd Logo
(1996-1998)Nickname: "M/B"
Logo: On a black background, we see an M merging from the top and a B merging from the right, with a slash mark drawing between the M and B (a la the Barbour/Langley Productions logo), making that "M/B", and then "Miller-Boyett P R O D U C T I O N S" appears below it.
FX: The animation in the logo.
Music/Sounds: A 5-note piano tune.
Availability: Seen on the last 2 seasons of Family Matters and Step By Step. This logo debuted at the time the Bickley-Warren "Static" logo debuted.
Scare Factor: None.
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Miller-Boyett-Warren Productions
(1997-1999)
Logo: Against a cloudy sky BG, the words "Miller", "Boyett", "Warren", and "productions", all transparent and in white (except for the first letters of the first three words, which are pinkish), come in from all sides of the screen. A brownish frame zooms out and surrounds them, along with the space being filled in with a brown marble texture. The words become less transparent, and are arranged kind of like this:
Miller
----Boyett
---------Warren
-------------------------------productions
FX: The words, background, and frame.
Music/Sounds: None, but sometimes the end-title theme plays over the logo.
Availability: Near extinction; it appeared on Two of a Kind and Meego, which are hardly, if ever, re-aired.
Scare Factor: None.