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Southern Star/Hanna-Barbera Australia ProductionsThis is a featured page

Logo descriptions by Gene Snitsky
Logo captures by Eric S., Mr. Logo Lord and V of Doom
Editions by Mr. Logo Lord, V of Doom, Shadeed A. Kelly, WileE2005, Hoa, Bob Fish and sega3dmm

1st Logo
(1985-1989)
Southern Star/H-B Australia 1985Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. - CLG WikiSouthern Star/H-B Australia (no copyright)
Southern Star 1988

Nicknames: "Lightning Star", "Cheesy Lightning", "The Thunderclap", "Bad Weather in Space", "It's Raining!", "Thunder from Hell", "That Loud Logo at the End of the Berenstein Bears"

Logo: On a blue space background, a magenta 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 white a few times at high speed, 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 magenta. When they connect with each other, the colors suddenly swap so that the top one is magenta and the bottom one is yellow. In the magenta rectangle, to the right of the star/bolt shape, is "A SOUTHERN STAR" in a yellow-colored thin italic font (usually Futura), and in the yellow bottom rectangle is "Hanna Barbera Australia Production" in magenta and the font normally used for "Hanna-Barbera Productions" on the 1979 H-B Swirling Star logo.

Variants:
  • On The Berenstain Bears, a copyright for the Taft-Hardie Group appears under the logo.
  • On Teen Wolf and CBS Storybreak, the star zooming out is cut, so that it starts on the bolt sliding into shape.
  • Late in this logo's life, a variant was seen omitting all mentions of Hanna-Barbera, and had "SOUTHERN STAR PRODUCTIONS" in place of the original name, in a different font. Also, the yellow and purple colors do not switch positions at the end. This variant was introduced in 1988, when Southern Star became an independent company, having previously been owned by Hanna-Barbera and Taft.

FX: The star zooming out, the bolt, the rapid flashing, and the rectangles.

Cheesy Factor: Virtually everything in this logo! The star zooming out is cheesy, the animation for the bolt is TOO simple, the flashing is just plain awful, and need I mention the suddenly swapping colors for the star-bolt and rectangle?

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 the first season of Teen Wolf and at least one Berenstein Bears episode, there is 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 animated Teen Wolf (a few VHS tapes of this series have 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 1994-2005 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 may scare more than a few. Minimal for the version with no thunderclap.

Note: From here on, Southern Star became an independent company from Hanna-Barbera.


2nd Logo
(1989-1994)

TBA

3rd Logo
(1994-2005)
Southern Star (1990's)

Nickname: "The Segmented Star"

Logo: On a black background, we see 2 sets of 9 blue lines curve toward the center to form one set. As this happens, a light appears, and a 7-pointed segmented blue star is formed by the lines.

SOUTHERN
S T A R

 with a blue line underneath, is formed below.

Variant: A still variant also exists.

FX: The formation of the star and company name.

Music/Sounds: A deep synth sounder.

Availability: Seen on 1990s prints of Skippy, as well as Blue Heeler.

Scare Factor: Low.

4th Logo
(2005- )
Southern Star (2005- )


Logo: Against a dark blue starry sky with mountains below, we see stars forming several ring shapes, causing the Southern Star logo from before, but in a blue tint, to blur in. Copyright info is shown just below it. The sky darkens around it.

FX: The stars forming the company logo, the darkening sky.

Music/Sounds: A gentle synth sounder with some "whooshes".

Availability: Currently in use; seen on RAGGS Kids Club Band on select PBS stations.

Scare Factor: None.


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