Ever remember watching your favorite TV shows as a kid in the 60s, 70s and 80s and being scared to death when they showed the production company logo at the end? No? Well, I do. Although, it wasn’t so much the logos themselves as it was the creepy music that often accompanied them. And while some of you may not agree, or care to admit that these logos were scary, I am definitely not alone in my feelings.
I got the idea to do this blog post from The Closing Logo Group, a Yahoo! Group that got its start back in 1999, whose members frequently post messages about logos that frightened them when they were kids — affectionately referring to the Viacom and Screen Gems logos as the Viacom “V of Doom” and the Screen Gems “S from Hell.” In my quest for more information, I came across two YouTube videos, 10 Scariest TV Logos Of All Time and Scariest TV Logos From Our Childhood, that really capture the creepiness of it all. If you’re still using a dial up connection, here’s a simple trick you can try that’ll have you watching these YouTube videos in no time. Enjoy!
Paramount
Viacom
Screen Gems
Rankin-Bass
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I’m not a 70′s kid lol but I remember all the scary metal band logos and imagery like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest (gay gods) etc.
Idk why but all these logos are quite deficient in something…. I’m not a 2.0 geek either
It seems to be that way with a lot of older logos. They either seem to be missing something or they seem too busy. Take logos from the 50s and earlier decades, for instance. Some of them look more like mini advertisements than logos. I guess it has to do with the current trends at the time.
It’s funny how things scare you as a kid. Although, that Paramount logo is still pretty scary to me, lol!
ITC, rankin bass and screen gems used and and still do give me
the creeps. oh, and united artists…you know the one that starts out
in the pitch black and get really loud.
Oh god, how is the CBS logo not on this list???? That logo has scared me sience I was 11!!! It still does!!!
What about Hanna-Barbera’s 1979 logo, “The Swirling Star”?
The old 1990′s PBS logo also scared me to death!!!!!
You don’t have it up here, but the Paramount Television “Closet Killer” logo used scare me! I used to have a recurring nightmare, when I was about three years old, in which I was awake, alone, in our house late at night and truck drivers would drive past in their big rigs and honk at me and yell at me for being awake when I was supposed to be in bed. It used to scare me because I knew those truck drivers couldn’t see me and, therefore, they had no way of knowing that I was awake when I shouldn’t have been. To me, the Paramount Pictures music used to sound like music that would induce a truck driver to unleash his inner psycho! It scared me when I heard it!
Me too that logo scary
Paramount closet killer logo scare me too
That Vid logo from Russia is the scariest of all time. It debuted in 1990 and 5 years later the creater was murdered and his murderers were never found. That makes it the scariest!