Scary TV Logos From Your Childhood
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
Simitar
5 Comments, Comment or Ping
Horde Leveling Guide
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.
Jun 8th, 2009
Flint Web Design
Idk why but all these logos are quite deficient in something…. I’m not a 2.0 geek either
Jun 8th, 2009
Roberta Seldon
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.
Jun 8th, 2009
Roberta Seldon
It’s funny how things scare you as a kid. Although, that Paramount logo is still pretty scary to me, lol!
Jun 8th, 2009
Melodie
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.
Feb 19th, 2010
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