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
