Databse Productions

Background: Database Productions is a production company founded in 1987 by Alice Williams. In 1998, Williams sold the company, and the rights to The Marikas with it (except Walt Disney still owns the rights to the Disney-produced series), to Warner Brothers.

1st Logo

(1990-)

Nickname: "The Giant D"

Logo: On a red background, we see a large letter D with "Database" in front of it, and "Productions" below in far smaller type font on a black rectangle and the word "Inc." in a much smaller font below "Productions", with the text "An Ultimate Enterprise Company" on the bottom with "An" bigger than the rest of the letters.

Trivia: On The Marikas, the main character Donovan Marika lives on 1212 Database Lane, an allusion to the company. The character Daniel Kernel also has a Database Productions poster in his room.

Variants:

Starting in 1992, the background became orange-colored. Plus, there are a few differences. The black rectangle is gone and the surrounding area dims as the D's shadow becomes visible.

In 2010, the background became pink. This was also seen on split-screen credit airings of The Marikas when aired on Cartoon Network.

On The Marikas: The New Series!, there is a copyright stamp under the logo.

On the 2000 film The Marikas Movie, the D is smaller and the background is a different shade of pink. Plus, "An Ultimate Enterprise Company" is a bit bigger. The D is also more realistic and there's no copyright stamp below.

On The Jetsons Kids, an in-credit version of the logo is used (text only).

There is also a rare still variant of this logo with the Interstation Studios byline.

FX/SFX: None in the first variant. The shadow animation in later variants in 1992.

Music/Sounds: In most cases, the closing of the show's theme was heard during this logo, but sometimes it would have a customized theme.

Music/Sounds Variants:

On the first season of the Disney version of The Marikas (the first show to have this logo in any form), it was a beatboxing and scatting tune that carried over to the Walt Disney logo. For all later Disney-produced episodes after that since the second season, a snippet of background music from the show (consisting of a 1930s-style trumpet like sounder) was used with the second variant of the logo. The latter version was also heard on The Superstar's Bible as well.

On Daniel and Goliath, it was a dramatic rendition of the show's theme song accompanied by a thunderclap.

The The Marikas: The New Series! show have the closing of the show's theme playing over the logo, like other shows.

On The Marikas Movie, you can hear a sampling of the The Marikas: The New Series! theme music.

At the end of Disney's The Marikas episode "The Marikas' Christmas", a re-endition of "Deck the Halls" plays, going into "Jingle Bells" once going to Ellipse Programme and the Walt Disney Television logos of the time.

At the end of the Disney's The Marikas episode, "Donovan's Birthday", the music is delayed on some airings.

During airings of The Marikas when on Cartoon Network with split-screen credits, the music for the sixth Warner Bros. logo would play over it, also going into the said logo.

The variant with the Interstation Studios byline has the "Battlefield theme" from Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Availability: Availability: Common. It's currently seen on The Marikas part of The 90's Are Back! on Disney Junior. Home video releases of The Marikas, Daniel and Goliath, The Marikas Movie, and The Superstar's Bible keep the logo intact. The red background variant was seen on season 1 episodes of The Marikas, which is now available on DVD and is currently seen on split-screen credits of said show on Disney Junior. The Jetsons Kids variant can be seen on the tape The Jetsons Kids Christmas and when the show is reran on Boomerang. The variant with the Interstation Studios byline is rare, and it was seen only on Bowser Vs. Mario, the later Nintendo/Interstation Studios animated special.

Scare Factor: Low to high for the Disney's The Marikas, Bowser Vs. Mario and Daniel and Goliath variants and none for the later variants. It mainly depended on the music heard during the logo.