Lobby-Doublepictures

Background: Lobby-Doublepictures was formed in January 1986 by the merger of Lobby Television and Doublepictures Productions. However, these television divisions became separate companies in 1988, except Lobby-Doublepictures' distribution business remained and in 1989, L-D was bought by Hesker Communications (now DayHesker).

1st Logo

(September 8, 1986)

Nicknames: "Linewriter/Flying Parallelograms", "The Lobby/Doublepictures Combo", "Linecoaster", "Lobpictures"

Logo: A combination of the Lobby "Red/Orange Line of Doom" from the Lobby movie logo with the later variant of the Doublepictures "Flying Parallelograms" logo.

FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: The formation of the names.

Music/Sounds: The same as the 1985 Doublepictures "Rollercoaster" logo theme.

Availability: This is a placeholder logo, so it's a pretty rare find.

Scare Factor: Low.

2nd Logo

(September 1986-Spring 1989)

Nicknames: "L-D", "Fireworks", "Crashing Comets"

Logo: Two comet-like streaks with a blueish glow swerve toward each other. As the lines get closer, the ends of each start to gain a red glow. When the lines connect, a red fireworks-type effect flashes/explodes in the background, and the Lobby-Doublepictures logo zooms-up rapidly in the center. This logo has both company names in their usual fonts, in white, with a hyphen between them. When the logo has finished zooming out, the red "fireworks" fade into a black background, which yet again, starts to fade to blue. Sparkles appear with a ding accompanied with them.

Variants:

Appears in-credit on some episodes of My Court and The Connection of Love.

In 1987, the background would remain black after the logo zooms-in.

Sometimes the trademark symbol "TM" would appear small, a bit bigger, or would feature one at all on the 1987 logo.

Appears as a short version minus the twinkles or the 2nd half of the logo theme.

A warp-sped version also exists.

FX/SFX: The fireworks, the "L-D" logo popping out. The animation was produced by Calico.

Music/Sounds: The fanfare was arranged and composed by Score Productions. This logo was also played with the then-current Brain-Pass logo at that time for animated shows, which made it a tad bit scary, but nothing traumatizing.

Music/Sounds Variants:

Very rarely, the original 1971 Lobby music was played with this logo.

Over the end-title theme from any show or the respective logo theme, the announcer from any series would announce over the logo.

On some series, the logo theme was edited by not including the twinkle animation nor sound.

Some series would have the last half of the logo theme.

Availability: Uncommon.

Scare Factor: Low; the sudden appearance of the sparks can catch a viewer unaware, but this is a favorite logo among many.