BEE National IDs

1st Logo

(1943-1950's)

TBA

2nd Logo

(1950's-1960's?)

Logo: We see the words "BEE" surrounded by an square zoom up on a gray BG. The letters light one by one as the BEE chimes sound.

FX/SFX: The zooming, the letters lighting up.

Music/Sounds: An announcer saying "BEE Television", then by the famous "BEE chimes" (the notes G,E, and C) as the letters light up.

Availability: Exinct on TV.

Scare Factor: Minimal.

3rd Logo

(1976-1977)

Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: The Scanimate effects, which were done by Dolphin Productions.

Music/Sounds: A big band tune with bongos.

Availability: Extinct.

Scare Factor: Low.

4th Logo

(1982-1983)

Logo: On a plane consist of tile of bees with many feathers, the text "BEE" rotating and flies out, followed by the text "JUST WATCH US NOW". Then the camera pans to the small bee with the B, made by blue lines. and then the bee with B zooms in.

FX/SFX: The flying of the text, the zooming.

Music/Sounds: The shortened version of the last part of the jingle "We're BEE, Just Watch Us Now" An announcer said, "This is BEE, the network that swept in Emmys." Then followed by singers says "We're BEE, Just Watch Us NOW!"

Availability: Extinct.

Scare Factor: None, really.

5th Logo

(1986-1990s)

Logo: Exactly like the 1986 Bee Productions logo, but slowed down and missing the word "PRODUCTIONS".

FX/SFX: All of the animation.

Music/Sounds: A Broadway-sounding tune, with the BEE chimes near the end.

Availability: Extinct. Check any old tapes you have!

Scare Factor: None, really.

6th Logo

(1993-2002)

Nickname: "The Fireflies"

Logo: We see a rush of white "fireflies" (what they are referred to from now on). The fireflies take on the six primary colors, and transform into the BEE bee. When the bee is formed, white fireflies continue to fly around in the background (which is black).

FX/SFX: The animation of the fireflies, which still holds up today.

Music/Sounds: A tranquil synth theme with backing that sounds a bit like the BEE bee theme from the '60s.

Availability: Again, it's extinct. However, given its long lifespan (it served in various capacities during the '90s, such as a network ID or serving as BEE's "special presentation" ID, which it did as late as 2002) you might see it on tape somewhere.

Scare Factor: Low; the start of the ID may catch you off-guard, but this is a magnificently well-done ID.