Old PBS Intros, Credits, and TV Logo Stings

[Guns of the Gaytriots]

While looking for the theme for PBS Nova show, I came across this account:
https://www.youtube.com/@aldenpbs/featured
He has a bunch of intros, credits, and stings for a bunch of old PBS shows and TV stations.

Here are my favorites:
WGBH Boston sting:

Nova season 3 intro:

PBS 1973 sting:

PBS 1997 sting:

 

[Brenda Holiday]

So is finding some of these scary as a kid strictly an autistic thing, or is it something normal that autistics hyperfixate on way past the age they should. Anyways the WGBH one makes me nostalgic.

 

[Guns of the Gaytriots]

So is finding some of these scary as a kid strictly an autistic thing, or is it something normal that autistics hyperfixate on way past the age they should. Anyways the WGBH one makes me nostalgic.

Same. The old National Science Foundation logo used to creep me out as a kid because it looked like a spiderweb.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

Not PBS, but I've always had a thing for the old 90s BBC Video intro.

 

[Solid Snek]

So is finding some of these scary as a kid strictly an autistic thing, or is it something normal that autistics hyperfixate on way past the age they should. Anyways the WGBH one makes me nostalgic.

WGBH Boston still scares me.

 

[Guns of the Gaytriots]

Not PBS, but I've always had a thing for the old 90s BBC Video intro.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zmJcPpfO6To

A lot of PBS programs are just rebroadcast from the BBC, so close enough.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

WGBH Boston still scares me.

I don't know if I felt scared exactly, it was a strange emotion that maybe you only feel at a very young age. Didn't understand the concept of tv broadcasting so the graphics and synthy noises felt almost alien. Some were unnerving and some comforting.

 

[I.B. Niggin]

This is the kind of autism I live for

 

[Guns of the Gaytriots]

Looking around, I found this old "funding is provided by" thing from Arthur.

I poked around some more, and came across something strange. A YouTube playlist of "and viewers like you. Thank you." segments from PBS programs. More than one person is in the playlist, so it seems to be a small community of people clipping these segments and uploading them to YouTube?

A lot of the videos are by Kaden Dixon, whose channel seems to consist entirely of PBS funding credits and menus for sneak peeks that come on Disney DVDs. Not the sneak peeks themselves, just the menu to select them. Very weird.

 

[Classic Muscle Lover]

So is finding some of these scary as a kid strictly an autistic thing, or is it something normal that autistics hyperfixate on way past the age they should. Anyways the WGBH one makes me nostalgic.

thers a lot of hidden messages in those old shows. they have been doing the subliminal brain washing for a while now

 

[Solid Snek]

I don't know if I felt scared exactly, it was a strange emotion that maybe you only feel at a very young age. Didn't understand the concept of tv broadcasting so the graphics and synthy noises felt almost alien. Some were unnerving and some comforting.

Yeah, I think I get it. It's not "fear" fear, in the same way you might be scared of getting stabbed by a serial killer or eaten by a bear, but more of a cloying, eldritch fear of something you can't quite articulate being terribly, terribly out of place.

I was all set to laugh at the thread, but it's literally the first thing I thought, and felt, when I clicked on the Youtube link.

 

[Guns of the Gaytriots]

thers a lot of hidden messages in those old shows. they have been doing the subliminal brain washing for a while now

Brainwashing? Subliminal messaging? This guy?

 

[Classic Muscle Lover]

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Brainwashing? Subliminal messaging? This guy?

yes

 

[sasazuka]

Here are the two Lake Champlain area PBS station logos from my childhood.

Spoiler: WCFE-57 (Mountain Lake Public TV), Plattsburgh NY

Spoiler: WETK-33 (Vermont ETV), Burlington VT

 

[Guns of the Gaytriots]

Yeah, I think I get it. It's not "fear" fear, in the same way you might be scared of getting stabbed by a serial killer or eaten by a bear, but more of a cloying, eldritch fear of something you can't quite articulate being terribly, terribly out of place.

I still feel that way sometimes with the NBC chimes. They changed it now so the logo has some animation to it but it used to be that in the middle of a commercial break your screen would just go black except for the NBC logo in the middle in complete silence and then the chimes would play. Creeped me out a little bit.

yes

Found this picture from an episode. I think I'm starting to see where you're coming from. Boy, they weren't subtle about it at all, were they?

Here are the two Lake Champlain area PBS station logos from my childhood.

Spoiler: WCFE-57 (Mountain Lake Public TV), Plattsburgh NY

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mR_ja25nOOI

Spoiler: WETK-33 (Vermont ETV), Burlington VT

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vFtE3EJiwUk

I really like the music on that second one.

 

[sasazuka]

I really like the music on that second one.

During the weekday afternoon Agency For Instructional Technology blocks that showed mainly 15-minute-long educational shows from various PBS and Canadian provincial public TV channels that were intended to be shown in schools, sometimes, when the shows were a little on the short side, Vermont ETV (and perhaps also WCFE) would just show station ID cards and play music as interstitials for a minute or two. One of the most frequently-played pieces of music was Vince Guaraldi's "Linus and Lucy" as used in various Peanuts TV specials, which was always a joy to hear even if there wasn't Charlie Brown on the screen. (I think they mainly played "Linus and Lucy" in November and December in the lead up to the Christmas season.)

ADDENDUM: Oh oh oh, speaking of the Agency for Instructional Technology block, here's a logo sequence very relevant to this thread, the spinning rainbow-coloured North Americas from the beginning of the Thinkabout intro.

 

[Guns of the Gaytriots]

Here's the Nova theme I was looking for:

Banger

 

[sasazuka]

A 3-2-1 Contact cold open and intro from 1980 which starts with a short-lived version of the Children's Television Workshop logo that I don't think was used on any other shows besides 3-2-1 Contact.

 

[sasazuka]

The Mystery intro was so misleading to 1980s kids like myself; it seems like you're about to see the most amazing horror cartoon ever but then, once the intro is over, the disappointment sets in when the actual show (after the Vincent Price segment) is just a blurry PAL-to-NTSC videotape transfer of a bunch of close-up shots of British actors in a cheap Victorian era drawing room set.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I can def understand being autistic and obsessed with tv logos, but not being scared by them.