Public Broadcasting Service logo 1971-1985

[@araquan]

Man, this brings back memories. From things watched at home, to programs watched at school... Thanks for posting this. :)

[@jasonthomas6684]

Gosh…this is super nostalgic for me. Takes me back as a kid watching PBS shows in the 80’s…❤️

[@Xezlec]

I still just don't understand what's so frightening about the sound of a beautiful, soft, smooth, vintage synthesizer. This logo seems quite nice to me.

[@kenrutherford1109]

It frightens me bc I dreamed about it playing twice in a row

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

It just feels like you're sick at home (with the suds) and the TV will take care of you. Boy, I loved watching PBS during those days. I had an irrational hatred of commercials so I didn't like watching channels with commercials on them when I got sick.

[@AndrewsSister75]

The notes to it are G C D A E. Basically a C 6+9 chord on piano or guitar

[@kenrutherford1109]

It sounds more like a Gmaj7 chord

[@Wishbone4evr]

IKR! Ijust wanna do this those fraidy cats😆 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKfWaKWBhLt1fLc

[@RavinRay]

I remember this from Sesame Street, when it was shown after the credits. Ah, the memories!

[@vigilante11485]

Damn, those old-school synthesizers are hard to resist! I love the sound of them!

[@TheRedNetwork_3268]

Hey look A p- head

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

Sounds like the Donkey Kong game over jingle.

[@AndrewsSister75]

It's G C D A E on a keyboard if you can play it on any snythesizer

[@Mappy1964]

I honestly don't see why people think this logo is scary. When I heard this music I knew that my favorite shows, as a kid, were about to come on.

[@thwyter]

This is the first PBS ident I can remember growing up.

[@happy7117]

This little moog synthesized jingle speaks so much to so many!!

[@don64]

This sound always puts me in a good mood!

[@kenrutherford1109]

That sound kinda frightens me

[@daminmancejin]

this makes me feel great like I didn't have to worry about nothing in the world just pure happiness

[@jadenova]

I feel the same way.

[@daminmancejin]

jadenova yup I still feel that way when I go back and watch this

[@stefanmilosevic8899]

@@daminmancejin Mhm!

[@pedrogonzalez5075]

It brings back memories from elementary school. When we would see Electric Company and Zoom. We would see the PBS closing logo before the teacher turns off the School TV. Then it's back to the books.

[@maxwestcomics]

I actually liked this logo.

[@daminmancejin]

me too

[@25phillycheesesteak]

So do I!!

[@stefanmilosevic8899]

Me too.

[@stefanmilosevic8899]

:D

[@danspizzacorner9711]

Me too. Remember seeing this logo at the end of Mister Rogers neighborhood

[@KittySkyfish]

This logo had me terrified as a kid! I remember plugging my ears and looking away when it came on. I always thought the "P" had Dead Eyes - when the black dot appeared it was like its dead eye opened up to look at you! And being the color blue made it look further dead. If that isn't bad enough, the music enters with a creepy surprise and ends on a cold, chilling chord.

[@kenrutherford1109]

The logo terrified me too after I dreamed about it playing twice in a row

[@SeveredSoul135]

Literally triggered nightmares for me as a 4-8 year old.

[@BenjaminGessel]

The logo that scared me the most was the 70's-very early 80's Paramount logo with the mountain moving quickly to the center, coming from the left (moving right)-composer was Lalo Schifrin. I called that tv logo "The Big Noise". Did the same thing, ran to a corner of my house, closed my eyes and covered my ears... 😱😱😱😱😱

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

@@BenjaminGessel I loved watching that after Happy Days reruns. My parents loved Happy Days.

[@evenmorenonsense]

Everyone - that synth wasn't a Moog! Paul Alan Levi (composer) used an EMS Putney VCS3, same model used by Pink Floyd and King Crimson. It's a beast and I want one.

[@AndrewsSister75]

The notes are G C D A E

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

And by The Who, most notably "Won't Get Fooled Again."

[@happy7117]

"It's past your bedtime on a school night" OR "Don't let the bed bugs bite" This logo says so much to us just by this little jingle.

[@51512601]

If I remember right, there were times when this logo played and a voice over would announce what show was next so I didn't hear the music at all.

[@dft432]

This reminds me of watching "Mr. Rogers Neighborhood", especially the 1969-75 episodes that I saw via reruns during the mid-late 1980s....fun times.

[@MMAfighter38113]

I know this sounds stupid, but I could listen to that all day. I miss the late 70's and early 80's.

[@Mr1991kid]

When I see this that p that looks like a person brings back memories from when I was a child in the 90s. I didn't ever see this as a child but I recall seeing that p head and It makes me want to go back. It makes me feel like crying.

[@Saxysaboy77]

this is such an awesome video. I love it.

[@foreverHHardcore.x8pz]

my parents were both born in 1977. they still talk about it (dang those synthesizers are creepy)

[@taxevasionwitt]

This gives me goosebumps everytime.

[@LoudProudNPunk1]

KCET LOS ANGELES! Ch. 28! ..I remember seeing this alot when I was a toddler in the early 80's, right before Sesame Street came on. I was never frightened by this and liked it. My dad told me That when this came on, especially when I heard "this... is... CBS!" I freaked out and got really excited every time. Being a kid was fun.

[@Green18600]

A Classic!! I fully remembered the PBS Logo in the middle 1970's ... all the while when I residing in Illinois. A Solid 6!! The nearest PBS affiliate was WILL Television in Urbana, Illinois in my younger days. All The Best!!

[@Kersquawk]

Hello old friend.

[@MizNelson]

Oh, God, I haven't seen this in years, but I've never forgotten it. KQED, channel 9, San Francisco. Nowadays I hear the chime sporadically on a local radio station that plays it in jest once in awhile. I think the 1980s was the era of the most terrifying bumpers we as kids ever saw on TV. I mean, massive black screens with a blitzkrieg of color and sound flying right at you. When I was five, I was scared of the Desilu bumpers at the end of Star Trek reruns. Those were the days.

[@TGGaineyProductions]

I think of Sesame Street,The Electric Company,Mister Rogers,3-2-1 Contact,Sneak Previews,etc.

[@matchbox19771]

Me too! Lots of childhood memories tucked into those little jingles!

[@matchbox19771]

matchbox19771 Channel 13, WNET, New York

[@matchbox19771]

+Danielle Pluzsik Wow. I'm surprised that your Teletubbies tapes had the PBS jingle from that era. But you are lucky to be one that has heard it.

[@diannemoriarty1549]

@@matchbox19771 i too think of, Ghostwriter, Star Lore, Storylords, Shining Time Station, The Letter People, I-sland Treasure, Once Upon a Time (I'm not talking about a TV series of the same name), Where In the world is Carmen Sandiego (again i'm not talking about the Netflix Animated Series of the same name), Captain Kangaroo, Zoobliee Zoo, etc. etc.

[@PhilMante]

This music is kind of a wake-up theme, for like 5 in the morning when you have to go to work.

[@kingofgrief]

The Electric Company sets that Shout! Factory released a few years ago include the logo at the end of each episode. You have no idea how happy that made me. I'm assuming their "old-school" Sesame Street collection follows suit.

[@AndrewMeans]

I have to say, I really like these chords - especially the little high notes tucked inside the major seventh (1-3-5-7) arpeggio - the overall chord is this great Maj7+9, one of my favorites. And the rhythm is rad, it kind of lopes along... I need to rip this off for my band...

[@AndrewsSister75]

I hate to correct you but it's actually a 6 + 9 chord. C chord variant. The notes are G C D A E

[@brittany7890]

i grew up watching pbs everyday after school starting from 92 till 2002 ,well in 92 i wasnt in school yet but lol.imiss reading rainbowand zoom!haha omgi feel so old in a way

[@failboat1998]

if you combine it all together, it is. The Moog synthesizer makes a lot of scary sounds. Some of the scariest logos have this synth. The animation is also very "off", like a kid drew it, and the way the lettering looks (the S looks like an 8), as well as the background being pitch-black. Almost everything about it is scary IMO, but you have your opinion, too.

[@AndrewsSister75]

The notes are G C D A E

[@Vintagethrift2]

I really like it takes me back to when times where more fun and simple :)

[@DeeTimmyfan]

I always loved this logo. I don't know why some find it scary. Makes me think of my own childhood. I never saw the "split profile" logo on PBS in 1984. I didn't see it until 1989.

[@kenrutherford1109]

I find it scary bc I dreamed about it playing twice in a row

[@PhilMante]

Feels like the kind of music you'd hear waking up at 6 am waiting for the sun to rise.

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

IKR? I used to wake up at 6am and walk out front, made even better if there were rain.

[@zshaw7549]

No matter how many times I watch this, I can't help but to remember being at daycare watching Sesame Street.

[@Marbles471]

I agree that those of us who were kids in the 80s experienced logos in a way that no kids did before or have since. Because the 80s were when companies were just getting into CG and making their logos aggressive as they could, which was sometimes ominous or scary. And of course, there were still a lot of 70s things around, which meant scary logos like V of Doom and this 1971 PBS ident were a part of the hodgepodge. Most TV logos are less odd (and less prominent) today than they were then.

[@foreverHHardcore.x8pz]

logokids today use “p head” lol

[@MVillani1985]

Nice! Brings back a lot of good memories.

[@bobfritz1466]

It's funny how some of the scary logos really creep me out (e.g. the S from Hell), while others come across as old friends. This one falls in the latter category, as does the V of Doom. Maybe that's because 1) there were usually grownups in the room when I encountered the PBS logo as a child, and 2) the V of Doom wasn't introduced until I was older.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Forgot about this thing!!! Saw it ALL the time back in my childhood! LOL

[@Marbles471]

""It's past your bedtime on a school night"" You mean because your parents used to watch PBS stuff at night around the time you were supposed to turn in? If so, I relate. Some of my earliest memories are of lolling around on the couch at night while my dad sat next to me watching those nature shows with baritone narrators.

[@kevinschifino1064]

Love this logo and music the best of all of the PBS logos.

[@masterchief1992HHQ]

same here except i was a 90's kid, but what brings me back to the 90's more than anything was the old school 70's and 80's shows cuz my mom put on the Hanna - Barbera shows and the PBS shows for me i watched more of those than the 90's kid shows but the 90's kid shows were cool too and i feel bad for the 2000's kids and up, they have no idea what they missed out on

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

I'm an early '00s kid, and I watched HB on Boomerang.

[@happy7117]

It is a blizzard outside my apartment window!! I can just imagine this thing playing on the weather channel and then hearing "we interupt this broadcast for a severe snow storm"

[@kenrutherford1109]

I love the animation. I especially love how the word PUBLIC shifts to the left along with the letter P

[@hillbillyprofane]

Green18600, I grew up watching WILL-TV too! I miss that station, they were much better than the PBS station out here near Palm Springs!

[@ThunderFist1978]

I have a similar memory. I grew up with WKPC Channel 15, Louisville, KY.

[@whattheheck1000]

@RGAF1987 Hey I'm 18 and this makes me feel nostalgic... not to mention I was 17 when you posted that comment

[@MotorCity1370]

Too cool! This came on between every PBS show I watched in Detroit in the 70s.

[@kenrutherford1109]

I was surprised to see it following the closing credits of The Dick Cavett Show on Decades TV

[@powerpuffsouthpark]

For a long time, I associated this logo with Sesame Street. Yes, it did sometimes scare me - but sometimes I found it funny too.

[@beachgrad98]

Yeah...this thing always gave me this eerie feeling.

[@SFSVHS]

I love this logo so much! And the Coca Cola Telecommunications 1984 logo.

[@sickagain7541]

SO DAMN COOL!!!!!!!!. TAKES ME BACK TO SESAME STREET AND OTHER SHOWS FOR US KIDS FROM THE SUPER SEVENTIES. GREAT ERA FOR KIDS GROWING UP!!!!!.

[@marioTmaggot]

They would play this, and then Dragons, Wagons, and Wax would come on, followed by Readalong. I miss the old PBS. =(

[@unbojihmusic2017]

What a nice logo! I sure hope Kids won't ruin this Logo by doing "Bloopers"!

[@babygiraffe123]

My 2 1/2 year old loves this.

[@neoconsnightmare3]

WTTW-Channel 11, Chicago. I used to LOVE that little tune!

[@Krg8485]

WPTD 16 Dayton WPTO 14 Oxford WCET 48 Cincinnati and WOSU 34 Columbus. Can't believe I grew up with 4 PBS stations on my cable.

[@kohpelord]

I remember the melody more than the actual logo. I actually liked hearing it... :P

[@kenrutherford1109]

I like seeing the animation

[@ThunderFist1978]

A few logos scared me as a kid, but this was never one of them. Luckily, I never SFM's logo as a kid - that one probably would have scared me. I like this logo a lot better, though, than the split profile one.

[@gracedoubleu]

Do you ever get nostalgic for a time you never lived in? I feel that sort of way right now.

[@davidhayes4507]

Wow, a fellow Fresnan looked this up. And I remember that exact line up mister rogers was usually followed with 321 Contact or Electric Company I don't remember which.

[@fleming1972]

Yeah, that P head, and the music's frightening.

[@briank1977]

Noooooooo!!!!!!! Send it to hell!!!!! Yes, this did scare me when I was a kid, but I was scared by the sign-off of one of the local commercial stations in my area too, coupled with test patterns and test noises. Had more than a couple of nightmares where the P-heads were chasing me and making that "doo-doo-doo-doo" noise.

[@AtlaniBonita]

I really love this

[@anglobostonian]

I think it has to do with the synthesizer and the fact that it's all of a sudden. It was scary to me as a child, but as an adult, I see it as a work of history.

[@AndrewsSister75]

G C D A E are the notes try them on a keyboard

[@Green18600]

I totally agree with that comment. All the best to you in Palm Springs.

[@powerpuffsouthpark]

I remember this closing logo at the end of most "Sesame Street" showings I grew up with over my toddlerhood; I don't recall finding it scary at all.

[@Normaaliciaayala]

yeah and pbs kids

[@hillbillyprofane]

mpc3po: I know what you mean about the Emergency Broadcast System tests. I remember one coming on during the ending credits of Sesame Street. There I was, about 4 years old, bopping along and then a mean-sounding booming voice came in, then that horrible tone. I was traumatized! Still freaks me out to think about it.

[@soopahsoopah]

I've since sampled that and it's my instant message ringtone now.

[@bmwrules28]

Whoa! Brings back memories from Seasame Street from the 80's. KCET 3 Los Angeles

[@Moonberry94]

I havent seen this logo when i was a small child, and its not so frightful for me now. Though that stupid old electic computer sound can make every logo creepy

[@elwin38]

WKNO Channel 10, Memphis, TN....i used to watch all the kids shows..i.e. Sesame St, Electric Company, Zoom. Later on 3-2-1-Contact and The Great Space Coaster.

[@GrinningAries]

I remember seeing this logo, it had to be around after 1985

[@effend446]

This really creeped me out when I was a kid. Thank God, they made a new, long overdue (piano) ID in 1984......much more modern and relaxing.

[@Duibhlinneach]

Everyone knew this growing up in Dublin Ireland in the 1970's at the end of Sesame Street.

[@MMAfighter38113]

It takes me back to Sesame Street, Electric Company, and Mr. Rogers in the late 70's and early 80's.

[@RGAF1987]

It's a shame that the music PBS and others use on TV doesn't sound like this anymore. It makes me feel a bit nostalgic, and I'm only twenty-two. I should barely remember this kind of thing.

[@marioTmaggot]

This is the logo I remember most growing up.

[@Slickmickyoyo97]

Remember when, even in the nation's largest market, all you had besides PBS (on Channel 13, of course) were channels 2 (WCBS), 4 (WNBC), 5 (WNYW), 7 (WABC), 9 (WOR), and 11 (WPIX). I man literally, 7 friggin' channels...and I watched more TV back then!

[@MMAfighter38113]

WSRE, CHANNEL 8 PENSACOLA, FL ...........The memories this brings back

[@scratchandnumberblocksfan2496]

Every comment on old logos in a nutshell: *tHiS lOgO uSeD tO sCaRe mE*

[@happy7117]

This also sounds like a winter storm warning on the weather channel. Or like the emergency allert tones on a scanner. You know: Beep-Beeeeeeeep in that unsettling way.

[@Jim856796]

Debut: October 1971 Cancellation: August 1984

[@soopahsoopah]

wonder what synthesizer they used to make that sound.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

EMS Synthi-A VCS-3.

[@mpc3po]

yes...very creepy and scary... there were a lot of those terrifying sounds growing up as a kid in the early 80's and mid 70's.. I remember that damn Emergency broadcast..'only a test' i would run and hide my head under a pillow!!

[@patrickmichaellangan576]

The Moog synth is better off on a Rush album than ANY PBS logo anyway.

[@Thunderbirds501]

This is not a Moog synth. According to Paul Alan Levi, he used the Putney VCS3 synthesizer.

[@HyperActive7]

It gets kind of addicting after awhile. I think it is cool and I was too young and too into sesame street to care if it freaked me out or not.

[@daminmancejin.daminmanceji3819]

this is our childhood I miss it so much I hate it when people mess it up with stupid remix just leave it ALONE

[@happy7117]

I said the same thing months ago!! Something one would hear at the words GAME OVER

[@GingerGilligan]

I feel like I've just seen Sesame Street and now waiting for Mister Rogers to come on. KMTF Channel 18 Fresno, CA

[@bigwillietheb]

my favorite one I always remember seeing this after watching The electric company , or Mister Rogers Neighborhood etc

[@catgumart]

Those sounds stimulate brain cells that remained dormant for many years..

[@vikib65]

And not necessarily in the best way, LOLOL

[@donnieboofficial]

As a shorty I watched PBS. TV is a very powerful medium. The PBS graphic / logo and the synthesizer sound wasn't all the epic but it really left a stain on my brain. KQED Channel 9 Bay Area #RaisedOnTV

[@JadeEyes1]

I think I remember this from WAY back in my childhood (I was born in 1982).

[@texttales696]

Nightmare fuel: think of the tune of this logo as a kid falling down the stairs. Each beat represents how many flights of stairs were fallen. The kid was of course taken to the hospital. But sadly, he couldn’t recover. Think of that is why the melody stays the same at the end. It represents the kid flatlining.

[@whattheheck1000]

WDCN, Channel 8, Nashville, TN (Now WNPT)

[@scottthewolf7342]

The first part of that tune sounds like a front loading washing machine winding down in the spin cycle.

[@ShammyRandall]

MASTERPIECE

[@ExtremeWreck]

Who remembers this from the good old days of KZbin?