Protocol Entertainment

Background
This is Steven S. Levitan and Paul Bronfman's production company. Protocol Entertainment is a Canadian television production company based in Toronto, Ontario founded by Steven S. Levitan and Paul Bronfman in 1993.

1st Logo (December 1, 1994-June 18, 2002)
Nicknames: "'90s P", "The P Box", "The P Cube"

Logo: On a space background, a white box with a light purple shade spins out. The zoom-out stops on the top of the screen, revealing a blue "P " surrounded by lines and circles, and the words "PROTOCOL ENTERTAINMENT" zoom in at the bottom of the screen, in gray. Then the company name shines as a star rises up from below to above.

FX/SFX: The box zoom out, the company name zooming in.

Music/Sounds: The ending theme of the show.

Availability: Seen on VHS and DVD releases of Goosebumps. Early episodes of The Saddle Club also used this logo. It also appeared on Police Academy: The Series. This didn't appear on Animorphs, which only had an in-credit reference.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (2002-2003)

Logo: On a purple background we see the Protocol letters in different colors while Entertainment is in a normal font.

FX/SFX: None

Music/Sounds: The end theme of the show

Availability: Seen on season 2 of The Saddle Club

3rd Logo (2003-2005)

Logo: On a blue background we see the Protocol letters in a Tele-Marines font in different colors. Lights arrive to fill the letters as Entertainment fades in from the left.

Variant: On later episodes of Train 48 the background is a darker blue color

FX/SFX: The lights filling the letters and the Entertainment fading in from the left

Music/Sounds: A rising orchestral fanfare. On later episodes of Train 48 it's shortened

Availability: Seen on Train 48

4th Logo (2008-)
Nicknames: "The Three Rectangles", "The Tape Reel"

Logo: A white light turns on, revealing a white background. Suddenly, a circle with three rounded rectangles, green, purple , and blue , making a tape reel, flashes out and reveals a light inside it. The circle fades away, and the text:

P R O T O C O L ______________ ENTERTAINMENT

fades in. The three Os in "PROTOCOL" are the same colors as the rectangles, but fade away quickly.

FX/SFX: Nice CGI.

Music/Sounds: The ending theme of the show.

Availability: Appears on The Saddle Club on HRTV, and the game for Nintendo DS with the same name. Also seen on the TV movie Turn the Beat Around from 2010.

Editor's Note: None.