Briskin Productions

Background

Briskin Productions was founded on July 1, 1956 by Columbia Pictures studio veteran, Irving Briskin, to operate Screen Gems' productions. It was folded into Screen Gems in 1963.

(September 30, 1957-1963)

Logo: On a gray background, there is a cursive letter "B". In front of the letter "B", there are letters inside of each black shape. The letter "A" inside a black circle on top, for each letter for the word "BRISKIN" is inside each black square in the middle, except the letter "I" is inside a rectangle, and the word "PRODUCTION" inside a wide black ellipse on the bottom, all in Clarendon font.

Variants:

On the first season of The Donna Reed Show, the word "TODON" is seen above the name "BRISKIN" with two black diamonds in between the names.
On Ranch Party, it's similar to the the above variant, but "BRISKIN" is above the word "RANCH PARTY".

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The end-title theme from any show.

Availability: Extremely rare.

It was originally seen on Casey Jones, season one of The Donna Reed Show, Alcoa Theatre, Ranch Party, Goodyear Theatre, and Manhunt.
It's retained on the two episodes of Ranch Party on the Internet Archive and the first season of The Donna Reed Show on Me-TV and on DVD.

Editor's Note: None.