Draft:Gold

Background

Gold (formerly UK Gold, UKTV Gold, and G.O.L.D.) is a British TV network. It was created in November 1, 1992 as a joint venture between Thames Television and BBC to show classic BBC comedy programming. Gold, as well as its sister networks, are currently owned by UKTV, which is a TV company formed in 1997, owned by BBC Worldwide.

UK Gold

1st Logo (November 1, 1992-1994)

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Nicknames: "Goldie"

Logo: Basically the UK Gold logo at the time, which is a white/blue rectangle with "UK GOLD" in blue/white with the rectangle formed by a triangle connection. The logo has several variants with an golden retriever interacting with the logo in a way.

Variants: Here are all of the known variants:

• Launch: On a white background, a golden retriever (named Goldie by locals) can be seen in the middle of the screen, wagging its tail. He then becomes excited and then looks up in the sky as an sound of an airplane plays. This causes Goldie to run off screen and and then come back in later, dragging the UK Gold logo in. He then sits up and fades out, with the logo moving to the center of the screen.
• Flowers: Goldie can be seen running over a purple line representing an hill as an flower pops up in the bottom right corner and disappears. Another one appears in the other corner as Goldie runs back over the line and run towards the screen. The background then turns a blue hue as the logo zooms in. Goldie then runs up to it and opens the white section like a door, revealing light, and goes inside. The logo then shuts and zooms out, with the "O" lighting up and multiple flowers appearing in front of it.
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FX/SFX: 2D animation. This was done by Hatmaker Films in Boston, Massachusetts.

Music/Sounds: Various sounds playing out, before ending with a short whistling tune.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (1993-1994)

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Logo: On a blue background with some waves in it we see the gold left arrows flying across the screen until it stops in the middle to turn it into a box with a gold outlining and gold paint inside the arrow. Then the words "UK GOLD" appeared one by one.

FX/SFX: The background waving and the arrows and letter moving.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: TBA

3rd Logo (1994-1997)

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Nicknames: "Gold Ingot"

Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: TBA

4th Logo (1997-1999)

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Nicknames: "Falling Objects", "Falling Golden Objects"

Logo: On a dark blue background with a gold floor, some objects (either apples, leaves or arrows) fall from the top of the screen, always bouncing or being stuck in the floor. Golden objects also fall, but go through the floor instead.

FX/SFX: A mix of live-action footage of the objects, with some effects like flashes when the golden object touch the floor.

Music/Sounds: A sort of calm synth tune. Some notes occur when the golden objects touch the floor.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

5th Logo (1999-2001)

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Nicknames: "Fireworks", "Pyro"

Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: TBA

6th Logo (2001-2002)

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Nicknames: "Fireworks ll", "Pyro ll"

Logo: On a black background, several events involving the use of different types of fireworks occur.

• Launching: We see a close view of a firework taking off, until it flies to the sky and explodes. Other colored firework explosions also appear later.
• Fuse: A sparkle moves around the screen (like some kind of fuse), then eventually a explosion happen, releasing gold dust.
• Spiral: We see two colored fireworks moving to the center of the screen, like a spiral, then these explodes and more colored fireworks appeared above then they also explode and others began to appear.
• Holes: On a floor, several holes of different sizes are opening, releasing different colored sparkles.
• Cylinders: Two cylinders, a green one and a blue one, appear bouncing through the floor several times.
• Volcano: A volcaco shape is releasing several sparkles, then a spinning wheel with some sparkles moves over it.
• Cave: Some colored fireworks are moving through a cave. One of them, colored blue, stops when it sees a sphere-shaped rock moving towards it, then it flies trought another tunnel while avoiding other fireworks.
• Fireworks: On the sky, several fireworks are moving through it. There are 2 versions: One where the fireworks travel in curve pathways, and another (with a slighty closer view) where they travel in ondulated paths.

FX/SFX: 3D animation of the several types of fireworks.

Music/Sounds:

• Launching: An orchestral fanfare with a launching sound then it explodes and more came.
• Cave: An adventurous fanfare with a bombastic hit with the same fireworks sound.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

7th Logo (2002-2003)

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Nickname: "Lifestyle"

Logo: Many different activities happen on the screen (such as in a hair salon, a toilet and a bath), the UK Gold logo fades in on the bottom.

FX/SFX: Its all live-action.

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: TBA

8th Logo (2003-2004)

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Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: TBA

UKTV Gold

1st Logo (2004-April 3, 2007)

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Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: TBA

2nd Logo (April 4, 2007-October 6, 2008)

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Nickname: "Gold Space Hoppers"

Logo: The 2004 logo emblazoned on a golden space hopper

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: TBA

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: TBA

G.O.L.D.

(October 7, 2008-July 15, 2014)

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Logo: On a white background we see the G.O.L.D logo, then the camera moves as we see the black lines stretch out and certain objects grow and appear, the majority of these objects have "Laugh daily" or "Go on laugh daily" on them, when the camera zooms back we see lots of these objects and there are a few birds that fly past from the right to the left.

Variants:

• Starting in 2011 there's a dynamite near the end of the logo that the camera zooms into then it explodes and the G.O.L.D logo is there with all the objects attached to black strings. There was also text that said "Stick something funny on".
• The Christmas 2010 variant featured christmas related items, there were lights around the G.O.L.D logo as well.

FX/SFX: The animation on the doodle-pictures.

Music/Sounds: A bouncy a Capella based tune.

Availability: Extinct.

Editor's Note: None.

Gold

(July 16, 2014- )

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Logo: A golden ticket displaying the channel name.

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: A cheerful guitar and xylophone tune

Availability: Current

Editor's Note: Gold also has a late evening block named Gold After Dark. An ident is not available at this time.