Trident Television

Background

Trident Television was a British television company that was the owner of two ITV franchisees Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television from 1970 to 1982, when the IBA forced to divest the franchisees during the 1980 renewal. It also considered purchasing Anglia, but it failed, and chose to make the non-television interests as the third prong of the company. It even started Trident Television Associates in 1979 to syndicate 23 CBS telemovies and a film subsidiary.

1st Logo (1975-1977)

Logo:

Opening: On a black background, we see the text on the left reading "trident colour television", and then we see the symbol on the right, which has three sword-like objects in blue, red and green, making it look like the letter "T".
Closing: We see the same symbol from the opening logo on the left, and to the right is the text "trident colour television production". Below it was a copyright date.

Variant: Sometimes, the symbol is larger and the text is in yellow.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: For the opening, either the 1969 Yorkshire or the 1970 Tyne Tees logo playing. For the closing, it's the end theme of the programme.

Availability: Rare. It was usually used to cover the Yorkshire and Tyne Tees logos on international prints of programmes, like Yorkshire Television's The Main Chance. It was also seen on Luke's Kingdom.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (1978)

Logo: On a brown background, we see a black line on top, and below it we see the following text:

Trident Films Ltd.
London, England

in a Didot font.

FX/SFX: None.

Music/Sounds: The end theme of the TV movie.

Availability: Rare. It was kept intact on the DVD release of the 1978 TV movie adaptation of The Four Feathers.

Editor's Note: None.