The 1978 WGBH Boston Flash of Doom | Retro Junk Commercial

im not from boston but im getting sick of this logo wgbh needs to change the logo because since the 90s ive seen this on pbs from watching arthur its annoying

This scared the fucking shit out of me when i was a kid.

Just before my time, but I remember seeing this on old videotapes. I thought it was cool, but it scared my brother.

oh my godDDD!!!!!!

wow this freakin scared me when i was little

BEWARE THE FLASH OF DOOM!!!!!!!!!

They still use the sound and the WGBH logo.

The shows I associate this bumper with are "Zoom" (the original from the '70s, not the crappy remake) and Masterpiece Theater.

I think the radio equivalient of this station does the show Car Talk... : o?

Seen it a million times over the years... : I

I remember this was on Zoom. I was scared of a lot of things when I was little, but I was never scared of this. The thing that scared me for my entire childhood was the Eat n Park ad right before Mr. Rodgers *shudders*

Well, they had to find some way of giving the kiddies nightmares that would haunt them well into adulthood.

Ohh, yeah! I remember this logo quite painfully. As a child, somehow the beyond eerie sound used to cause me nightmares... And it still causes me nightmares now and then.

This was shown on all PBS(Public Broadcasting Stations). Shows originating from this station in Boston, Massachusetts included Masterpiece Theatre, ZOOM, The French Chef with Julia Child, Evening at Pops with Arthur Fiedler, Last Chance Garage, Crockett's Victory Garden and Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego.

I remembers these shows when I was growing up.

I believe the music was produced with a Sequencial Circuits Prophet V.

"Now-a-days It's seen at the end of ZOOM on PBS, but without the Boston." Also On The Arthur TVSeries Without The Boston.

Now this reminds me of robots attacking! I wonder why all those old logo had to be so startling. Still, very classic!

Now-a-days It's seen at the end of ZOOM on PBS, but without the Boston.

WIERD DUDE

I did that.

Looks like someone did upload this bumper's rare older sibling:

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/4123/

This bumper always scared the crap out of me.

Thanks RetroBen81 for remembering that version of the logo. Learn more about the older logo here:
http://members.fortunecity.com/teamfx2000/Misc/wgbh.htm

Someone needs to upload that one. Although that site says it probably won't be heard of again, it has to be out there. They said the NET logo was extinct too, but that didn't stop it from appearing here.

BTW, what did the font of that older logo look like?

One of my absolute favorites, no matter how much it reminds me of "This Old House."

Another bumper I completely forgot about.

There was another WGBH logo which used the same music, except the logo video is very rare and not many people can find it now. The logo video was used from 1974-78, and some experts say it could still be seen on certain reruns of "Julia Child".

The video of the '74-'78 logo begins on a light grey background (yellow on color broadcasts), with the black WGBH letters (blue on color broadcasts) zooming out from the front of the screen into the vanishing point. Then the word BOSTON (in either black or blue) zooms in from this same vanishing point, taking up the entire screen (a la Viacom's V of Doom) and creating a black (or blue) background, concluding with the word PRESENTS in grey (or yellow) zooming in.

ah..this is not that scary

Pbs Bumpers are always creepy

I definitely remember this bumper as its still used today on other PBS shows.

I remember this bumper, they still play it. Sounds trippy.
I know that this wasn't done by computer, how did they animate this. I looks so sophisticated.

>>>i HATED that thing!

Aghh! That beeping sound is scary! I always hated this logo.

If you're like me and not scared of this logo, odds are you'll find it sickeningly dated. Take it from someone who's 3 again whenever he sees it.

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i remember this it was on before they showed zoom

They had it on after a cooking show that Jullia Child did, the name of her cooking show escapes me at the moment, but it was the first time I had ever watched Jullia Child do anything that was worth watching. Of course everything that Jullia Child does is worth watching.

I've seen the WGBH logo before since it was on a number of PBS shows. The same sound was heard after Arsenio Hall's "Late Show" promo from the pre-Letterman days you'll might the same sound effect for WGBH where it does not show up on the screen after the last 35 seconds of blank screen was shown until the sound was heard.

Like I said in the first post, kimsy, yes. Only it's shorter.

Also, this sounds like an army of robots powering up! LOL!

oh I definitely remember this

I think they showed it before "This Old House" And I think they kept showing it through the 80s, then in the 90s there was a voice saying "This is WGBH Boston" or something like that. Do they still show this?

No and uh No but However It was one of those errie 80s Computer CGIs that made us hide our eyes or earseither it was too bright or too lowd . In this case too lowd, or just seems it. We see the Logo form up as the errie gigibblbits sound, then a Lowd Howl and We're reasured when we see the soft boston sign appears.

Why do they call this bumper the "flash of doom?"? Did it cause seizures in epileptics or what?

Why do they call this bumper the "flash of doom?"? Did it caus seizures in epileptics or what?

Ah, I remember the ol' WGBH Flash of Doom after certain programs on PBS! They still show it today, but it's shorter (i.e., it doesn't show the beeping with the logo being drawn in).

The 1978 WGBH Boston Flash of Doom (1970)