The Pink Panther Show

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The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of DePatie-Freleng animated cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s, prominently by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng. The television series was produced by Mirisch Films and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, and was broadcast on several American networks: from 6 September, 1969 to 2 September, 1978 on NBC, and from 9 September, 1978 until 1 September, 1979 on ABC as The All-New Pink Panther Show. It also appeared on CBS during the 1985-86 television season. Doug Goodwin composed the show's theme music, and this show was "hosted" by The Pink Panther and The Inspector. Each show included new bridging sequences featuring the Pink Panther and The Inspector together. The show's opening shows an approximately ten-year-old boy driving a rocket car from the countryside to the Chinese theatre, and then letting out the Pink Panther and the Inspector.

Over its nine years on various television networks, The Pink Panther Show had a variety of names:

• The Pink Panther Show (1969-1970; also considered the umbrella title of the series)
• The Pink Panther Meets the Ant and the Aardvark (1970-1971)
• The New Pink Panther Show (1971-1974)
• The Pink Panther and Friends (1974-1976)
• The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show (1976-1977)
• Think Pink Panther (1977-1978)
• The All New Pink Panther Show (1978-1979)

Pink Panther Show theme song:

"Think of all the animals you ever heard about, like rhinoceros and tigers, cats and mink,

there are lots of funny animals in all this world, but have you ever seen a panther that is pink?

Think! A panther that is positively pink!

Well here he is, The Pink Panther, The Pink Panther, everybody loves a panther that's pink.

He really is a groovy cat, and he's a gentleman, a scholar, he's an-acrobat.

He's in the pink, the Pink Panther, the rinky-dink Panther and it's as plain as your nose

That he's the one and only truly original, Panther pink from head to toes.

Yes he's the one and only truly original, Panther Pink Panther from head to toes!"

The Pink Panther Show also features the following segments:

• The Pink Panther
• The Inspector
• Roland and Rattfink
• The Ant and the Aardvark
• Tijuana Toads
• The Blue Racer
• Hoot Kloot
• The Dogfather
• Misterjaw
• Crazylegs Crane

[edit] Credits

• Pink Panther Theme by Henry Mancini
• Direction: Hawley Pratt, Gerry Chiniquy, Robert McKimson, George Singer, Art Davis, Friz Freleng
• Stories: John W. Dunn, Tony Benedict, Don Jurwich, Bob Kurtz, Jack Miller, Michael O'Connor, Jim Ryan
• Layouts: Dick Ung, Tom Yakutis, Corny Cole, Jack Miller, Lin Larsen, Jacques Rupp
• Backgrounds: Pete Alvarado, Tom O'Loughlin, Corny Cole
• Panthermobile Designed by Bob Reisner
• Animation: Art Leonardi, Manny Gould, Manny Perez, Don Williams, Warren Batchelder, Chuck Downs, George Grandpré, Norm McCabe, Herman Cohen, Ed Love, Dale Case, Bob Matz, Laverne Harding, Tom Ray, Ed DeMattia, Ted Bonnicksen, John Gibbs, Virgil Raddatz
• Voices: Rich Little, Mel Blanc, June Foray, Dave Barry , Paul Frees, Helen Gerald, Joan Gerber, Ralph James, Pat Harrington, Jr., Athena Lorde, Marvin Miller, Laura Olsher, Hal Smith, Larry Storch
• Music: Doug Goodwin, Walter Greene, Bill Lava
• Title Song "Panther Pink Panther from Head to Toes" by Doug Goodwin
• Film Editing Supervised by Lee Gunther
• Film Editors: Treg Brown, Roger Donley, Eugene Marks, Chuck McCann, Allen Potter
• Camera: John Burton, Jr.
• Production Supervision: Jim Foss, Bill Orcutt
• Production Coordinator: Harry Love
• Produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng

[edit] See also

• Pink Panther Episodes

[edit] External links

• The Pink Panther Show at the Internet Movie Database
• The Pink Panther and Friends at the Internet Movie Database
• The Pink Panther Show Page - Written by Kevin McCorry
• Blake Edwards' PINK PANTHER, from Charles Brubaker's DePatie-Freleng Website