Pink-A-Rella

Pink-A-Rella
The Pink Panther series
Directed by Hawley Pratt
Produced by David H. DePatie
Friz Freleng
Music by Walter Greene
Animation by Manny Perez
Herman Cohen
Warren Batchelder
Manny Gould
Ed DeMattia
Backgrounds by Tom O'Loughlin
Distributed by United Artists
Release date(s) January 8, 1969 (1969-01-08)
Color process Deluxe
Running time 6 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Preceded by Pinkcome Tax
Followed by Pink Pest Control

Pink-A-Rella is the 56th cartoon produced in the The Pink Panther series. A total of 124 6-minute cartoons were produced between 1964 and 1980.

Contents

Plot

The story starts with a drunk witch, flying on a broomstick, dropping her wand which the Pink Panther discovers. He then uses it to see what it can do and then decides to help someone out with it. He sees a poor girl, dressed in rags, who wants to take part in a beauty contest to meet Pelvis Parsley (a parody of entertainer Elvis Presley).

The Panther then helps her out by transforming her into a beautiful girl with a beautiful house and a car. On the way to the contest the witch arrives and takes back her wand, but crashes into a clock tower. The Pink Panther realises it is midnight, and runs back to pull the girl out, but not before her slipper falls out. A while later, Pelvis Parsley arrives and finds that the slipper fits the girl, and takes her with him.

The witch, again drunk, drops her wand, and the Panther picks it up. They start fighting turning each other into a variety of objects, before the Pink Panther turns her into a female Pink Panther, snaps the wand into two, and flies away with her broomstick.

Censorship

On U.S. television airings of Pink-A-Rella, the witch's glass of alcohol she refills with her magic wand is replaced with a chicken drumstick.

Laugh track

The Pink Panther Show contained a laugh track when the Pink Panther cartoons were broadcast on NBC. Though most American broadcasts mute the laughter, a laugh track version still airs on France Channel Gulli.

Further sources

Films
Roger Moore (cameo)
Roberto Benigni
as Clouseau's son
Animated shorts
Animated
TV shows
The Pink Panther Show (1969–1980) · Pink Panther and Sons (1984–1985) · The Pink Panther (1993–1995) · Pink Panther and Pals (2010)
Animated
TV specials
A Pink Christmas (1978) · Olym-Pinks (1980) · Pink at First Sight (1981)
Characters
Music
Other
1964
The Pink Phink (001) • Pink Pajamas (002)
1965
We Give Pink Stamps (003) • Dial "P" for Pink (004) • Sink Pink (005) • Pickled Pink (006) • Pinkfinger (007) • Shocking Pink (008) • Pink Ice (009) • The Pink Tail Fly (010) • Pink Panzer (011) • An Ounce of Pink (012) • Reel Pink (013) • Bully for Pink (014)
1966
Pink Punch (015) • Pink Pistons (016) • Vitamin Pink (017) • The Pink Blueprint (018) • Pink, Plunk, Plink (019) • Smile Pretty, Say Pink (020) • Pink-A-Boo (021) • Genie with the Light Pink Fur (022) • Super Pink (023) • Rock A Bye Pinky (024)
1967
Pinknic (025) • Pink Panic (026) • Pink Posies (027) • Pink of the Litter (028) • In the Pink (029) • Jet Pink (030) • Pink Paradise (031) • Pinto Pink (032) • Congratulations It's Pink (033) • Prefabricated Pink (034) • The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye (035) • Pink Outs (036)
1968
Pinkadilly Circus (037) • Sky Blue Pink (038) • Psychedelic Pink (039) • Come On In! The Water's Pink (040) • Put-Put, Pink (041) • G.I. Pink (042) • Lucky Pink (043) • The Pink Quarterback (044) • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Pink (045) • Pink Valiant (046) • The Pink Pill (047) • Prehistoric Pink (048) • Pink in the Clink (049) • Little Beaux Pink (050) • Tickled Pink (051) • Pink Sphinx (052) • Pink Is a Many Splintered Thing (053) • The Pink Package Plot (054) • Pinkcome Tax (055)
1969
Pink-A-Rella (056) • Pink Pest Control (057) • Think Before You Pink (058) • Slink Pink (059) • In the Pink of the Night (060) • Pink on the Cob (061) • Extinct Pink (062)
1971
A Fly in the Pink (063) • Pink Blue Plate (064) • Pink Tuba-Dore (065) • Pink Pranks (066) • The Pink Flea (067) • Psst Pink (068) • Gong with the Pink (069) • Pink-In (070)
1972
1974
1975
Pink DaVinci (074) • Pink Streaker (075) • Salmon Pink (076) • Forty Pink Winks (077) • Pink Plasma (078) • Pink Elephant (079) • Keep Our Forests Pink (080) • Bobolink Pink (081) • It's Pink But Is It Mink? (082) • Pink Campaign (083) • The Scarlet Pinkernel (084)
1976
Mystic Pink (085) • The Pink of Arabee (086) • The Pink Pro (087) • Pink Piper (088) • Pinky Doodle (089) • Sherlock Pink (090) • Rocky Pink (091)
1977
1978
Pink Pictures (093) • Pink Arcade (094) • Pink Lemonade (095) • Pink Trumpet (096) • Sprinkle Me Pink (097) • Dietetic Pink (098) • Pink U.F.O. (099) • Pink Lightning (100) • Pink Daddy (101) • Cat and the Pinkstalk (102) • Pink S.W.A.T. (103) • Pink and Shovel (104) • Pinkologist (105) • Yankee Doodle Pink (106) • Pink Press (107) • The Pink of Bagdad (108) • Pet Pink Pebbles (109) • Pink in the Drink (110) • Pink Bananas (111) • Pinktails for Two (112) • Pink Z-Z-Z (113) • Star Pink (114)
1979
Pink Breakfast (115) • Pink Quackers (116) • Toro Pink (117) • String Along in Pink (118) • Pink in the Woods (119) • Pink Pull (120) • Spark Plug Pink (121) • Doctor Pink (122) • Pink Suds (123)
1980
1995