The Pink Panther Show

This article is about the original 1960s television show. For the 1980s show, see Pink Panther and Sons. For 1990s show, see The Pink Panther (TV series). For the 2010 show from Cartoon Network, see Pink Panther and Pals. For other uses, see The Pink Panther (disambiguation).

The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of animated shorts produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng between 1969 and 1978, starring the animated Pink Panther character from the opening credits of the live-action films. The series was produced by Mirisch Films and DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, and was broadcast Saturday mornings on two American television networks: from September 6, 1969, to September 2, 1978, on NBC; and from September 9, 1978, to September 1, 1979, on ABC.

The Pink Panther Show
Title card from the 1980 syndicated version of The Pink Panther Show
Genre	Comedy Slapstick Anthology
Created by	David H. DePatie Friz Freleng
Starring	Rich Little Daws Butler John Byner Don Diamond Pat Harrington, Jr. Paul Frees Bob Holt Arte Johnson Diana Maddox Larry D. Mann Bob Ogle Arnold Stang Lennie Weinrib Frank Welker Paul Winchell Mel Blanc June Foray Helen Gerald Joan Gerber Mark Skor
Narrated by	Marvin Miller
Composers	Henry Mancini Doug Goodwin Walter Greene Steve DePatie William Lava
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	11
Production
Producers	David H. DePatie Friz Freleng Jim Foss Bill Orcutt Harry Love
Running time	6–7 minutes
Production companies	Mirisch Films DePatie–Freleng Enterprises
Original release
Network	NBC (1969–1978) ABC (1978–1980)
Release	September 6, 1969 (1969-09-06) – September 1, 1979 (1979-09-01)
Related
Pink Panther and Sons

History

Format

When The Pink Panther Show first aired in 1969, it consisted of one cartoon featuring The Inspector, sandwiched by two Pink Panther entries. Due to the number of shorts produced, two episodes feature a Pink Panther cartoon sandwiched by two Inspector entries. The 30-minute show was then connected via bumper sequences featuring both the panther and Inspector together, with announcer Marvin Miller acting as an off-camera narrator talking to the panther. Bumper sequences consisted of newly animated segments as well as recycled footage from existing cartoons We Give Pink Stamps, Reel Pink, Pink Outs and Super Pink, fitted with new incidental music and voice-over work from Miller.^[1]

Pink Panther shorts that were produced after 1969 (starting with A Fly in the Pink) were made for both broadcast and theatrical release, typically appearing on television first, and released to theaters by United Artists.^[1] A number of new series were created, including The Ant and the Aardvark, Tijuana Toads (redubbed as “Texas Toads”), Hoot Kloot, Misterjaw, Roland and Rattfink, The Dogfather and two Tijuana Toads spinoffs: The Blue Racer and Crazylegs Crane. The New Pink Panther Show and later shows featured newly animated bumper segments involving the Panther, the Ant and the Aardvark, Misterjaw, and the Texas Toads.^[1]

By this time, due to the violent nature of some of the cartoons, they were re-edited for television by omitting the cartoon violent scenes from their broadcasts, in order to make them more family friendly.

In 1976, the half-hour series was revamped into a 90-minute format, as The Pink Panther Laugh And A Half, Hour And A Half Show; this version included a live-action segment, where comedian Lenny Schultz would read letters and jokes from viewers. This version performed poorly and eventually reverted to the original 30-minute version in 1977 as Think Pink Panther.^[1]

After nine years on NBC, the Pink Panther moved to ABC in 1978 and was retitled The All New Pink Panther Show, where it lasted one season before leaving the network realm entirely. The tenth season featured 16 episodes with 32 new Pink Panther cartoons, and 16 featuring Crazylegs Crane: no bumpers were produced for The All New Pink Panther Show, but 10 second "Stay tuned..." bumpers explaining an upcoming entry were produced for the first several episodes. The 32 All New Pink Panther Show entries were eventually released to theaters by United Artists.^[1]

Theme music

Henry Mancini composed "The Pink Panther Theme" for the live action films, which would be used extensively in the cartoon series as well. Doug Goodwin composed the show's opening title music while William Lava and Walter Greene composed music scores heard throughout the cartoons, many of which were variations on Mancini's "Pink Panther Theme".

Laugh track

By the time of the show's 1969 debut, fitting cartoon and children's shows with a laugh track was standard practice.^[1] In keeping with this standard, NBC added a laugh track to all seasons of The Pink Panther Show, marking the first time in history that theatrical films were fitted with a laugh track for television broadcast (Season 2 utilized an inferior laugh track, utilizing isolated laugh clips from Season 1).^[1] This was an anomaly, as other theatrical cartoon series that were airing successfully on television (i.e. Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Looney Tunes, Popeye) did not receive this addition.

The soundtracks were restored to their original theatrical form in 1982 when the DFE theatrical package went into syndication. Repackaging over the years has resulted in both theatrical and television versions of the entries being available. The exceptions were Misterjaw and Crazylegs Crane, which were produced specifically for television and never re-released theatrically, resulting in laughter-only versions.^[1] The U.S.-based Boomerang occasionally airs versions with the laugh track intact, though these versions are more commonly found outside of the U.S., such as on the BBC Two repeats circa 2011 in the United Kingdom, The Spanish language Boomerang requires that MGM supply them with laugh track-only versions of all shorts. The Portuguese language Boomerang, France-based Gulli, and Poland channels TV 4 and TV6 also broadcast certain entries utilizing laugh track versions. Some laugh tracked shorts also appear on the Pink Panther YouTube channel.

Incarnations

Over its 10 years on various television networks, The Pink Panther Show had a variety of names:^[1]

• The Pink Panther Show (1969–1971, also considered the umbrella title of the series)
• The New Pink Panther Show (1971–1975)
• The Think Pink Panther Show (1975–76; 1977–78)
• The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half, Hour and a Half Show (1976–1977)
• The All New Pink Panther Show (1978–1979)
• The Pink Panther Show (1980, Syndicated)

Syndication

United Artists Television syndicated The Pink Panther Show in 1980, complete with bumpers and laugh-tracked versions of the shorts. By 1982, MGM Television began syndicating some individual cartoons to local stations to air them as they saw fit. This format did not contain the series' bumpers nor the laugh track.^[1]

The following series were included in MGM Television's syndication package:

• The Pink Panther
• The Inspector
• The Ant and the Aardvark
• Tijuana Toads/Texas Toads
• Misterjaw (made-for-television series)

The following series were not included in the MGM Television distribution package:

• Roland and Rattfink
• The Blue Racer
• Hoot Kloot
• The Dogfather
• Crazylegs Crane (made-for-television series)

Most television stations aired the later package released in 1982, featuring the cartoon shorts by themselves, isolated from the show's original bumpers sequences. The laugh track was also silenced on all entries except for Misterjaw. Chicago-based WGN-TV was one of the few stations to air the 1980 The Pink Panther Show syndication package. Conversely, New York City-based WPIX featured a stripped-down version of the shorts, airing the entries without the laugh track, bumpers, or theatrical opening/closing credits.

Reruns

The Pink Panther Show (1969–1971) and The New Pink Panther Show (1971–1974) has been remastered in its original format. It was previously shown on BBC Two, UK Gold, BBC One, Boomerang (2000–2009) and Cartoon Network (1993–2002). In the late 2000s, it aired in Canada on Teletoon Retro weekday mornings at 8:00 am. Teletoon Retro showed all 32 episodes of The Pink Panther Show with the panther and the Inspector, all 17 episodes of The New Pink Panther Show with the panther and the Ant and the Aardvark, and select episodes of the first syndicated Pink Panther Show series (only those episodes with the middle cartoon being an Ant and Aardvark). Teletoon Retro then showed all 16 episodes of The All New Pink Panther Show, with the panther and Crazylegs Crane. The laugh track is muted for most entries.

The episodes shown on Teletoon Retro also featured remastered versions, while the wrap-around content was in rougher condition. The Inspector cartoon, Tour de Farce, had the wrong title card, that for Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat.

Cartoon Network reran The Pink Panther Show from 1997 to 1999, and intermittently in 2006, 2009, and 2012. A "no-frills" version aired on Boomerang five days a week at 5:30 am, 10 am and 2:30 pm; the Boomerang version included four shorts and no bumpers, in the style of its other theatrical-short compilation shows. Until August 2009, Boomerang only featured shorts from The Pink Panther, The Ant and the Aardvark and The Inspector. The laugh track was present on several entries. Currently, the show remains intact on the Spanish Language Boomerang TV channel with most entries containing their original laugh track. The Pink Panther show aired on Boomerang from 2000 to 2012, and was available on the video on demand network Anime Network from 2012 to 2016.

In the Arab world, it was shown on Spacetoon from 2014 to 2017, due to Spacetoon airing The Pink Panther and low reception from Spacetoon viewers.

The show also previously aired in its original format on This TV on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:30 am Eastern Time or 7:30 am Central Time (as part of its Cookie Jar Toons programming block) until September 22, 2011. The digital broadcast network Light TV ran the series when the network launched Christmas weekend 2016 until September 29, 2019. On June 1, 2020 to May 29, 2022, the show aired for the first time in Spanish on Galavisión, known as El show de la Pantera Rosa.^[2]

From May 2021 to May 2023, MeTV rerunned the show under the name Pink Panther's Party, during their Saturday morning block, Saturday Morning Cartoons, from 7:30 am to 8:00 am ET/ 6:30 to 7:00 am CT following Popeye and Pals, which currently aired from 7:00 am to 7:30 am ET/ 6:00 am to 6:30 am CT. The show is collectively called Popeye and Pink Panther's Party, combining Popeye and Pals and Pink Panther's Party into a single show. However, the channel lost the rights to air the non-WB DePatie-Freleng cartoons, which caused Popeye And Pink Panther's Party to be reverted back to Popeye and Pals, which currently only airs Popeye shorts.^[3][4]

Amazon Prime carries The New Pink Panther Show episodes (As of 2023) for free for Prime members.The Pink Panther Show, The New Pink Panther Show, The Pink Panther & Friends (using the syndicated intro), and the aforementioned syndication version have appeared on the Pink Panther Facebook page.

Cast

• Rich Little as Pink Panther
• Daws Butler as Pug, Louie
• John Byner as Charlie Ant, Blue Aardvark
• Larry D. Mann as Blue Racer, Crazylegs Crane
• Frank Welker as Crazylegs Crane Jr., Dragonfly
• Paul Frees as Narrator, Texan hunter, The Commissioner
• Don Diamond as Toro
• Tom Holland as Pancho
• Pat Harrington, Jr. as The Inspector, Sergeant Deux-Deux
• Bob Holt as Hoot Kloot, Hoot Kloot's Horse, Dogfather
• Arte Johnson as Misterjaw
• Bob Ogle as Harry Halibut
• Arnold Stang as Catfish
• Lennie Weinrib as Roland, Rattfink, Scotland Yard Captain
• Paul Winchell as Fearless Freddy
• Don Messick as Sergeant Deux-Deux
• Marvin Miller as Narrator, The Commissioner, The Inspector, Sergeant Deux-Deux
• Larry Storch as The Commissioner
• Mark Skor as The Commissioner
• Mel Blanc as Drunk, Drunk's wife
• Diana Maddox as Commissioner's wife

Series overview

The Pink Panther Show (1969–1971)

A kit of the Panthermobile, which appeared during the 1969–1970 season

The first season of The Pink Panther Show (1969–1971) consisted of one The Inspector entry sandwiched by two Pink Panther entries.^[1][5] The show was "hosted" by The Pink Panther and The Inspector, seen during the opening sequence, which showed a boy driving the Panthermobile from the countryside to Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. During the journey, images of animals mentioned in the song (rhinoceros, tiger, cats, American mink) are seen alongside clips of the panther from Reel Pink, Come On In! The Water's Pink and Put Put Pink. Upon arrival, the Pink Panther and the Inspector then disembark from the Panthermobile and enter the famous theatre. In the ending credits, the Inspector climbs back into the Panthermobile, but leaves the Pink Panther behind, who is seen chasing after the car.

The entries utilized for the second season featured complete original theatrical titles. With only two exceptions, the first and third cartoons of each episode were Pink Panthers, and second was an Inspector. In the two exceptions, the first and third cartoons were Inspectors, and the middle one was a Pink Panther. Unlike Season 1, a full laugh track wasn't used but rather an abridged version using isolated laughs from Season 1 edited onto the soundtrack by DFE (these inferior versions currently in circulation are marked with †).^[6] Seasons 1 and 2 were repackaged as a single Season 1 in the 2000s.

Season 1 (1969–1970)

#	First cartoon	Second cartoon	Third cartoon	Original air date
01	The Pink Blueprint	Bomb Voyage	The Pink Tail Fly	September 6, 1969
02	Pinto Pink	Le Pig-Al Patrol	In the Pink	September 13, 1969
03	Jet Pink	The Pique Poquette of Paris	Tickled Pink	September 20, 1969
04	The Pink Pill	Plastered in Paris	Pink Pistons (mistitled Pink Piston)	September 27, 1969
05	Rock A Bye Pinky	Toulouse La Trick	Sink Pink	October 4, 1969
06	Prehistoric Pink	Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat	Come On In! The Water's Pink	October 11, 1969
07	Pink Pest Control	Tour de Farce	Pink-A-Boo	October 18, 1969
08	Pink Panic	Transylvania Mania	An Ounce of Pink	October 25, 1969
09	Prefabricated Pink	Le Bowser Bagger	Sky Blue Pink	November 1, 1969
10	Dial "P" for Pink	Napoleon Blown-Aparte	Bully for Pink	November 8, 1969
11	Pink Sphinx (mistitled The Pink Sphinx)	Cock-a-Doodle Deux Deux	The Pink Phink	November 15, 1969
12	Pink of the Litter	The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation	Shocking Pink	November 22, 1969
13	Pink Valiant	Le Quiet Squad	The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye	November 29, 1969
14	Reel Pink	Les Miserobots	Smile Pretty, Say Pink	December 6, 1969
15	Put-Put, Pink	French Freud	Pink is a Many Splintered Thing	December 13, 1969
16	Extinct Pink	Le Great Dane Robbery	The Pink Quarterback	December 20, 1969
17	Genie With the Light Pink Fur	Cherche Le Phantom	Pinknic	December 27, 1969

Season 2 (1970-1971)

#	First cartoon	Second cartoon	Third cartoon	Original air date
01	G.I. Pink	Carte Blanched	Pinkadilly Circus	September 12, 1970
02	Lucky Pink	The Shooting of Caribou Lou	Pink in the Clink	September 19, 1970
03	Little Beaux Pink	Pierre and Cottage Cheese	The Pink Package Plot	September 26, 1970
04	Bear de Guerre	Pinkcome Tax	Unsafe and Seine	October 3, 1970
05	Pink Pajamas	Sicque! Sicque! Sicque!	Pink Ice	October 10, 1970
06	Pickled Pink	Ape Suzette	Pinkfinger	October 17, 1970
07	Pink Punch	Cirrhosis of the Louvre	Vitamin Pink	October 24, 1970
08	Pink, Plunk, Plink	That's No Lady — That's Notre Dame!	Pink Outs	October 31, 1970
09	Pink Paradise	Sacre Bleu Cross	Congratulations It's Pink	November 7, 1970
10	Psychedelic Pink	Crow de Guerre	Pink Posies	November 14, 1970
11	Super Pink	Le Cop on Le Rocks	Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Pink	November 21, 1970
12	Slink Pink	Canadian Can-Can	Pink-A-Rella	November 28, 1970
13	In the Pink of the Night	London Derriere	Think Before You Pink	December 5, 1970
14	Pink Panzer	La Feet's Defeat	Pink on the Cob	December 12, 1970
15	Le Ball and Chain Gang	We Give Pink Stamps	Le Escape Goat	December 19, 1970

The New Pink Panther Show (1971–1974)

The New Pink Panther Show (1971–1974) featured a new opening and closing sequence and theme song, pitting the attention-seeking Aardvark against the panther. The show's new title song, "Pantherly Pride", was written by Doug Goodwin and played over the opening sequence.^[1]

This incarnation aired The Ant and the Aardvark during the 1971–1972 season. Later seasons swapped The Ant and the Aardvark with theatrical series' Roland and Rattfink, Hoot Kloot or The Blue Racer, as well as reruns of The Inspector.^[1] Only eight new Pink Panther cartoons were produced over this three-year period (in bold ).^[7]

#	The Pink Panther Entry 1	The Ant and the Aardvark	The Pink Panther Entry 2	Original air date
01	In the Pink of the Night	Technology, Phooey	Super Pink	September 11, 1971
02	Think Before You Pink	Ants in the Pantry	Pink-A-Rella	September 18, 1971
03	Twinkle Twinkle Little Pink	Isle of Caprice	Pink Punch	September 25, 1971
04	Pink on the Cob	Rough Brunch	Congratulations It's Pink	October 2, 1971
05	Pink Outs	Scratch a Tiger	Pink, Plunk, Plink	October 9, 1971
06	Extinct Pink	Science Friction	Pink Paradise	October 16, 1971
07	A Fly In the Pink	The Ant From Uncle	Pinkfinger	October 23, 1971
08	Pink Blue Plate	The Froze Nose Knows	Little Beaux Pink	October 30, 1971
09	Pink Tuba-Dore	Dune Bug	Sink Pink	November 6, 1971
10	Pink-In	Don't Hustle an Ant With Muscle †	The Pink Tail Fly	November 13, 1971
11	Psst Pink	Never Bug an Ant	The Pink Blueprint	November 20, 1971
12	Psychedelic Pink	The Ant and the Aardvark	Gong with the Pink	November 27, 1971
13	Pink Pranks	Hasty But Tasty	In the Pink	December 4, 1971
14	The Pink Flea	I've Got Ants in My Plans	Pinto Pink	December 11, 1971
15	Slink Pink	Odd Ant Out	Tickled Pink	December 18, 1971
16	Pinkadilly Circus	From Bed to Worse	Pinkcome Tax	December 25, 1971
17	We Give Pink Stamps	Mumbo Jumbo	Lucky Pink	January 1, 1972

The Pink Panther and Friends (1974–1976)

The Pink Panther and Friends (1974–1976) followed the same format as The New Pink Panther Show. The first Pink Panther entry was a new episode, while the second was a rebroadcast of an old entry. Bumpers featuring The Inspector and The Ant and the Aardvark connected the three entries. New series The Dogfather (originally produced for theatrical release) was also added to broadcasts, in addition to The Blue Racer or Hoot Kloot.^[1]

#	The Pink Panther New entry	The Ant and the Aardvark Rebroadcast	The Pink Panther Rebroadcast
01	Salmon Pink	The Ant and the Aardvark	The Pink Phink
02	Pink Streaker	Never Bug an Ant	Reel Pink
03	Pink Plasma	The Ant from Uncle	The Pink Tail Fly
04	Pink Campaign	Technology Phooey	Smile Pretty Say Pink
05	Pink Piper	Hasty But Tasty	The Pink Blueprint
06	Bobolink Pink	Isle of Caprice	Pink-A-Boo
07	Trail of the Lonesome Pink	Dune Bug	Pink, Plunk, Plink
08	Pink Aye	Ants in the Pantry	Genie With the Light Pink Fur
09	Keep Our Forests Pink	Science Friction	Super Pink
10	Pink DaVinci	Odd Ant Out	Prefabricated Pink
11	Forty Pink Winks	Rough Brunch	Pink Outs
12	Sherlock Pink	I've Got Ants in My Plans	Pinkadilly Circus
13	Therapeutic Pink	Don't Hustle an Ant With Muscle	Come On In! The Water's Pink!
14	Pink Elephant	Scratch a Tiger	Twinkle Twinkle Little Pink
15	It's Pink But Is It Mink?	The Froze Nose Knows	Pink Pest Control
16	The Scarlet Pinkernel	Mumbo Jumbo	Slink Pink
17	Mystic Pink	From Bed to Worse	In the Pink of the Night

The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half, Hour and a Half Show (1976–1977)

The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half, Hour and a Half Show was an attempt by DFE to revamp the traditional format of three entries airing in a 30-minute format. The show was expanded to 90 minutes, and included a live-action segment featuring comedian Lenny Schultz reading letters from viewers. The show also featured two new made-for-television series, a first for the franchise: the Texas Toads (a redubbed version of the theatrical Tijuana Toads series), and Misterjaw. New bumper sequences featuring both the Texas Toads and Misterjaw were created for the series. These new entries were aired in combination with rebroadcasts of The Pink Panther, The Inspector and The Ant and the Aardvark.

The Pink Panther Laugh-and-a-Half Hour-and-a-Half Show did not do well in the ratings, so it lasted only one season.^[1]

The Think Pink Panther Show (1977–1978)

The final series broadcast on NBC, The Think Pink Panther Show reverted to the traditional 30-minute format and consisted of rebroadcasts. No new cartoons were created for this show. The opening sequence was based on “The Pink Phink”. The layout of the closing credits was based on The New Pink Panther Show.^[1]

A segment was called “Dear Pink Panther”, where Pink Panther would show jokes from viewers (possibly reused from the previous season).

The All New Pink Panther Show (1978–1979)

The All New Pink Panther Show (1978–1979) was a new version of the series commenced after NBC's broadcast of the series ended its nine-year run. For its tenth season, ABC picked up the series and requested 32 new made-for-television Pink Panther shorts, along with 16 entries for the new Crazylegs Crane segment.^[1] A disco-flavored rendition of Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther Theme" was used for the opening and closing credits, with the closing credits featuring Pink Panther disco-dancing. "Stay Tuned" bumpers were produced for seven episodes as well (marked in bold).^[8]

#	The Pink Panther Entry 1	Crazylegs Crane	The Pink Panther Entry 2	Original Air Date
01	Pink Bananas	Crane Brained	Pinktails for Two	September 9, 1978
02	Pink Arcade	Life with Feather	Pink S.W.A.T	September 16, 1978
03	Pink Suds	King of the Swamp	Pink Pull	September 23, 1978
04	Toro Pink	Winter Blunderland	Pink in the Woods	September 30, 1978
05	Spark Plug Pink	Sonic Broom	Pink Breakfast	October 7, 1978
06	Pink Lightning	Storky and Hatch	Pink in the Drink	October 14, 1978
07	Doctor Pink	Bug Off	Pink Pictures	October 21, 1978
08	Supermarket Pink	Animal Crack-ups	String Along in Pink	October 28, 1978
09	Pink Lemonade	Fly-by-Knight	Pink Trumpet	November 4, 1978
10	Dietetic Pink	Sneaker Snack	Sprinkle Me Pink	November 11, 1978
11	Pink Daddy	Barnacle Bird	Cat and the Pinkstalk	November 18, 1978
12	Pink Quackers	Jet Feathers	Pink and Shovel	November 25, 1978
13	Yankee Doodle Pink	Beach Bummer	Pinkologist	December 2, 1978
14	Pet Pink Pebbles	Nest Quest	The Pink of Bagdad	December 9, 1978
15	Pink Press	Flower Power	Pink U.F.O	December 16, 1978
16	Pink Z-Z-Z	Trail of the Lonesome Mine	Star Pink	December 23, 1978

The Pink Panther Show (1980, syndicated)

United Artists Television syndicated a weekday 30-minute Pink Panther show in 1980, complete with bumpers and laugh-tracked versions of the shorts. A new opening sequence preceding the show featured Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther Theme" played under a segment from Pink Outs featuring the Pink Panther folding the backdrop into a square to be eaten. The closer featured the last few seconds of the theme played under a scene from Reel Pink featuring the panther water skiing.^[1]

UATV created two versions of the syndication package. The first consisted of The Pink Panther, Inspector, The Ant and the Aardvark and Texas Toads entries sourced from film elements utilized during the program's original network run.^[1]

The second version consisted of The Pink Panther, The Ant and the Aardvark and Misterjaw entries sourced from new prints of the original film negatives and transferred to videotape, resulting in sharper images. As The Pink Panther and The Ant and the Aardvark entries were sourced using theatrical prints (sans laugh track), a new, less invasive laugh track being employed on sitcoms at the time was added to the soundtrack for consistency to match the made-for-television Misterjaw entries and bumper sequences that retained their respective laugh-tracked soundtracks.

The second version also incorporated several of the made-for-television Pink Panther entries from The All New Pink Panther Show. Pre-1978 Pink Panther and Ant and the Aardvark entries featured shorter opening titles with introduction music from either The New Pink Panther Show (1971–1974) or The All New Pink Panther Show (1978–1979). Closing credits featuring the Pink Panther disco dancing from The All New Pink Panther Show closed out the episodes.^[1]

Version 1

#	The Pink Panther Entry 1	The Inspector and The Ant and the Aardvark	The Pink Panther Entry 2
01	Pink Plasma	Sicque! Sicque! Sicque!	Pink Pest Control
02	A Fly in the Pink	Don't Hustle an Ant With Muscle	Pink-A-Rella
03	Pink Aye	Cirrhosis of the Louvre	Pink Streaker
04	Psychedelic Pink	I've Got Ants in My Plans	Pink Outs
05	Rock a Bye Pinky	Le Pig-Al Patrol	Tickled Pink
06	The Pink Quarterback	Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat	The Hand is Pinker Than the Eye
07	Pinto Pink	The Pique Poquette of Paris	Come On In! The Water's Pink
08	Pink Pranks	Scratch a Tiger	Pink-In
09	Trail of the Lonesome Pink	Ape Suzette	Gong With the Pink
10	Lucky Pink	Technology Phooey	In the Pink of the Night
11	Psst Pink	Never Bug an Ant	Pink DaVinci
12	Prefabricated Pink	Cock-a-Doodle Deux Deux	The Pink Phink

Version 2

#	The Pink Panther Entry 1	Misterjaw and The Ant and the Aardvark	The Pink Panther Entry 2
01	Pinkcome Tax	Little Red Riding Halibut	Pink Blue Plate
02	Pink Paradise	Dune Bug	Pink of the Litter
03	Pink on the Cob	The $6.95 Bionic Shark	The Pink Pro
04	Rocky Pink	Moulin Rouges	Think Before You Pink
05	Genie With the Light Pink Fur	Shopping Spree	Forty Pink Winks
06	We Give Pink Stamps	Showbiz Shark	Pink Panic
07	Sherlock Pink	To Catch a Halibut	Pink, Plunk, Plink
08	Pink Campaign	The Codfather	Pinkadilly Circus
09	Pinknic	The Ant From Uncle	Twinkle Twinkle Little Pink

Spanish versions

Other versions of The Pink Panther Show have been seen and aired only in Spanish.

#	The Pink Panther Entry 1	Hoot Kloot	The Pink Panther Entry 2
01	Pinky Doodle	Apache on the County Seat	Pink Pajamas
02	Pink 8 Ball	Pay Your Buffalo Bill	The Pink Pro
03	Bobolink Pink	The Badge and the Beautiful	Dial "P" for Pink
04	Salmon Pink	Ten Miles to the Gallop	Pink Streaker
05	Rocky Pink	As the Tumbleweed Turns	Pickled Pink
06	Mystic Pink	By Hoot or by Crook	Pink Panzer
07	Trail of the Lonesome Pink	Strange on the Range	Pink Aye
08	The Scarlet Pinkernel	A Self-Winding Sidewinde	Vitamin Pink
09	The Pink of Arabee	Stirrups and Hiccups	Rock A Bye Pinky
10	Pink Campaign	Phony Express	The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye
11	Sherlock Pink	Kloot's Kounty (pilot)	G.I Pink
12	Pink Piper	Giddy Up Woe	Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Pink
13	Pink DaVinci	The Shoe Must Go On	Forty Pink Winks
14	Therapeutic Pink	Mesa Trouble	Pink in the Clink
15	Pink Elephant	Big Beef at the O.K. Corral	Pink Sphinx
16	Pink Plasma	Gold Struck	Pink Pest Control
17	It's Pink But Is It Mink?	Saddle Soap Opera	Extinct Pink

German version

German title card.

The German version of the show, Der rosarote Panther - Zu Gast bei Paulchens Trickverwandten (The Pink Panther - Being a Guest of the Pink Panther's Cartoon-relatives) which started airing on ZDF in 1973 contains four cartoons per episode. The first cartoon is always a Pink Panther entry, the second one is an Inspector short, followed by another Pink Panther cartoon, and usually ending with an Ant and the Aardvark short. However, cartoons from The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show by UPA are added into the mix starting with episode 12, making the show's format rather messy compared to its other incarnations. Several episodes start off with a Pink Panther cartoon, followed by a longer UPA cartoon, and end with another Pink Panther short. Others replace the second Pink Panther entry with a UPA cartoon, and some feature two or three UPA cartoons cut together as one 'proper' segment.^[9] Bumpers are featured in this series, but only in the first 42 episodes. All cartoons have their opening and ending titles removed; when a cartoon ends, it immediately fades into a bumper and once the bumper ends, the next cartoon starts playing with no title card or credits.

When The All New Pink Panther Show was acquired by ZDF in 1980, they edited it to fit this format as well. Some episodes start out with one Pink Panther short, followed by a Crazylegs Crane cartoon, a second Pink Panther short, and ending with another Crazylegs Crane cartoon. Others start with two Pink Panther cartoons, followed by a Crazylegs Crane entry, and ending with a third Pink Panther short. The cartoons Yankee Doodle Pink, Pet Pink Pebbles, and The Pink of Bagdad are skipped due to being reissues of previous shorts.

This incarnation of the show contains no laugh track on any of the series featured. The Pink Panther is given a name, Paulchen Panther (Paul or Little Paul the Panther), and the cartoons featuring him are given narration written by Eberhard Storeck and spoken by voice actor Gert Günther Hoffmann. A new intro and outro theme, Wer hat an der Uhr gedreht?, was composed by Fred Strittmatter and Quirin Amper Jr., with new one-minute-long intro and outro sequences being cut together from existing pieces of animation.

While most episodes are 24 or 25 minutes in length, the ones that premiered on ZDF in 1978 feature only two Pink Panther cartoons with the intro and outro sequences being only 20 seconds long each, making them only 11 minutes long. Three 23-minute-long specials, A Pink Christmas, Olym-Pinks, and Pink at First Sight were also aired under this show.^[10][11][12]

On Amazon Prime, the Gerald McBoing-Boing segments were excluded due to copyright issues with NBCUniversal.

  - The Pink Panther

  - The Inspector

  - The Ant and the Aardvark

  - The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show

  - Crazylegs Crane

#	First cartoon						Second cartoon						Third cartoon						Fourth cartoon						Air date
01	Prefabricated Pink						Le Bowser Bagger						Sky Blue Pink						The Ant from Uncle						October 1, 1973
02	The Pink Blueprint						Bomb Voyage						The Pink Tail Fly						Technology, Phooey						October 8, 1973
03	The Pink Pill						Plastered in Paris						Pink Pistons						Ants in the Pantry						October 15, 1973
04	Jet Pink						The Pique Poquette of Paris						Tickled Pink						Le Escape Goat						October 22, 1973
05	Pinto Pink						Le Pig-Al Patrol						In the Pink						Isle of Caprice						October 29, 1973
06	Rock-A-Bye Pinky						Toulouse La Trick						Sink Pink						Rough Brunch						November 5, 1973
07	Prehistoric Pink						Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat						Come On In! The Water's Pink						Scratch a Tiger						November 12, 1973
08	Pink Pest Control						Tour de Farce						Pink-A-Boo						Canadian Can-Can						November 19, 1973
09	Pink Panic						Transylvania Mania						An Ounce of Pink						Science Friction						November 26, 1973
10	Dial "P" for Pink						Napoleon Blown-Aparte						Bully for Pink						London Derriere						December 3, 1973
11	Pink Sphinx						Cock-A-Doodle Deux Deux						The Pink Phink						The Froze Nose Knows						December 10, 1973
12	Pink Punch						Unsafe and Seine						The Twelve Days of Christmas						Mumbo Jumbo						December 17, 1973
13	Pink of the Litter						The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation						Shocking Pink						Dune Bug						December 31, 1973
14	Extinct Pink						Le Great Dane Robbery						Turned Around Clown						La Feet's Defeat						January 7, 1974
15	Little Beaux Pink						Bear De Guerre						The Sad Lion						Crow De Guerre						January 14, 1974
16	Reel Pink						Les Miserobots						Smile Pretty, Say Pink						Don't Hustle an Ant With Muscle						January 21, 1974
17	Pickled Pink						Ape Suzette						The Lost Duchess						Le Ball and Chain Gang						January 28, 1974
18	Pink, Plunk, Plink						That's No Lady — That's Notre Dame!						The Five Cent Nickel						Le Cop on Le Rocks						February 4, 1974
19	Put-Put, Pink						French Freud						The Magic Fiddle						Never Bug an Ant						February 11, 1974
20	Super Pink						The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy												Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Pink						February 18, 1974
21	Pink Panzer						The Fifty-First Dragon												Pink on the Cob						February 25, 1974
22	Genie With the Light Pink Fur						Cherche Le Phantom						Lion on the Loose						The Ant and the Aardvark						March 4, 1974
23	Psychedelic Pink						The Merry-Go-Round in the Jungle												Pink Posies						March 11, 1974
24	Slink Pink						Nero Fiddles												Pink-A-Rella						March 18, 1974
25	G.I. Pink						Carte Blanched						The Bear Scare						Hasty But Tasty						March 25, 1974
26	In the Pink of the Night						The Trial of Zelda Belle												Think Before You Pink						April 1, 1974
27	Lucky Pink						The Shooting of Caribou Lou						The Elephant Mystery						I've Got Ants in My Plans						April 8, 1974
28	Psst Pink						The King and Joe												Gong With the Pink						April 22, 1974
29	Pink Ice						The Beanstalk Trial												Pinkfinger						April 29, 1974
30	Pinkcome Tax						Pierre and Cottage Cheese						The Last Doubloon						Odd Ant Out						May 6, 1974
31	Pink in the Clink						The Matador and the Troubadour						The Pink Package Plot						Uncle Sneaky						May 13, 1974
32	Vitamin Pink						The Day of the Fox						A Fly in the Pink						Marvo the Magician						May 20, 1974
33	Pink Pajamas						Sicque! Sicque! Sicque!						Colonel Puffington and Mr. Finch						From Bed to Worse						May 27, 1974
34	Pink Pranks						Mr. Charmley in the Jungle						The Pink Flea						Trap Happy						June 10, 1974
35	Pink Is a Many Splintered Thing						Persistent Mr. Fulton						The Pink Quarterback						The Quadrangle						June 17, 1974
36	Pinknic						The Freeze Yum Story						Pinkadilly Circus						Outlaws						June 24, 1974
37	Pink Tuba-Dore						Trojan Horse												Pink Blue Plate						July 1, 1974
38	The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye						The Armored Car						Congratulations It's Pink						Old MacDonald		The Haunted Night		I Had a Bird		July 8, 1974
39	Pink Paradise						Sacré Bleu Cross						The Unenchanted Princess			The Two Musicians			Isle of Caprice						July 15, 1974
40	Pink Valiant						Rough Brunch						Le Quiet Squad						Operation Heart Throb						July 22, 1974
41	We Give Pink Stamps						The Genius - Time Machine						Cirrhosis of the Louvre						Scratch a Tiger						July 29, 1974
42	Pink-In						Alphabet Song			The Ballet Lesson			Pink Outs						Average Giraffe			The Violin Recital			August 5, 1974
43	Therapeutic Pink												The Pink of Arabee												c. 1978
44	Rocky Pink												Trail of the Lonesome Pink												c. 1978
45	Salmon Pink												Forty Pink Winks												c. 1978
46	Keep Our Forests' Pink												Pink Piper												c. 1978
47	Mystic Pink												Pink Plasma												c. 1978
48	Bobolink Pink												Pink Streaker												c. 1978
49	Sherlock Pink												It's Pink, But Is It Mink?												c. 1978
50	Pink Campaign												Pink Elephant												c. 1978[13]
51	The Pink Pro												The Scarlet Pinkernel												c. 1978
52	Pink Aye												Pink 8 Ball												c. 1978
53	Pinky Doodle												Pink DaVinci												c. 1978
54	Pink Bananas						Pinktails for Two						Life With Feather						Pink Arcade						August 19, 1980
55	Pink S.W.A.T.						Pink Suds						Crane Brained						Pink Pull						August 26, 1980
56	Sprinkle Me Pink						Pink Daddy						Sneaker Snack						Cat and the Pinkstalk						September 2, 1980
57	Spark Plug Pink						Pink Breakfast						Sonic Broom						Pink Lightning						September 9, 1980
58	Pink in the Drink						Doctor Pink						Storky and Hatch						Pink Pictures						September 16, 1980
59	Supermarket Pink						Bug Off						String Along in Pink						Animal Crack-ups						September 23, 1980
60	Pink Lemonade						Pink Trumpet						Fly by Knight						Dietetic Pink						September 30, 1980
61	Toro Pink						King of the Swamp						Pink in the Woods						Winter Blunderland						Unknown
62	Pink Quackers						Barnacle Bird						Pink and Shovel						Jet Feathers						December 9, 1980
63	The Pink Panther in: A Pink Christmas																								December 16, 1980
64	Pinkologist						Pink Press						Nest Quest						Pink U.F.O.						January 13, 1981
65	Pink Z-Z-Z						Flower Power						Star Pink						Trail of the Lonesome Mine						January 20, 1981
66	The Pink Panther in: Olym-Pinks																								January 27, 1981
67	The Pink Panther in: Pink at First Sight																								February 1, 1983

See also

• List of The Pink Panther cartoons
• Laugh track
• The Pink Panther in: A Pink Christmas
• The Pink Panther in: Olym-Pinks
• The Pink Panther in: Pink at First Sight

Not to be confused with

• The Pink Medicine Show, a ITV1 comedy sketch show.

References

1. Beck, Jerry (2006). Pink Panther: The Ultimate Guide to the Coolest Cat in Town. New York, New York: Dorling Kindersley, Ltd. pp. 38–39, 44–45, 135. ISBN 0-7566-1033-8.
2. Perez Cerezo, Emma Victoria (May 29, 2020). "'La Pantera Rosa' llega a Galavisión ¡Gran estreno 1 de junio!". univision.com (in Spanish). Retrieved June 2, 2020.
3. MeTV Spring 2021 with The Addams Family and The Pink Panther; Fox Orders More Duncanville, While ABC Goes Into the Wild with Comedy, April 07, 2021, sitcomsonline.com
4. "The Pink Panther has arrived on MeTV!".
5. "BBC Two Listings: The Pink Panther Show". April 18, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
6. kevinmccorrytv.ca
7. "BBC Two Listings: The New Pink Panther Show"
8. "BBC Two Listings: The All New Pink Panther Show"
9. "Der rosarote Panther (1964): Episodenguide".
10. "Der rosarote Panther (1964) Folge 56: Paulchen feiert Weihnachten". November 26, 2005.
11. "Der rosarote Panther (1964) Folge 55: Paulchen wird olympisch". November 24, 2006.
12. "Der rosarote Panther (1964) Folge 52: Spezialitäten zum Valentinstag". September 19, 2004.
13. "Di, 25. April 1978 – TV-Programme".

External links

• The Pink Panther Show at IMDb
• Charles Brubaker's DePatie-Freleng Website