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The Pink Panther Show
Title card for The Pink Panther Show
Created by	David H. DePatie Friz Freleng
Starring	Rich Little Daws Butler John Byner Don Diamond Pat Harrington, Jr. Tom Holland Bob Holt Arte Johnson Larry D. Mann Bob Ogle Arnold Stang Lennie Weinrib Frank Welker Paul Winchell
Narrated by	Marvin Miller
Composers	Henry Mancini Doug Goodwin Walter Greene
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	Three 6-minute shorts + bumpers per half hour
Production
Producers	David H. DePatie Friz Freleng Jim Foss Bill Orcutt Harry Love
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	Mirisch Films DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
Original release
Network	NBC ABC
Release	September 6, 1969 – December 2, 1979

The Pink Panther Show was a showcase of cartoon shorts produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng between 1969 and 1979. The television series was produced by Mirisch Films and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, and was broadcast on two American TV networks:

• 6 September 1969 — 2 September 1978: NBC
• September 9, 1978 — 1 September 1980: ABC (as The All-New Pink Panther Show)

Each 30-minute show included bumper sequences featuring the Pink Panther and the Inspector together, as well 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 (Reel Pink, Pink Outs, Pink Posies, Super Pink) with new incidental music and voice-over work from Miller. Over the years, additional bumpers were produced to include newer characters like the Ant and the Aardvark, Tijuana Toads and Misterjaw. When the show switched to ABC in 1978 and was retitled The All-New Pink Panther Show, no bumpers were produced.

Doug Goodwin composed the show's theme music, and this show was "hosted" by The Pink Panther and The Inspector. The opening sequence showed a boy driving the Panthermobile from the countryside to Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and then letting out the Pink Panther and the Inspector. In the ending credits, the Inspector goes back in and the boy drives off but leaves the Pink Panther behind.

Like most Saturday morning animated series of the era, The Pink Panther Show contained a laugh track. As the Pink Panther cartoons themselves contained no dialogue, the canned chuckles were often more invasive than dialogue-driven cartoons.

Over its 11 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 (1978–1980, 32 new made-for-television shorts were created for this run of the series)

Additionally, MGM/UA Television syndicated a weekday half-hour Pink Panther show in the early 1980's. This version marked the first time the Pink Panther cartoons ran on television with full titles and credits, as seen in theatres. Beginning in 1982, MGM/UA began syndicating the individual cartoons to local stations who could run them as they saw fit.

The Pink Panther Show currently airs in its original format including bumpers on This TV on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:30 AM Eastern time. It also airs on Boomerang five days a week at 5:30 AM, 10 AM and 2:30 PM, and in Canada on Teletoon Retro weekday mornings at 8:00 AM.

All segments were originally created for theaters unless other wise noted. The Pink Panther Show featured the following segments:

• The Pink Panther
• The Inspector
• The Ant and the Aardvark
• Tijuana Toads/Texas Toads
• Misterjaw (made for TV shorts)
• Crazylegs Crane (made for TV shorts)

• Rich Little – Pink Panther
• Daws Butler – Pug, Louie
• John Byner – Charlie Ant, Blue Aardvark
• Don Diamond – Toro
• Pat Harrington, Jr. – The Inspector, Sergeant Deux-Deux
• Tom Holland – Pancho
• Bob Holt – Mr. Kloot, Mr. Kloot's Horse, Dogfather
• Arte Johnson – Misterjaw
• Larry D. Mann – Blue Racer, Crazylegs Crane
• Bob Ogle – Harry Halibut
• Arnold Stang – Catfish
• Lennie Weinrib – Roland, Rattfink
• Frank Welker – Crazylegs Crane Jr., Dragonfly
• Paul Winchell – Fearless Freddy

• Pink Panther theme: Henry Mancini
• Direction: Hawley Pratt, Gerry Chiniquy, Robert McKimson, George Singer
• 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: Tom O'Loughlin, Pete Alvarado, Corny Cole
• Panthermobile designer: 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, William Lava
• Title song "Panther Pink Panther from Head to Toes": Doug Goodwin
• Film editing supervisor: 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
• Producers: David H. DePatie, Friz Freleng

• List of The Pink Panther cartoons

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

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