The Pink Panther Show - Wikipedia. The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of cartoon shorts produced by David H. De. Patie and Friz Freleng between 1. Pink Panther character from the opening credits of the live- action films.

The series was produced by Mirisch Films and De. Patie–Freleng Enterprises, and was broadcast on two American television networks: from September 6, 1. September 2, 1. 97.

NBC; and from September 9, 1. September 1, 1. 98.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again is the fifth film in The Pink Panther series and picks up where The Return of the Pink Panther leaves off. Released in 1976, Strikes. Information on the film from the Internet Movie Database. Download free full unlimited movies! There are millions of movies, videos and TV shows you can download direct to your PC. From Action, Horror, Adventure, Children.

Most Inspector Clouseau fans regard The Pink Panther Strikes Again as the best of the clumsy Parisian detective's. The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of cartoon shorts produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng between 19, starring the animated Pink Panther. Movie details and viewer comments from the Internet Movie Database. The “Pink Panther” of the film’s title refers to the jewel at the center of the plot, but the cartoon panther that appears in the opening credits became more.

ABC (as The All New Pink Panther Show). History[edit]When The Pink Panther Show first aired in 1. The Inspector, sandwiched by two Pink Panther entries. The 3. 0- 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 produced after 1.

A Fly in the Pink) when The Pink Panther Show began airing were produced 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 very popular The Ant and the Aardvark, Tijuana Toads (a. 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]In 1. Watch The Blind Side Online Free 2016 on this page. It's the All New Pink Panther Laugh- and- a- Half Hour- and- a- Half Show Introducing Misterjaw; 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 3.

Think Pink Panther.[1]After nine years on NBC, the Pink Panther moved to ABC in 1. The All New Pink Panther Show, where it lasted one season before leaving the network realm entirely. The ABC version of the series featured sixteen episodes with 3. Pink Panther cartoons, and 1. Crazylegs Crane: no bumpers were produced for The All New Pink Panther Show, but 1.

Stay tuned.." bumpers explaining an upcoming entry were produced for the first several episodes. The 3. 2 All New Pink Panther Show entries were eventually released to theaters by United Artists.[1]Theme music[edit]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 which were variations on Mancini's "Pink Panther Theme". Laugh track[edit]By the time of the show's 1. Scooby- Doo, Where Are You!, The Archie Show, H.

R. Pufnstuf).[1] In keeping with this standard, NBC added a laugh track to the Pink Panther and Inspector cartoons for inclusion in The Pink Panther Show, marking the first time in history that theatrical films were fitted with a laugh track for television broadcast.[1] This was an anomaly, as other theatrical cartoon series' that were aired successfully on television (i. Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Looney Tunes, Popeye) did not receive this addition.

The soundtracks were restored to their original theatrical form in 1. 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. The Spanish language Boomerang requires that MGM/UA 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. Incarnations[edit]Over its 1. The Pink Panther Show had a variety of names: [1]The Pink Panther Show (1. The Pink Panther Meets the Ant and the Aardvark (1. The New Pink Panther Show (1. The Pink Panther and Friends (1.

It's the All New Pink Panther Laugh- and- a- Half Hour- and- a- Half Show Introducing Misterjaw (1. Think Pink Panther (1.

The All New Pink Panther Show (1. The Pink Panther Show (1. CBS also considerend of the series)Syndication[edit]United Artists Television syndicated The Pink Panther Show in 1.

By 1. 98. 2, MGM/UA 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/UA 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 MGM/UA Television's syndication package: Most television stations aired the later package released in 1. 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 1. 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. The Pink Panther Show (1. The New Pink Panther Show (1.

BBC Two in the United Kingdom. It was previously shown on UK Gold, BBC One, Boomerang (2. Cartoon Network (1. In the late 2. 00. Canada on Teletoon Retro weekday mornings at 8: 0. AM. Teletoon Retro showed all 3. The Pink Panther Show with the panther and the Inspector, all 1.

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 1. 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 Pink Panther Strikes Again. The Pink Panther Strikes Again is the fifth film in The Pink Panther series and picks up where The Return of the Pink Panther leaves off. Released in 1. 97. Strikes Again is the third entry to include the words Pink Panther in its title, although the story does not involve the Pink Panther diamond. Unused footage from the film was later included in Trail of the Pink Panther.

At a psychiatric hospital, former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom) is largely recovered from his obsession to kill the new Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) and is about to be released when Clouseau, arriving to speak on Dreyfus' behalf, drives Dreyfus insane again. Dreyfus promptly escapes from the asylum and once again tries to kill Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector (by periodic arrangement) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). The bomb destroys Clouseau's apartment and injures Cato, but Clouseau himself is unharmed, being lifted from the room by an inflatable disguise. Deciding that a more elaborate plan is needed, Dreyfus enlists an army of criminals to his cause and kidnaps nuclear physicist Professor Hugo Fassbender (Richard Vernon) and the Professor's daughter Margo (Briony Mc.

Roberts), forcing the professor to build a "doomsday weapon" in return for his daughter's freedom. Clouseau travels to England to investigate Fassbender's disappearance, where he wrecks their family home and ineptly interrogates Jarvis (Michael Robbins), Fassbender's cross- dressing butler. Although Jarvis is killed by the kidnappers, to whom he had become a dangerous witness, Clouseau discovers a clue that leads him to the Oktoberfest in Munich, West Germany. Meanwhile, Dreyfus, using Fassbender's invention, dissolves the United Nations headquarters in New York City and blackmails the leaders of the world, including the President of the United States and his Secretary of State (based on Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger), into assassinating Clouseau.

However, many of the nations instruct their operatives to kill the other assassins to gain Dreyfus's favor and possibly the Doomsday Machine. As a result of their orders and Clouseau's habitual clumsiness, the assassins all end up killing each other until only the agents of Egypt and Russia remain. The Egyptian assassin (Omar Sharif) shoots one of Dreyfus' henchmen, mistaking him for Clouseau, but is seduced by the Russian operative Olga Bariosova (Lesley- Anne Down), who makes the same mistake. When the real Clouseau arrives, he is perplexed by Olga's affections but learns from her Dreyfus's location at a castle in Bavaria. Dreyfus is elated at Clouseau's apparent demise, but suffers from a toothache; Clouseau, disguised as an old German dentist, sneaks into the castle - eventually (his entry frustrated by the castle's drawbridge). Not recognized by Dreyfus, Clouseau ends up intoxicating both of them with nitrous oxide.

Realising the deception when Clouseau mistakenly pulls the wrong tooth, Dreyfus prepares to use the machine to destroy England. Clouseau, eluding Dreyfus's henchmen, unwittingly foils Dreyfus's plans when a medieval catapult outside the castle launches Clouseau on top of the Doomsday machine. The machine begins to malfunction and begins firing on Dreyfus and the castle itself. As the remaining henchmen, Fassbender and his daughter, and eventually Clouseau himself escape the dissolving castle, Dreyfus plays "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" on the castle's pipe organ, while himself disintegrating, until he and the castle vanish. Returning to Paris, Clouseau is finally reunited with Olga.

However, their tryst is interrupted first by Clouseau's apparent inability to remove his clothes without a struggle, and then by Cato, whereupon all three are hurled by the reclining bed into the Seine. Immediately thereafter, a cartoon image of Clouseau begins swimming, unaware that a gigantic version of the Pink Panther character is waiting below him (a reference to the recent film Jaws, made obvious by the thematic music as the movie ends). Cast notes[edit]Owing to Peter Sellers's heart condition, whenever possible he would have his stunt double Joe Dunne stand in for him.

Because of the often physical nature of the comedy, this would occur quite frequently. Julie Andrews provided the singing voice for the female- impersonator "Ainsley Jarvis".[2] The scene in the night club when Jarvis sings are in many ways similar to scenes in Edwards's later film Victor Victoria (1. Andrews plays a woman pretending to be a man who is a female impersonator.

Graham Stark, longtime friend of Sellers, once again makes an appearance in the series, albeit in a small role as the desk clerk of a small German hotel. Since his role as Hercule La. Joy in A Shot in the Dark, he has since appeared in small roles in every Pink Panther sequel except Inspector Clouseau, in which Sellers did not play Clouseau. Omar Sharif appears, uncredited, as the Egyptian assassin.

Tom Jones sang the Oscar- nominated song "Come To Me". The role of Olga Bariosova was originally played by Maud Adams who was replaced after filming a few scenes. Blake Edwards then intended to cast Nicola Pagett after seeing her in Upstairs, Downstairs but instead ended up casting Pagett's fellow TV star Lesley- Anne Down in the role. Blake Edwards made a cameo appearance in the background of the night club scene.

Production[edit]The Pink Panther Strikes Again was rushed into production owing to the success of The Return of the Pink Panther.[3] Blake Edwards had used one of two scripts that he and Frank Waldman had written for a proposed "Pink Panther" TV series as the basis for that film, and he used the other as the starting point for Strikes Again. As a result, it is the only Pink Panther movie which has a storyline (Dreyfus in the insane asylum) that explicitly follows on from the previous film. The movie was in production from December 1.

September 1. 97. 6, with filming taking place from February to June 1. The strained relationship between Sellers and Blake Edwards had further deteriorated by the time production of Strikes Again was underway.

Sellers was mentally and physically in bad shape, and Edwards commented on the actor's mental state: "If you went to an asylum and you described the first inmate you saw, that's what Peter had become. He was certifiable."[3]The original cut of the film ran for 1. Some of the excised footage was later used in Trail of the Pink Panther.