The Pink Panther Classic Cartoons Collection (1964)
2006 Re-release of Blake Edwards' Pink Panther shorts Blake Edwards' Pink Panther is a series of 124 short subjects produced at DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and released by United Artists from 1964 to 1978. Ninety-two shorts were released theatrically, and eventually the first sixty-two entries appeared on Saturday mornings via The Pink Panther Show under the same umbrella title starting in 1969 on NBC. All thirty-six made-for-television entries were also distributed to theaters after initially airing on The Pink Panther Show under the title The All New Pink Panther Show in 1978–1980 on ABC, respectively. The Pink Panther's long-time foil, known simply as The Little Man, appeared in many entries except where noted.
Seasons & Episode
The Pink Panther and The Little Man, as a decorator, disagree over the color a house should be painted.
The Pink Panther sneaks into a house to stay the night and has to hide from its drunk owner.
The Pink Panther hides in a department store and spends the night trying to hide from the janitor (the Little Man), while also using many of the products on display at the store.
A burglar tries to steal from Pink Panther's safe which he is hiding in. However, he comically fails each time.
A Big-game hunter named Tex B'wana (voiced by Paul Frees) uses a "Noah's Ark" plot to catch animals in Africa for his wife (or daughter), Nora, but is having trouble catching a Pink Panther to complete his haul.
A drunk party-goer (voiced by Mel Blanc) takes the Pink Panther home and tries to hide him from his wife (also voiced by Blanc), who hates him bringing strangers into the house.
The Pink Panther decides to become a secret agent with the help of an off-screen narrator (voiced by Paul Frees).
The Pink Panther tries to have a quiet afternoon, but is interrupted by an off-screen narrator (voiced by Larry Storch) persuading him to try various do-it-yourself tasks around the house.
In South Africa, The Pink Panther attempts to recover diamonds stolen from him by Deveraux and Hoskins, two thieving English diamond hunters.
After watching late-night TV, the Pink Panther has a late-night battle with a mosquito who constantly interrupts his sleep.
An offscreen narrator (later revealed to be the Devil) pits the Pink Panther and his neighbor Harry against each other over unreturned garden tools.
The Pink Panther encounters and purchases a talking weight machine (voiced by Larry Storch) who claims to be able to predict the future. However, the panther quickly holds animosity towards the weight machine after its predictions end up causing him misfortune.
The Pink Panther goes out fishing and buys 6 worms from a stand. One worm, however, is reluctant to end up as bait and tries to sabotage the Panther's fishing trip by attaching the hook to the motor propeller of a nearby boat, and later cutting off the wire to the motor in the panther's own boat. Finally, the panther has to fight an extremely vicious crab he has fished up from the water.
After fantasising about performing as a torero, the Pink Panther borrows a red cape from a magician so he can perform at the local bullring. However, the red cape has a few magic abilities that the Pink Panther and the Bull weren't expecting.
The Pink Panther introduces his own beverage line, "Pink Punch", but the asterisk above the "I" on his placard turns green. The Panther attempts to get rid of the annoying green asterisk numerous times, but his plans are thwarted by a large green asterisk who is assumed to be the smaller one's parent.
The Pink Panther buys a new car and ends up in an unintentional race with Granny Flash, Senior Citizens Drag Champion, who drives a suped-up Model T.
The Pink Panther changes the blueprint designs for a house to his own "pinkprints" and fights with a contractor (the Little Man) to ensure they are built.
The Pink Panther learns to play the violin and interrupts a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with "The Pink Panther Theme" played on various instruments, much to the anger of the Conductor.
A wildlife photographer (Big Nose) comes to the state park to shoot some wildlife pictures, but the Pink Panther makes things difficult for him by relentlessly tormenting him with his crazy antics until karma finally catches up to the Pink Panther.
The Pink Panther battles with a hungry mouse raiding his refrigerator and the Panther reaches his boiling point when the mouse throws a late-night party with a crowd of other mice. Several of his attempts to get rid of the mice fail miserably until he dresses up as a cat and chases the horde of vermin out of his house, only to run back into the house and into the mouse-hole in the wall when a pack of growling, vicious dogs begin to give chase, the Panther's only companion inside the mouse-hole is, of course, one lone partying mouse.
Genie with the Light Pink Fur is the 22nd Pink Panther episode produced in the series.
Super Pink is a Pink Panther Episode Released in October of 1966, The Pink Panther Becomes a Superhero! Which He Uses a Telephone Box to Dress Himself Up as a Superhero.
Rock A Bye Pink is the 24th Pink Panther entry produced in the Blake Edwards' Pink Panther.
Pinknic is the 25th Pink Panther episode produced in the Series.
The Pink Panther stays in the haunted Dead Dog Hotel on a stormy night, where he attempts to escape a troublesome ghost and a sneaky skeleton running about the hotel. After a scuffle in the hotel that causes quite a ruckus, the local sheriff (The Little Man) is woken up, and arrives at the hotel to arrest all three of them. As the panther is led away at gunpoint, the ghost, skeleton, sheriff, and hotel fade away, revealed to be nothing more than a mirage.
The Pink Panther replaces all the yellow posies in a garden with pink ones, angering a gardener (the Little Man) in the process. As the gardener attempts to ensure that the planted posies remain yellow, the Pink Panther attempts more and more devious and clever methods to replace them with pink flowers, including via spray paint, and via loading a rifle with posy seeds in place of ammunition.