The Pink Panther

On the data. The single most useful thing to know is that in the live-action films the Pink Panther is a diamond. The cartoon cat was invented for the 1963 film's title sequence by DePatie-Freleng and does not appear in the films as a character. Two lines of work, one brand, Henry Mancini's theme in common, nothing else. The classic series runs 1963, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1993. A Shot in the Dark is a canon Clouseau film with no Pink Panther in its title, which is why it goes missing from lists sorted by title, and it began life as an adaptation of an unrelated stage play. Inspector Clouseau in 1968 is the orphan. Alan Arkin plays the part, Bud Yorkin directs, and neither Sellers nor Blake Edwards is involved. It is an official United Artists film using the licensed character and it is generally not treated as canon. Nothing later refers to it. Trail of the Pink Panther is stranger than the usual description of it. Sellers died in 1980 and Edwards built the film around roughly twenty-three minutes of deleted scenes from The Pink Panther Strikes Again. The framing device has a journalist investigating Clouseau's disappearance and interviewing returning characters, which gives the film an excuse to run flashback clips from the earlier entries. It is part clip show, part new footage, part recycled outtakes. Sellers had reportedly refused the reuse of outtakes during his life, and his widow Lynne Frederick sued: a London court found the use of the footage illegal and awarded her 1.475 million dollars, though it did not stop the release. Curse and Son are direct continuations of that story rather than reboots. Ted Wass plays Sergeant Clifton Sleigh, assigned to find the missing Clouseau. Roberto Benigni plays Jacques Gambrelli, Clouseau's illegitimate son. On the animated side, episode counts are a problem and this page does not invent them. The Pink Panther Show ran on NBC from 1969 and moved to ABC and then syndication, and the blocks were repackaged and re-titled so often that no single stable count exists. Pink Panther and Sons has no count confirmed here. The 1993 series is sixty episodes across two seasons, but the split between the two is not confirmed, so both seasons are carried without a number. Pink Panther and Pals is twenty-six episodes, which is confirmed. Sibling series produced under the same umbrella and rotated through the blocks include The Inspector, The Ant and the Aardvark, Tijuana Toads, Hoot Kloot, Misterjaw, Roland and Rattfink, The Dogfather, The Blue Racer and Crazylegs Crane. Rights ran United Artists to MGM/UA to MGM and now to Amazon MGM Studios. A new live-action and animated hybrid with Eddie Murphy voicing Clouseau, directed by Jeff Fowler, has been reported in pre-production with no release date. It is trade reporting rather than a confirmed schedule and nothing is listed for it.

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