The Pink Panther - all shorts
This is a list of the original 124 Pink Panther animated shorts produced between December 18, 1964 and December 31, 1978 by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (DFE Films). 92 shorts were released theatrically, and eventually the first 62 entries appeared on Saturday mornings via "The Pink Panther Show" under the same umbrella title starting in 1969 on NBC. All 36 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. - wikipedia
Key people: David H. DePatie, Isadore 'Friz' Freleng, Hawley Pratt, John W. Dunn, Arthur Davis, Gerry Chiniquy, Robert McKimson, Art Leonardi, Sid Marcus, Brad Case, Henry Mancini, William Lava, Walter Greene, Doug Goodwin, Steve DePatie, Norman McCabe, LaVerne Harding, Rich Little, Mel Blanc.
Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons:
"The Pink Phink" (1964) - WINNER
"The Pink Blueprint" (1966) - NOMINATED
Studio: DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (1964-1978)
Distributor: United Artists (1964-1978)
Key people: David H. DePatie, Isadore 'Friz' Freleng, Hawley Pratt, John W. Dunn, Arthur Davis, Gerry Chiniquy, Robert McKimson, Art Leonardi, Sid Marcus, Brad Case, Henry Mancini, William Lava, Walter Greene, Doug Goodwin, Steve DePatie, Norman McCabe, LaVerne Harding, Rich Little, Mel Blanc.
Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons:
"The Pink Phink" (1964) - WINNER
"The Pink Blueprint" (1966) - NOMINATED
Studio: DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (1964-1978)
Distributor: United Artists (1964-1978)
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- DirectorFriz FrelengHawley PrattA house painter uses blue as his color of choice, while the Pink Panther has a different selection in mind.
- first animated short featuring the Pink Panther
- first appearance of The Little Man (the main antagonist of Pink Panther)
- won an Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons
- produced by David H. DePatie & Isadore 'Friz' Freleng
- directed by Friz Freleng & Hawley Pratt
- story by John W. Dunn
- animated by Don Williams, Bob Matz, Norman McCabe & LaVerne Harding
- music by William Lava
- theme composed by Henry Mancini
- studio: DePatie–Freleng Enterprises
- released by United Artists
- first time that a studio won an Academy Award with its very first animated short
- DirectorFriz FrelengHawley PrattThe Pink Panther goes to a hotel and gets chased by an angry hotel detective.
- DirectorFriz FrelengHawley PrattThe Pink Panther sneaks inside a department store after hours, but makes an effort into hiding from the janitor without being noticed. Chaos ensues with the store's merchandise including the tiger-skin rug.
- DirectorFriz FrelengHawley PrattA short, pointy-nosed safecracker intends to steal a safe, but the Pink Panther, who has made the safe his home, continually foils his plans.
- features the theme song from the Blake Edwards film "A Shot in the Dark"; this theme would be featured prominently in "The Inspector" cartoon series.
- DirectorFriz FrelengHawley PrattStarsPaul FreesRich LittleIn the hope of recreating Noah's Ark, an eccentric man builds an ark and fills it with specimens of all animals - except for a pink panther, which he sets out to hunt.
- one of two cartoons where the Pink Panther has dialogue. The Panther's voice was provided by Rich Little.
- DirectorFriz FrelengHawley PrattStarsMel BlancAn alcoholic encounters the Pink Panther and invites him back home, but has to hide him from his disgruntled wife - apparently not fond of him bringing in guests.
- DirectorFriz FrelengHawley PrattStarsDave BarryPaul FreesAn English voice talks to the Pink Panther, who is reading a book about secret agents, and suggests to the panther that he become an agent. Intrigued at this idea, the Pink Panther dons a trench coat, hat, and pipe and walks nonchalantly on city streets, looking for enemy spies. He comes upon a gang of foreign agents scheming to detonate a series of black-ball bombs, and when they realize he is following them, they shoot him with guns, lure him into a crocodile trap, and, under cover of darkness aboard a train, replace his cigarette with a bomb.
- DirectorFriz FrelengHawley PrattStarsLarry StorchOur Narrator convinces the Pink Panther to not sit around and do a little home improvement, with disastrous results.
- DirectorFriz FrelengHawley PrattStarsRich LittleA talking Pink Panther is the owner of a diamond mine and has unearthed a large gem, but a dastardly pair of rival miners take the diamond and ineptly try to eliminate the panther.
- the second of two cartoons where the Pink Panther has dialogue. The Panther's voice was provided by Rich Little.
- DirectorFriz FrelengHawley PrattA very resistant bug won't let Pink Panther go to sleep.
- last Pink Panther cartoon directed by Friz Freleng
- DirectorHawley PrattStarsPaul FreesThe next-door neighbor neglects to return the Pink Panther's lawn mower, resulting in a feud that escalates into all-out war.
- DirectorHawley PrattStarsLaura OlsherLarry StorchThe Pink Panther comes in contact with a coin-operated talking weight and fortune machine which suggests that he bring it home with him on the basis of it being a valuable asset - it doesn't go so well.
- DirectorHawley PrattThe 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.
- DirectorHawley PrattThe Pink Panther decides to become a matador and to this purpose confiscates a magician's cape. The panther enters a bullfight ring with the magical cape, and the bull is thwarted not by the panther's bullfighting prowess but by the cape's trickery, in that it deposits flowers onto the bull's horns and produces a foul-tempered, kicking rabbit that angers the bull into running through the cape and being split into two halves.
- DirectorHawley PrattStarsMel BlancThe Pink Panther is a chemist who has perfected a pink health drink. When the Pink Panther tries to promote his drink with a series of signs, each of them in pink writing, the starry dot atop the "i" in "pink" has a mind of its own and, to frustrate the Pink Panther, turns green and repeatedly squirts ugly, green fluid on the panther's fur. The Pink Panther is able to restore his fur's pink color by drinking some of his health drink. But the green dot persistently interferes with the panther's efforts to promote his pink drink. Infuriated, the panther tries to eradicate the green dot, only to find that the dot has a guardian - another green dot of a much larger size.
- DirectorHawley PrattThe Pink Panther buys a compact, multi-gadgeted car, but has a driving argument with an elderly lady - determined to out-speed her in a drag race.
- DirectorHawley PrattThe Pink Panther is a traveling seller of pep pills on the Western frontier, who inadvertently sells some pills to a frail thief and gathers the strength to steal from every bank in town.
- DirectorHawley PrattThe Pink Panther and Little Man butt heads at building a house of their choice.~ nominated for Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons
- first Pink Panther cartoon to be shown on TV
- DirectorHawley PrattFriz FrelengStarsHenry ManciniThe Pink Panther - an amateur violinist - attempts to play in the orchestra at a concert for Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, injecting his own theme into the music.
- first cartoon scored by Walter Greene
- DirectorHawley PrattStarsLarry StorchTo shoot the flora and fauna, a diminutive, pointy-nosed naturalist goes to a national park. He refuses to contribute to the Pink Panther's welfare, the resident of the park, who then attempts to sabotage his photographic efforts.
- last cartoon scored by William Lava
- DirectorHawley PrattA pack of mice are partying noisily inside the wall of the Pink Panther's house, and the irate panther resorts to violence in his effort to silence the pesky rodents.
- DirectorHawley PrattStarsRalph JamesThe Pink Panther find a magic lamp that promises to turn him into a genie.
- DirectorHawley PrattThe Pink Panther, reading a super-hero comic, fancies himself becoming a cape-and-tights-garbed crusader and takes the essential garments from a clothesline to become Super-Pink! Super-Pink's well-intentioned efforts to help an elderly lady only result in calamity. While trying to rescue the lady's cat from a tree, Super-Pink chainsaws through the tree trunk, and the falling tree demolishes the lady's house. His attempt to save her from tripping over a lump in the carpet outside of a supermarket by pulling the lump out of the carpet causes the entire carpet to shift position, and the lady falls, dropping all of her groceries. When Super-Pink comes to aid the lady on a steep road by replacing her flat front tire, he jack-lifts the car's front and releases it to careen down a hill and into the path of a train. The battered and bruised lady goes to a phone booth and turns into a super-woman to attack the troublesome panther with an uprooted traffic light.
- DirectorHawley PrattA man staying in the woods with his dog keeps the Pink Panther awake with his snoring.
- DirectorHawley PrattSnowbound in a secluded mountain cabin, the Pink Panther struggles desperately and violently to protect his only food supply from a pesky mouse.