This article is about the original DePatie-Freleng animated shorts. For the 1990s cartoon series, see The Pink Panther (1993 TV series).
This is a list of the original 124 The Pink Panther animated shorts created, produced and released from December 18, 1964 to December 31, 1978 by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE Films).[1]
December 18, 1964 to December 31, 1978
| Short Number | Title | Date | Synopsis | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | The Pink Phink | December 18, 1964 | Pink disagrees with a decorator (The Little Man) over what colour a house should be. | Won an Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons. (First Pink Panther short) |
| 002 | Pink Pajamas | December 24, 1964 | Pink sneaks into a house to stay the night and has to hide from the owner. | |
| 003 | We Give Pink Stamps | February 12, 1965 | Pink has hidden in a department store, and spends the night trying to hide from the caretaker. | |
| 004 | Dial 'P' for Pink | March 17, 1965 | A burglar tries to steal a safe where Pink is hiding. | Features the theme music later used for The Inspector series. |
| 005 | Sink Pink | April 12, 1965 | A Texan is trying to find a pink panther to complete his ark. | One of only two cartoons where Pink has dialogue. |
| 006 | Pickled Pink | May 12, 1965 | A drunk takes Pink home, and tries to hide him from his wife. | |
| 007 | Pinkfinger | May 13, 1965 | Pink decides to become a secret agent. | |
| 008 | Shocking Pink | May 13, 1965 | Pink tries to have a quiet afternoon interrupted by a voiceover persuading him to try various do-it-yourself tasks. | |
| 009 | Pink Ice | June 10, 1965 | Pink attempts to rescue diamonds in South Africa from two English diamond hunters. | The second of only two cartoons where Pink has dialogue. |
| 010 | The Pink Tail Fly | August 25, 1965 | Pink has a late night, and his sleep is disturbed by a fly. | |
| 011 | Pink Panzer | September 15, 1965 | A voiceover plays Pink and his neighbour off against each other over garden tools. | |
| 012 | An Ounce of Pink | October 20, 1965 | Pink encounters a weighing machine. | |
| 013 | Reel Pink | November 16, 1965 | Pink goes fishing, fighting first with one of his worms, and then with a crab. | |
| 014 | Bully for Pink | December 14, 1965 | Pink becomes a Toreador, borrowing his cloak from a magician. | |
| 015 | Pink Punch | February 21, 1966 | Pink introduces Pink Punch, but the asterisk on his sign insists on being green. | |
| 016 | Pink Pistons | February 21, 1966 | Pink buys a car and has a driving argument with Granny Flash, Senior Citizens Drag Champion, who drives a souped-up jalopy. | |
| 017 | Vitamin Pink | April 6, 1966 | Based on the traditions of tonic-sellers in the old US west, Dr. Phink sells Vitamin Pink, and has to capture a bank robber he inadvertently gives the pills. | |
| 018 | The Pink Blueprint | May 25, 1966 | Pink changes the designs for a house to his own pinkprints and fights with the builder to make sure they are built. | Nominated for Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons. |
| 019 | Pink, Plunk, Plink | May 25, 1966 | Pink learns to play the violin, and interrupts a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with the Pink Panther theme played on various instruments. | Henry Mancini makes a brief cameo. |
| 020 | Smile Pretty, Say Pink | May 29, 1966 | Pink battles with a photographer in Pinkstone National Park. | |
| 021 | Pink-A-Boo | June 26, 1966 | Pink battles with a hungry mouse raiding his refrigerator. | |
| 022 | Genie with the Light Pink Fur | September 14, 1966 | Pink finds a magic lamp and becomes a genie. | |
| 023 | Super Pink | October 12, 1966 | Pink decides to be a superhero and keeps trying to help the same little old lady. | |
| 024 | Rock A Bye Pinky | December 23, 1966 | A man staying in the woods with his dog keeps Pink awake with his snoring. | |
| 025 | Pinknic | January 6, 1967 | Pink wakes up in a log cabin in January and has to avoid getting eaten by a mouse before Spring. | |
| 026 | Pink Panic | January 11, 1967 | Pink stays in a haunted hotel on a stormy night. | |
| 027 | Pink Posies | April 26, 1967 | Pink replaces all the yellow posies in a garden with pink ones. | |
| 028 | Pink of the Litter | May 17, 1967 | Pink has to clear all of the litter in a town. | |
| 029 | In the Pink | May 18, 1967 | Pink joins a gym. | |
| 030 | Jet Pink | June 13, 1967 | Pink flies a fighter jet. | |
| 031 | Pink Paradise | June 24, 1967 | Pink arrives on a desert island to meet a man and his dog. | |
| 032 | Pinto Pink | July 19, 1967 | Pink has a long journey and tries to tame a horse to ride home. | |
| 033 | Congratulations It's Pink | October 27, 1967 | Pink steals a baby basket instead of a picnic basket and ends up having to nurse the baby until the parents return. | |
| 034 | Prefabricated Pink | November 22, 1967 | Pink works on a building site. | |
| 035 | The Hand is Pinker than the Eye | December 20, 1967 | A cold Pink sneaks into a house owned by a magician. | The title refers to both a phrase often used by magicians - "the hand is quicker than the eye" - and the disease pinkeye |
| 036 | Pink Outs | December 27, 1967 | A series of twelve mini-cartoons. | Footage was usage extensively as commercial bumpers for television broadcast |
| 037 | Sky Blue Pink | January 3, 1968 | Pink decides to try kite-flying. | |
| 038 | Pinkadilly Circus | February 21, 1968 | Pink comes to the aid of a hen-pecked man who pulls a thorn out of his foot. | |
| 039 | Psychedelic Pink | February 21, 1968 | Pink visits a psychedelic bookshop. | |
| 040 | Come On In! The Water's Pink | April 10, 1968 | Pink visits Biceps Beach, and gets the better of a muscleman. | |
| 041 | Put-Put, Pink | April 14, 1968 | Pink turns his hand to building motorcycles. | |
| 042 | G.I. Pink | May 1, 1968 | Pink joins the army. | |
| 043 | Lucky Pink | May 7, 1968 | Pink keeps returning a lucky horseshoe to its bank robber owner - the problem is, the horseshoe only brings bad luck to the thief. | |
| 044 | The Pink Quarterback | May 22, 1968 | Pink finds and loses a quarter. | |
| 045 | Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Pink | June 30, 1968 | Pink builds a house between an observatory and the moon. | |
| 046 | Pink Valiant | July 10, 1968 | Pink has to rescue a princess kidnapped by the Black Knight and tame a horse first. | |
| 047 | The Pink Pill | July 31, 1968 | Pink ends up in hospital. | |
| 048 | Prehistoric Pink | August 7, 1968 | Pink and a caveman try to work out the best way to move boulders. | |
| 049 | Pink in the Clink | September 18, 1968 | Pink is forced to help a burglar breaking into a factory to break a safe. | |
| 050 | Little Beaux Pink | October 2, 1968 | Pink and a sheep come to live in Cattle County, Texas, and have to endure an abusive farmer. | |
| 051 | Tickled Pink | October 6, 1968 | A fairy gives Pink magic roller skates that he cannot control. | |
| 052 | Pink Sphinx | October 10, 1968 | Pink buys a camel and goes searching for a pyramid. | |
| 053 | Pink is a Many Splintered Thing | October 14, 1968 | Pink becomes a lumberjack. | |
| 054 | The Pink Package Plot | October 18, 1968 | Pink is forced to deliver a package to the Slobvanian Embassy. | |
| 055 | Pinkcome Tax | October 22, 1968 | Pink tries to rescue a man imprisoned because he cannot pay taxes in medieval times. | |
| 056 | Pink-A-Rella | October 28, 1968 | Pink finds a magic wand and helps a girl in rags become glamorous to win a date with Pelvis Parsley. | |
| 057 | Pink Pest Control | November 12, 1968 | Pink has a problem with a termite who devours every wooden item in his house. | |
| 058 | Think Before You Pink | November 19, 1968 | Pink tries to cross the road. | |
| 059 | Slink Pink | December 2, 1968 | Pink finds himself hiding in a hunter's house. | |
| 060 | In the Pink of the Night | December 28, 1968 | Pink has problems waking up in the morning and buys a cuckoo clock. | |
| 061 | Pink on the Cob | May 18, 1969 | Pink battles crows trying to eat all his corn. | |
| 062 | Extinct Pink | May 18, 1969 | Pink fights over a bone with a caveman and two dinosaurs. | Score by Doug Goodwin, from The Ant and the Aardvark and Tijuana Toads. |
| 063 | A Fly in the Pink | June 23, 1971 | A fruit fly attacks Pink's orchard. | |
| 064 | Pink Blue Plate | July 23, 1971 | Pink gets a job working in a busy café beside a building site. | |
| 065 | Pink Tuba-Dore | August 4, 1971 | Pink's sleep is disturbed by a sousaphone player and his howling dog in the Alps. | |
| 066 | Pink Pranks | August 28, 1971 | Pink arrives at Nome instead of Rome, and meets a friendly seal. | |
| 067 | The Pink Flea | September 15, 1971 | Pink is attacked by a dog flea. | |
| 068 | Psst Pink | September 15, 1971 | Pink loses a car tire. | |
| 069 | Gong with the Pink | October 20, 1971 | Pink takes a job in a Chinese restaurant. | |
| 070 | Pink-In | October 20, 1971 | Pink reads some old letters from his army friend Loud Mouth Louie | Recycles clips from G.I. Pink, Pink in the Clink, Pink Pajamas and The Pink Package Plot |
| 071 | Pink 8 Ball | February 6, 1972 | Pink loses a basketball. | |
| 072 | Pink Aye | May 16, 1974 | Pink stows away on the RMS Luxitania. | |
| 073 | Trail of the Lonesome Pink | May 16, 1974 | Pink and some turtles battle two fur trappers. | |
| 074 | Pink DaVinci | June 23, 1975 | Pink is revealed as the true artist behind Mona Lisa's smile. | |
| 075 | Pink Streaker | June 27, 1975 | Pink goes skiing. | |
| 076 | Salmon Pink | July 25, 1975 | Pink meets a friendly fish at the beach. | |
| 077 | Forty Pink Winks | August 8, 1975 | Pink sneaks into the Ritz Plaza Hotel for a night's sleep. | |
| 078 | Pink Plasma | August 8, 1975 | Pink meets Dracula in Transylvania. | |
| 079 | Pink Elephant | October 20, 1975 | An elephant follows Pink home from the zoo. | |
| 080 | Keep Our Forests Pink | November 20, 1975 | Pink keeps a forest park clean despite one man's best efforts. | |
| 081 | Bobolink Pink | December 30, 1975 | Pink tries to teach a baby bird to fly. | |
| 082 | It's Pink But is it Mink? | December 30, 1975 | Jane wants Tarzan to catch the Pink Panther. | |
| 083 | Pink Campaign | December 30, 1975 | Pink steals a house in revenge for the lumberjack owner cutting down his treehouse home. | |
| 084 | The Scarlet Pinkernel | December 30, 1975 | Pink decides to rescue dogs captured by the Dog Catcher. | |
| 085 | Mystic Pink | January 6, 1976 | Pink finds a magician's top hat, complete with rabbit. | |
| 086 | The Pink of Arabee | March 13, 1976 | An Indian fakir's magic rope falls in love with Pink's tail. | |
| 087 | The Pink Pro | April 12, 1976 | Pink teaches a man various sports. | |
| 088 | Pink Piper | April 30, 1976 | The Pink Piper leads the mice out of town. | |
| 089 | Pinky Doodle | May 28, 1976 | In 1776, Pink is sent to notify the town of the approaching redcoats. | |
| 090 | Sherlock Pink | June 29, 1976 | Private Detective Pink tries to identify who stole his breakfast, instead finding another crook. | |
| 091 | Rocky Pink | July 9, 1976 | Pink gets a pet rock. | |
| 092 | Therapeutic Pink | April 1, 1977 | Pink tries to get a dog removed from his tail. | The following entries were produced for television. They were also released theatrically. |
| 093 | Pink Pictures | October 21, 1978 | Pink decides to become an amateur photographer. | |
| 094 | Pink Arcade | October 24, 1978 | Pink visits an amusement arcade. | |
| 095 | Pink Lemonade | November 4, 1978 | Pink is adopted by a little girl as her latest soft toy. | |
| 096 | Pink Trumpet | November 4, 1978 | Staying in a motel, Pink decides to practice his trumpet playing. | |
| 097 | Sprinkle Me Pink | November 11, 1978 | Trying to have a picnic, Pink tries to lose a cloud that keeps following him. | |
| 098 | Dietetic Pink | November 11, 1978 | Pink decides to lose weight. | |
| 099 | Pink U.F.O. | November 17, 1978 | Pink catches a tiny UFO instead of a butterfly. | |
| 100 | Pink Lightning | November 17, 1978 | Pink buys Dr Jekyll's old car. | |
| 101 | Cat and the Pink Stalk | November 18, 1978 | Pink sells his cow for some beans. | |
| 102 | Pink Daddy | November 18, 1978 | The stork gets lost in a thunderstorm and delivers a baby crocodile to Pink. | |
| 103 | Pink S.W.A.T. | November 22, 1978 | Pink attempts to get rid of a fly. | |
| 104 | Pink and Shovel | November 22, 1978 | Pink buries a $5 bill, and tries to get it back after a hotel is built on top of it. | |
| 105 | Pinkologist | November 25, 1978 | The Little Man visits a psychiatrist. | Recycles clips from Rock A Bye Pinky, The Pink Blueprint and Pink Posies. |
| 106 | Yankee Doodle Pink | December 2, 1978 | In 1776, Pink is sent to notify the town of the apporaching redcoats. | Reissue of Pinky Doodle |
| 107 | Pink Press | December 9, 1978 | Dailey Blabbermouth reporter Pink tries to get past the security man and guard dog at Howard Huge's mansion. | |
| 108 | Pet Pink Pebbles | December 9, 1978 | Pink gets a pet rock. | Reissue of Rocky Pink |
| 109 | The Pink of Bagdad | December 9, 1978 | An Indian fakir's magic rope falls of love with Pink's tail. | Reissue of The Pink of Arabee |
| 110 | Pink in the Drink | December 11, 1978 | Pink goes on a South Sea cruise but finds out the captain is a pirate. | |
| 111 | Pink Bananas | December 11, 1978 | As Tarzan, Pink encounters an ape in the jungle. | |
| 112 | Pinktails for Two | December 13, 1978 | Pink's tail encounters Speedy-grow fertiliser. | |
| 113 | Pink Z-Z-Z | December 13, 1978 | A cat keeps Pink awake. | |
| 114 | Star Pink | December 13, 1978 | Pink operates a gas station for space ships. | |
| 115 | Pink Breakfast | December 14, 1978 | Pink tries to make breakfast. | |
| 116 | Toro Pink | December 14, 1978 | Pink is persuaded to become a toreador again. | |
| 117 | Pink Quackers | December 16, 1978 | Pink saves a clockwork duck from being run over. | |
| 118 | String Along in Pink | December 16, 1978 | Pink follows a piece of string. | |
| 119 | Pink in the Woods | December 27, 1978 | Pink becomes a lumberjack again. | |
| 120 | Pink Pull | December 28, 1978 | Pink uses a big magnet to find a lost coin. | |
| 121 | Spark Plug Pink | December 29, 1978 | Pink needs his spark plug to start his lawn mower. | |
| 122 | Doctor Pink | December 30, 1978 | Hospital janitor Pink takes up first aid, to the disgust of the duty doctor. | |
| 123 | Pink Suds | December 30, 1978 | Pink goes to the Laundrette. | |
| 124 | Supermarket Pink | December 31, 1978 | Pink goes to the supermarket. | (Last Pink Panther short) |
In addition, Driving Mr. Pink, part of the 1993 TV series was originally released theatrically.
References
- ^ Plot summaries viewed on The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection (DVD, MGM Home Entertainment, {{subst:fy|2004}})
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