The Odd Couple (1970 TV series) "Pink Panther" cartoons: David DePatie and Friz Freleng were executive producers, Gerry Chiniquy, and Robert McKimson among others, directed several episodes. The characters' professions in this version were reversed from the original series, with the fastidious Spiffy working as a reporter and the rumpled Fleabag a photographer, often working together. The show was canceled in 1977. In 1982, as a hedge against the 1981 Writers Guild of America strike, ABC aired a new version of "The Odd Couple", this time with two African-Americans, Ron Glass as Felix and Demond Wilson as Oscar. It was called "The New Odd Couple", and
Harlow Giles Unger Britain and Canada. From newspaper journalism, he went into a career that combined radio work with academics, becoming an on-air commentator in New York for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and an adjunct associate professor of English and journalism at two New York-area colleges. Unger is a former Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History at Mount Vernon (2008), and as of 2015 he had written twenty-five books, including ten biographies of America's founding fathers as well as a biography of statesman Henry Clay. Unger formerly resided in France. He now resides in New York City. Harlow Giles Unger Harlow Giles Unger