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
Brian Unger Unger Report") for the NPR show "Day to Day" from its launch in 2003 until its cancellation, making his final "Unger Report" on March 16, 2009. He currently provides regular commentary to NPR's "All Things Considered". He has hosted on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" and Discovery Channel show "Some Assembly Required" (with University of Virginia Professor of Physics Lou Bloomfield; and then solo in its final season). Unger was one of the co-hosts for the pilot of a new PBS series, "Wired Science", which aired in January 2007 and was subsequently picked up to debut later in the year,