Pink Panther (character) Pink Panther (character) The Pink Panther is a fictional animated character who appeared in the opening and/or closing credit sequences of every film in the "Pink Panther" series except for "A Shot in the Dark" and "Inspector Clouseau". In the storyline of the original film, "the Pink Panther" was the name of a valuable pink diamond named for a flaw that showed a "figure of a springing panther" when held up to the light in a certain way; in the credits this was translated to an animated pink panther. The character's popularity spawned a spin-off franchise of theatrical shorts, television
The Pink Panther Show and "Misterjaw" entries sourced from new prints of the original film negatives and transferred to videotape, resulting in sharper images. As "The Pink Panther" and "The Ant and the Aardvark" entries were sourced using theatrical prints (sans laugh track), a new, less invasive laugh track being employed on sitcoms at the time was added to the soundtrack for consistency to match the made-for-television "Misterjaw" entries and bumper sequences that retained their respective laugh-tracked soundtracks. The second version also incorporated several of the made-for-television "Pink Panther" entries from "The All New Pink Panther Show". Pre-1978 "Pink Panther" and "Ant and the