Son of the Pink Panther Panther films. Gambrelli closes the film with the line: "That felt good!" following by the image of Gambrelli freezing as the animated Pink Panther walks across the still of Jacques, until an animated Gambrelli suddenly cuts away the head of live-action Gambrelli and pops out of the hole, dropping the head on the Panther's foot; the enraged Panther chases him into fading blackness. Note: Claudia Cardinale played the Princess in the original "Pink Panther" film. Here she returns as Maria Gambrelli, the part originally played by Elke Sommer in "A Shot in the Dark". This was the first "Pink Panther"
The Pink Panther Show 1976, the half-hour series was revamped into a 90-minute format, as "It's the All New Pink Panther Laugh-and-a-Half Hour-and-a-Half Show Introducing Misterjaw"; this version included a live-action segment, where comedian Lenny Schultz would read letters and jokes from viewers. This version performed poorly and eventually reverted to the original 30-minute version in 1977 as "Think Pink Panther". After nine years on NBC, the Pink Panther moved to ABC in 1978 and was retitled "The All New Pink Panther Show", where it lasted one season before leaving the network realm entirely. The ABC version of the series featured sixteen episodes with