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 which were variations on Mancini's "Pink Panther Theme". By the time of the show's 1969 debut, fitting cartoon and children shows with a laugh track was standard practice. In keeping with this standard, NBC added a laugh track to all seasons of "The Pink Panther Show", marking the first time in history that theatrical films were fitted with a laugh track for television broadcast. (Season 2 utilized an inferior laugh track, utilizing isolated laugh clips from Season 1.) This was an anomaly, as other theatrical cartoon series' that were aired successfully on television (i.e. "Tom and Jerry", "Woody Woodpecker", "Looney