Trail of the Pink Panther ex-wife Lady Simone (Capucine). All of these interview scenes provides flashbacks to scenes of earlier Pink Panther films ("The Pink Panther", "A Shot in the Dark", "Return of the Pink Panther", "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", and "Revenge of the Pink Panther"); but Jouvet also interviews Clouseau's father (Richard Mulligan), at his winery in the south of France, providing glimpses of Clouseau's childhood (wherein he is played by Lucca Mezzofanti), and his early career during college, nearly leading him to commit suicide after a girl of his life gets married to another person, especially in the French Resistance (in which
The Pink Panther Show preceding the show featured Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther Theme" played under a segment from "Pink Outs" featuring the Pink Panther folding the backdrop into a square to be eaten. The closer featured the last few seconds of the theme played under a scene from "Reel Pink" featuring the panther water skiing. MGM/UA created two versions of the syndication package. The first consisted of "The Pink Panther", "Inspector", "The Ant and the Aardvark" and "Texas Toads" entries sourced from film elements utilized during the program's original network run. The second version consisted of "The Pink Panther", "The Ant and the Aardvark"