The Return of the Pink Panther with the other Peter Sellers Pink Panther films, in a 6-disc set for the first time on Blu-ray under their Shout! Select label. The set was ultimately released on June 27, 2017. The Return of the Pink Panther The Return of the Pink Panther is a 1975 comedy film and the fourth film in The Pink Panther series. The film stars Peter Sellers, returning to the role of Inspector Clouseau, for the first time since "A Shot in the Dark" (1964), after having declined to reprise the role in "Inspector Clouseau" (1968). The film was a commercial hit and revived
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