Curse of the Pink Panther by Roger Moore—as Clouseau himself—at the end of the film. This was David Niven's final film appearance, and he died shortly before its release. This film marked Herbert Lom's sixth outing as Chief Inspector Dreyfus. He would reprise the role one last time in "Son of the Pink Panther" (1993). The prized Pink Panther jewel would not return until "The Pink Panther" reboot in 2006. This film featured the sixth "Panther" appearance of Clouseau's trusty manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). Cato and Dreyfus debuted in "A Shot in the Dark" (1964). The film was a box office bomb and got negative
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