The Inspector the 1968 live-action film "Inspector Clouseau" (with Alan Arkin as Clouseau), the Inspector featured in the opening titles of later "Pink Panther" features beginning in the 1970s, changed dramatically to resemble Sellers, and then Steve Martin in the 2006 reboot of the series. The theme music heard during the titles of the cartoon was the instrumental "A Shot in the Dark" by Henry Mancini, from the 1964 feature film of the same name (the second entry in the "Pink Panther" film series). Additional music in the cartoons was composed initially by William Lava, then by Walter Greene. Two shorts had
Henry Mancini albums and film soundtracks. (Relatively little of his music was written for recordings compared to the amount that was written for film and television.) Beginning with his 1969 hit arrangement of Nino Rota's "A Time for Us" (as his only "Billboard" Hot 100 top 10 entry, the #1 hit "Love Theme from "Romeo and Juliet"") and its accompanying album "A Warm Shade of Ivory", Mancini began to function more as a piano soloist and easy-listening artist primarily recording music written by other people. In this period, for two of his best-selling albums he was joined by trumpet virtuoso and "The