History Trivia / ThePinkPanther

** Each iteration of the cartoon is available on the official Pink Panther Website/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/user/PinkPanther/featured page]].

** ''Pink Panther and Sons'' is presumably held by Creator/WarnerBros Television (they hold the rights to the Creator/HannaBarbera library, Turner Broadcasting having bought H-B in 1991 and Turner having merged with Time Warner in 1996- ironically, Turner had acquired a majority of MGM's backlog of stuff in 1986), so barring an agreement between them and MGM, it's off the table for now.

** With the release of Kino Lorber's ''[=DePatie=]/Freleng Collection Volume 2'' in 2018, every Pink Panther spinoff was made available on home media. The original shorts had received several DVD releases by then; ''The Inspector'', ''The Ant and the Aardvark'', and ''Roland and Ratfink'' also received earlier releases.

* AFIS100YearsOfFilmScores: #20

** With the release of Kino Lorber's ''[=DePatie=]/Freleng Collection Volume 2'' in 2018, every Pink Panther spinoff was made available. The original shorts had received several DVD releases by then; ''The Inspector'', ''The Ant and the Aardvark'', and ''Roland and Ratfink'' also received earlier releases.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: For ''Pink Panther and Sons''; the many spin-off shorts aside from ''The Inspector'' and possibly ''The Ant and the Aardvark'') might also be in this trope, given that MGM hasn't distributed them in years and the fact that the DFE library is fractured (currently the non MGM and WB stuff is owned by Creator/{{Disney}}; DFE eventually turned into Marvel Productions (owned by Creator/MarvelComics), which got absorbed into Creator/SabanEntertainment, which then got bought by Disney in 2001 alongside Creator/{{Freeform}} and Creator/FoxKids).

** With the release of Kino Lorber's ''DePatie/Freling Collection Volume 2'' in 2018, every Pink Panther spinoff was made available. The original shorts had received several DVD releases by then, and some of spinoffs were released eariler.

** The original shorts have had quite a few DVD releases, but of the spinoffs, only ''The Inspector'' has also been released; the others wait in limbo.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/PeterSellers died during planning of the unmade ''Romance of the Pink Panther''. Initially there were plans to film it anyway as a Creator/DudleyMoore vehicle, but he wanted Creator/BlakeEdwards to direct it, and he didn't like that script; Moore moved on while Edwards made ''Trail'' and ''Curse'' instead.

* MoneyDearyBoy[=/=]OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: Partial motivation for Sellers being willing to reprise the role of Clouseau in the 1970s. (The other was getting enough clout to get ''Film/BeingThere'' [[DoingItForTheArt greenlit]].)

* MoneyDearBoy[=/=]OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: Partial motivation for Sellers being willing to reprise the role of Clouseau in the 1970s. (The other was getting enough clout to get ''Film/BeingThere'' [[DoingItForTheArt greenlit]].)

** Peter Ustinov was originally cast as Clouseau, but left over a salary dispute.

* ScheduleSlip: An unusual example that happened because of highly inconsistent orders from United Artists: the original cartoons ran from 1964 to 1969, took a year long break to return with 9 new shorts in 1971, then ''3 more years'' passed before two more shorts got released in 1974 (at a very inconsistent and random placement), before the series finally got back to having regular releases between 1975 and 1977, then ''another break'' took place between 1977 and 1978 after which the made for TV shorts (noticeable for being much more KidFriendly) were released at a regular pace until 1980.

* ScheduleSlip: An unusual example that happened because of highly inconsistent orders from United Artists: the original cartoons ran from 1964 to 1969, took a year long break to return with 9 new shorts in 1971, then ''3 more years'' passed before two more shorts got released in 1974 (at a very inconsistent and random placement), before the series finally got back to having regular releases between 1975 and 1980.

* ActorAllusion: One episode of the 1993 cartoon has Pink get mistaken for Series/MaxHeadroom. Pink is voiced by Headroom's actor, Matt Frewer.

** Creator/ClaudiaCardinale plays Princess Dala in ''The Pink Panther'' and Maria Gambrelli in ''Son of...''. The latter is also a case of TheOtherDarrin (Maria was played by Elke Sommer in ''A Shot in the Dark'').

* RoleReprisal: John Byner came back to voice the Ant and Aardvark for the 1993 series.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/PeterSellers died during planning of the unmade ''Romance of the Pink Panther''. Initially there were plans to film it anyway as a Dudley Moore vehicle, but he wanted Creator/BlakeEdwards to direct it, and he didn't like that script; Moore moved on while Edwards made ''Trail'' and ''Curse'' instead.

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* MoneyDearBoy: Partial motivation for Sellers being willing to reprise the role of Clouseau in the 1970s. (The other was getting enough clout to get ''Film/BeingThere'' [[DoingItForTheArt greenlit]].)

* OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: Creator/PeterSellers returned to the series three times in the 1970s in order to get ''Film/BeingThere'' made.

** Claudia Cardinale plays Princess Dala in ''The Pink Panther'' and Maria Gambrelli in ''Son of...''. The latter is also a case of TheOtherDarrin (Maria was played by Elke Sommer in ''A Shot in the Dark'').

** Herbert Lom (Commissioner Dreyfus) and Graham Stark (several roles) are also Eastern-European and British respectively. Sellers and Lom already co-acted together in ''Film/TheLadykillers1955''.

** Herbert Lom (Commissioner Dreyfus) and Graham Stark (several roles) are also Eastern-European and British respectively. Sellers and Lom already co-acted together in ''Film/TheLadykillers''.

** Each iteration of the cartoon is available on the official Pink Panther Creator/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/user/PinkPanther/featured page]].

%%* FunnyCharacterBoringActor: Creator/PeterSellers.

* ActorAllusion: In the 2006 remake, Creator/CliveOwen plays 006. Clouseau asks him if he wasn't good enough to be 007. Clive Owen was at one point considered for the role of Film/JamesBond.

* DevelopmentHell: The reboot was in the works since the turn of the millennium.

* TheOtherDarrin: The Clouseaus besides Sellers, of course, but several other recurring characters were played by different actors from film to film (see the trope entry) in the classic series. In the rebooted series, Creator/KevinKline played Dreyfus in the first entry, but was replaced with Creator/JohnCleese in the second.

** For the 1993-95 series, it's available only via dodgy torrent sites [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil in Eastern Europe]]. You could get a DVD at one point, but it was '''only''' of season 1. The complete first season is available on Amazon.de, if nowhere else. A chunk of the show is available on the official Creator/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/user/PinkPanther/featured page]].

* {{Composers}}: For the theatrical shorts, Bill Lava composed for every short from 1964 to 1966. He was succeeded by Walter Greene, who only scored a few cartoons before his cues (plus some by Lava) were [[RecycledSoundtrack recycled]] for every short well into the mid 70s. By 1978, an uncredited Steve [=DePatie=] started composing new cues that were used until the series concluded in 1980.