MGM Home Entertainment announced that it will release a new set of episodes from the 1960s Pink Panther animated series in just over a month. Featuring 17 episodes that aired between 1965 and 1967, The Pink Panther & Friends Classic Cartoon Collection Volume Six: The Inspector will be available on DVD on March 4.
These installments highlight the bumbling police work of The Inspector and his dedicated assistant, Sergeant Deux-Deux, both voiced by Emmy and Golden Globe winner Pat Harrington Jr. (One Day at a Time). First animated in the opening credits of the second film in the Pink Panther series, 1964’s A Shot in the Dark, the Inspector became a bona fide cartoon star when the 1965 short The Great DeGaulle Stone Operation played in movie theaters before the James Bond movie Thunderball. He and Deux-Deux went on to have many more adventures produced by David DePatie, who co-created the animated Pink Panther with Friz Freleng. Freleng directed the Inspector cartoons with Gerry Chiniquy (Transformers), Robert McKimson (Looney Tunes) and George Singer (The Bullwinkle Show). Scripts were written by John W. Dunn (Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters), among others.
Episodes to be included on the single disc are: ‘The Great DeGaulle Stone Operation,’ ‘Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat,’ ‘Napoleon Blown-Aparte,’ ‘Cirrhosis of the Louvre,’ ‘Plastered in Paris,’ ‘Cock-A-Doodle Deux Deux,’ ‘Ape Suzette,’ ‘The Picque Poquette of Paris,’ ‘Sicque! Sicque! Sicque!,’ ‘That’s No Lady’That’s Notre Dame!,’ ‘Unsafe and Seine,’ ‘Toulouse La Trick,’ ‘Sacre Bleu Cross,’ ‘Le Quiet Squad,’ ‘Bomb Voyage,’ ‘Le Pig-Al Patrol’ and ‘Le Bowser Bagger.’ The MGM Home Entertainment release will carry a suggested retail price of $14.98.
