The Adventures of The Pink Panther

The Adventures of The Pink Panther is an American animated television series that was based on the The Pink Panther franchise. Created by Friz Freleng, David H. DePatie and Blake Edwards, it was produced by MGM Television Animation and aired on Saturdays from October 14, 1997 until January 20, 2007 on GoAnimate Network in the United States. Reruns of the series began airing on GoAnimate Toons from 2008 to 2018.

The series follows the misadventures of The Pink Panther and his friends, set in the eponymous city of Anthroville. However, their normal lives there is occasionally interrupted by their own wacky and zany antics, and all this happens during their daily life.

Premise
The 1997 incarnation of The Pink Panther starred the legendary hip feline in series of brand new adventures, in which he dealt with different situations in a manner similar to the original Looney Tunes shorts, ranging from modern day situations such as working as a delivery boy to outlandish situations like living in caveman days. Unlike previous television series and almost the entire theatrical run, the series was produced with the Panther capable of speaking throughout the episodes, to allow more interaction with other characters. Voiced by Matt Frewer, he was given a humorous American accent in order to appeal to younger children, which was in sharp contrast to the sophisticated British accent supplied by impressionist Rich Little who voiced the Panther briefly in two 1965 cartoon shorts, Sink Pink and Pink Ice.

Alongside the Pink Panther, a number of his co-stars from the original theatrical shorts appear in the series, including: The Inspector, who the Panther assists in the guise of an American police officer; The Ant and the Aardvark, with John Byner reprising the role of both characters; Misterjaws, will have the reprising roles of both characters; Crazylegs Crane, who were redesigned for the series and reprising roles of both characters; Blue Racer, will have the reprising role who redesigned for this series; Mooch J. Mongoose and Sal Snake, who was designed to speak in the series, Jonathan Love and Kevin McDonald providing their voices; Roland and Rattfink, who were redesigned for this series; The Dogfather and his henchdogs Pugg and Louie, who were redesigned for this series; The Red Fox from the After the Fox movie, who were designed for this series; The Muscle Man from the 1968 cartoon ''Come On In! The Water's Pink; The Patient from the 1968 cartoon The Pink Pill; The Witch from the 1969 cartoon Pink-A-Rella''; and "The Little Man", who like the Panther, was also designed to speak in the series, with Wallace Shawn providing his voice. The series also featured new characters, including a sandwich owner gorilla manager named Bob Kong, a unlucky intelligent mongoose named Mooch J. Mongoose, a fast and happy-go-lucky snake named Sal Snake, a hungry purple stray cat named Zeke, and a young Cyan Canary named Carl and Yellow Rat.

Main

 * Pink Panther (voiced by Matt Frewer) - a charismatic and sly panther.
 * Green Eagle (voiced by Jamie Watson) - Pink Panther's best friend who constantly believes that he is better than all.
 * Purple Seal (voiced by Tom Kenny) - Green Eagle's reluctant best friend who is often dragged into situations.
 * Blue Panther (voiced by Bill Fagerbakke) - a dimwitted and slightly dumb blue cave panther.
 * Finley (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) - Pink Panther's pet goldfish that who became pet partners with him.
 * Thelma (voiced by Kath Souice) - a bratty, annoying, obnoxious little red-haired girl who likes to have things her way. She can be something of a bully. She has of course been both ally and adversary to the Pink Panther. She is chronologically five years old, but is often seen blowing bubble gum like a teenager. She never goes anywhere without her doll, Rags, whom she is overprotective of every step of the way.
 * Zeke the Purple Cat and Carl the Cyan Canary (both voiced by Jim Ward and Bill Kopp) - a cat and mouse duo who are surprisingly best friends despite the former sometimes trying to eat the latter.
 * Crazylegs Crane and Dragonfly (both voiced by Eric Stuart and Debi Derryberry) - a bird and bug duo who are surprisingly best friends despite the former sometimes trying to eat the latter.
 * Orange Warthog (voiced by Richard Horvitz) - a stubborn and slightly dumb warthog who often annoys people.

Supporting

 * Granny (voiced by Jo Anne Worley) - a very kind old lady.
 * Jules Parrot (voiced by Charles Nelson Reilly) - a portly, obnoxious parrot who acts as both ally and foil to Pinky in his various appearances, and is able to speak full coherent English. The color of his feathers often change, most frequently appearing green and to lesser extent yellow.
 * Charlie Ant (voiced by Billy West) - a red ant who also wants to have fun.
 * Aardvark (voiced by Rodger Bumpass) - a blue aardvark who tries to catch the ant.
 * Mooch J. Mongoose (sometimes voiced by Jonathan Love) - a unlucky yet intelligent mongoose who is surprisingly friends with Pink Panther.
 * Zag Badger (voiced by Jim Cummings) - a wild badger who is very goofy.
 * Blue Racer (voiced by Brian Drummond) - a fast-moving blue snake tries unsuccessfully to catch a stereotypically-Japanese beetle.
 * Japanese Beetle (voiced by Jeff Bennett) - a beetle who is a matrial artist black belt in karate who outstmarts Blue Racer.
 * Marty Crocodile (voiced by Steve Blum) - a very calm, unlike his friends, and is a very serious crocodile.
 * Lincoln Lion (voiced by Clancy Brown) - a business friendly lion who owns the place for Pizza World as the manager.
 * Manny Shark (voiced by Daran Norris) - a muscle shark from the beach who does exercises.
 * Sergio Skunk (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui) - a romantic french-accent purple skunk who has the crush for orange cat.
 * Orange Cat (voiced by Grey DeLisle) - a sweet and most loving orange cat who was adores her hobbies.
 * Will Wolf (voiced by Ian James Corlett) - a smartest and cunning green wolf who runs the business for other places.
 * Terry Pterodactyl (voiced by Bumper Robinson) - a courageous and wise cracking yellow-orange pterodactyl.
 * Casey Crow (voiced by William Salyers) - a obnoxius and slightly calm purple crow.
 * Wade Weasel (voiced by David Lander) - a gentle and fancy orange weasel.
 * Toro (voiced by Hank Arazia) - a fat bullfrog who is tough, but gets beaten by others.
 * Pancho (voiced by Charlie Adler) - a leopard frog who always helps Toro.
 * Roland (voiced by Yuri Lowenthal) - a postive man who sometimes graves a flower when he does something good, but Rattfink destories it sometimes, he beats Rattfink in every single episode, he's a good person who likes to do things right, etc.
 * The Inspector (voiced by Hal Raye) - a unlucky detective who solves mysteries, but things did not go very well due to The Inspector's awkward goals.
 * Sergeant Deux Deux (voiced by Mark DeCarlo) - a dimwitted companion worked with the Inspector.
 * Commissioner (voiced by Kenneth Mars) - a commissioner who encourages The Inspector to comission him for mysteries and crimes.
 * Grey Bear (voiced by John DiMaggio) - a grey brute and toughest bear.
 * Toby Turtle (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) - a old nervous turtle who relies on fortune cookies' notes.
 * Rick Ram (voiced by Roger Rose) - a red strong and courageous ram.
 * Mitch Moose (voiced by Jeremy Harris) - a dimwitted and gullible orange moose.
 * Timmy Turkey (voiced by Rob Paulsen) - a happy-go-lucky and slightly dumb blue turkey who commonly acts silly towards people.
 * Sal Snake (voiced by by Kevin McDonald) - a very fast snake.
 * Pink Cheetah (voiced by Tara Strong) - a optimistic yet slightly smart female cheetah who is Pink Panther's girlfriend.
 * Helen Hawk (voiced by Meredith Taylor-Parry) - a most respected and most intelligent female hawk who is Green Eagle's girlfriend.
 * Sarah Seal (voiced by Cathy Cavadini) - a sweet and slightly shy female seal who is Purple Seal's girlfriend.
 * Yellow Rat (voiced by Rob Paulsen) - a rat who is known for being extremely fast and skilled.
 * Queen Kong (voiced by Susanne Blakeslee) - the giant gorilla who spends time with her friends and her dad Bob Kong.
 * Bob Kong (voiced by Patrick Warburton) - the gorilla who owns the place for Krispy Kong Gourmet Sandwiches.
 * Orson Owl (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - a most story telling owl narrator, who tells stories and narrates any episodes about tales of Anthroville.
 * Muck Luck (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) - a most likely an Inuit, commonly know as an Eskimo. in at least one of the episodes Muck Luck has a seal friend.

Antagonists

 * Bertrand Thud (voiced by Eddie Deezen) - a dimwitted hunter who often tries to hunt after Pink Panther and Green Eagle although his attempts often fail.
 * Big Nose (voiced by Wallace Shawn) - a tempered little man, although sometimes he is friendly or is simply an innocent bystander that has the hard luck of ending up being the unintended target of all sorts of antics by the Pink Panther.
 * The Dog (voiced by Frank Welker) - a dog is usually as Big Nose's sidekick.
 * Manly Man (voiced by Jess Harnell) - a strong muscle man.
 * Black Ferret (voiced by Ted Lewis) - a tempered bossy black ferret, Big Nose's friend who wanted tries to make different colors to keep it the way after Pink Panther and Green Eagle attempts often fails that has the hard luck of reason ends up being the targets of all sorts of antics by the Pink Panther and Green Eagle.
 * Entitled Karen (voiced by Jennifer Hale) - a entitled woman who use their privilege to demand their own way.
 * Boss and Weasel (both voiced by Jim Cummings and Dan Castellaneta) - a often crooks who manages to foil and became criminals to steal goods.
 * Voodoo Man (also voiced by Dan Castellaneta) - a mask-wearing tribal witch doctor who lives on the island who would conquer the island.
 * Irwin the Invader (voiced by Tracey Walter) - a idiotic alien who wants to destroy earth.
 * Misterjaw (voiced by Doug Lawrence) - a blue-colored great white shark (who wore a purple vest with white collar, a black bow tie and black top hat) who liked to leap out of the water and shout "HEEGotcha!" or "Gotcha!" at unsuspecting folks who would run off in terror. He spoke with a German accent and was known to mispronounce words, such as "knucklehead" pronounced as "ka-nucklehead".
 * Catfish (voiced by Gilbert Gottfried) who usually referred to Misterjaw as "Boss" or "Chief"; Misterjaw usually called Catfish either "pal-ly", "fella" or "sonny" when in a good mood, or names like "dumbkoff", "ka-nucklehead" or "macaroni brain" when irritated. At times, Misterjaw would mistakenly address his sidekick as "Dogfish", only to correct himself a split second later by saying "I mean, Catfish."
 * Rattfink (voiced by Lee Tockar) a cynical, mischievous, negative and malicious man (appearing older than Roland) out to destroy anything happy or positive.
 * Dogfather (voiced by Joe Piscopo) - a leader dog who works with Louie and Pugg.
 * Louie (voiced Jess Harnell) - a Dogfather's wise-cracking henchman.
 * Pugg (Brian George) - a Dogfather's dwimitted henchman.
 * Red Fox (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui) - a cunning and greedy fox who tries to outsmart anyone and steal goods.
 * Indigo Raven (voiced by Ted Dykstra) - a loud-mouthed and greedy raven of Red Fox's sidekick.

Additional Voices

 * Ruth Buzzi as Witch
 * Hamilton Camp as Rupert
 * Jodi Carlisle
 * Nancy Cartwright
 * Phil LaMarr
 * Rickey D'Shon Collins as Lester
 * Troy Davidson
 * Brad Garrett
 * Mick Garris
 * Phillip Glasser
 * Keith David as Rhinoceros
 * Barry Gordon as Bongo Cereal Founder
 * Paige Gosney
 * Gerrit Graham
 * Cam Clarke
 * David Lodge
 * Steve MacKall as Johnny Chucklehead
 * Danny Mann
 * Benjamin Diskin
 * Lauren Tom
 * Candi Milo
 * Kevin Michael Richardson
 * Bradley Pierce as Buddy Bimmel's Son
 * Gwen Shepherd
 * Susan Silo
 * Jean Smart
 * Elmarie Wendel
 * Thomas F. Wilson

Episodes

 * Main article: List of The Adventures of The Pink Panther episodes

Production
In 1992, MGM/UA decided to produce new Pink Panther cartoons with a twist that he would be able to speak, hoping to bring new life to the panther. That same year, MGM/UA met with its licensees to explain the changes that were made to the character and arm them with essential artwork needed to spring the panther for the brand-new series. This decision was controversial and unpopular.

Casting
In 1993, Rich Little, who voiced the character in a few scenes of the original cartoons, was approached to reprise his role as the pink feline. However, Little did not recall voicing the character at all and turned down the offer saying giving the panther a voice would ruin the character. Producer David DePatie also felt that giving the panther a voice would "compromise the integrity of the character." But once the producers saw Matt Frewer fill in the lines for the panther, they thought it was fantastic and they accepted it.

Broadcast
The entire series ran on GoAnimate Network from October 14, 1997 to January 20, 2007. Reruns of the series aired on GoAnimate Toons from 2008 to 2018.

DVD releases
On March 28, 2006, MGM Home Entertainment released The Adventures of The Pink Panther: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1. The 4-disc set features seasons 1 to 4 and does not contain any bonus features, save for subtitles for the hearing impaired.

Video on demand
On September 25, 2020, the series became available to stream on Peacock.

Ratings
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Critical reception
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Gallery
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Trivia
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Tropes

 * Main article: The Adventures of The Pink Panther/Tropes