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The Inspector is a series of theatrical cartoons from 1960s which were produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and released through United Artists. Although the titular character was never given a name, it was clearly based on Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau character that appeared in the films The Pink Panther and A Shot In The Dark. Alan Arkin would later play the role in the film Inspector Clouseau. Pat Harrington, Jr. provided the voices for the Inspector and his assistant, a Spanish policeman named Deux-Deux (even though "Deux," French for "two," is not a Spanish surname, or even a Spanish word—in Spain, the character was named "Totó," and in the Mexican dubbing, Dodò). The frustrated Commissioner was voiced first by Larry Storch and then Paul Frees, with some other strange sounds coming from his mouth from time to time. The first cartoon, "The Great DeGaulle Stone Operation," was the short featured before screenings of the James Bond film Thunderball. Image File history File linksMetadata InspectorCel. ... Image File history File linksMetadata InspectorCel. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (sometimes abbreviated to DFE) was a Hollywood-based animation production company, active from 1963 to 1981. ... The current United Artists logo (a variant was used during the 1980s). ... Richard Henry Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 â€“ 24 July 1980) was an English comedian, actor, and performer, who came to prominence on the BBC radio series The Goon Show and later became a film star. ... Inspector Jacques Clouseau is a bumbling fictional French detective who was a character in the Blake Edwardss Pink Panther series. ... The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bumbling French police detective Jacques Clouseau. ... For other uses, see Shot in the Dark (disambiguation) A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 film directed by Blake Edwards and is the second installment (and considered by many to be the best) in the Pink Panther series. ... Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and director. ... Inspector Jacques Clouseau is a bumbling fictional French detective who was a character in the Blake Edwardss Pink Panther series. ... Pat Harrington, Jr. ... For the band, see The Police. ... Larry Storch (born January 8, 1923) is an American actor best known for his comedic television roles, including voiceover work for cartoons, and his live-action role the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn on F Troop. ... Paul Frees (June 22, 1920 - November 2, 1986) was a voice actor born in Chicago. ... Flemings commissioned image of James Bond to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... Thunderball is the fourth film in the EON Productions James Bond series, and also the fourth film to star Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent, Commander James Bond 007. ...

The cartoons are among the most original produced in their era, with innovative animation concepts and a creative approach to character design. At their best, they featured complex plots, avante-garde villains, and multiple locations utilizing the series' line-art background treatments. The key to their success, though, was the chemistry between the two main characters and their visually-stunning designs. (The cartoons' grease-penciled characters took some unusual shapes in the early cartoons, with the Inspector and Deux-Deux occasionally looking like they escaped the quality-control process.)

The later cartoons used cleaner, more routine character outlines, and often featured the Inspector alone in stock situations without the Commissioner, Deux-Deux, or the opening scenes in the Sûreté building. In his last outings, Deux-Deux's eyes stayed open the entire episode, and he lost the sleepy persona that Harrington played so well off of the Inspector. SÃ»retÃ© (French for surety but transliterated as safety or security(1)) is a term used in French speaking countries or regions in the organizational title of a civil police force. ...

While the Inspector character designs remained basically the same throughout the DePatie-Freleng shorts, the Inspector featured in the opening titles of The Pink Panther films changed dramatically over the years. Today, a far different Inspector character who more conventionally caricatures Sellers is the only one licensed by MGM (who now owns the rights), keeping the original whiskered Inspector off of merchandise featuring DePatie-Freleng's Pink Panther cartoon characters. The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bumbling French police detective Jacques Clouseau. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ...

The music used for the titles of the cartoon was the song "A Shot in the Dark" by Henry Mancini, the second big hit from the Pink Panther film series. Directors of the shorts included Friz Freleng, Gerry Chiniquy, Robert McKimson and George Singer. 34 shorts were produced. Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 â€“ June 14, 1994), was an Academy Award winning American composer, conductor and arranger. ... Isadore Friz Freleng (August 21, 1906[1]â€“May 26, 1995) was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ... Germain Adolph Gerry Chiniquy (June 23, 1912 - November 22, 1989) was an American animator. ... Robert Bob McKimson, Sr. ...

The character also appeared in 1993's The Pink Panther (90's show) produced by MGM television animation.

Reruns of The Inspector play on the channel Boomerang. Boomerang is the name of at least four television networks owned by Cartoon Network. ...

A DVD containing all 34 shorts is scheduled to be released on July 24, 2007 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the home video, DVD, and UMD distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation. ...

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1966 The Great DeGaulle Stone Operation was the first short in the Inspector series of theatrical cartoons. ... Isadore Friz Freleng (August 21, 1906[1]â€“May 26, 1995) was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ...

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Pat Harrington, Jr. ... Autographed photo of Don Messick. ... Larry Storch (born January 8, 1923) is an American actor best known for his comedic television roles, including voiceover work for cartoons, and his live-action role the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn on F Troop. ... Paul Frees (June 22, 1920 - November 2, 1986) was a voice actor born in Chicago. ... Marvin Julian Miller (born April 14, 1917 in The Bronx, New York City) is the former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) from 1966 - 1982. ...

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David Hudson DePatie - Isadore "Friz" Freleng The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bumbling French police detective Jacques Clouseau. ... Inspector Jacques Clouseau is a bumbling fictional French detective who was a character in the Blake Edwardss Pink Panther series. ... The Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, is a 1963 comedy film, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Robert Wagner. ... For other uses, see Shot in the Dark (disambiguation) A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 film directed by Blake Edwards and is the second installment (and considered by many to be the best) in the Pink Panther series. ... Inspector Clouseau is a 1968 United Artists feature film, the third in the popular Pink Panther movie series. ... The Return of the Pink Panther is the fourth film in the Pink Panther series, released in North America by United Artists and in Europe by ITC Entertainment in 1975. ... The Pink Panther Strikes Again is the fifth film in the Pink Panther series (although only the third to include the words Pink Panther in its title, despite the fact that the story does not involve the Pink Panther diamond of the previous films) and continues the story after the... Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) is the sixth film in the Pink Panther film series and last with Peter Sellers, though a later film in the series (Trail of the Pink Panther) used Sellers footage compiled from previous Panther movies. ... Trail of the Pink Panther was a 1982 movie starring Peter Sellers. ... Curse of the Pink Panther is a 1983 comedy film, the eighth installment of the Pink Panther series of films started by Blake Edwards in the early 1960s. ... Son of the Pink Panther (1993) was the ninth entry in the 30-year-old Pink Panther film series. ... The Pink Panther is a 2006 comedy film. ... The Romance of the Pink Panther was to be the seventh film in the Pink Panther series, and would have starred Peter Sellers in the role of Inspector Clouseau in his sixth Panther appearance. ... MGM has announced the production of a sequel to the 2006 box office hit The Pink Panther. ... The Pink Panther cartoon character is the protagonist and main character in a series of animated short films. ... The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of United Artists animated cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s. ... The Pink Panther and Sons was an animated television series featuring the Pink Panther and his two sons. ... DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (sometimes abbreviated to DFE) was a Hollywood-based animation production company, active from 1963 to 1981. ... David DePatie worked with Friz Freleng to create the animated character known as the Pink Panther, originally created for the opening tiles of the 1964 live action film The Pink Panther, starring Peter Sellers. ... Isadore Friz Freleng (August 21, 1905â€“May 26, 1995) was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ...

Cartoons: The Pink Panther • The Inspector • Roland and Rattfink • The Ant and the Aardvark • Tijuana Toads • The Blue Racer • Hoot Kloot • The Dogfather • Misterjaw • Crazylegs Crane
Television series: The Pink Panther Show • The Super 6 • The Houndcats • Super President • Here Comes The Grump • The Adventures of Dr. Doolittle • The Barkleys • Bailey's Comets • The Oddball Couple The Pink Panther cartoon character is the main character in a series of animated short films. ... A Mirish-DePatie-Freleng Production Released through United Artists Series of theatrical cartoons produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises from 1968 to 1971. ... The Aardvark The Ant The Ant and the Aardvark was a series of theatrical short cartoons produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises from 1969 to 1971, depicting the attempts of an unnamed blue aardvark to catch and eat a red ant named Charlie. ... Tijuana Toads was a series of 17 theatrical cartoons produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and released through United Artists. ... Image:Http://dfe. ... Hoot Kloot was a series of theatrical cartoons produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises from 1973 to 1974. ... The Dogfather (A DePatie-Freleng Production, in association with Mirisch Company) was created by Hawley Pratt and Friz Freleng at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. ... Misterjaw is a 34-episode made-for-television cartoon series, produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in 1976 for The Pink Panther and Friends television series on NBC. Misterjaw (voiced by Arte Johnson) was a blue German accented shark(with a purple vest with white collar, a bow tie and tall... Crazylegs Crane is a 16-episode made-for-television cartoon series produced at DePatie Freleng Enterprizes in 1978 for The All New Pink Panther Show on ABC. The segment is about the goofy yellow bird (voiced by Larry D. Mann) having such misadventures. ... The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of United Artists animated cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s. ... The Super 6 was an animated cartoon series which was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in 1966, and shown on the NBC television network from 10 September 1966 to 31 August 1969. ... The Houndcats was a 1970s animated television series shown on the NBC television network. ... Super President was an animated cartoon which was shown on Saturday mornings by NBC between September 16, 1967 and December 28, 1968. ... Here Comes The Grump was an animated cartoon series created by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. ... Doctor Dolittle was an animated adventure series that lasted one season and ran from September 12th, 1970 to September 2nd, 1971 on the NBC network and was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. ... The Barkleys is a animated television series that ran from September 9th, 1972 to September 1st, 1973 on NBC and was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Oddball Couple was an animated half hour Saturday morning show that ran on the ABC TV network from September 6th, 1975 to September 3rd, 1977. ...

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