The Think Pink Panther Laugh-and-a-Half Hour-and-a-Half Show (1976) theme music (audio) 

Thank You Mate!

Agreed.

That was the ending title of The Inspector’s shorts.

That was actually FINIS, for those were eyes in the fns.

@Marla White;do you remember what word was displayed on the screen at the end of each show?!?

That was 1977-78, when it was called "The Think Pink Panther Show." That theme song is floating around RU-vid also.

Can you remember what happened in the intro?

@@aidahozoori8675 As far as I'm concerned, NBC may have it in it's vaults, except for the sad fact that NBC didn't always preserve their color kinoscopes or videotapes, and in fact, like the BBC in England, wiped many of them for recycling because video was considered expensive in those days, and NBC liked to save money by reusing video tapes and a number of other videos probably got thrown out due to carelessness or deterioation. If NBC doesn't have any remains of the intros, it's possible that MGM/U-A may have them in their vaults, if they haven't chopped up the hour and a half long or edited them to pieces over the years due to syndication demands (such as changing the "Tijuana Toads" names to the "Texas Toads" due to sensitivity issues with Mexican-Americans. They didn't change their behavior or expressions in the cartoons themselves, though. The toads still had broken Spanish languages, like Speedy Gonzales (this was due to Friz Freleng having worked on both series for two different studios.) The intros, as far as I remember was an introduction to the Pink Panther and the various DFS characters (The Inspector, The Ant & The Aardvark, Mr. Jaws, The Texas Toads, and possibly Hoot Kloot or The Dogfather.) The visual was a series of clips of the characters doing typically slapstick scenes. There was also a "Bicentennial" theme in the music arrangement, since the series premiered from 1976-77.

I can see why. An hour and a half is too much! NBC's Smilin' Saturday Morning block wasn't that good after all except for Woody Woodpecker and Pink here.

The long runtime was the main reason this version only lasted one season anyway. Plus, I can definitely see it being annoying wanting to watch The Pink Panther (you know the character the show's named after) and then most getting a bunch of other characters you don't care about. I think the theme music's fine, but using it at the beginning and end of EVERY HALF HOUR would probably make it obnoxious quick.

@@kiartoons2010 Exactly! The theme song was actually pretty catchy, but they played it MUCH too often.

This is all, unfortunately.

@@SufferingFoolsMusic Understood!

In later showings the toads was know as Tijuana Toads

It's the other way around. They were originally called The Tijuana Toads when they premiered in theaters. However NBC asked DePatie Freleng to redub the toads to the Texas Toads. Today the original Tijuana Toads name has returned.

They were new to me at that time

Blame MGM I think they were only licenced to which DFE UA shorts they could show. Maybe if they return since these shorts are leaving MeTV could get the license to get those shorts added to the DFE package as well.

Maybe Me TV could get some new cartoons added to their mix

@O Chenault From what I read the Popeye block is going back to the way it was before the Pink Panther came in. So maybe Betty Boop and company could return.

They need to bring the 1960s Popeyes instead

@O Chenault It's rare but they do show the 1960s television Popeye shorts.

By 1977, NBC decided to cut back to a half hour and renamed to the “Think Pink Panther Show” with a catchy theme song and a weird synthesized sound at the very beginning. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vZaNCSbZIj8.html

@@Musicradio77Network I have heard it a few times. This is the better theme of the two.