There were only two such "talking panther" cartoons from the pre-Saturday morning cartoon version of the animated series. By "pre-Saturday morning" I mean they were not initially meant for TV but instead were all "animated shorts" from the 1960's back when some movie theatres continued to actually show cartoons before the main feature. Well over 100 animated shorts were produced for movie theatres during the 1960's and they all eventually made it to Saturday morning TV in the 1970's. Both of those two sole cartoons remain distict from the rest of the more-than-100 1960's shorts because they are the only two where he actually spoke. In both episodes he had a South African accent. After those two, he never spoke again until a new cartoon series with a modest revisioning of The Pink Panther came to Saturday morning in the early 1990's.
Sink Pink - 1965
(where the fact that he could speak was part of the surprise ending)
Pink Ice - 1965
(a very light political jab at the DeBeers diamond empire and where he spoke all the way through from beginning to end)
Sink Pink - 1965
(where the fact that he could speak was part of the surprise ending)
Pink Ice - 1965
(a very light political jab at the DeBeers diamond empire and where he spoke all the way through from beginning to end)
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