In the Pink of the Night

The Pink Panther
Episode 60

Air date	May 18, 1969
Written by	Lee Mishkin
Directed by	Art "Arthur" Davis
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In the Pink of the Night is the 60th Episode in the Series.

Synopsis[]

The Pink Panther buys a cuckoo clock after a disasterous awakening, but it causes further trouble.

Plot[]

The episode begins with the Pink Panther peacefully sleeping, but the alarm clock rings, causing him to get furious and smashing it to pieces. Then he gets once again angered when the radio sings a song, and cuts the rope. Then he gets enraged for the third time when the telephone rings and he throws it away. Finally he wakes up when the sunshine shows up, only to discover he was too late for the train to the work. So he decides to buy a cuckoo clock.

Back at his home, he is seen banging pins with a hammer, puts the cuckoo clock, and goes back to sleep. He sleeps for hours and hours... When the cuckoo bird shouts "Cuckoo!", however, things even get worse: a superfurious Pink Panther breaks the table, cuts and throws away nothing. Eventually, he decides to close the clock, but the bird still enrages him until he lets it fall into a river.

But later on that night, his guilty consciousness gets the best of him, and he becomes fearful of the bird's fate as he rushes back to the bridge and dives into the river in attempt to find him. Little does the panther know, the little cuckoo bird has made it back inside inside the house safely, clock and all.

Presuming him deceased, the panther throws flowers down from the bridge and returns home, depressed. Moments later, a familiar "Cuckoo!" rings out twice. Rejoiced, the panther discovers that the little blue cuckoo bird is very much alive and well. He makes amends with the bird and the two are now best friends.

Characters[]

The Pink Panther

Minor Characters[]

Gino the Bird

Trivia[]

The bridge over the river resembles London Bridge.
The title is a pun on In the middle of the night.
This episode reveals that if the Pink Panther is jolted awake, he can go into a destructive rampage.

In-Page Gallery[]

Videos[]

Running Gags[]

The Pink Panther continuosly getting angry.
- Breaking the alarm clock/the table.
- Cutting the radio's rope/nothing.
- Throwing away the telephone/nothing/the box that Gino has put on the hole.

Errors[]

Before waking up the first time Pink has no clock on his arm. When he wakes up, it is on his arm, but after that, it is nowhere to be seen.
It is unknown how the table comes back after getting broken.
Also, the box containing the clock disappears before Pink is about to smash the table.
When Pink's alarm clock rings earlier in the short, it sounds like a normal mechanical alarm clock. Near the end of the short when his alarm clock rings (and the cuckoo smashes it), it instead makes the noise of a fire alarm bell.

Credits[]

Blake Edwards' Pink Panther
1964 Shorts The Pink Phink ⦿ Pink Pajamas
1965 Shorts We Give Pink Stamps ⦿ Dial "P" for Pink ⦿ Sink Pink ⦿ Pickled Pink ⦿ Pinkfinger ⦿ Shocking Pink ⦿ Pink Ice ⦿ The Pink Tail Fly ⦿ Pink Panzer ⦿ An Ounce of Pink ⦿ Reel Pink ⦿ Bully for Pink
1966 Shorts "Pink Punch ⦿ Pink Pistons ⦿ Vitamin Pink ⦿ The Pink Blueprint ⦿ Pink, Plunk, Plink ⦿ Smile Pretty, Say Pink ⦿ Pink-A-Boo ⦿ Genie with the Light Pink Fur ⦿ Super Pink ⦿ Rock A Bye Pinky
1967 Shorts Pinknic ⦿ Pink Panic ⦿ Pink Posies ⦿ Pink of the Litter ⦿ In the Pink ⦿ Jet Pink ⦿ Pink Paradise ⦿ Pinto Pink ⦿ Congratulations It's Pink ⦿ Prefabricated Pink ⦿ The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye ⦿ Pink Outs
1968 Shorts Sky Blue Pink ⦿ Pinkadilly Circus ⦿ Psychedelic Pink ⦿ Come On In! The Water's Pink ⦿ Put-Put, Pink ⦿ G.I. Pink ⦿ Lucky Pink ⦿ The Pink Quarterback ⦿ Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Pink ⦿ Pink Valiant ⦿ The Pink Pill ⦿ Prehistoric Pink ⦿ Pink in the Clink ⦿ Little Beaux Pink ⦿ Tickled Pink ⦿ Pink Sphinx ⦿ Pink Is a Many Splintered Thing ⦿ The Pink Package Plot ⦿ Pinkcome Tax
1969 Shorts Pink-A-Rella ⦿ Pink Pest Control ⦿ Think Before You Pink ⦿ Slink Pink ⦿ In the Pink of the Night ⦿ Pink on the Cob ⦿ Extinct Pink
1971 Shorts A Fly in the Pink ⦿ Pink Blue Plate ⦿ Pink Tuba-Dore ⦿ Pink Pranks ⦿ The Pink Flea ⦿ Psst Pink ⦿ Gong with the Pink ⦿ Pink-In ⦿ Pink 8 Ball
1974 Shorts Pink Aye ⦿ Trail of the Lonesome Pink
1975 Shorts Pink DaVinci ⦿ Pink Streaker ⦿ Salmon Pink ⦿ Forty Pink Winks ⦿ Pink Plasma ⦿ Pink Elephant ⦿ Keep Our Forests Pink ⦿ Bobolink Pink ⦿ It's Pink, But Is It Mink? ⦿ Pink Campaign ⦿ The Scarlet Pinkernel
1976 Shorts Mystic Pink ⦿ The Pink of Arabee ⦿ The Pink Pro ⦿ Pink Piper ⦿ Pinky Doodle ⦿ Sherlock Pink ⦿ Rocky Pink
1977 Shorts Therapeutic Pink
1978 Shorts Pink Pictures ⦿ Pink Arcade ⦿ Pink Lemonade ⦿ Pink Trumpet ⦿ Sprinkle Me Pink ⦿ Dietetic Pink ⦿ Pink U.F.O. ⦿ Pink Lightning ⦿ Cat and the Pinkstalk ⦿ Pink Daddy ⦿ Pink S.W.A.T. ⦿ Pink and Shovel ⦿ Pinkologist ⦿ Yankee Doodle Pink ⦿ Pink Press ⦿ Pet Pink Pebbles ⦿ The Pink of Bagdad ⦿ Pink in the Drink ⦿ Pink Bananas ⦿ Pinktails for Two ⦿ Pink Z-Z-Z ⦿ Star Pink A Pink Christmas
1979 Shorts Pink Breakfast ⦿ Pink Quackers ⦿ Toro Pink ⦿ String Along in Pink ⦿ Pink in the Woods ⦿ Pink Pull ⦿ Spark Plug Pink ⦿ Doctor Pink ⦿ Pink Suds
1980 Shorts Supermarket Pink Olym-Pinks
1981 Shorts Pink at First Sight
1995 Shorts Driving Mr. Pink