Pink at First Sight

The Pink Panther in: Pink at First Sight is an animated Valentine's Day Special starring Pink Panther. It had its premiere on ABC on February 14, 1981, and would be first and only solo effort of David H. DePatie (without Friz Freleng) and his final new cartoon before his retirement in 1984. It is the first Pink Panther cartoon produced by Marvel Productions, which would go on to make new animated opening titles of Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther, as well as Pink Panther and Sons.

Plot[]

It is Valentine's Day and the Pink Panther is lonely and has no money (except for seven cents). He goes to a messenger service for a job but messes his rehearsal up. He then goes to a store, buys a cassette player and pre-recorded cassettes with the seven cents he had left and goes back to the messenger service miming to "Vesti la giubba", an aria from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, and gets hired as a messenger.

Antics on the job entangle the breezy cat with a jealous husband (after the Panther steals the heart of a housewife whilst miming a 50s-ish sounding ballad), a snobby classic violinist (after the Panther, who had the wrong recording on at the time, used a Stradivarius violin like an electric guitar), a priest (whom the Panther apparently gave the wrong present too) and a crime boss and tough gangsters (which their present was a bomb).

Finally, after warding off the crime boss and his gang with a cassette containing excerpts of a police radio show (before the cops heard it, saw them and went after to arrest them), our hero meets the pantheress of his dreams, the ideal feline valentine.

Voices[]

Frank Welker - The Jester, Messenger Owner, The Man with the Golf Club, Viloinist, Customer
Marilyn Schreffler - Baby's Mother, The Lady with the Umbrella, Nurse, Housewife
Hal Smith - Big Joe
Brian Cummings - Music Store Owner, Tough Gangsters
Weaver Copeland - Announcer

Home Media releases[]

Pink at First Sight made its VHS debut release by MGM/UA Home Video sometime during the 1980s. On November 6, 2007, the special alongside Olym-Pinks and A Pink Christmas was released as part of the DVD collection set The Pink Panther: A Pink Christmas from MGM Home Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Production[]

Most of the animation staff utilized for the 1978 series The All-New Pink Panther Show worked on Pink at First Sight. The special also utilized several music cues from the series as well but unlike the TV show, a laugh track was not featured.

Freleng was largely absent from this production due to his involvement in the closing of the studio that he had created with DePatie. Following that, he returned to Warner Bros. According to a 2010 interview^[1], Freleng helped with the original storyline. His involvement did not get him an on-screen credit.

Many of the other characters' voices on this special (saving the silent Panther himself) were done by Frank Welker, Brian Cummings, Marilyn Schreffler, and Hal Smith.

Availability[]

Pink at First Sight is available on the Official Pink Panther YouTube channel.
Pink at First Sight is available on the DVD A Pink Christmas.
Pink at First Sight was released on the VHS Pink at First Sight.

Gallery[]

References[]

↑ https://bakertoons.blogspot.com/2010/12/david-h-depatie-interview-final-part.html

Video[]

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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

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