Star Pink

Star Pink
Pink Panther series
Directed by	Art Davis
Produced by	David H. DePatie Friz Freleng
Music by	Steve DePatie (unc.)
Animation by	Bob Matz John Gibbs Tiger West Tony Love
Backgrounds by	Richard H. Thomas
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	December 23, 1978 (1978-12-23)
Color process	Deluxe
Running time	6" 06"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Pink Z-Z-Z
Followed by	Pink Breakfast

Star Pink is the 114th cartoon produced in the Pink Panther series. A total of 124 6-minute cartoons were produced between 1964 and 1980.

Plot

Pink runs an intergalactic gas filling station. He gives a robot who gives him a credit card, a free lollipop. An intergalactic space man (The Little Man) flies to the station. The panther closes the station, making the space man so mad that he sends another robot to take off the bolts and screws to open the station. It does not work, and the space man throws his helmet off in anger. Then he sends another robot to catch a key, which the panther has.

The space man is flying a jet-pack through space. Pink takes the jetpack off his back, hiding in a cloud, sending the space man plummeting into a flower, is spat out, and Pink is chased by the villain. He goes into a molecular disassembler/re-assembler machine. He teleports to another one, with the space man doing the same thing. The panther throws a flower into the molecular disassembler/re-assembler machine, making the space man half space man, half flower. He is chased by a bee, and Pink Panther goes into the device once more. A bee flies in, making the panther half panther/half bee.

Notes

• After initially airing on television, the 32 made-for-television entries were released to theaters. Star Pink was shown prior to the Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
• The Pink Panther Show contained a laugh track when the Pink Panther cartoons were broadcast on NBC-TV. Previously, the laugh track version aired on This TV until September 2011.

Further sources

• Meet the Pink Panther; by Hope Freleng and Sybil Freleng [1], (Universe Publishing, 2005).
• The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection [2] (2006). [DVD set]. New York: MGM Home Video.
• DePatie-Freleng website

External links

• Star Pink at the Internet Movie Database
• Star Pink at AllRovi