The Pink Panther Show - Season 3

First aired: 4/14/1968 20 episodes

Volume 3: 1968-1969

Episodes

1. Put-Put, Pink

Aired: 4/14/1968

The Pink Panther wants to go on a ride with his self-built motorcycle, but it starts driving backwards at a frightening speed, and a policeman tries in vain to catch him for speeding. The panther builds another motorcycle, which splits in two in the midst of the ride, and the other half continues its way. When the panther rides his next vehicle, made out of bed frame bars, he gets caught by the policeman and sent to prison, but then escapes when he gets sent a big cake from his mother by breaking out with a tiny motorcycle that was on top of the cake.

2. G.I. Pink

Aired: 5/1/1968

The Pink Panther joins the army service and keeps angering his sergeant (the Little Man) with his usual antics.

3. Lucky Pink

Aired: 5/7/1968

Ever eager to help, The Pink Panther keeps returning a "lucky" horseshoe to its owner (the Little Man), a bank robber. However, the horseshoe keeps bringing incredibly bad luck to the crook by continually attracting the police.

4. The Pink Quarterback

Aired: 5/22/1968

The Pink Panther is leisurely walking on the street when he sees a 25¢ coin. He picks it up and goes to buy a hot dog,when he changes his mind and goes to buy a hamburger. Confused between the two, he decides to toss the coin and see.

5. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Pink

Aired: 6/30/1968

The Pink Panther purchases a hilltop plot, building a house that by coincidence lies between an astronomical observatory and the moon. Pink and the astronomer soon engage in a battle with one another, with Pink defending himself against an intrusive telescope.

6. Pink Valiant

Aired: 7/10/1968

The Pink Panther has to rescue a princess kidnapped by the Black Knight (the Little Man), but must first tame his uncooperative horse, who refuses to let the panther mount him, despite the many tricks and gadgets he uses. Finally, the panther trades in the horse for a dragon - but the king's daughter has already got the upper hand on the knight, and when the panther mistakenly takes the battered and bruised knight back to the king's castle, the king is anything but pleased.

7. The Pink Pill

Aired: 7/31/1968

The Pink Panther is admitted to hospital after he falls on the street by slipping on his own banana peel. He finds that he has been given a liquid diet, while the man in the next bed is provided a banquet.

8. Prehistoric Pink

Aired: 8/7/1968

The Pink Panther and a short, pointy-nosed caveman are laboring to move a large, rectangular slab of rock across a prehistoric jungle. The Pink Panther realizes that the rock would be easier to move if it were round. So, he and the caveman chisel it into a sphere and roll it down a hill. It picks up speed and flattens the caveman repeatedly as it reaches hill bottom, rises on another hill, then re-descends, again and again. The Pink Panther and the caveman next have the idea of positioning another rectangular slab on a carriage and pulling it, and they invent a pair of wheels to put beneath the carriage. Then, when the panther and caveman envision the future for the wheel, including the Industrial Revolution, automobiles, urban blight, and pollution, they destroy the two wheels and go back to moving the slab by their original, clumsy pushing method.

9. Pink in the Clink

Aired: 9/18/1968

Pink is forced to help a burglar breaking into a factory to break a safe.

10. Little Beaux Pink

Aired: 10/2/1968

The Pink Panther had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow, and wherever the lamb went to graze, the panther had to go. The panther and his lamb cross a boundary into Cattle Country, Texas, and when the lamb begins eating the grass of a hot-headed Texan rancher, the Pink Panther must defend himself and his lamb from the Texan's wrath.

11. Tickled Pink

Aired: 10/6/1968

A calamity results when the Pink Panther wishes for a pair of roller-skates and is granted his wish by his fairy godmother. The "enchanted" skates take the Pink Panther on an uncontrollable junket through a city.

12. Pink Sphinx

Aired: 10/23/1968

The Pink Panther is in Egypt on an expedition to uncover a buried cave containing ancient treasures, and he has only enough money to purchase a tiny camel that can't carry the load of tools that the Pink Panther has and that resists all the panther's attempts to force it to do so.

13. Pink Is a Many Splintered Thing

Aired: 11/20/1968

The Pink Panther decides to be a lumber jack. Hijinks and also bad things ensue.

14. The Pink Package Plot

Aired: 12/11/1968

Initially refusing to accept the offer, Pink is forced at gunpoint to deliver a package, consisting of a ticking time bomb, to the Slobvanian Embassy before noon ("or else!"). In the process, he has to contend with a tenacious guard dog that aims to keep the package out of the embassy at all costs.

15. Pinkcome Tax

Aired: 12/20/1968

In this episode, which happened in medieval England, tax collectors try to forcefully gather as much money from poor people as possible.

16. Pink-A-Rella

Aired: 1/8/1969

The story starts with a drunk witch flying on a broomstick, who drops her wand, which the Pink Panther discovers. He tests it out to see what it can do, and then decides to use it for the greater good.

17. Pink Pest Control

Aired: 2/12/1969

The Pink Panther's winter quarters, a log cabin, is besieged by a termite, which the panther tries unsuccessfully to stop with glue, a rifle, an axe, and insecticide. He renders the pest unconscious and puts it in a corked bottle and throws the bottle off a cliff.

18. Think Before You Pink

Aired: 3/19/1969

The Pink Panther is having trouble crossing an avenue. He then tries various methods to accomplish this task.

19. Slink Pink

Aired: 4/2/1969

The short starts with a Pink Panther sleeping on a park bench on a cold winter's night. When he sees that his hot water bottle has ice cubes in it, he decides to take shelter in a nearby apartment.

20. In the Pink of the Night

Aired: 5/18/1969

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