I was always confused as a kid with the disconnect between the movies and the cartoon

Strikes Again is my favorite. That Cato fight with the slow motion nunchuck to the face and subsequent slow motion "AAARRRGGHH!" is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. And then it's followed up with someone tripping over Dreyfuss' periscope, causing him to slow motion fall and another slow motion "AARRRGHHH!" Absolutely hilarious!

I will always be grateful that my dad introduce me to these movies at an early age. Peter Sellers was brilliant.

For me, "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" is the best one in the series. It was like watching a live action slapstick cartoon.

"That's a priceless Steinway!" "Not anymore."

You can't really steal the show when you're working with Peter Sellers, but Herbert Lom comes really close.

I've always thought if only Peter Sellers could've lived at least twenty more years than we could have had him team up with Leslie Nielsen's Frank Drebin somewhere down the line! Oh the laughs that could have been!

Besides the absolute comedic genius that is Peter Sellers as Clouseau, Herbert Lom as Chief-Inspector Dreyfuss deserves a special mention. Specially in the later movies, where Clouseau has driven the poor guy into madness, Herbert Lom is just turning it up to 11.

Speaking of David Niven and Peter Sellers, you need check out "Murder By Death." I grew up with that film.

Let us not forget the beautiful Richard Williams animations.

I think 'A Shot in the Dark' is the best of the Panther films. It might lack the sheer scale of the later films but the character is still fresh, Sellers brilliant, both Dreyfus and Cato immediately at home and even the romance angle is a lot of fun.

Personally I think laugh for laugh Pink Panther Strikes Again is the highlight of the series.

Return of the Pink Panther is my favorite Clouseau movie. Especially the part where he shows up at the Lytton home, pretending to be a telephone repairman - "Emil Fluornoy", pronounced as only Clouseau could. "There is trouble with the pheaunne!" is something I mutter to myself whenever I'm having, well, trouble with the pheaunne.

When Peter Sellers took time off from making the radio show The Goons, the BBC had to hire three actors to replace him.

I watched all of the Pink Panther films directed by Blake Edwards back to back late last year. Excited to watch this video in full!

My dad said that he liked the first Pink Panther so much when it came out, he stayed in the theater and watched it again immediately after.

The insane Dreyfus scenes (e.g. at 13:50) allude to Lom's having played the Phantom of the Opera in an earlier film.

I'm Alan Jones and I took over as editor on 'Return of...' and became full editor on 'Strikes Again' - 'Revenge' and 'Trail' so I do know a bit. Too many little points to go into with this history but I will say that Peter became more and more difficult to work with and that Blake had suggested making a slightly different 'Trail' to Peter who refused to be involved. Blake believed this was Peter just being contrary and not wanting Blake (and him) to make easy money. I always felt 'Trail' should have been made as a tribute to the Peter Sellers Clouseau character and not as an introduction to new inept detectives but Blake had been so frustrated by Peter that he wanted to prove he could do it without him.....which he couldn't.

54, jeez that's young. I've heard Sellers was a pain to live with irl, but damn he was funny on screen. R.I.P the one and only Inspector Clouseau.

The pink panther movies with peter sellers are always fun to watch over and over again. It is a timeless comedy. I cannot get enough of it😂

People often talk about the lost Dr Who episodes, but I'd give my eye teeth to have the lost Goon Show episodes get rediscovered. Its painful to think of some of Sellers best work lost forever.

Pink Panther Strikes Again is one of the funniest films ever.

Herbert Lom is so underrated in these movies. Return, Revenge and Strikes Again were my favorites growing up.

These classic comedies are timeless and brilliant and the casting is spot on. I can´t imagine the superb acting of Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom and Burt Kwouk and their characters being played by any other actors anywhere!

Herbert Lom was the real show stealer for me. The dentist/laughing gas scene from The Pink Panther Strikes Again is my favorite scene from that film, and Dreyfus' eulogy for Clouseu in Revenge of the Pink Panther was Oscar worthy.

Feeling a little down? You can never go wrong with a good dose of Peter Sellers to brighten your day! He was a "one of a kind"! thank you.

Return and strikes again are my two favourites of the franchise! My favourite film series. So many good memories!

I wish the director's cut of Strikes Again is released. The story is already bonkers. I'm curious for the 3 hour cut.

I grew up on Steve Martin's pink panther movies and just loved them! I NEVER knew that there were older panther films that weren't the original cartoons?! I'll definitely check them out, Thank you!!😆🙌

To me is seems like Inspector Clouseau invented Jack Sparrow Syndrome. Here, a serious, stand-alone movie has a fan-favorite, wacky side character, who creates a totally different (but still related) comedic-leaning franchise.

You missed something in Strikes Again: Herbert Lom playing the organ, dressed in a cape, is an homage to his previous role as the title character in a film version of “The Phantom of the Opera.” Brilliant!

I love Steve Martin, but no one will ever top Peter Sellers. Any of the films without him were pretty awful. Nice work, once again!

The original Pink Panther films hold a special place in my heart for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the talent involved. It's also a part of family history - sort of. My parents had just gotten married in June of 1965 and were on their way to Niagara Falls. On the long drive, they decided to see a film playing at the drive in: "A Shot in the Dark". They loved it!! They were fans of the series ever since!! Dad introduced me to the film series when they cam along in the 70s and 80s and we laughed uproariously! Whenever one of the original films comes on, I sit down to watch. I saw the attempts to continue the series (Trail of the Pink Panther, Curse of the Pink Panther and Son of the Pink Panther) and while they weren't too bad, nothing will ever come close to the genius of Peter Sellers and Blake Edwards.

Please, please do a video on the lesser known Sellers comedies. They vary from great to godawful, but he's just too much of a genius to let all those neglected films be ignored. Sellers is riveting to watch no matter how wasted the vehicle.

Return of the Pink Panther is one of my all time favorites. So many amazing gags and comedy by Peter Sellers.

I’m 25 years old for context but my dad introduced these to me as a kid and they are still some of my favorite comedies to watch. I still watch through them all maybe once a year. Peter sellers was just a legend in my opinion.

Always great to see David Niven and Peter Ustinov being appreciated by people who are either/both younger than me (though even within my generation knowing who both are is somewhat rare) and from outside of the UK. As ever dude I am enjoying your content, your hard work really seems to be paying off!

My favorite of the movies is the Pink Panther Strikes Again - the pathos of Dreyfus is amazing.

Oh thank you! I think the time I took my friends to see The Pink Panther Strikes Again was my funniest night at the movies, all those decades ago. My friends' mother had been exceptionally kind to me - she was a reserved lady and then that night showed us all another side... My favorite scene is the dancing on rice scene at the beginning but that's a hard call.

This brought back so many childhood memories. Even with the later films ignoring it as "non-canon," Strikes Again is still entertaining as an "alternate timeline."

It's interesting you mention Strikes Back was like a James Bond spoof considering Sellers was in the original Casino Royale (1967), the not really, Bond movie.

Peter Sellers was a member of a radio show team called The Goons (along with Harry Seacombe and Spike Milligan , who were a major influence Monty Python.

You got to love a franchise so vast that it starts off as a romantic comedy about a detective that doesn't even realize his wife is cheating on him and ends up as fiberglass wall insulation. Recently checked out the Lupin III Pink Panther tribute episode. Parody Clouseau kept getting attacked by parody Kato. Really good episode, delightful tribute.

RIP Peter Sellers. Bought a dvd collection 2 years ago and just watched strikes again this past weekend. Comedic genius. Even my daughter who had to be talked into watching shot in the dark loved it. The way the world is today we all need to laugh, same reason I bought all 3 stooges and little rascals dvds. Bug hunt!

I giggled my way through this entire video. Peter was a comedic genius. Loved him. The Blake/Sellers colab was beautiful.

Tbch when I was a kid, I thought the pink panther was a looney tunes style cartoon character from the 40’s And was extremely confused when I watched the movies only to see a detective getting in carry on style shenanigans

In the Revenge of the Pink Panther, Dreyfus is not only re-instated as Chief Inspector but also re-constituted as he was disintegrated during The Pink Panther Strikes Again.

So glad you're talking about these films because this will generate interest in the older movies if some younger viewers have only seen the more recent Clouseau stuff. It's my favorite comedy movies franchise, but I only include the ones with Sellers in this group. For me, the best films of the series (with Sellers) include Return of, Strikes Again, and Revenge Of. I suppose I like them silly. The more disguises, the better. And I suspect we shall never see cinematic comedy like this ever again; these films take sequences and do them with long careful takes and with cleverly composed choreography. The pacing is often almost languid but it makes things all the more funny. You just don't see this kind of comedy movie-making today. Maybe it's because of audience attention spans, although I can't be sure. I can't remember the last recent comedy film I enjoyed that had long takes, and big gaps of silence as parts of the gags. The Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies make me laugh every single time I watch them. There's at least one skirmish between Kato and Clouseau where at one point we go into slow motion ... but we also get to *hear* everything in slow motion; that is genius. It's so funny.

Peter Seller was a brilliant comedian and a great actor. His more serious roles are also absolutely worth seeing.

I'd love for you to do a video on the Bob Hope Bing Crosby "Road To..." series of movies, which I believe also had Peter Sellers in it at one point.

Wahey! I've been rewatching the *DePatie-Freleng **_Inspector_** cartoons* recently, so this is a nice surprise! 😁 I adore all the Sellers films, but _A Shot In The Dark_ is, without a doubt, one of my favourite movies of all time. _Strikes Again_ is a close second. Cripes, even seeing the footage with just your voiceover has me in stitches. XD Thank you for this.

You cant have pink panther without peter sellers he made them films his own and no one can replace him either, one of my favorite comedy icons of all time. He became more funnier in shot in the dark than in the pink panther and continued to become funnier as each film went on.

Love Sellers/Clouseau. I enjoy them all on a level, but A Shot in the Dark is a masterpiece. The next three made with Sellers are enjoyable on a slowly descending scale.

I grew up watching the Pink Panther films, so when I saw this video pop up in my subscription feed, I was super excited to watch it! Can't wait to see your coverage of the...other Pink Panther..."films."

"Get your minky off the street" still cuts me up

The Pink Panther is one of my favourite film series. Peter Sellers is simply fantastic. None of the continuity makes sense, in later films we see that the former Mrs Clouseau is still in a relationship with The Phantom but where was she in The Return of the Pink Panther? Personal fav from this era is Strikes Again, very absurd but some fantastic gags. Revenge never really hit the mark for me for some reason but it’s still a classic. Looking forward to part 2 to hear what you think about the Blake Edwards reboot attempts. Roger Moore’s cameo is the only highlight.

The Return of the Pink Panther was something that I thought my mind made up in a fever dream. I had a special Pink Panther movie collection growing up but Return was not included for whatever reason. Now I have some clarity.

The Panther's never tire for me. Been a fan since seeing Revenge Of at the cinema back in 78 when I was 12. Love em.

Sir Charles’ nephew is George played by Robert Wagner and the ski resort was in Cortina d’Ampezzo, which is in the Italian Alps. Rome doesn’t get snow.

When I was a kid, I always wondered why the films were called the Pink Panther series, when it seemed like it should have been called The Inspector series, like the spin-off cartoon series.

9:20 You can't beat a Jack Davis movie poster.

sir charles phantom-the notorious litton, gets me every time.

I was waiting for this episode!!! Some of the greatest comedies of all time

This is the doco I've been waiting for! Great job in telling us the story of that hilarious character that's now a cinematic icon and the brilliant performer who gave him life.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again was one of the first DVDs my family owned. I think me and my dad watched it well over 50 times throughout my life. It's not the best of the film series, but man nearly every line is burned into my brain.

Sellers was in a class by himself... Ridiculously funny both physically and a total chameleon who can get lost in the many characters... And to this day... No matter how many times I see the parallel bars scene in "Strikes Again" I will laugh hysterically... Thank you for this tribute

Peter Ustinov had accepted the role on the basis that Ava Gardner was to be his screen wife. When Miss Gardner dropped out and was replaced by another, Ustinov withdrew. There was litigation for breach of contract as a result but Clouseau had to be recast at short notice. Thus Sellers was cast and made the role his own.

A Shot in the Dark has one of my favourite themes from any film, love it.

Great narration voice, right background music. Smooth editing, this is a great, hats off for hats off entertainment!

Loved these movies when I was a kid in the 70's. Many a great night at the drive-in.

Who is George Wagner? That's Robert Wagner. Who is Cat-Oh? It's Kato.

The best part of the first fight with Kato was you did not know he was with Cleauso so when Kato answers the phone it was hilarious

Strikes Again has to be the best one. Nothing can beat the scene with him as the Hunchback floating over Notre-Dame.

The dentist scene from Strikes Again is my candidate for funniest scene in cinema history.

Thank you for this! Easily one of my favorite series and I can not wait for the 2nd part to this!!!!

This absolutely my favorite mini doc so far. I learned so much.

Only Peter Sellers. He made my Dad laugh so hard, he had to leave the theater!!! RIP Papa. Thank u for my sense of humor!!!

I also believe Harry Secombe must've had the patience of a saint to put up with the manic depression of Sellers and Milligan.

Catherine Schell's character in Return is actually Clouseau's wife from the first film. She ran off with the Phantom in Pink Panther, and here she is still with him in Return. Weirdly, Clouseau doesn't recognize her, but she apparently does.

"And Kato's hiding in the mustard, waiting to pop out and have a sparring session with Clouseau..."

There was a little theater in my town Eddie used to play the pink panther all the time it’s one of my biggest memories as a young child.

I happened to love the pink panther cartoons as a kid! I also remember the pink panther sweets they used to sell. So tasty

Now I need to see the follow up to this vid! I grew up on the Sellers Pink Panther movies, especially Return Of The Pink Panther and The Pink Panther Strikes Again

I grew up with these movies and still love them dearly! But I could never bring myself to watch Trail and the film without Peter Sellers. The first one is still my favorite. It's a bit different and the humor more subdued (comparatively), which puts it slightly ahead of the others for me.

This is one of my favorite film franchises I was first introduced to the series with the animated shorts when they aired on Boomerang, and unfortunately the 2006 remake and then I discovered the old films and started watching them and I loved them, it’s sad how the series fell from grace after Peter Sellers’ death but I feel like there were some missed opportunities while they were making Curse of The Pink Panther they wanted the series to be the comedic answer to the James Bond series and that’s the way I see it.

the slow motion fights with Kato always get me

The pink panther strikes again is my one of favorite movies of all time

I've been binging your videos this whole weekend, keep up the amazing work

I dunno, that bit with Arkin getting into the Cab, 8:34..for as short as it is..is pretty funny!

Return, strikes again and revenge will always be my favorites

A Shot in the Dark and Revenge of the Pink Panther are my favourites

I do love what Steve Martin did in his prime but...yeah, there's only one Peter Sellers. Its kinda like trying to replicate Farley or Candy.

This was a great retrospective, I have been meaning to see these films and I never knew which to avoid. Now I have a better idea and I am going to buy the DVD or blu-ray soon.

Loved watching these films no one can beat Peter Sellers as the pink panther! The one Steve Martin did was bad I could not watch it, also there is another movie Peter made called the Party you really have to watch that one!

Sellers also greatly put me in mind of Jacques Tati for much of his physical comedy and creating disasters wherever he went. Also, Hercule, in A Shot in the Dark, as his assistant was great with his deadpan humor. I wish they had brought him back more!

6:07, Sellers’ line of ‘Quick nurse, the screens’ is a reference to one of his characters on ‘The Goon Show’, Major Bloodnok.

Thank you for this, one of the greatest characters of all time and a high mark on Sellers' career! Only nitpick I have is that Clouseau's manservant's name is KAY-toh not CAT-oh but it's not a deal breaker here. :)

I only ever knew of Peter Sellars when I was a kid from when I would watch Dr. Strangelove at my grandfather's when I'd visit. When I got older I knew he was the O.G pink panther I just never got around to watching them, but seeing this has encouraged me to watch the older films, as I've only seen parts of the Steve Martin movie as a kid.

you should do an episode about peter sellers life, it's really sad