Pink and Shovel is the 104th cartoon produced in the Pink Panther series. A total of 124 6-minute cartoons were produced between 1964 and 1980.

Plot

The Pink Panther lives in a dilpadated shack in the middle of the city, and finds a $5 bill. He gets so afraid of thieves, he decides to bury the bill in the ground. Later, he discover that a hotel has been erected on the very spot where the bill was hidden. He sneaks into the hotel when a janitor arrives, and starts looking for the right spot to start digging.

Notability

The All-New Pink Panther Show

The Pink Panther Show

The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of cartoon shorts produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng between 1969 and 1979. The television series was produced by Mirisch Films and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, and was broadcast on two American TV networks:...

contained a laugh track

Laugh track

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 when the Pink Panther cartoons were broadcast on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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-TV. Currently, the laugh track version airs on Boomerang

Boomerang

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 and previously aired on This TV

This TV

This TV is a United States general entertainment television network, with a large emphasis in its programming on movies....

until September 2011.