Think Pink!

 

The Pink Panther was a long running cartoon series I loved as boy, watching avidly on tv, collecting memorabilia and stationery of even to the point in 1980 of having as a boy in mid teens a Pink Panther calendar.  

It's not the only kewl thing by the Pink Panther although I own a dvd set of classic animated episodes.

Take these cute ankle socks that I'd just love to wear with a short skirt and t shirt on.

The Pink Panther tv show

The original opening of the Pink Panther cartoon series from the late nineteen sixties that I remember watching  and preferred to the later remakes that tried to expand the show franchise by adding "The Ant and the Aardvark" and "Crazy Legs Crane" to it.

In the original cartoon series The Inspector an animated form of the main Pink Panther stories featured with the hapless Inspector Clouseau

Out with the old and in with the new!

 

I've always loved to watch movies ever since I was a little kid so when they started come out on video tape I jumped at the chance to watch them, surrounded by my teddies and dolls because it's a way of getting into that child-like frame of mind where I feel happy and  carefree, safe sipping a glass of milk. 

That's why as technology changes I just had to act starting first on my favourite cartoons such as the Pink Panther and various Disney titles since first starting to buy DVD's in 2002.

It was only those titles that went straight to first time DVD release, those cartoons plus a few classic TV and Music releases I bought leaving a legacy of titles I had to use my trusty S-VHS recorder for.

At long long last I have been replacing a good many of my VHS tapes of movies with DVD versions since updating my DVD player a short while back.

I replaced recently the following:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Wiz

Flash Gordon

ET

Staying Alive

Two Of A Kind

Streets Of Fire

Top Gun

Labyrinth

Cocktail

Days Of Thunder

The improvement over the tapes is hard to describe but they are sharper with better colour rendition and contrast.

One of favourite movies of all time is a modern day musical from 1980 called Zanadu that featured Olivia

Newton-John with music by her, the Electric Light Orchestra and the Tubes.

It has a  good recreation of a 40's big band which something I grew up listening to on record.

Although panned by critics I loved it for the skating songs and feel good factor as it lodged in my head as part of the soundtrack of summer vacation in 1980.

I recently upgraded this to Dvd.