Writing

Jim Ryan

Born — Died

1936-04-21 — 2022-08-31

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

27 titles

Known for

Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf poster
7.4

Shaggy is turned into a werewolf, and it's up to Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy's girlfriend to help him win a race against other monsters, and become human again.

Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf

1988

Scooby-Doo! Meets the Boo Brothers poster
7.3

After the death of Shaggy's Uncle Beaureguard, he, Scooby and Scrappy arrive at the late uncle's Southern plantation to collect the inheritance. But as soon as they arrive, they find it is haunted by the ghost of a Confederate soldier. With this spook on their tails while they solve riddles in search of the inheritance, they seek help from the Boo Brothers, a trio of ghost-exterminators to help catch this nasty ghoul.

Scooby-Doo! Meets the Boo Brothers

1987

The Fat Albert Christmas Special poster
4.4

The Cosby Kids are rehearsing for a Christmas pageant at their junkyard clubhouse, which Tyrone, the mean old junkyard owner, is fixin' to tear down. That's when Marshall & his parents show up. With their car broken down, Marshall's mom is about to have a baby and his dad, without health insurance, inspires the gang to invite them in the clubhouse for shelter. Tyrone agrees to let them stay until the baby is born, in exchange for Fat Albert working for him as a sidewalk Santa. "Ho-ho-ho's" in Fat Albert fashion ensue. After the old hobo, Mudfoot, gives Tyrone a lecture about how he's been grumpy at the world ever since his wife died, the junkyard owner has a change of heart and promises to keep the gang's clubhouse in tact.

The Fat Albert Christmas Special

1977

Put-Put, Pink poster
6.3

The Pink Panther turns his hand to building a motorcycle, but mayhem ensues whenever he goes for a drive.

Put-Put, Pink

1968

The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye poster
6.6

A cold Pink Panther sneaks into a house owned by a magician and gets irritated by a rabbit who keeps bothering him.

The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye

1967

The Weird Harold Special poster
NR

Weird Harold and Fat Albert plan a potentially dangerous go-cart race. After hitting a police squad car after an out-of-control slapstick race, the kids find themselves arrested and in trouble with their parents.

The Weird Harold Special

1973

Behind the camera

Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf poster
7.4

Shaggy is turned into a werewolf, and it's up to Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy's girlfriend to help him win a race against other monsters, and become human again.

Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf

1988

Scooby-Doo! Meets the Boo Brothers poster
7.3

After the death of Shaggy's Uncle Beaureguard, he, Scooby and Scrappy arrive at the late uncle's Southern plantation to collect the inheritance. But as soon as they arrive, they find it is haunted by the ghost of a Confederate soldier. With this spook on their tails while they solve riddles in search of the inheritance, they seek help from the Boo Brothers, a trio of ghost-exterminators to help catch this nasty ghoul.

Scooby-Doo! Meets the Boo Brothers

1987

The Fat Albert Christmas Special poster
4.4

The Cosby Kids are rehearsing for a Christmas pageant at their junkyard clubhouse, which Tyrone, the mean old junkyard owner, is fixin' to tear down. That's when Marshall & his parents show up. With their car broken down, Marshall's mom is about to have a baby and his dad, without health insurance, inspires the gang to invite them in the clubhouse for shelter. Tyrone agrees to let them stay until the baby is born, in exchange for Fat Albert working for him as a sidewalk Santa. "Ho-ho-ho's" in Fat Albert fashion ensue. After the old hobo, Mudfoot, gives Tyrone a lecture about how he's been grumpy at the world ever since his wife died, the junkyard owner has a change of heart and promises to keep the gang's clubhouse in tact.

The Fat Albert Christmas Special

1977

Put-Put, Pink poster
6.3

The Pink Panther turns his hand to building a motorcycle, but mayhem ensues whenever he goes for a drive.

Put-Put, Pink

1968

The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye poster
6.6

A cold Pink Panther sneaks into a house owned by a magician and gets irritated by a rabbit who keeps bothering him.

The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye

1967

The Weird Harold Special poster
NR

Weird Harold and Fat Albert plan a potentially dangerous go-cart race. After hitting a police squad car after an out-of-control slapstick race, the kids find themselves arrested and in trouble with their parents.

The Weird Harold Special

1973

Psychedelic Pink poster
6.5

The Pink Panther discovers a door with an hypnotic eye that takes him on a mind trip in a psychedelic book shop adorned by huge letters of the alphabet and managed by a short, pointy-nosed hippie. The shop contains a vending machine for lights (a cigarette lighter and Christmas tree lights) and books that "bleed" letters when damaged and are operated on as though critically injured.

Psychedelic Pink

1968

Le Pig-Al Patrol poster
8.0

Inspector Clouseau pursues a thieving motorcycle gang led by one Pig-Al. Pig-Al and his criminal cohorts reach their headquarters at the top of a steep hill, which Pig-Al covers with grease so that Clouseau cannot easily ascend to reach them.

Le Pig-Al Patrol

1967

Crow De Guerre poster
7.7

Inspector Clouseau declares war on a pesky crow, with the bumbling Clouseau talking all his own bomb blasts and being electrified on a power line!

Crow De Guerre

1967

Congratulations It's Pink poster
6.1

The Pink Panther steals a family's baby basket instead of a picnic basket at the park and ends up having to raise the baby until the parents return.

Congratulations It's Pink

1967

Prefabricated Pink poster
6.8

The Pink Panther decides to work at a construction site, but wreaks havoc instead.

Prefabricated Pink

1967

Archie and His New Pals poster
9.0

Reggie nominates Moose to run against him for class president, thinking it will be no contest. Meanwhile, Sabrina can't seem to make any friends when she begins school at Riverdale.

Archie and His New Pals

1969

The Fat Albert Halloween Special poster
6.1

It's Halloween for Fat Albert and the Junkyard Gang, and everyone's all set for trick-or-treating. While searching for costumes a store clerk kicks them out, leaving the gang to comes up with their own home-made costumes. Then they are off to the movies to scare old Searchlight Johnson, then more hijinks with Mudfoot Brown, and old lady Bickwell. As you can probably guess, things don't go too well and they learn their lessons... Searchlight catches them up to no good in the theatre and throws them out. Mudfoot Brown eats most of their candy, and old lady Bickwell turns out to have the best Halloween treats in town.

The Fat Albert Halloween Special

1977

Tour de Farce poster
9.0

Inspector Clouseau is stranded on a deserted island with a vicious criminal, whom Clouseau had been assigned to transport to the prison on Devil's Island. The 22nd Inspector cartoon.

Tour de Farce

1967

Le Great Dane Robbery poster
8.0

Inspector Clouseau must delay his long-awaited vacation on the Surete Commissioner's order that he obtain a nationally sensitive document from a safe on an estate guarded by a dedicated and aggressive canine.

Le Great Dane Robbery

1968

Come On In! The Water's Pink poster
6.2

The Pink Panther arrives on his motorcycle at Bicep Beach, where a hulky, egotistical man is flexing his muscles for a group of bathing beauties. Using his bag-full of inflatable items, including muscles, weights, a swimming pool, waterskis, and balloon animals, the Pink Panther diverts the beauties' attention away from the muscleman, who angrily tries to regain his dominant-guy-on-the-beach status.

Come On In! The Water's Pink

1968

La Feet's Defeat poster
7.3

The Surete Commissioner assigns Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux to the hazardous task of pursuing a criminal named Muddy La Feet, who leaves behind a trail of muddy footprints that lead Clouseau and Deux-Deux through a mine field and to a castle surrounded by an alligator-filled moat and sealed by an electrified door. NOTE: Sgt. Deux-Deux's last appearance, this time voiced by Don Messick.

La Feet's Defeat

1968

Yoink of the Yukon poster
1.0

The mounted police has its uniforms stolen, so Yoink and Sergeant Farnsworth Farflung are sent to retrieve them.

Yoink of the Yukon

1995

Le Bowser Bagger poster
8.5

The French Surete experiments with the use of dogs as partners to its police officers, and Inspector Clouseau is paired with a scrappy canine given the name of Private Bowser. Clouseau and Bowser chase a thief onto a train, and Bowser subdues the criminal with no help from the bumbling Clouseau.

Le Bowser Bagger

1967

Pink Posies poster
7.2

The Pink Panther replaces all the yellow posies in a garden with pink ones, annoying a gardener in the process.

Pink Posies

1967

London Derriere poster
8.0

The Inspector's pursuit of a criminal in London is impeded by the Scotland Yard captain who is more interested in enforcing the local weapons policy.

London Derriere

1968

Pink Sphinx poster
7.4

The Pink Panther buys a camel and goes searching for a hidden tomb.

Pink Sphinx

1968

Le Escape Goat poster
6.3

Suspended for incompetence, the Inspector tries to protect the Commissioner from a vengeful criminal, but keeps getting implicated instead.

Le Escape Goat

1967

Le Quiet Squad poster
9.0

A crime wave in Paris results in the hot-tempered Surete Commissioner becoming so stressed-out that he requires bed rest at home. Inspector Clouseau is assigned to see that the Commissioner is not disturbed. But it's Bastille Day, and between the day's ceremonies and a pesky cat- and Clouseau's violent and failed attempts to silence the feline- the Commissioner receives little peace!

Le Quiet Squad

1967

Les Miserobots poster
8.0

Inspector Clouseau's job is declared obsolete by the Surete Commissioner due to a highly advanced robot that can do detective work more efficiently. A vengeful Clouseau tries to destroy the robot that usurped his position in the police force.

Les Miserobots

1968

Le Cop on Le Rocks poster
9.5

Mistaken for a bank robbing lookalike, The Inspector is sent to prison and his efforts to escape prove a hopeless challenge.

Le Cop on Le Rocks

1967

Bear De Guerre poster
9.5

On a hunting vacation, Inspector Clouseau mistakenly keeps shooting a bad-tempered bear instead of the quail he's after which results in painful lessons learned by the Inspector.

Bear De Guerre

1968