Pac-Man (TV series)

Pac-Man is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and based on the Namco video game franchise of the same title.

[5] Most episodes of the series center around the ongoing battle between the Pac family and their only known enemies, the Ghost Monsters: Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Clyde, and Sue.

During his time working as a theatrical agent, Marty Ingels was handling calls on behalf of his client Robert Culp.

After briefly being disconnected, Ingels' attempts to re-establish contact connected him by accident to Hanna-Barbera executive Gordon Hunt who exclaimed "We got the rights to Pac-Man!"

Also, the Tengen release of the original Pac-Man arcade game for the Nintendo Entertainment System features box art based on the cartoon.

The show is also seen as setting the stage for other animated series of the 1980s that would adapt not only video games, but other franchises including toys.

In 1982, Worldvision Home Video Inc. (under Rainbow Products Ltd.) distributed a Pac-Man and Family VHS in Australia (catalogue number RCV 9019) and featured the episodes, Pacula, Trick or Chomp, Super Ghosts, The Pac-Man in the Moon, Invasion of the Pac-Pups, and Journey to the Center of Pacland.

However, the series has been airing on WBD's WB TV FAST channel Cartoon Rewind on Amazon's Freevee since April 2024.