Popeye the Sailor (1960s TV series)
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Animation Comedy |
Based on | Popeye, created by E. C. Segar |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of episodes | 220 |
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Executive producer(s) | Al Brodax |
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Running time | 5–7 minutes |
Production company(s) | King Features Syndicate TV |
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Hearst Entertainment Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
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Original network | ABC |
Original release | 1960 – 1962 |
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Preceded by | Popeye the Sailor (1933–1957) |
Followed by | The All New Popeye Hour (1978–1983) |
Popeye the Sailor is an American animated series produced for King Features Syndicate TV that was released in 1960 with 220 episodes produced.[1] The episodes are grouped by the production studios of Larry Harmon Pictures, Rembrandt Films, Halas and Batchelor, Gerald Ray Studios, Jack Kinney Productions, Paramount Cartoon Studios, and Italy-based animation company Corona Cinematografica.[2][3]
Production
In the late 1950s, the original Popeye theatrical shorts released by Paramount Studios from 1933 to 1957 began airing in many television markets and garnered huge ratings.[4] King Features Syndicate, who owned the print rights to the "Popeye" name, did not earn any money from the syndication of the Paramount theatrical Popeye films. In order to capitalize on Popeye's television popularity, King Features hastily commissioned a new series of made-for-tv animated Popeye shorts.[5] Al Brodax served as executive producer of the cartoons for King Features' then-newly created television production and distribution division (known today as Hearst Entertainment, named after King Features' parent company, the Hearst Corporation). Jack Mercer, Mae Questel and Jackson Beck returned for this series, which was produced by several different animation companies: Gerald Ray Studios, Jack Kinney Productions, Rembrandt Films/Halas and Batchelor, and Larry Harmon Productions).
Famous Studios, which produced the theatrical entries from 1942 to 1957, also returned, although by this point they had been renamed Paramount Cartoon Studios. The series was produced using the limited animation technique, whose production values contrasted sharply to their Popeye theatrical counterparts. The artwork was streamlined, simplified for television budgets, and the entries were completed at a breakneck pace. 220 made-for-television cartoons were produced in two years; in contrast, 231 theatrical cartoons were produced in 24 years.[4] Several minor changes were made for the characters. Though World War II had ended 15 years prior, Popeye still retained his white Navy uniform (except in "Barbecue for Two", in which he wears his original black navy garb). Olive Oyl's appearance was a hybrid of different incarnations; while her outfit reverted to the Fleischer years of a red turtleneck, long black dress and huge shoes, her hair retained the mid/late 1940s and 1950s makeover initiated by Famous Studios (except in "Barbecue for Two", in which she is portrayed in her Fleischer/early Famous Studios design, and "Hits and Missiles", in which she wears her later Famous Studios clothes of red shirt with collar, black dress, and black high-heel shoes).
The biggest change was to Bluto, whose name was changed to "Brutus". At the time, King Features believed that Paramount owned the rights to the name "Bluto". King Features actually owned the name, as Bluto had been originally created for the comic strip; however, due to a lack of thorough research, they failed to realize this and reinvented him as Brutus to avoid supposed copyright infringement problems.[5] Realizing their mistake, King Features began to promote Brutus as an entirely new character. His demeanor was altered slightly, and his physical appearance was changed from being muscular to slightly obese. In addition, the sailor/Navy uniform was replaced with an enormous blue shirt and brown pants.[5] Many entries lifted storylines directly from the comic strip, resulting in the inclusion of many characters not seen in the theatrical releases, including the Sea Hag, Toar, Rough House, and King Blozo.[4] Like their theatrical counterparts, the made-for-television series was also a big ratings success. Popeye the Sailor aired in syndication in the United States into the 1990s. Notably, the 1960s shorts would mark the final time Mae Questel would voice Olive Oyl.
A version which includes all 220 shorts, presented in 55 half-hour cartoons can currently be seen for free on Amazon Video (as "Classic Popeye").
List of episodes
Larry Harmon Pictures
Note: The story of all episodes are made by Charlie Shows.
- 1. "Muskels Shmuskels" - Popeye runs afoul of circus heavyweight Brutus - 1960.
- 2. "Hoppy Jalopy" - Popeye races to save Olive, against Brutus who places death traps around the track - 1960.
- 3. "Dead-Eye Popeye" - 1960
- 4. "Mueller's Mad Monster" - Popeye and Olive tangle with a mad scientist's monster - 1960.
- 5. "Caveman Capers" - Popeye remembers his prehistoric ancestor's discovery of spinach - 1960.
- 6. "Bullfighter Bully" - 1960
- 7. "Ace of Space" - 1960
- 8. "College of Hard Knocks" - 1960
- 9. "Abdominal Snowman" - 1960
- 10. "Ski-Jump Chump" - 1960
- 11. "Irate Pirate" - 1960
- 12. "Foola-Foola Bird" - 1960
- 13. "Uranium on the Cranium" - Popeye and Brutus race to an island containing uranium - 1960.
- 14. "Two-Faced Paleface" - 1960
- 15. "Childhood Daze" - Popeye has to protect Olive from Brutus, while he's changed into a baby - 1960.
- 16. "Sheepish Sheep-Herder" - Popeye and his Pappy clash with rustlers - 1960.
- 17. "Track Meet Cheat" - 1960
- 18. "Crystal Ball Brawl" - Brutus tries to steal a crystal ball in Popeye's possession - 1960.
Rembrandt Films/Halas and Batchelor
- 1. "Interrupted Lullaby" - 1960 - Brutus learns from a newspaper headline- MILLION DOLLAR BABY- that Swee'Pea has come into a fortune. Swee'Pea inherits a million dollars, which Brutus wants for himself. Brutus hatches up a plot to kidnap the babe. His attempts to kidnap Swee'Pea are thwarted by Popeye, who has been left to babysit while Olive shops.
- 2. "Sea No Evil" - To keep making quick bucks, Brutus steals many parts of Popeye's boat.
- 3. "From Way Out" - 1960 - Popeye, Olive, and the Professor deal with a Martian delinquent.
- 4. "Seeing Double" - 1960 - Olive wants to buy the mink coat but it was $2000.00, with the henchman and the mad scientist makes a mechanical man that looks like Popeye., So Popeye fights double, with battle against real and fake.
- 5. "Swee'pea Soup" - King Blozo's subjects demand that he step down and install Swee'pea as King - 1960.
- 6. "Hag-Way Robbery" - 1960 - Popeye goes on a rescue mission to find Eugene the Jeep as the Sea Hag stole all of his cans of spinach and used the labels on the other cans of food for Olive, Swee'pea and Wimpy to deceive the sailor.
- 7. "The Lost City of Bubble-lon" - Brutus raids an undersea kingdom - 1960.
- 8. "There's No Space Like Home" - 1960 - For Olive's costume party, Popeye is going as a spaceman. Then Brutus, dressed as a sheik, tricked the authorities into believing that Popeye is from another planet while the real ones cause troubles for him, Popeye and Olive at the party.
- 9. "Potent Lotion" - 1960 - Popeye receives an "aftershave lotion" that makes anyone who smells him punch him while Brutus and his cronies robbed the bank.
- 10. "Astro-Nut" - 1960 - Popeye volunteers to be the test subject for the space capsule and must remain inside for the next 60 days.
- 11. "Goon with the Wind" - 1960 - While Popeye and Olive enjoys a quiet stroll on the boat arriving in Goon Island with the whole group of Goons.
- 12. "Insultin' the Sultan" - Popeye and Olive get into a heated argument and break up. However, when a sultan wants Olive to be his bride, Popeye decides to go back to his old lover - 1960.
- 13. "Dog-Gone Dog-Catcher" - 1960 - Something's gone wrong in a happy-go-lucky world of dogs., When Olive's French poodle named Zsa-Zsa gets snitched by Brutus, the Unruly Doug-Catcher., Popeye is determined to rescue Zsa-Zsa by disguise himself in a dog outfit.
- 14. "Voice from the Deep! or See Here Sea Hag!!" - 1960 - Popeye is called to Phony Island to help Chief Knucklebone and investigate the "talking volcano." He soon learned that the Sea Hag intended to steal the island until she was foiled by him and then forced to call the islanders back home.
- 15. "Matinée Idol Popeye" - Director Brutus constantly finds roles for Popeye so deadly that they could kill him - 1960.
- 16. "Beaver or Not" - Two beavers build a dam that floods property owned by Popeye - 1961.
- 17. "The Billionaire" - Take-off on the television series The Millionaire - 1961.
- 18. "Model Muddle" - 1961 - Olive decides that Popeye needs some type of art stuff, so she takes him to the American Museum of Art.
- 19. "Which Is Witch" - 1961 - The Sea Hag has a late plan she makes a robot of Olive to attack Popeye.
- 20. "Disguise the Limit" - 1961 - The master of disguises of Popeye and Brutus, the today's case is "The Gorilla Escapes from Zoo"., It's disguising case to solve for them to get through.
- 21. "Spoil Sport" - 1961 - Olive wants to live the "sports car set" life, and Popeye shows up with a foot-powered scooter bike. He asks Olive if she would like to go riding with him. When Brutus appears he gives Olive to have ride the scooter-looter.
- 22. "Have Time, Will Travel" - 1961 - Popeye builds himself a time machine, and he and Olive travel back in time to the prehistoric era, where all kinds of madcap adventures take place.
- 23. "Intellectual Interlude" - 1961 - Olive Oyl tells Popeye that he needs to be more intellectual, so she enrolls herself and Popeye into adult education classes. While there, he samples a scientist's "Intellectual Spinach" potion which gives him genius-level intelligence. Popeye becomes a celebrity intellectual. But when people try to take advantage of Popeye's knowledge, he decides to quit school.
- 24. "Partial Post" - 1961 - An spaceship lands on Earth carrying an alien disguised as a mailbox! Popeye is about to go out to mail Olive a birthday card when he noticed a mysterious victim comes up.
- 25. "Weight for Me" - Depressed over a lengthy tour by Popeye and Brutus, Olive eats herself into a grotesque shape - 1961.
- 26. "Canine Caprice" - A talking dog (Jackson Beck) gets Popeye in repeated bits of trouble - 1962.
- 27. "Roger" - Roger the talking dog wins himself back into Popeye and Olive's good graces in time to thwart a jewelry store heist - 1962.
- 28. "Tooth Be or Not Tooth Be" - Swee'Pea undergoes an important rite of passage - his first tooth. Poopdeck Pappy tells Swee'Pea the story about how the Sea Hag tried to steal his perfect set of teeth. - 1962.
Gerald Ray Studios
Note: In this production, the animation team was composed by: Izzy Ellis, Sam Kai, Casey Onaitis, Ray Young, Bill Higgins, Barney Posner, John Garling, and Bud Partch. Finally, backgrounds and layouts are made respectively by Dave Weidman and Henry Lee.
No. | Title | Directed by | Original air date |
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1 | "Where There's a Will" | Bob Bemiller | 1960 |
Brutus and Popeye are co-beneficiaries in a will. | |||
2 | "Take It Easel" | Bob Bemiller | 1960 |
Popeye the artist literally paints his Spinach to save the day. | |||
3 | "I Bin Sculped" | Bob Bemiller | 1960 |
Olive the artist is sculpting a statue personifying weakness and exhaustion. | |||
4 | "Fleas a Crowd" | Bob Bemiller | 1960 |
5 | "Popeye's Junior Headache" | Bob Bemiller | 1960 |
Popeye has more than he can take with Olive's mischievous niece. | |||
6 | "Egypt Us" | Tom McDonald | 1960 |
Olive mistakes an Egyptian tomb as a beach house, and becomes a sacrificial princess. | |||
7 | "The Big Sneeze" | Tom McDonald | 1960 |
8 | "The Last Resort" | Tom McDonald | 1960 |
Popeye, Olive and Wimpy check into a Resort run by the Sea Hag and Toar. Wimpy makes "spinach burgers". | |||
9 | "Jeopardy Sheriff" | Tom McDonald | 1960 |
10 | "Baby Phase" | Tom McDonald | 1960 |
Jack Kinney Productions
No. | Title | Animation direction by |
Story by | Background by | Layout by | Original air date |
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1 | "Battery Up" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Jack Kinney | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Robert Givens | 1960 |
Olive Oyl is Popeye's biggest baseball fan. | ||||||
2 | "Deserted Desert" | Eric Cleworth and Bill Keil | Jack Kinney | Jules Engel and Noel Tucker | Bruce Bushman | 1960 |
3 | "Skinned Divers" | Rudy Larriva | Jack Kinney | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Robert Givens | 1960 |
Popeye looks for sunken treasure and encounters a mermaid who resembles Olive Oyl. | ||||||
4 | "Popeye's Service Station" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Jack Kinney | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
Brutus flirts with Olive Oyl in the title setting, much to pump jockey Popeye's chagrin. | ||||||
5 | "Coffee House" | Harvey Toombs | Jack Kinney | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Robert Givens | 1960 |
Brutus introduces Olive to beatnik culture in the title setting; Popeye follows. | ||||||
6 | "Popeye's Pep-Up Emporium" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Jack Kinney | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
Popeye subjects Olive and Wimpy to rugged exercise drills. | ||||||
7 | "Bird Watcher Popeye" | Harvey Toombs | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Olive coerces Popeye to take up bird watching. | ||||||
8 | "Time Marches Backwards" | Hugh Fraser | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
9 | "Popeye's Pet Store" | Rudy Larriva | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
10 | "Ballet de Spinach" | Ken Hultgren | Ken Hultgren | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Vern Jorgensen and Ken Hultgren | 1960 |
11 | "Sea Hagracy" | Ken Hultgren | Ken Hultgren | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Vern Jorgensen and Ken Hultgren | 1960 |
12 | "Spinach Shortage" | Alan Zaslove | Jack Kinney | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Bruce Bushman | 1960 |
Brutus corners the spinach market. | ||||||
13 | "Popeye and the Dragon" | Ken Hultgren | Raymond Jacobs | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Robert Givens | 1960 |
14 | "Popeye the Fireman" | Osmond Evans | Osmond Evans | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Bruce Bushman | 1960 |
15 | "Popeye's Pizza Palace" | Eddie Rehberg | Eddie Rehberg | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
Brutus insists on ordering a tamale pizza. | ||||||
16 | "Down the Hatch" | Alan Zaslove | Jack Kinney | Rosemary O'Connor and Boris Gorelick | Robert Givens | 1960 |
17 | "Lighthouse Keeping" | Eddie Rehberg | Eddie Rehberg | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Eddie Rehberg | 1960 |
18 | "Popeye and the Phantom" | Ken Hultgren | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Vern Jorgensen and Ken Hultgren | 1960 |
Popeye and Olive gets into a struggle with a mischievous shape-shifting ghost. | ||||||
19 | "Popeye's Picnic" | Osmond Evans | Osmond Evans | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Bruce Bushman | 1960 |
20 | "Out of This World" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Robert Givens | 1960 |
21 | "Madam Salami" | Harvey Toombs | Tony Benedict | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Brutus disguises himself as the title character, a fortune teller. | ||||||
22 | "Timber Toppers" | Osmond Evans | Noel Tucker | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
23 | "Skyscraper Capers" | Rudy Larriva | Nick George | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Robert Givens | 1960 |
24 | "Private Eye Popeye" | Rudy Larriva | Raymond Jacobs | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
Note: This episode is also the name of a 1954 Popeye theatrical cartoon. | ||||||
25 | "Little Olive Riding Hood" | Harvey Toombs | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Connie Matthews | Robert Givens | 1960 |
Note: Take-off on Little Red Riding Hood. | ||||||
26 | "Popeye's Hypnotic Glance" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
27 | "Popeye's Trojan Horse" | Ken Hultgren | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Ken Hultgren | 1960 |
28 | "Frozen Feuds" | Eddie Rehberg | Eddie Rehberg | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Eddie Rehberg | 1960 |
After Alaska becomes the 49th state, a senator promises to rid his constituency of a wandering Goon. | ||||||
29 | "Popeye's Corn-Certo" | Eddie Rehberg | Joe Siracusa and Cliff Millsap | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
30 | "Westward Ho-Ho" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
31 | "Popeye's Cool Pool" | Rudy Larriva | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
Popeye digs a swimming pool for Olive and Swee'pea. | ||||||
32 | "Jeep Jeep" | Ken Hultgren | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Ken Hultgren | 1960 |
33 | "Popeye's Museum Piece" | Eddie Rehberg | Carol Beers and Ruben Apodaca | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
34 | "Golf Brawl" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Jack Kinney | Jules Engel | Robert Givens | 1960 |
35 | "Wimpy's Lunch Wagon" | Volus Jones | W. Schmidt | Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
36 | "Weather Watchers" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Raymond Jacobs | Jules Engel and Connie Matthews | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
37 | "Popeye and the Magic Hat" | Ken Hultgren | Osmond Evans | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Ken Hultgren | 1960 |
38 | "Popeye and the Giant" | Hugh Fraser | Noel Tucker | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
Brutus feeds Wimpy growth pills causing him to grow to freakish proportions. | ||||||
39 | "Hill-Billy-Dilly" | Harvey Toombs | Wesley Bennett | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
40 | "Pest of the Pecos" | Harvey Toombs | Raymond Jacobs | Raymond Jacobs and Vern Jorgensen | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
41 | "The Blubbering Whaler" | Ken Hultgren | Raymond Jacobs | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
42 | "Popeye and the Spinach Stalk" | Ken Hultgren | Jack Miller | Jules Engel and Connie Matthews | Ken Hultgren | 1960 |
Note: Take-off on Jack and the Beanstalk. | ||||||
43 | "Shoot the Chutes" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
44 | "Tiger Burger" | Harvey Toombs | Cal Howard | Rosemary O'Connor | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
45 | "Bottom Gun" | Rudy Larriva | Raymond Jacobs | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
46 | "Olive Drab and the Seven Sweapeas" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Jack Miller | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
Note: Take-off on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. | ||||||
47 | "Blinkin Beacon" | Eddie Rehberg | Eddie Rehberg | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
48 | "Aztec Wreck" | Hugh Fraser | Warren Bennett | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
49 | "The Green Dancin' Shoes" | Ken Hultgren | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
Olive puts on the title's objects and can't stop dancing. | ||||||
50 | "Spare Dat Tree" | Ken Hultgren | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Ken Hultgren | 1960 |
51 | "The Glad Gladiator" | Eddie Rehberg | Cal Howard | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
52 | "The Golden Touch" | Eddie Rehberg | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
53 | "Hamburger Fishing" | Harvey Toombs | Ed Nofziger | Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
54 | "Popeye the Popular Mechanic" | Hugh Fraser | Joe Grant and Walter Schmidt | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
55 | "Popeye's Folly" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Raymond Jacobs | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
56 | "Popeye's Used Car" | Hugh Fraser | Milt Schaffer | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
57 | "Spinachonara" | Harvey Toombs | Jack Kinney | Ervin L. Kaplan | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
58 | "Popeye and the Polite Dragon" | Rudy Larriva | Joe Grant and Walter Schmidt | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
A dragon magically pops out of a storybook that Popeye is reading to Swee'pea. | ||||||
59 | "Popeye the Ugly Ducklin" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
Note: Take-off on The Ugly Duckling. | ||||||
60 | "Popeye's Tea Party" | Hugh Fraser | Jim Rivind | Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
61 | "The Troll Wot Got Gruff" | Volus Jones and Ed Friedman | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
Note: Take-off on The Three Billy Goats Gruff. | ||||||
62 | "Popeye the Lifeguard" | Harvey Toombs | Milt Schaffer | Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Olive is jealous of the attention Popeye gets as a lifeguard. | ||||||
63 | "Popeye in the Woods" | Eddie Rehberg | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
64 | "After the Ball Went Over" | Eddie Rehberg | Eddie Rehberg | Rosemary O'Connor | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Popeye tries to outsmart Brutus at table tennis. | ||||||
65 | "Popeye and Buddy Brutus" | Rudy Larriva | Jack Kinney | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
Popeye and Brutus as deep-sea divers; one of them gets the bends. | ||||||
66 | "Popeye's Car Wash" | Harvey Toombs | Harvey Toombs | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
After Brutus toys with Popeye's car-washing equipment and ruins Olive's car, she goes over to Brutus' car wash but gets trapped in his clutches. | ||||||
67 | "Camel Aires" | Hugh Fraser | Carol Beers | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
68 | "Plumbers Pipe Dream" | Hal Ambro | Raymond Jacobs | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Popeye tries to fix a leak in Olive's apartment. | ||||||
69 | "Popeye and the Herring Snatcher" | Eddie Rehberg | Joe Grant and Walter Schmidt | Jules Engel and Boris Gorelick | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Popeye runs afoul of a fish thief. | ||||||
70 | "Invisible Popeye" | Hugh Fraser | Dennis Fraser | Ervin L. Kaplan | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
71 | "The Square Egg" | Rudy Larriva | Rosemary O'Connor | Rosemary O'Connor | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
72 | "Old Salt Tale" | Hugh Fraser | Ed Nofziger | Ervin L. Kaplan | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
Popeye fancifully explains to Swee'pea why the ocean is salty. | ||||||
73 | "Jeep Tale" | Rudy Larriva | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Note: Take-off on Peter Rabbit. | ||||||
74 | "The Super Duper Market" | Ed Friedman | Tom Hix | Ervin L. Kaplan | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
Brutus's store is so big one man gets lost in it for 15 years. | ||||||
75 | "Golden-Type Fleece" | Ken Hultgren | Ed Nofziger | Boris Gorelick | Noel Tucker | 1960 |
Popeye tells Swee'pea about the Golden Fleece, with Jupiter, Neptune and a centaur presented as Brutus-type characters. | ||||||
76 | "Popeye the White Collar Man" | Rudy Larriva | Joe Grant and Walter Schmidt | Ervin L. Kaplan | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
77 | "Sweapea Thru the Looking Glass" | Volus Jones | Ed Nofziger | Ervin L. Kaplan | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Note: Take-off on Alice Through the Looking Glass. | ||||||
78 | "The Black Knight" | Ken Hultgren | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Vern Jorgensen | Ken Hultgren | 1960 |
79 | "Jingle Jangle Jungle" | Ken Hultgren | Ed Nofziger | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Ken Hultgren | 1960 |
80 | "The Day Silky Went Blozo" | Hugh Fraser | Joseph Stewart and Jack Kinney | Peggy Morrow | Ray Jacobs | 1960 |
81 | "Rip Van Popeye" | Ken Hultgren | Joe Grant and Walter Schmidt | Ervin L. Kaplan | Jerry Nevius and Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
82 | "Mississippi Sissy" | Hugh Fraser | Jack Kinney and Ed Nofziger | Ervin L. Kaplan | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Popeye, Olive, Brutus and Wimpy participate in a riverboat mystery. | ||||||
83 | "Double Cross Country Feet Race" | Hugh Fraser | Ralph Wright | Ervin L. Kaplan | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Popeye and Brutus compete in a foot race for a date with Olive. | ||||||
84 | "Fashion Fotography" | Phil Duncan | Ed Nofziger | Ervin L. Kaplan | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Olive wants to be a fashion model. | ||||||
85 | "I Yam Wot I Yamnesia" | Ken Hultgren | Ralph Wright | Boris Gorelick | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
Popeye and Swee'pea, and Olive and Wimpy switch personalities the result of amnesia. | ||||||
86 | "Paper Pasting Pandemonium" | Rudy Larriva | Ed Nofziger | Ervin L. Kaplan | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Popeye and Brutus are given one hour to paper Olive's house before company arrives. | ||||||
87 | "Coach Popeye" | Volus Jones | Jack Kinney | Bob McIntosh | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
88 | "Popeyed Columbus" | Hugh Fraser | Raymond Jacobs | Jules Engel and Rosemary O'Connor | Raymond Jacobs | 1961 |
89 | "Popeye Revere" | Ken Hultgren | Noel Tucker | Ervin L. Kaplan | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
90 | "Popeye in Haweye" | Hugh Fraser | Raymond Jacobs | Peggy Morrow | Ray Jacobs | 1960 |
Rival tour guides Popeye and Brutus vie for Olive's business in Hawaii. | ||||||
91 | "Forever Ambergris" | Eddie Rehberg | Ralph Wright | Ervin L. Kaplan | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
92 | "Popeye de Leon" | Eddie Rehberg | Ralph Wright | Boris Gorelick | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
As Juan Ponce de Leon, Popeye fends off a "crocagator" and guards the Fountain of Youth. | ||||||
93 | "Popeyed Fisherman" | Murray McClellan | Jack Kinney | Bob McIntosh | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
94 | "Popeye in the Grand Steeplechase" | Harvey Toombs | Carol Beers | Ervin L. Kaplan | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
Popeye and Brutus compete in a horse race. | ||||||
95 | "Uncivil War" | Volus Jones | Jerry Nevius | Ervin L. Kaplan | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
96 | "Popeye the Piano Mover" | Harvey Toombs | Harvey Toombs | Ervin L. Kaplan | Jerry Nevius | 1960 |
97 | "Popeye's Testimonial Dinner" | Volus Jones | Jerry Nevius | Ervin L. Kaplan | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
98 | "Around the World in Eighty Ways" | Harvey Toombs | Ralph Wright | Peggy Morrow | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
99 | "Popeye's Fixit Shop" | Hugh Fraser | Ralph Wright | Peggy Morrow | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
100 | "Bell Hop Popeye" | Harvey Toombs | Cal Howard | Peggy Morrow | Raymond Jacobs | 1960 |
101 | "Barbecue for Two" | TBA | Dick Kinney and Al Bertino | TBA | Bruce Bushman | 1960 |
Popeye clashes with uninvited Brutus, Wimpy and Swee'pea over a barbecue. Note: This episode uses the Famous Studios opening music. |
Paramount Cartoon Studios
No. | Title | Story by | Animated by | Scenics by | Original air date |
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1 | "Hits and Missiles" | Carl Meyer, Jack Mercer and Sid Marcus | Gerry Dvorak, Irv Spector and Larry Silverman | Robert Little | 1960 |
Popeye must rescue cheese denizens of the moon. Note: This episode uses the Famous Studios opening music. | |||||
2 | "Seer-ring Is Believer-ring" | I. Klein | I. Klein, Jack Ehret, and Dick Hall | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
Olive purchases a ring that belongs of a mystic. | |||||
3 | "The Ghost Host" | Seymour Kneitel | Morey Reden, Jack Ehret, and I. Klein | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
4 | "Strikes, Spares an' Spinach" | Seymour Kneitel | Wm. B. Pattengill and I. Klein | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Popeye tries to teach Olive bowling, but Brutus keeps messing them up. | |||||
5 | "Jeep Is Jeep" | I. Klein | Morey Reden, I. Klein, and Wm. B. Pattengill | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
6 | "The Spinach Scholar" | Seymour Kneitel | Morey Reden, Irving Dressler, and Jack Ehret | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Olive insists that the illiterate, uneducated Popeye enroll in Grammar School. | |||||
7 | "Psychiatricks" | Seymour Kneitel | Morey Reden, Irving Dressler, and Wm. B. Pattengill | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Brutus tricks Popeye into a psychology session. | |||||
8 | "Rags to Riches to Rags" | Seymour Kneitel | Morey Reden, Jack Ehret, I. Klein, and Wm. B. Pattengill | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Wimpy inherits a fortune and tries to double it by betting that Popeye will lose an upcoming fight. | |||||
9 | "Hair Cut-Ups" | Seymour Kneitel | Morey Reden, Irving Dressler, and Wm. B. Pattengill | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
10 | "Poppa Popeye" | Seymour Kneitel | Nick Tafuri, Jack Ehret, and I. Klein | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
After losing Swee'pea to a circus performer, who passed himself off as Swee'pea's long-lost dad, Popeye goes through so much depression he starts to act like a baby. | |||||
11 | "Quick Change Olie" | I. Klein | Martin Taras, Gerry Dvorak, Jack Ehret, and Dick Hall | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Popeye and Wimpy go back in time to the "ollie days" thanks to the Whiffle Bird. | |||||
12 | "Valley of the Goons" | Seymour Kneitel | Martin Taras, Gerry Dvorak, Al Pross, and Sam Stimson | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Popeye must help the Goons when their island is attacked by pirates. | |||||
13 | "Me Quest for Poopdeck Pappy" | Seymour Kneitel | Nick Tafuri, Wm. B. Pattengill, Jack Ehret, and Sam Stimson | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Popeye seeks his long-lost father. | |||||
14 | "Moby Hick" | I. Klein | Morey Reden, Irving Dressler, I. Klein, and Wm. B. Pattengill | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
The Sea Hag tricks Popeye into attacking a benevolent whale. | |||||
15 | "Mirror Magic" | Seymour Kneitel | Martin Taras, Dante Barbetta, Dick Hall, William Henning, and Al Pross | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
A fairy-tale kingdom is ruled by the land's strongest man, ruthless King Brutus, but his magic mirror informs him of a potential challenger in Popeye. | |||||
16 | "It Only Hurts When They Laughs" | Seymour Kneitel | Morey Reden, Irving Dressler, and I. Klein | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Olive forces Popeye and Brutus to laugh their way to friendship. | |||||
17 | "Wimpy the Moocher" | Seymour Kneitel | Morey Reden, I. Klein, and Wm. B. Pattengill | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Wimpy pulls off an audacious con on short order cook Rough House. | |||||
18 | "Voo-Doo to You Too" | Seymour Kneitel | Martin Taras, Gerry Dvorak, Dick Hall, and I. Klein | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
The Sea Hag turns Olive into a zombie and freezes Popeye with a voodoo doll. | |||||
19 | "Popeye Goes Sale-ing" | Seymour Kneitel | Nick Tafuri, Irving Dressler, Dick Hall, and Wm. B. Pattengill | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Olive drags Popeye into a nasty department store sale. | |||||
20 | "Popeye's Travels" | Seymour Kneitel | Nick Tafuri, Irving Dressler, Jack Ehret, and I. Klein | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Note: Take-off on Gulliver's Travels. | |||||
21 | "Incident at Missile City" | Howard A. Schneider | Morey Reden, Irving Dressler, and I. Klein | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
King Blozo's kingdom comes under attack from a city of missiles. | |||||
22 | "Dog Catcher Popeye" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Martin Taras, Irving Dressler, Gerry Dvorak, and Jack Ehret | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
23 | "What's News" | Seymour Kneitel | Nick Tafuri, Irving Dressler, I. Klein, and Sam Stimson | Robert Owen | 1960 |
Popeye and Olive open a newspaper in a small desert town. | |||||
24 | "Spinach Greetings" | Seymour Kneitel | Morey Reden, Irving Dressler, Jack Ehret, and Al Pross | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
The Sea Hag, and her vulture Bernard, kidnap Santa Claus. | |||||
25 | "Oil's Well That Ends Well" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Martin Taras, Irving Dressler, Jack Ehret, and Jim Logan | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Brutus cons Olive into purchasing a seemingly dry oil well. | |||||
26 | "Motor Knocks" | Al Pross | Nick Tafuri, Irving Dressler, William Henning, and I. Klein | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Brutus keeps flirting with Olive, while "fixing" Popeye's car. | |||||
27 | "Amusement Park" | Howard A. Schneider | Morey Reden, Jack Ehret, and William Henning | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Freak show operator Brutus abducts Swee'pea. | |||||
28 | "Duel to the Finish" | Seymour Kneitel | Wm. B. Pattengill, Dante Barbetta, William Henning, and Al Pross | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
Popeye gets extremely jealous when Wimpy starts sweet-talking Olive. | |||||
29 | "Gem Jam" | I. Klein | Wm. B. Pattengill, Irving Dressler, and I. Klein | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
The Sea Hag entraps Olive with a cursed perfume which turns her to a gem thief. | |||||
30 | "The Bathing Beasts" | Irving Dressler | Martin Taras, Dick Hall, and Jim Logan | Robert Owen | 1960 |
Olive tricks Brutus and Popeye into a bathing contest. | |||||
31 | "Messin' Up the Mississippi" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Morey Reden, Gerry Dvorak, and I. Klein | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
32 | "Love Birds" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Wm. B. Pattengill, Dick Hall, and Al Pross | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
Popeye buys a male bluebird named Romeo, for Olive's pet bluebird Juliet. After the birds have a heated argument, Romeo flies away, and Popeye must find him before Olive makes him fly away. | |||||
33 | "Sea Serpent" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Morey Reden, Dick Hall, I. Klein, and Sam Stimson | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
34 | "Boardering on Trouble" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Wm. B. Pattengill, Gerry Dvorak, Dick Hall, and Jim Logan | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
35 | "Aladdin's Lamp" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Martin Taras, Gerry Dvorak, Jim Logan, and Larry Silverman | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
The Sea Hag acquires a magic lamp. | |||||
36 | "Butler Up" | I. Klein | Morey Reden, Gerry Dvorak, William Henning, and I. Klein | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
Olive's old friend Brutus comes over for a reunion dinner, and she wants Popeye to be their butler. | |||||
37 | "The Leprechaun" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Morey Reden, William Henning, Al Pross, and Larry Silverman | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
The Sea Hag steals Irish gold. | |||||
38 | "County Fair" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Martin Taras, Dante Barbetta, Dick Hall, and Jim Logan | Robert Little | 1961 |
39 | "Hamburgers Aweigh" | Joseph Gottlieb | Martin Taras, Jim Logan, and Larry Silverman | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
The Sea Hag hypnotises Wimpy into hijacking Popeye's ship. | |||||
40 | "Popeye's Double Trouble" | Joseph Gottlieb | Wm. B. Pattengill, George Germanetti, Larry Silverman, and Sam Stimson | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
Popeye takes the Sea Hag's good luck coin and uses its wishing powers to take Olive out to a dancing competition. The Sea Hag holds Olive hostage, and disguises as her, so she can go with Popeye, and dance the coin out of him. | |||||
41 | "Kiddie Kapers" | Joseph Gottlieb | Morey Reden, Dick Hall, I. Klein, and Larry Silverman | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
A potion created by the Sea Hag turns Brutus into an attractive young man, and he uses it to impress and woo Olive. After Popeye sees through Brutus's attractiveness, he uses the same potion, but it turns him into a baby. | |||||
42 | "The Mark of Zero" | Irving Dressler | Wm. B. Pattengill, Dick Hall, and Sam Stinson | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
Popeye tells his niece Diesel a story about a swashbuckling swordsman. | |||||
43 | "Myskery Melody" | Seymour Kneitel | Martin Taras, Gerry Dvorak, George Germanetti, and Jim Logan | Robert Owen | 1961 |
Poopdeck Pappy is hypnotized by a haunting flute melody. | |||||
44 | "Scairdy Cat" | Joseph Gottlieb | Irving Dressler, Dante Barbetta, and Dick Hall | Robert Owen | 1961 |
Brutus creates a perfume that turns Popeye into a frightened, defenseless weakling. | |||||
45 | "Operation Ice-Tickle" | Joseph Gottlieb | Martin Taras, Gerry Dvorak, and Jim Logan | Robert Owen | 1961 |
After yet another argument between Popeye and Brutus, Olive decides to hold a contest; the first one who brings her the North Pole will go out with her. | |||||
46 | "The Cure" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Martin Taras, George Germanetti, and Larry Silverman | Robert Owen | 1961 |
47 | "William Won't Tell" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | I. Klein, George Germanetti, William Henning, and Sam Stimson | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
A takeoff of William Tell. | |||||
48 | "Pop Goes the Whistle" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Irving Dressler, Gerry Dvorak, Jack Ehret, and George Germanetti | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
49 | "Autographically Yours" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Morey Reden, Jack Ehret, George Germanetti, and Sam Stimson | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
Popeye and Brutus compete for the affection of a young movie fan in a remake of Shootin' Stars. | |||||
50 | "A Poil for Olive Oyl" | Joseph Gottlieb | Wm. B. Pattengill, Dante Barbetta, Irving Dressler, and William Henning | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
Popeye wants to give Olive a stylish necklace, but the one she wants from a jewelry store costs too much. Popeye decides to make her one by diving into the sea to use the pearls from clams. However, the pearls belong to the Sea Hag, and she tries to stop him. | |||||
51 | "My Fair Olive" | Joseph Gottlieb | Martin Taras, Gerry Dvorak, John Gentilella, and George Germanetti | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
Popeye and Brutus compete in a medieval joust to win Olive's affection. | |||||
52 | "Giddy Gold" | I. Klein | I. Klein, John Gentilella, and George Germanetti | Robert Owen | 1961 |
The Wiffle Bird turns the Tunnel of Love into a gold mine, and Olive decides to loot them all, but she and Popeye must pass through three dangerous situations, if they are to leave with their treasure. | |||||
53 | "Strange Things Are Happening" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Irving Dressler, William Henning, and Sam Stimson | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
54 | "The Medicine Man" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Morey Reden, Dante Barbetta, John Gentilella, and Dick Hall | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
55 | "The Rain Breaker" | I. Klein | Nick Tafuri, Irving Dressler, William Henning, and Sam Stimson | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
56 | "A Mite of Trouble" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Martin Taras, Gerry Dvorak, George Germanetti, and Jim Logan | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
57 | "Who's Kiddin' Zoo" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Morey Reden, Irving, Dressler, George Germanetti, and I. Klein | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
Olive makes Popeye her assistant at a zoo, and Brutus tries to mess up Popeye's work. | |||||
58 | "Robot Popeye" | Seymour Kneitel | Wm. B. Pattengill, Gerry Dvorak, Jim Logan, and Al Pross | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
Brutus builds a robot double of Popeye to ruin his relationship with Olive. | |||||
59 | "Sneaking Peeking" | I. Klein | Wm. B. Pattengill, Dick Hall, William Henning, and Jim Logan | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
To stop Swee'Pea from peaking at birthday presents, Olive tells him of a princess whose own habit unleashes a malicious genie. | |||||
60 | "The Wiffle Bird's Revenge" | I. Klein | Wm. B. Pattengill, Dick Hall, Al Pross, and Larry Silverman | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
The Whiffle Bird turns Wimpy into a vicious werewolf. | |||||
61 | "Going... Boing.. Gone" | Joseph Gottlieb | Morey Reden, George Germanetti, I. Klein, and Wm. B. Pattengill | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
Wimpy uses vanishing cream to escape Brutus. | |||||
62 | "Popeye Thumb" | Seymour Kneitel | Martin Taras, Irving Dressler, I. Klein, and Jim Logan | Anton Loeb | 1961 |
Note: Take-off on the fairy tale Tom Thumb. | |||||
63 | "The Baby Contest" | Carl Meyer and Jack Mercer | Morey Reden, Irving Dressler, Jack Ehret, I. Klein, and Al Pross | Anton Loeb | 1960 |
VHS
In the late 1990s, the Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits restaurant franchise released most of the 1960s cartoons on VHS in the Popeye Cartoon Video Collection Series promotional line. Each video in the series featured one promotional segment for Popeyes showing video footage of its fried chicken, biscuits and other products followed by the 1960s Popeye cartoons. After the cartoons, the second segment for Popeyes and two bonus cartoons were also featured.
DVD
In 2004, Family Home Entertainment released four 1960s cartoons on the DVD release of Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy. The shorts included "Spinach Greetings" (Classic Christmas Episode), "Popeye in the Grand Steeple Chase", "Valley of the Goons", and "William Won't Tell". 85 of the 1960s Popeye cartoons were released on DVD by Koch Vision in a three-disc DVD set entitled Popeye's 75th Anniversary.
Warner Archive Collection planned to re-release the cartoons. The first volume was released on May 7, 2013 and included 72 cartoons. Most of the cartoons to be released were produced by Paramount Cartoon Studios,[6] which are included in the first volume. As of 2017, no further volumes have been released.
Combining all the DVD releases and ignoring any overlap there is a total of 126 cartoons.
Broadcasting history
International broadcasts
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See also
- Popeye
- Popeye the Sailor filmography (Fleischer Studios) (1933–1942)
- Popeye the Sailor filmography (Famous Studios) (1942–1957)
- The All New Popeye Hour (1978–1983, CBS; produced by Hanna-Barbera)
- Popeye and Son (1987, CBS; produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions)
- The Popeye Show (2001–2003, Cartoon Network)
References
- ↑ Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History, 2d ed. - Fred M. Grandinetti - Google Books
- ↑ http://www.rapportoconfidenziale.org/?p=10186
- ↑ "Il SecoloXIX". M.ilsecoloxix.it. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
- 1 2 3 Tom Kenny, Jerry Beck, Frank Caruso, Glenn Mitchell (2007). Popeye the Sailor: 1933–1938, Volume 1. Special Features: I Yam What I Yam: The Story of Popeye the Sailor (DVD). Warner Home Video.
- 1 2 3 Ian. "Retrieved on April 27, 2009". Straightdope.com. Retrieved July 14, 2009.
- ↑ "Warner Archive Revives Spirit of Saturday Morning Cartoons". Home Media Magazine. 2013-04-05. Retrieved 2015-09-17.