Popeye the Continuing Adventures Episode List
| The All New Popeye Hour | |
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| Based on | Popeye by E. C. Segar |
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| Theme music composer | Sammy Lerner (arranged by Hoyt Curtin) |
| Opening theme | "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" |
| Composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 56 (336 segments) |
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| Distributor | Taft Broadcasting Corp. |
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| Original network | CBS |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Original release | September 9, 1978 (1978-09-09) – September 5, 1983 (1983-09-05) |
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| Followed by | Popeye and Son (1987) |
The All New Popeye Hour is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and King Features Entertainment. Starring the comic strip character Popeye, the series aired from 1978 to 1983 Saturday mornings on CBS. Despite the series' mixed reception, (mostly being criticized about its cheap animation, writing and PSAs), it was a hit for King Features Entertainment.
Production [edit]
The show was produced by the legendary Hanna-Barbera Productions, which tried to retain the style of the original Thimble Theatre comic strip while complying with the prevailing content restrictions on violence.[1] Featured characters, aside from the popular main stars of Popeye, Bluto, Olive Oyl and Wimpy, were Swee'Pea, Poopdeck Pappy, Eugene the Jeep and Popeye's quadruplet nephews. Popeye's outfit reverted to his sailor's uniform, except for his cap, which was retained as the white Navy hat. Bluto's name was restored, as it had erroneously been changed to "Brutus" for the early 1960s Popeye cartoons.[2] Olive Oyl also reverted to her 1930s look.
At the start, The All New Popeye Hour has three segments: "Popeye", "Popeye's Treasure Hunt" and "Dinky Dog" (a non-Popeye segment about the misadventures of an enormous sheepdog that was later spun off into its own show). In 1979, the show added "The Popeye Sports Parade".[3] Because of restrictions on violence on television cartoons for children at the time, Popeye did not throw punches in retaliation to Bluto; he often lifted him, with his own hands or with machinery, and hurled him away.[4] The series marked the last time Jack Mercer would voice Popeye; he died on December 4, 1984, fifteen months after the show's cancellation.
Each episode also contains a PSA interstitial called a Safety Tip or a Health Tip about things that include but are not limited to washing hands before dinner, brushing teeth, nutrition, crossing the street the right way, protection against sunburn, and spray paint safety. Some Safety Tips feature an anthropomorphic wolf named Mr. No-No who would engage in dangerous or destructive activities like consuming toxic substances, drinking alcohol, and smoking. He would tend to get Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye, and Pupeye to do the same until he is either stopped in some way or turned away by Popeye.
The All New Popeye Hour ran on CBS until September 1981, when it was shortened to a half-hour show and retitled The Popeye and Olive Comedy Show. The show added two new segments. The first segment was "Prehistoric Popeye", similar to The Flintstones.[3] The second segment was "Private Olive Oyl", where Olive and Alice the Goon join the Army, then proceed to drive their drill sergeant, Sgt. Bertha Blast (voiced by Jo Anne Worley) nuts, yet impress the base commander, Col. Crumb (voiced by Hal Smith). This cartoon is based on the idea of Private Benjamin; Hanna-Barbera was also concurrently producing a virtually identical concept with sitcom characters Laverne and Shirley called Laverne and Shirley in the Army for rival network ABC at the time.[5]
The show was removed from the CBS lineup in September 1983, and the cartoons were immediately sold to local stations in nationwide syndication. They have also been released on VHS and DVD. During the time these cartoons were in production, CBS aired The Popeye Valentine Special: Sweethearts at Sea on February 14, 1979 at 8:30 PM (Eastern).[6] In the UK, the BBC aired a half-hour version of The All New Popeye Show, from the early-1980s to 2004. Unlike cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, The All New Popeye Hour did not contain a laugh track.
The syndicated version can currently be seen on Amazon Prime Video, Tubi (as "Popeye: The Continuing Adventures") and on YouTube (as "All-New Popeye").
In Southeast Asia, it aired on Cartoon Network in the 2000s.
Voice cast [edit]
In addition to providing many of the cartoon scripts, Jack Mercer reprised his voice as Popeye, while Marilyn Schreffler and Allan Melvin became the new voices of Olive Oyl and Bluto, respectively (Mae Questel auditioned for Hanna-Barbera to recreate Olive Oyl, but was rejected in favor of Schreffler).
Main [edit]
- Jack Mercer as Popeye, Poopdeck Pappy, Pipeye, Peepeye
- Allan Melvin as Bluto
- Marilyn Schreffler as Olive Oyl, The Sea Hag, Swee'Pea, Alice the Goon, Poopeye, Pupeye
- Julie Bennett as Monica
- Daws Butler as Wimpy
- Jackie Joseph as Sandy
- Don Messick as Eugene the Jeep
- Frank Nelson as Uncle Dudley
- Hal Smith as Col. Crumb
- John Stephenson as Mr. No No
- Frank Welker as Dinky
- Jo Anne Worley as Sgt. Bertha Blast
Additional [edit]
- Roger Behr
- Ted Cassidy
- Richard Erdman
- Joan Gerber
- Ross Martin
- Virginia McSwain
- Pat Parris
- Barney Phillips
- Jane Roberts
- William Schallert
- Jean Vander Pyl
- Janet Waldo
- Lennie Weinrib
Episodes [edit]
Seasons 1–3 (1978–1980): The All New Popeye Hour [edit]
Season 1 (1978) [edit]
Season 2 (1979) [edit]
Season 3 (1980) [edit]
Season 4 (1981–1983): The Popeye and Olive Comedy Show [edit]
Special [edit]
Home media [edit]
The first DVD that features The All New Popeye Hour was released on May 16, 2000, by Rhino Home Video with eighteen segments from the series. A few years later, Warner Home Video released Popeye & Friends - Volume One, a single DVD featuring eight unedited episodes.[7] As of 2022, the series has yet to have a complete series DVD box set.
Notes [edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Episodes that are part of Popeye's Treasure Hunt.
- ^ a b In their TV title cards, these episodes are titled or credited with some orthographic errors, which are "The Decathlon Dilemna" and "Olive's Devastatingk Decorators"
- ^ a b c d e f Episodes that are part of The Popeye Sports Parade.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Episodes that are part of Prehistoric Popeye.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Episodes that are part of Private Olive Oyl.
- ^ Rerun of an episode from the Season 3.
References [edit]
- ^ "When Popeye was Popular Without His Punch!". Skwigly. 9 March 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ "Popeye and Friends, Vol. 1". DVD Talk . Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ a b Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 637. ISBN978-1476665993.
- ^ "Popeye's Less Violent Return to Television! - Popeye-Expert Fred Grandinetti Talks The All New Popeye Hour". Searchmytrash.com . Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ Perlmutter, David (28 March 2014). America Toons In: A History of Television Animation. ISBN9781476614885 . Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ^ Woolery, George W. (1989). Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987. Scarecrow Press. pp. 311–313. ISBN0-8108-2198-2 . Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ "Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation » Popeye and Friends". 12 March 2008. Archived from the original on 12 March 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
External links [edit]
- The All New Popeye Hour at IMDb
- The All-New Popeye Hour DVD news: Final Box Art for Dinky Dog - The Complete Series
- episode listing in the Animation page on Hearst Entertainment's site
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_All_New_Popeye_Hour
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