I do the whistle myself. Allan Melvin did the voice of Bluto. Apparently the controversy and confusion between Bluto and Brutus was now long forgotten and never mentioned again. Daws Butler was asked to do a W. Fields imitation voice for Wimpy. This was the last time Mercer would voice the Popeye character since he died in December Within the limitations of Saturday morning restrictions, Hanna-Barbera tried to recapture the spirit of the earlier classic cartoons. While he retained his white sailor cap, Popeye was re-outfitted in his original dark blue top.
The stories were fairly straight-forward attempts to pit Popeye and Bluto against each other for the affections of Olive. There were some parodies of popular film themes resulting in episodes like Close Encounters of the Third Spinach and Spinach Fever.
While Bluto tries to win her affections, the Sea Hag tries to get Popeye to marry her. Right after all. Besides the adventures of Popeye segments, there were two new elements: Private Olive Oyl inspired by the live action movie Private Benjamin which had Olive and Alice the Goon as clumsy Army privates constantly frustrating their diminutive Sgt.
The series ended by In September , a new half hour Saturday morning series debuted, Popeye and Son. Popeye, wearing a loud Hawaiian shirt and without his pipe, was now a supporting player to his nine year old son.
Apparently, Popeye had married Olive and they had a blonde-haired son named Junior who hated spinach. Bluto had married a woman named Lizzie and produced a bully of a son named Tank. Olive was a modern woman more worried about her aerobics than the half-hearted disasters that threatened her family.
Maurice Le Marche did the voice of Popeye. It would be quite some time before Popeye would appear again on television and some of these efforts are often forgotten by both animation and Popeye fans. This article is about the television series.
For other meanings, see Popeye the Sailor disambiguation. Popeye the Sailor is an animated TV series produced for first-run syndication through King Features Syndicate that ran from to for episodes. The executive producer of the series was Al Brodax. Fleischer Studios , who had great success with Betty Boop, adapted Popeye to animation in Famous Studios assumed production of the series in Eventually, Popeye and his crew appeared in theatrical cartoons.
The series began in black and white but by the end of switched to color. When these same cartoons debuted on television in September of , they were a tremendous hit. In the December 3, edition of Variety , Popeye ranked 8th place in the top twenty national syndicated shows. The sailor man ranked higher than Superman and Huckleberry Hound. This item may have caught the eye of executives at King Features Syndicate prompting action.
Although the firm owned the rights to the newspaper strip, they received no income from the distribution of the theatrical films. He entered the entertainment industry as a writer for such television series as Celanese Theatre , Pulitzer Prize Playhouse , and Suspense.
Brodax was able to complete production of Popeye segments in 18 months by farming out production to the fastest animators available at the time. These were the old Max Fleischer Popeyes that were distributed by Paramount. The investment was a mere twenty-five thousand dollars for two five and a half minute pieces. The entire series grossed three million dollars in our first year simply by going to the stations who already had big success with the old Popeyes.
What I did was I recorded all of the soundtracks in New York to create a uniform sound, and I had a kid waiting downstairs to send the tracks to places like Czechoslovakia, Los Angeles and some went to Australia. But I had six studios going at once to get them all done.
Multiple studios were used when you have a limited amount of time on your hands. She retained this more appealing look for the television films but wore her attire from the comic strip. The two pilot films for the series are easy to distinguish as the character designs are different in each. Barbecue for Two Jack Kinney, featured the principals as they appeared in the comic strip. While Popeye sported his navy whites in Hits and Missiles Paramount Cartoon Studios, Olive wore her short-sleeved shirt and high heels from the Famous Studios films.
Another holdover from the Famous Studios theatricals was Popeye sporting two eyes open in the television cartoons. Popeye battled Brutus in the television cartoons. As King Features Syndicate was at the helm of these new cartoons several characters, who did not appear in the theatrical films, appeared in the television episodes.
Jackson Beck Brutus as Brutus …. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Animation Comedy Family Romance. Did you know Edit. Trivia Because the creators, King Features, had no cartoon studio of its own, storyboards were created in house and sent of to several various different studios to be animated. The result is a noticeable variation in animation style and quality from episode to episode.
Alternate versions For modern syndication the 6 minute episodes are grouped into 4's. This makes up 55 episodes of approximately 25 minutes in length. Connections Featured in Greatest Cartoons User reviews 17 Review. Top review. Enjoyed the new Popeyes?
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