In 2007, Warner Brothers began releasing the Popeye theatricals on DVD, along with a selection of the television cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s.Since the first release in 1996 (the name was still Flash at the time), Adobe Animate has been popular and widely used by all professional animators around the world. 135 cartoons were restored for broadcast on The Popeye Show. The audience complained and the show spent most of its three-year run-on Sunday evenings, first at 9:30pm and later, 7:30pm. Cartoon Network had a bias regarding airing black-and-white cartoons in primetime and debuted this classy series at 1:30am on Monday mornings. These had not been since their screenings in theaters. The cartoons had their original opening and closing added. An episode included three Popeye shorts and included facts and history of each film. The Popeye Show, an anthology series, debuted on the Cartoon Network in October 2001. Thankfully the original versions could still be seen on Cartoon Network’s Late Nite Black & White series beginning in 1993. This cartoon, from 1979, has an unusual conclusion. This time Popeye doesn’t save Olive Oyl nor eat his spinach.ĭuring the 1980s and through 1990s, WTBS, TNT and the Cartoon Network aired the theatrical cartoons but the black-and-white originals were terribly colorized. With the addition of the 1960-62 television series, All New Popeye cartoons, and the twenty- three Popeye and Son episodes, the scrappy sailor added approximately three hundred more adventures to his film library. Audiences rejected this updating of the Popeye characters and situations. Marilyn Schreffler and Allan Melvin returned to perform the voices of Olive Oyl and Bluto while Maurice LeMarche did a passable job as Popeye (Jack Mercer had passed away in 1984). The one-eyed sailor’s son was a spinach-hating tyke dubbed “Junior.” The classic characters were modernized, with Popeye wearing a loud Hawaiian shirt and Olive donning a gym suit and new hairstyle. Popeye and Son aired on the CBS Saturday morning schedule during the 1987-88 season. Hanna-Barbera made another attempt animating Popeye but unfortunately this series focused in the sailor’s son from his marriage to Olive Oyl. ©King Features Syndicate and from The Personal Collection of Fred Grandinetti Popeye’s Nephews were used in safety tips seen on The All New Popeye Hour These included: King Blozo, Toar, Alice the Goon, Rough House, Geezil, The Sea Hag and her vulture! Due to a dispute over the origins of his name, Bluto became known as Brutus! Many of the characters from the comic strip, who did not appear in the theatricals, were seen in the television cartoons. The personnel involved with these films were Gene Deitch, Larry Harmon, Gerald Ray, Jack Kinney and Seymour Kneitel. Al Brodax, head of the syndicate’s television division, hired different animation studios to produce a total of 220 Popeye color cartoons primarily during 1960-1962. King Features Syndicate, though owning the rights to the Popeye comic strip, did not share profits with the syndication of the theatrical films. By Ralph Stein (writer) and Bill Zaboly (artist). Look at what Swee’pea is watching on television. The success Popeye cartoons were having on television was noted in the Thimble Theatre comic strip from June 7, 1957. ©King Features Syndicate and from the Personal Collection of Fred Grandinetti. Wellington Wimpy, the hamburger moocher Swee’pea, Popeye’s adopted son Eugene the Jeep, the magical creature from the 4th dimension Poopdeck Pappy, Popeye’s hard-to-handle father and the monstrous Goons! Segar’s other fantastic comic strip characters made their animation debuts in the black-and-white Fleischer films: J. Gus Wickie and Pinto Colvig are best remembered as the voice of Bluto. Bonnie Poe, Mae Questel and Margie Hines provided the voice of Olive Oyl. When success went to his head, the Fleischers replaced him with studio artist Jack Mercer. William Costello, known as Red Pepper Sam, was the original gruff sounding voice of Popeye. They are best remembered for the ad libs provided by the voice actors. The Fleischer-produced Popeye cartoons featured shadows, texture, three-dimensional backgrounds and rousing musical scores. With his plane headed downward Poopdeck Pappy calls for help in Pest Pilot (Fleischer, 1941)
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