The All-New Popeye Hour

The All-New Popeye Hour debuted 9 September 1978 on the CBS Saturday-morning lineup. It was an hour-long animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which tried its best to retain the style of the original comic strip (Popeye returned to his original costume and Brutus to his original name of Bluto), while complying with the prevailing content restrictions on violence. In addition to providing many of the cartoon scripts, Jack Mercer continued to voice Popeye, while Marilyn Schreffler and Allan Melvin became the new voices of Olive Oyl and Bluto, respectively. (Mae Questel actually auditioned for Hanna-Barbera to re-create Olive Oyl, but was rejected in favor of Schreffler.)

The All-New Popeye Hour ran on CBS until September 1981, when it was cut to a half-hour and retitled The Popeye & Olive Comedy Show. It was removed from the CBS lineup in September 1983, the year before Jack Mercer's death. These cartoons have also been released on VHS and DVD. While these cartoons were in production, CBS aired The Popeye Valentine Special: Sweethearts at Sea on 14 February 1979, Valentine's Day, of course. In the United Kingdom, the BBC aired a half-hour version of The All-New Popeye Show, from the early 1980s to 2004.

Voice Cast

• Daws Butler as J. Wellington Wimpy
• Allan Melvin as Bluto
• Jack Mercer as Popeye and Poopdeck Pappy
• Don Messick as Eugene the Jeep
• Marilyn Schreffler as Olive Oyl and the Sea Hag
• John Stephenson as supporting voices

Episodes

Popeye

1. Popeye the Carpenter
2. The Ski's the Limit
3. The Big Wheel
4. Popeye the Sleepwalker
5. A Whale of a Tale
6. Olive's Shining Hour
7. A Bad Knight for Popeye
8. Popeye Goes Sailing
9. A Seal with Appeal
10. The Crunch for Lunch Bunch
11. A Day at Muscle Beach
12. Wilder than Usual Blue Yonder
13. Popeye Out West
14. Popeye the Plumber
15. Spinach Fever
16. Heir-Brained Popeye
17. Popeye and the Beanstalk
18. Popeye and Bigfoot
19. Getting Popeye's Goat
20. Close Encounters of the Third Spinach
21. Popeye's Finest Hour
22. Popeye and the Pest
23. Popeye Meets the Blutostein Monster
24. Ship Ahoy
25. Here Stew You
26. Popeye and the Pirates
27. Popeye Goes Hollywood
28. Popeye's Roots
29. Popeye Snags the Sea Hag
30. A Day at the Rodeo
31. The Decathlon Dilemma (misspelled on title card as "The Decathlon Dilemna")
32. Popeye's Engine Company
33. Popeye of the Klondike
34. Popeye Goes Sightseeing
35. Shark Treatment
36. Mother Goose Is on the Loose
37. Bluto's Bike Bullies
38. Steeple Chase at Ups and Downs
39. A Camping We Will Go
40. Take Me Out to the Brawl Game
41. Popeye vs. Machine
42. The Spinach Bowl
43. Ballet-Hooey
44. Yukon County Mountie
45. Queen of the Load
46. Love on the Rocks
47. Popeye the Lone Legionnaire
48. Roller Rink-a-Dink
49. Old McPopeye Had a Farm
50. Polly Wants Some Spinach
51. Popeye's High School Daze
52. On Mule-itary Detail
53. Building Blockheads
54. Olive's Bugged House Blues
55. Boo Who?
56. The Game
57. Popeye the Robot
58. Whotsa Matterhorn?
59. Pedal-Powered Popeye
60. Chips Off the Old Ice Block
61. Popeye's Aqua Circus
62. Take It or Lump It
63. Popeye's Poodle Problem
64. Westward Ho! Ho!
65. Bad Day at the Bakery
66. Popeye the Painter
67. Bully Dozer
68. Swee'Pea Plagues a Parade
69. Paddle Wheel Popeye
70. Merry Madness at the Mardi Gras
71. Popeye of Sherwood Forest
72. Bad Company
73. Top Kick at Boot Camp
74. Peask and Quiet
75. A Goon Gone Gooney
76. Spa-ing Partners
77. Abject Flying Object
78. Ships That Pass in the Fright
79. Popeye's Self Defense
80. Popeye's Perilous Pursuit of a Pearl
81. Olive Goes Dallas
82. Pappy Falls in Love
83. Popeye of the Jungle
84. Alpine for You
85. Tour Each His Own
86. The Umpire Strikes Back
87. Free Hauling Brawl
88. W.O.I.L.
89. Tough Sledding
90. I Wouldn't Take That Mare to the Fair on a Dare
91. The Great Speckled Whale
92. Popierre the Musketeer
93. Unidentified Fighting Object
94. Olive's Devastating Decorators (misspelled on title card as "Olive's Devastatingk Decorators")
95. Cheap Skate Date
96. The Incredible Shrinking Popeye
97. Winner Window Washer
98. Hogwash at the Car Wash
99. Popeye Stumps Bluto
100. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Popeye

Popeye's Treasure Hunt

1. I Wants Me Mummy
2. The Terrifyink Transylvanian Treasure Trek
3. The Sword of Fitzwilly
4. Play It Again, Popeye
5. Captain Meno's Sunken Treasure
6. The Delmonica Diamond
7. The Treasure of Howe's Bayou
8. Coldfinger
9. Popeye in Wonderland
10. The Three Ring Ding-a-Ling
11. Spring Daze in Paris
12. A Horse of a Flying Color
13. The Mask of Gorgonzola
14. I Left My Spinach in San Francisco
15. A Trio in Rio
16. Popeye at the Center of the Earth
17. Boola Boola Hula
18. The Treasure of Werner Schnitzel
19. Dublin or Nothin'
20. Around the World in 80 Hours
21. Hail, Hail, the Ganges All Here
22. Beyond the Spinach Brick Road
23. In a Little Spinach Town
24. Forum or Against 'Em
25. Plunder Down Under
26. The Reel Hollywood Treasure Hunt

Popeye's Sports Parade

1. King of the Rodeo
2. Fantastic Gymnastics
3. Water Ya Doin'?
4. No Fuel Like an Old Fuel
5. Sky High Fly Try

See Also

• The Popeye Valentine Special: Sweethearts at Sea
• The Popeye & Olive Comedy Show