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 ===
# Popeye the Carpenter
# The Ski's the Limit
# The Big Wheel
# Popeye the Sleepwalker
# A Whale of a Tale
# Olive's Shining Hour
# A Bad Knight for Popeye
# Popeye Goes Sailing
# A Seal with Appeal
# The Crunch for Lunch Bunch
# A Day at Muscle Beach
# Wilder than Usual Blue Yonder
# Popeye Out West
# Popeye the Plumber
# Spinach Fever
# Heir-Brained Popeye
# Popeye and the Beanstalk
# Popeye and Bigfoot
# Getting Popeye's Goat
# Close Encounters of the Third Spinach
# Popeye's Finest Hour
# Popeye and the Pest
# Popeye Meets the Blutostein Monster
# Ship Ahoy
# Here Stew You
# Popeye and the Pirates
# Popeye Goes Hollywood
# Popeye's Roots
# Popeye Snags the Sea Hag
# A Day at the Rodeo
# The Decathlon Dilemma (misspelled on title card as "The Decathlon Dilemna")
# Popeye's Engine Company
# Popeye of the Klondike
# Popeye Goes Sightseeing
# Shark Treatment
# Mother Goose Is on the Loose
# Bluto's Bike Bullies
# Steeple Chase at Ups and Downs
# A Camping We Will Go
# Take Me Out to the Brawl Game
# Popeye vs. Machine
# The Spinach Bowl
# Ballet-Hooey
# Yukon County Mountie
# Queen of the Load
# Love on the Rocks
# Popeye the Lone Legionnaire
# Roller Rink-a-Dink
# Old McPopeye Had a Farm
# Polly Wants Some Spinach
# Popeye's High School Daze
# On Mule-itary Detail
# Building Blockheads
# Olive's Bugged House Blues
# Boo Who?
# The Game
# Popeye the Robot
# Whotsa Matterhorn?
# Pedal-Powered Popeye
# Chips Off the Old Ice Block
# Popeye's Aqua Circus
# Take It or Lump It
# Popeye's Poodle Problem
# Westward Ho! Ho!
# Bad Day at the Bakery
# Popeye the Painter
# Bully Dozer
# Swee'Pea Plagues a Parade
# Paddle Wheel Popeye
# Merry Madness at the Mardi Gras
# Popeye of Sherwood Forest
# Bad Company
# Top Kick at Boot Camp
# Peask and Quiet
# A Goon Gone Gooney
# Spa-ing Partners
# Abject Flying Object
# Ships That Pass in the Fright
# Popeye's Self Defense
# Popeye's Perilous Pursuit of a Pearl
# Olive Goes Dallas
# Pappy Falls in Love
# Popeye of the Jungle
# Alpine for You
# Tour Each His Own
# The Umpire Strikes Back
# Free Hauling Brawl
# W.O.I.L.
# Tough Sledding
# I Wouldn't Take That Mare to the Fair on a Dare
# The Great Speckled Whale
# Popierre the Musketeer
# Unidentified Fighting Object
# Olive's Devastating Decorators (misspelled on title card as "Olive's Devastatingk Decorators")
# Cheap Skate Date
# The Incredible Shrinking Popeye
# Winner Window Washer
# Hogwash at the Car Wash
# Popeye Stumps Bluto
# The Loneliness of the Long Distance Popeye
=== Popeye's Treasure Hunt ===
# I Wants Me Mummy
# The Terrifyink Transylvanian Treasure Trek
# The Sword of Fitzwilly
# Play It Again, Popeye
# Captain Meno's Sunken Treasure
# The Delmonica Diamond
# The Treasure of Howe's Bayou
# Coldfinger
# Popeye in Wonderland
# The Three Ring Ding-a-Ling
# Spring Daze in Paris
# A Horse of a Flying Color
# The Mask of Gorgonzola
# I Left My Spinach in San Francisco
# A Trio in Rio
# Popeye at the Center of the Earth
# Boola Boola Hula
# The Treasure of Werner Schnitzel
# Dublin or Nothin'
# Around the World in 80 Hours
# Hail, Hail, the Ganges All Here
# Beyond the Spinach Brick Road
# In a Little Spinach Town
# Forum or Against 'Em
# Plunder Down Under
# The Reel Hollywood Treasure Hunt
=== Popeye's Sports Parade ===
# King of the Rodeo
# Fantastic Gymnastics
# Water Ya Doin'?
# No Fuel Like an Old Fuel
# Sky High Fly Try
== See Also ==
* The Popeye Valentine Special: Sweethearts at Sea
* The Popeye & Olive Comedy Show
 
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