Series Description:

The Popeye the Sailor cartoon show was a 30 minute, syndicated kids cartoon series about a normally mild-mannered sailor who became a super strong heroic dynamo after eating spinach. Popeye was very fond of Olive Oyl who often had to be saved from the evil Brutus and he adored his darling baby nephew Swee'Pea.

Popeye the Sailor Characters (Voices):

Popeye the Sailor Trivia:

Popeye first appeared on January 17, 1929 in a comic strip titled "Thimble Theatre" by cartoonist E.C. Segar. Two of the strips characters decided to take a trip to an island and needed someone to sail their boat. Segar created a skinny elderly retired sailor who smoked a corn cob pipe as the captain of their boat. Popeye was only intended to appear in that one strip but by 1932 he became so popular that he literally took it over as the main character! Eventually he became more vital and youthfull and developed a relationship with Olive Oyl, getting his first kiss in August of 1929.

Popeye didn't even get his name until his third appearance in the comics. He said his famous exclamation, "Blow Me Down" for the first time in his fourth appearance.

In the beginning Popeye was actually a bit of a hothead! He often ended out beating up an innocent party! It would be impossible today to have a hero act in such a manner but that was during the post World War I era and in the era of the Great Depression. Lots of people were in a mood to knock somebody's block off at the time and Popeye's temperment didn't seem out of line at the time.

While spinach was mentioned as causing Popeye's tremendous strength in the comics, it wasn't emphasized much until he became a cartoon star. Within a short amount of time after the cartoons began, Spinach onsumption in the U.S. increased by 30%!

Most fans agree that these 220 episodes produced during 1960-1961 are the worst Popeye cartoons ever produced. Because of that they are very rarely broadcast and therefore, ironically, coveted by die hard fans.

Many fans also didn't appreciate the 1980 Popeye movie starring Robin Williams as Popeye and Shelley Duval as Olive Oyl. Critics said that the movie didn't capture the mood of the cartoons but that the stars were amazing in their roles.

Episodes List With Original Air Dates

The First Season (1960)

1. Hits and Missiles
2. Barbecue for Two
3. Muskels Schmuskels
4. Hoppy Jalopy
5. Dead-Eye Popeye
6. Mueller's Mad Monster
7. Caveman Capers
8. Bullfighter Bully
9. Ace of Space
10. College of Hard Knocks
11. Abdominal Snowman
12. Ski-Jump Chump
13. Irate Pirate
14. Foola-Foola Bird
15. Uranium on the Cranium
16. Two-Faced Paleface
17. Childhood Daze
18. Sheepish Sheep-Herder
19. Track Meet Cheat
20. Crystal Ball Brawl
21. Interrupted Lullaby
22. Sea No Evil
23. From Way Out
24. Seeing Double
25. Swee'pea Soup
26. Hag Way Robbery
27. The Lost City of Bubble-Lon
28. There's No Space Like Home
29. Potent Lotion
30. Astro-Nut
31. Where There's a Will
32. Take It Easel
33. I Bin Sculped
34. Fleas a Crowd
35. Popeye's Junior Headache
36. Egypt Us
37. The Big Sneeze
38. The Last Resort
39. Jeopardy Sheriff
40. Baby Phase
41. Goon with the Wind
42. Insultin' the Sultan
43. Dog-Gone Dog-Catcher
44. Voice from the Deep or See Here, Sea Hag
45. Matinee Idol Popeye
46. Beaver or Not
47. Battery Up
48. Deserted Desert
49. Skinned Divers
50. Popeye's Service Station
51. Coffee House
52. Popeye's Pep-Up Emporium
53. Bird Watcher Popeye
54. Time Marches Backwards
55. Popeye's Pet Store
56. Ballet de Spinach
57. Sea Hagracy
58. Spinach Shortage
59. Popeye and the Dragon
60. Popeye the Fireman
61. Popeye's Pizza Palace
62. Down the Hatch
63. Lighthouse Keeping
64. Popeye and the Phantom
65. Popeye's Picnic
66. Out of This World
67. Madam Salami
68. Timber Toppers
69. Skyscraper Capers
70. Private Eye Popeye
71. Little Olive Riding Hood
72. Popeye's Hypnotic Glance
73. Popeye's Trojan Horse
74. Frozen Feuds
75. Popeye's Corn-Certo
76. Westward Ho-Ho
77. Popeye's Cool Pool
78. Jeep Jeep
79. Popeye's Museum Piece
80. Golf Brawl
81. Wimpy's Lunch Wagon
82. Weather Watchers
83. Popeye and the Giant
84. Hill Billy Dilly
85. Popeye and the Magic Hat
86. Pest of the Pecos
87. The Blubbering Whaler
88. Popeye and the Spinach Stalk
89. Shoot the Chutes
90. Tiger Burger
91. Bottom Gun
92. Olive Drab and the Seven Sweapeas
93. Blinkin Beacon
94. Azteck Wreck
95. The Green Dancin' Shoes
96. Spare Dat Tree
97. The Glad Gladiator
98. The Golden Touch
99. Hamburger Fishing
100. Popeye the Popular Mechanic
101. Popeye's Folly
102. Popeye's Used Car
103. Spinachonara
104. Popeye and the Polite Dragon
105. Popeye the Ugly Ducklin
106. Popeye's Tea Party
107. The Troll Wot Got Gruff
108. Popeye the Lifeguard
109. Popeye in the Woods
110. After the Ball Went Over
111. Popeye and Buddy Brutus
112. Popeye's Car Wash
113. Camel Aires
114. Plumbers Pipe Dream
115. Popeye and the Herring Snatcher
116. Invisible Popeye
117. The Square Egg
118. Old Salt Tale
119. Jeep Tale
120. The Super Duper Market
121. Golden-Type Fleece
122. Popeye the White Collar Man
123. Sweapea Thru the Looking Glass
124. The Black Knight
125. Jingle Jangle Jungle
126. The Day Silky Went Blozo
127. Rip Van Popeye
128. Mississippi Sissy
129. Double Cross Country Feet Race
130. Fashion Fotography
131. I Yam Wot I Yamnesia
132. Paper Pasting Pandemonium
133. Coach Popeye
134. Popeyed Columbus
135. Popeye Revere
136. Popeye in Haweye
137. Forever Ambergris
138. Popeye De Leon
139. Popeyed Fisherman
140. Popeye in the Grand Steeple Chase
141. Uncivil War
142. Popeye the Piano Mover
143. Popeye's Testimonial Dinner
144. Around the World in Eighty Ways
145. Popeye's Fixit Shop
146. Bell Hop Popeye
147. The Ghost Host
148. Strikes, Spares, an' Spinach
149. Jeep Is Jeep
150. The Spinach Scholar
151. Psychiatricks
152. Rags to Riches to Rags
153. Hair Cut-Ups
154. Poppa Popeye
155. Quick Change Olie
156. The Valley of the Goons
157. Me Quest for Poopdeck Pappy
158. Moby Hick
159. Mirror Magic
160. It Only Hurts When They Laugh
161. Wimpy the Moocher
162. Voo-Doo to You Too
163. Popeye Goes Sale-ing
164. Popeye's Travels
165. Incident at Missile City
166. Dog Catcher Popeye
167. What's News
168. Spinach Greetings
169. The Baby Contest

The Second Season

170. Oil's Well That Ends Well
171. Motor Knocks
172. Amusement Park
173. Duel to the Finish
174. Gem Jam
175. The Bathing Beasts
176. The Rain Breaker
177. Messin' Up the Mississippi
178. Love Birds
179. Sea Serpent
180. Boardering on Trouble
181. Aladdin's Lamp
182. Butler Up
183. The Leprechaun
184. County Fair
185. Hamburgers Aweigh
186. Popeye's Double Trouble
187. Kiddie Kapers
188. The Mark of Zero
189. Myskery Melody
190. Scairdy Cat
191. Operation Ice-Tickle
192. The Cure
193. William Won't Tell
194. Pop Goes the Whistle
195. Autographically Yours
196. A Poil for Olive Oyl
197. My Fair Olive
198. Giddy Gold
199. Strange Things Are Happening
200. The Medicine Man
201. A Mite of Trouble
202. Who's Kidding Zoo
203. Robot Popeye
204. Sneaking Peeking
205. Seer-ring Is Believer-ring
206. The Wiffle Bird's Revenge
207. Going Going Gone
208. Popeye Thumb
209. The Billionaire
210. Model Muddle
211. Which Is Witch
212. Disguise the Limit
213. Spoil Sport
214. Have Time Will Travel
215. Intellectual Interlude
216. Partial Post
217. Weight for Me
218. Canine Caprice
219. Roger
220. Tooth Be or Not Tooth Be