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Production Notes:

The pilot for Popeye cartoons produced for TV by Paramount. Only director Seymour Kneitel was credited.

In this episode, Olive wears a short-sleeved shirt and high heels (as she did in many Famous Studios cartoons); in all other Paramount TV episodes, she wears her comic strip clothes.

King Features had no cartoon studios, so Popeye storyboards were produced in its offices, while animation was divided between Paramount/Famous Studios, Larry Harmon Productions, Total TV Productions, Gene Deitch/Rembrandt Studios, Halas and Batchelor and Jack Kinney Productions.

Of those stations which bought the King Features Popeye cartoons in 1960, 90% renewed their contracts in 1965.

Note the change in the villain's name… from Bluto to Brutus.

This is the first time the 1940's Famous Studios Popeye theme is used in this series. The second is "Barbecue for Two."

Popeye sings:

Cheese is strong to the finish
when mixed with some spinach.
says Popeye the Sailor Man.

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