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Production Notes:

The only Jack Kinney-produced cartoon in which Popeye and the other characters resemble their comic strip designs. This is also the only Kinney-produced Popeye cartoon with no music soundtrack.

The only episode Olive Oyl has dot eyes.

Brutus doesn't wear a sailor uniform like Popeye; he wears a collar-button shirt.

Note the change in the villain's name... from Bluto to Brutus. However, Brutus isn't even named yet in this first cartoon- he is just referred to as "Neighbor"!

This is the first Popeye cartoon produced exclusively for TV, and the only one to feature Popeye in the black shirt and captain's cap.

This is the second time that the 1940s Famous Studios Popeye theme is used in this series. The other is "Hits And Missiles."

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.

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