Astro-Nut

Astro-Nut

September 12, 1960 (estimated) TV Episode Popeye

Studio
Rembrandt Films, Gene Deitch Studios
Distributor
King Features Syndicate

Synopsis

Popeye volunteers to undergo an eight-day series of tests for the government while living in a space capsule. His endurance is tested when he discovers that in his absence, Brutus plans to wine and dine Olive for eight days! Finding out that Brutus is going to try to take Olive away from him while he's gone, Popeye is imprisoned in the test rocket and unable to stop Brutus. Popeye's increasingly heated anger causes his canned spinach to explode. He uses tons of spinach to take off, sending the rocket zooming into space faster than the speed of light. This causes Popeye to move eight days forward in space time in a matter of one hour Earth time. When he returns with the tests completed, Brutus finds that he has spent only minutes with Olive. Popeye returns before he left so that he can get Olive back.

Characters

Popeye, Brutus, Olive Oyl

Credits

Directing

Director
Gene Deitch

Producing

Producer
Willliam L. Snyder
Executive Producer
Al Brodax
Supervising Producer
Gene Deitch

Voices

Voice
Jack Mercer (Popeye), Jackson Beck (Brutus), Mae Questel (Olive Oyl)

Music

Music
Stepan Konicek

Production notes

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.

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