Gem Jam

Popeye and Olive are tourists in India. The Sea Hag is there, also, to steal a large sacred gem from the crown of a great Hindu idol. However, the Sea Hag knows that the theft of the gem will be followed by a curse of endless disasters. So she looks for a fall guy. Seeing Olive, she separates her away from Popeye and gets her under her power with the help of drugged perfume. Olive, under the Sea Hag's spell, climbs the idol, takes the gem, and puts it in her purse. The curse starts immediately. Lightning from the idol throws Olive to the ground. The fall shocks her back to her senses so that when the Sea Hag asks her for the gem, Olive doesn't know what she's talking about. Before the Sea Hag can put another spell on Olive, Popeye comes in. The Sea Hag retreats, but she waits for a chance to get the gem out of Olive's purse. From this point on, disasters, one after another, follow Olive. Popeye saves Olive from falling walls, etc. The last blow is the cracking open of the ground. Popeye saves Olive, but he's swallowed into the ground himself. The Sea Hag now has her chance. She grabs the gem from Olive's purse and prepares to leave India on the back of her vulture. Olive now knows what it's all about. She pours spinach into the ground where Popeye is buried. Popeye is saved. He recovers the gem from the Sea Hag. Olive eats some spinach, too, and she punishes the Sea Hag. They then return the gem to the idol for a happy ending.

Popeye, Olive Oyl, Sea Hag, Vulture

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.

The first of several cartoons in which Olive eats Popeye's spinach to beat up the Sea Hag (Popeye's sailor's code of ethics won't let him sock a woman).