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September 22, 1961 (estimated) TV Episode Popeye

Studio
Rembrandt Films, Gene Deitch Studios
Animation studio
Halas and Batchelor
Distributor
King Features Syndicate

Synopsis

An spaceship lands on Earth carrying an alien disguised as a mailbox! Popeye is about to go out to mail Olive a birthday card when he hears a radio announcement that a flying saucer has been sighted over the city. Popeye continues with his task to mail the card, but he does not realize that the mailbox he has just posted Olive's card in is really the flying saucer. The extraterrestrial then tries to kidnap Popeye and Olive Oyl!

Characters

Popeye, Olive Oyl, Alien Mailbox

Credits

Directing

Director
Gene Deitch

Producing

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

Voices

Voice
Jack Mercer (Popeye), Mae Questel (Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Eugene)

Music

Music
Stepan Konicek

Companies and other credits

  • Animator: Halas and Batchelor

Production notes

Look carefully at the scenes with Popeye's letter to Olive Oyl. One of the scenes shows Popeye's letter addressed to "Olive Oil." Then, in the very next shot, this is corrected to "Olive Oyl."

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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