Season 1933
Episode: 1933-07-14 | Airdate: Jul 14, 1933
While on shore leave, Popeye takes Olive Oyl to a carnival, where he is challenged by Bluto in various games. Later, while Popeye is dancing on stage with Betty Boop, Bluto seizes the opportunity to kidnap Olive, forcing Popeye to come to her rescue.
Episode: 1933-09-29 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1933
After a stormy boat ride with Olive Oyl and Wimpy, Popeye builds a log cabin near the beach where they make landfall. Later, while Popeye is out on his own hunting for dinner, a band of indians wages separate assaults on the cabin and on Popeye.
Episode: 1933-10-27 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1933
Popeye visits Olive Oyl, who is working as a dancer in a cantina in Mexico. Bluto the Bandit shows up and scares off everyone except Popeye. After failing to beat him in various challenges, Bluto sets his gang on Popeye while he goes after Olive.
Episode: 1933-11-17 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1933
Popeye escorts Olive Oyl to a rodeo, where The Great Bluto is performing. Becoming jealous over Olive's adoration of Bluto's showmanship, Popeye enters the ring to prove he can do better.
Episode: 1933-11-17 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1933
Popeye brings ice skates for Olive Oyl as a Christmas present and takes her to a frozen lake for lessons, but Bluto interferes as he tries to win her affections. When she rejects him, he sets her adrift on a block of ice, then takes on Popeye.
Episode: 1933-12-29 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1933
Popeye navigates rough seas on a raft with Olive Oyl before making landfall near a jungle. They are quickly confronted by a variety of wild jungle animals that Popeye must fend off to protect himself and Olive.
Season 1934
Episode: 1934-01-19 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1934
While Popeye is out with a sleeping baby in a stroller, the infant is woken up and pitches a fit. After a struggle to put the baby back to sleep, he goes to great lengths to silence various activities nearby that risk disturbing the peace.
Episode: 1934-02-16 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1934
Popeye and Bluto the Champ are at a camp training for a boxing match. Later, despite Olive Oyl's pledge to never see him again if he fights, Popeye enters the ring for the bout. Meanwhile, Olive is nervously listening to the fight on the radio at home.
Episode: 1934-03-16 | Airdate: Mar 16, 1934
Popeye sails into town to call on Olive Oyl, only to find that she has fallen for a trapeze artist and is off performing with him. After brooding over the betrayal, he breaks in to see the act but intervenes when he sees her being treated brutally.
Episode: 1934-04-27 | Airdate: Apr 27, 1934
After escorting Olive Oyl to her job at the Bruiser Club's hospital, Popeye looks into joining the club himself. Bluto, the club's president, scoffs at his desire to join, then challenges him to prove how tough he is.
Episode: 1934-06-01 | Airdate: Jun 1, 1934
Olive Oyl is running a blacksmith shop with Wimpy, but finds the job to be more than the two of them can handle. Popeye and Bluto both respond to her job advertisement and find themselves competing to see who would be the better man for it.
Episode: 1934-06-29 | Airdate: Jun 29, 1934
After the children at Olive Oyl's Health Farm for Children reject her dinner of spinach, Popeye demonstates to them how it is good for the body. The children then endanger themselves when they feed it to a pair of sickly bulls, who then turn on them.
Episode: 1934-07-27 | Airdate: Jul 27, 1934
Popeye, Wimpy, and Olive Oyl are stranded on a beach, where they encounter a ghost ship. While investigating it, the group has various strange encounters on the ship before they are attacked and subsequently tortured by the ship's inhabitants.
Episode: 1934-08-30 | Airdate: Aug 30, 1934
After rescuing her from drowning in the river, Olive Oyl tells Popeye that Pierre Bluto, a champion lumberjack, threw her in the river because he didn't like her spinach dinner. Popeye then confronts him, leading to a competition over lumberjack skills.
Episode: 1934-09-26 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1934
Olive Oyl goes sleepwalking one night and marches on to certain doom across rooftops and through the skeleton of a building under construction. Popeye and Bluto rush to her aid while trying to cut each other out of being the hero.
Episode: 1934-10-26 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1934
Popeye and Bluto are in rival companies of a volunteer fire department. When Olive Oyl's house catches fire, they both respond and try to outdo and even interfere with each other in their attempts to rescue Olive and save her house.
Episode: 1934-11-23 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1934
Popeye and Olive Oyl compete as a couple in a dance contest, but find themselves fumbling on the floor. Bluto steps in and pushes Popeye out to show off his superior dance skills. Dejected, Popeye consoles himself by dining on a bowl of spinach.
Episode: 1934-12-28 | Airdate: Dec 28, 1934
Popeye and Olive Oyl open a diner and have Wimpy as their first customer, who cons them into deferring his bill. Bluto enters the diner next, makes a scene with his demands, and orders a large meal. A fight ensues after he refuses to pay the bill.
Season 1935
Episode: 1935-01-25 | Airdate: Jan 25, 1935
When Popeye calls on Olive Oyl intending to propose marriage, she reveals that she has fallen for another sailor, Barnacle Bill. Popeye expresses his utmost contempt for Barnacle Bill and fights him for Olive's affections when he arrives for her.
Episode: 1935-02-22 | Airdate: Feb 22, 1935
Popeye and Olive Oyl are out feeding birds in the park when they witness Bluto mistreating the horse pulling his produce cart. The couple intervenes to set a better example, but Bluto gets even angrier and takes it out on the horse.
Episode: 1935-03-22 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1935
Popeye and Bluto unexpectedly come face to face as they are calling on Olive Oyl. Olive tries to have them sit with her peacefully, but orders one out after they trade blows. To decide who stays, they perform various tricks to see who she most favors.
Episode: 1935-04-26 | Airdate: Apr 26, 1935
Popeye takes Olive Oyl to a hypnotist's show. When Popeye's whistle-blowing interrupts his act, the performer hypnotizes Olive and forces her act like a chicken. Enraged over the mockery made of Olive, Popeye jumps on stage to defend her honor.
Episode: 1935-05-31 | Airdate: May 31, 1935
While escorting a prisoner, Wimpy is distracted by a display of hamburgers. The prisoner escapes and ventures into Popeye's pawn shop. He attempts to con Popeye into buying his own knives, but Popeye rejects the low quality goods, leading to a fight.
Episode: 1935-06-28 | Airdate: Jun 28, 1935
After failing miserably at cooking a meal, Popeye decides that he needs to get a wife. He marches off to a matrimonial agency, where he finds himself interested in the same woman as Bluto. The two come to blows as they vie for the right to marry her.
Episode: 1935-07-26 | Airdate: Jul 26, 1935
Popeye invites Bluto to assist him on a deep sea dive for treasure, promising a 50/50 split. Instead, Bluto steals the map and races off to the dive site. Popeye arrives behind him and the two fight underwater while searching for the sunken treasure.
Episode: 1935-08-30 | Airdate: Aug 30, 1935
Popeye is attending a football game with Olive Oyl, but feels betrayed after she flirts with Bluto and goes on field to root for his team. In retaliation, Popeye joins the opposing team but soon finds they are outmatched by Bluto and his team.
Episode: 1935-09-27 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1935
During a Mardi Gras festival, Popeye and Bluto have competing performances on neighboring stages and vie for the attention of the crowd. The duo involve Olive Oyl in their acts before taking the rivalry to a roller coaster where they duke it out.
Episode: 1935-10-25 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1935
After a young boy gets bullied around, Popeye comes to life out of a comic book the boy had bought beforehand. Popeye shows him how he handled tough guys in a number of his earlier films, convincing the boy to eat his spinach to be strong like Popeye.
Episode: 1935-12-07 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1935
Popeye is practicing conducting with his small music band while Maestro Bluto is nearby, amused by the amateur efforts. Bluto forcibly takes over from Popeye and outshines him, leading to his friends' abandoning him for Bluto's band.
Season 1936
Episode: 1936-01-03 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1936
While on her way to Popeye's gym for women, Olive Oyl spurns Bluto's offer to join him for a night on the town. Stinging from the rejection, Bluto sneaks into the gym disguised as a woman, intending to make Popeye look weak compared to "herself".
Episode: 1936-02-07 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1936
Olive Oyl's singing about wanting a clean shaven man prompts Popeye and Bluto to rush off to Wimpy's barber shop to correct their disheveled appearances. With Wimpy out of the shop, the pair agree to "fix each other up".
Episode: 1936-03-06 | Airdate: Mar 6, 1936
After listening to Olive Oyl sing about "brotherly love" over the radio, Popeye is inspired to go out and share some love with the strangers he meets. But when he tries to intervene in large street brawl, he finds himself preaching to deaf ears.
Episode: 1936-04-03 | Airdate: Apr 3, 1936
Popeye and Bluto arrive at Olive Oyl's cabin with offers to take her mountain climbing. Enraged that she opted to go with Popeye over him, Bluto follows the couple on their excursion, sabotaging it at every opportunity.
Episode: 1936-05-01 | Airdate: May 1, 1936
After objecting to Bluto's abusive behavior and high rates for his river ferry service, Popeye vows to build a toll-free bridge. With the help of Wimpy and Olive Oyl, the construction is making progress until Bluto comes along to disrupt their work.
Episode: 1936-05-07 | Airdate: May 7, 1936
While working in Bluto's restaurant, Wimpy is thwarted in his attempts to sneak a sampling of Popeye's order of roast duck. Desperate for a snack, he resorts to sabotaging Popeye's meal. Popeye refuses to pay, leading to a confrontation with Bluto.
Episode: 1936-06-26 | Airdate: Jun 26, 1936
Popeye and Bluto apply for a job as a lifeguard at the swimming pool. To decide who gets the job, Wimpy asks them to demonstrate their skills. The duo comply and show off for Olive Oyl and the other ladies present, trading blows in the process.
Episode: 1936-07-24 | Airdate: Jul 24, 1936
Olive Oyl rejects Popeye's offer to help her move, believing he's not strong enough for the task. Bluto, the moving man she hired, shows up and Olive fawns over him. Offended, Popeye accepts Bluto's challenge to prove he's equally strong and capable.
Episode: 1936-08-28 | Airdate: Aug 28, 1936
Olive Oyl is pushed by Popeye into taking a class for self defense. When the instructor starts to flirt with Popeye, her jealousy compels her to take a greater interest in the training, but finds herself being mocked by her new rival.
Episode: 1936-09-25 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1936
Too busy too go with Popeye to the zoo, she instead gets him to take Swee'Pea. While there, Swee'Pea sneaks off and faces danger as he enters various animal pens and cages, forcing Popeye to come to the rescue.
Episode: 1936-10-23 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1936
Olive Oyl rejects Popeye's call for a date, saying he's not romantic enough. He tries to convince her differently by reciting poetry. Bluto overhears their conversation and decides to tap the line, interjecting ruder comments while posing as Popeye.
Episode: 1936-11-26 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1936
Rejecting Bluto's offer to take her out in his much sportier car, Olive Oyl goes for a ride with Popeye in his jalopy. Bluto speeds ahead of the couple and attempts to sabotage their drive, but finds himself outwitted each time.
Episode: 1936-11-27 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1936
When Popeye sails near his isle, Sindbad the Sailor sends a roc to kidnap Olive Oyl off the ship and wreck it. Once Popeye makes his way to shore with Wimpy, he goes on to confront Sindbad while Wimpy ventures off hoping to make a meal out of a duck.
Episode: 1936-12-25 | Airdate: Dec 25, 1936
When Olive Oyl expresses admiration for military men, Popeye and Bluto rush into a recruitment center to sign up. Told there's only room for one, they try to prove who is the better candidate by showing off their feats in clips from their prior movies.
Season 1937
Episode: 1937-01-22 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1937
On the outside of an office building, Popeye and Bluto duke it out as rival window washers.
Episode: 1937-02-19 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1937
Wimpy is performing as an organ grinder when Bluto demands that he leave. Popeye, who was taking delight in the music, insists that he stay. The two come to blows as Bluto tries to force Wimpy to move on while Popeye steps in to defend him.
Episode: 1937-03-19 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1937
Bluto (a painter), and Popeye (a sculptor) are sharing an art studio when Olive Oyl arrives requesting a likeness of herself. The two compete to see who can provide the more satisfactory product, interfering in each other's work while doing so.
Episode: 1937-04-16 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1937
Popeye and Bluto follow Olive Oyl to a hospital, where she works as a nurse. Desiring her attention, they fake being ill. When that ploy falls apart, they then go out in search of danger, hoping to get injured so Olive will have to tend to them.
Episode: 1937-05-21 | Airdate: May 21, 1937
After arriving on field for their baseball game, Popeye drops his can of spinach near Bluto. Bluto seizes the opportunity to eat the spinach himself and replaces it with grass before giving it back to an oblivious Popeye, thus gaining the upper hand.
Episode: 1937-06-18 | Airdate: Jun 18, 1937
Bluto vandalizes billboards touting "Popito and Olivita's" dance show at Wimpy's Café. Later, while loitering outside the café, Bluto is rejected by Olivita when he asks for a date. Angry, he enters the café intent on disrupting the show.
Episode: 1937-07-16 | Airdate: Jul 16, 1937
Popeye is starting his lunch break at the factory when he spots Olive Oyl out with Swee'Pea. She accepts his offer to join him, but their meal is cut short when Swee'Pea sneaks off into the factory and faces grave injury from the active machinery.
Episode: 1937-08-20 | Airdate: Aug 20, 1937
Popeye is distraught on learning that Olive Oyl has shut down her diner at the airfield and left him to be with an aviator. When he sees that she is being abused up in the air by the man she left him for, he rushes up in a plane himself to rescue her.
Episode: 1937-09-18 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1937
Olive Oyl, unsuccessful at getting Swee'Pea to stop crying, calls for Popeye to come help her. Bluto overhears her plea and butts in. The two men go to extremes in trying to amuse Swee'Pea with various tricks, going so far as to beat on each other.
Episode: 1937-10-15 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1937
When Swee'Pea refuses to eat his spinach dinner, Popeye recalls how he used to hate spinach too. He then relives his childhood memories of the day his football team was losing a game until he caved in to Olive Oyl's pleas to eat his spinach.
Episode: 1937-11-19 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1937
Popeye feels humiliated when Olive Oyl makes him take her "sissy dog" for a walk, striving to avoid being seen with it. When they cross paths, Bluto sics his own "tough" dog on the other, then attacks Popeye to keep him from interfering.
Episode: 1937-11-26 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1937
Popeye and Olive Oyl go to Arabia. She is kidnapped and Popeye goes to her rescue massively outnumbered by the kidnappers.
Episode: 1937-12-17 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1937
Popeye leaves a parrot for Olive Oyl as a gift. Bluto is overcome with jealousy and sets the bird loose to scamper up a tree outside. When Popeye catches on and orders him to rescue the bird, Bluto proceeds to try and maim the bird instead.
Season 1938
Episode: 1938-01-21 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1938
On New Year's Eve, Popeye and Bluto arrive to take Olive Oyl out to celebrate. When Popeye realizes that her grandma would be left home alone, he takes pity on her and insists that she join them for the festivities.
Episode: 1938-02-18 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1938
Olive Oyl drags a reluctant Popeye into Professor Bluteau's School of Etiquette, hoping that he can be taught to become a gentleman. After Popeye fails in his lessons, the professor attempts to woo Olive, leading to a scuffle between the men.
Episode: 1938-03-18 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1938
When Popeye and Wimpy, both volunteer firemen, arrive too late to save Olive Oyl's house from a fire, Popeye promises they will rebuild her home. The two make good on the promise, but make many bumbling mistakes during the construction.
Episode: 1938-04-25 | Airdate: Apr 25, 1938
Determined to make her his squaw, the chief of an indian tribe showers gifts on Olive Oyl when she happens into his camp. Swooning over the attention, she refuses to leave when Popeye comes for her, leading to a confrontation with the chief.
Episode: 1938-05-29 | Airdate: May 29, 1938
Olive Oyl, pre-occupied with a book of love stories, pays little attention to Popeye when he calls on her before revealing that she has a new boyfriend. Dejected, Popeye feigns being ill in an attempt to regain her affections.
Episode: 1938-06-17 | Airdate: Jun 17, 1938
When Wimpy the plumber fails to arrive in a timely manner to fix Olive Oyl's leaking pipe, Popeye arrives and attempts to fix it himself. The problems escalate as one repair leads to more leaks elsewhere.
Episode: 1938-07-15 | Airdate: Jul 15, 1938
Referring to him as a "magical dog", Popeye brings Eugene the Jeep to Olive Oyl's apartment so he can play with Swee'Pea. When they find Swee'Pea has escaped from his crib and gone missing, they set out to find him.
Episode: 1938-08-19 | Airdate: Aug 19, 1938
Enamoured with the señorita, Popeye follows Olive Oyl into a bull fighting stadium. While in the midst of trying to gain her affections, he finds himself shuffled into the ring, where he strives to avoid fighting the bull.
Episode: 1938-09-23 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1938
After Popeye discovers Olive Oyl aboard ship as an accidental stowaway, he attempts to keep her presence secret from his crew, who consider women to be bad luck on a ship. When they discover her out on the deck, mutiny ensues.
Episode: 1938-10-21 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1938
Popeye arrives on Goon Island, where he believes his long lost Pappy can be found. While roaming through their village in disguise, Popeye finds his Pappy is being held prisoner by the natives, but has no desire to leave.
Episode: 1938-10-18 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1938
Popeye takes Olive Oyl to a roller rink for skating lessons. During the course of her lessons, she panics and finds herself outside and facing several deadly obstacles as she skates out of control.
Episode: 1938-12-30 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1938
After an officer cites Popeye for hitting him with his car, Popeye reaches Olive Oyl's home and is dragged into helping her clean. The chores are continually interrupted as the same officer continues to cite him for various other violations while there.
Season 1939
Episode: 1939-01-27 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1939
As operators of competing penny arcades, Popeye and Bluto are hawking their services to the passing crowd when Wimpy happens along. The two then compete for his patronage by showing off clips from their past films to him.
Episode: 1939-04-07 | Airdate: Apr 7, 1939
Olive Oyl turns playwright and casts Popeye as Aladdin and herself as the princess.
Episode: 1939-04-28 | Airdate: Apr 28, 1939
While out for a stroll, Popeye pauses by Olive Oyl's Pet Shop. Taking pity on the caged animals, he buys them all and sets them free. Chaos ensues out in the streets as a parrot who stayed behind convinces him of the error in his good intentions.
Episode: 1939-05-19 | Airdate: May 19, 1939
Popeye has restless dreams one night, in which he finds himself competing with the devilish Bluto for the affections of the angelic Olive Oyl.
Episode: 1939-06-14 | Airdate: Jun 14, 1939
While listening to Olive Oyl read a scary story, Popeye becomes spooked and hides under the couch, much to her and Bluto's amusement. Bluto is then inspired to play a prank on the two by making a nearby house appear to be haunted.
Episode: 1939-07-14 | Airdate: Jul 14, 1939
After overhearing Olive Oyl invite Popeye over for a hamburger dinner, Wimpy sneaks out and heads over himself, disguised as Popeye. Confusion ensues as the two argue over who is the real Popeye, with Olive believing in the impostor.
Episode: 1939-07-30 | Airdate: Jul 30, 1939
After receiving a telegram from the Popeye Fan Club begging them to tone down the violence, Olive Oyl convinces Popeye and Bluto to start acting like gentlemen. Later, the men call on her and try to act civilized, but feel awkward in doing so.
Episode: 1939-11-03 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1939
After spanking him for being bad, Popeye sends a crying Swee'Pea off to bed without supper. As Popeye wrestles with his conscience over the spanking, Swee'Pea runs away, facing danger as he travels.
Season 1940
Episode: 1940-01-19 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1940
When Bluto arrives at the theater to perform in the role of Romeo for the evening's play, he learns that he has been unceremoniously replaced by Popeye. Enraged, Bluto breaks into the theater to disrupt the performance and retake the leading role.
Episode: 1940-03-08 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1940
While Olive Oyl is showing off her trained goldfish to Popeye, the fish accidentally slips off into the ocean. Worried that her fish may drown, Olive goads Popeye into jumping in to rescue her pet, which in turn leads Popeye off on a wild chase.
Episode: 1940-03-22 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1940
Olive Oyl is showing Popeye a map to her secret goldmine when they catch Bluto spying on them. Bluto photographs the map and races off to the mine with the intent of claiming it for himself. Popeye and Olive arrive right behind him to defend her claim.
Episode: 1940-04-12 | Airdate: Apr 12, 1940
After Olive Oyl abandons him for a cowboy, Popeye heads out west to prove to her he can "punch cows" just as well as they can. When he reaches the ranch and asks for a job, Bluto attempts to embarrass him by having him try to ride his best horse.
Episode: 1940-05-24 | Airdate: May 24, 1940
Competing for a franchise to operate the state's railroad, Popeye prepares for a race to earn it but is sabotaged by his competitor, Bluto. Once underway, he has to rescue Olive Oyl, who was accidentally swept up into Bluto's locomotive and put to work.
Episode: 1940-06-07 | Airdate: Jun 7, 1940
After Popeye proposes marriage, Olive Oyl sends him away so she can have time to consider it. When she goes to sleep that night, she dreams of what her life would be like with a home of four children by him.
Episode: 1940-06-20 | Airdate: Jun 20, 1940
When Popeye and Bluto call on Olive Oyl, each hoping to take her out, Olive recruits the men to watch Sweet Pea for her while she first heads to the beauty parlor. After she leaves, the two argue over the right way to bathe and clothe the baby.
Episode: 1940-07-12 | Airdate: Jul 12, 1940
Popeye sees off his pal Dr. Bluto as he leaves on an expedition to Africa. As the months pass, Popeye is longing for his friend to return when he learns that Bluto has gone missing. Popeye then rushes off to Africa to search for and rescue his pal.
Episode: 1940-08-02 | Airdate: Aug 2, 1940
Hoping to land a job as a stunt man, Popeye heads off to the studio of Mystery Pictures, toting along film reels demonstrating his stunt performances in past movies. Sweet Pea tags along hoping to be a stuntman too, but Popeye tells him to go back home.
Episode: 1940-08-16 | Airdate: Aug 16, 1940
Popeye visits Olive Oyl to show off his new sports car and takes her for a ride. When Olive Oyl begs Popeye to give her driving lessons, he hesitates to do so, fearing she will damage his new car, but relents when she threatens to walk back home.
Episode: 1940-08-30 | Airdate: Aug 30, 1940
Excited at the news that vaudeville is making a comeback, Olive Oyl convinces Popeye to resurrect their old act. After Popeye retrieves their dusty costumes and props from storage, they practice their routines with a little help from Sweet Pea.
Episode: 1940-09-20 | Airdate: Sep 20, 1940
William Tell runs afoul of the governor and is required to prove his identity by shooting an apple off his son's head. Popeye, despite learning earlier from William that his last attempt at that proved fatal to his son, steps in to help him out.
Episode: 1940-10-18 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1940
While Popeye is building a ship, his Pappy comes along offering to help out. Popeye initially rejects his offer, believing he is too old for the job, but relents and lets him build the opposite side of the boat so they can see who does the better job.
Episode: 1940-11-15 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1940
Popeye tries to get his Pappy to go to bed, but the older man would rather go out. Popeye, believing he needs his rest, tries to force him to stay in, but finds himself constantly intervening as Pappy sneaks out and gets himself into trouble.
Episode: 1940-12-13 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1940
Olive Oyl sends Eugene the Jeep to Popeye as a birthday present. Following Olive's advice, Popeye makes him a bed to sleep in outside. Preferring the comfort of Popeye's own bed, Eugene continually outwits Popeye in his efforts to keep him outdoors.
Season 1941
Episode: 1941-01-10 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1941
After discovering that Pappy has taken a job performing tricks on top of a flag pole, Popeye fears for his safety and insists he return home with him. Pappy is determined to stay and thwarts Popeye's attempts to force the matter.
Episode: 1941-02-07 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1941
When Popeye checks on Pappy, he finds the older man in bed with a headache and a fever. Believing he needs rest and quiet, Popeye goes to great lengths to silence any noises that risk disturbing Pappy's sleep.
Episode: 1941-03-07 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1941
Popeye calls on Olive Oyl and finds her frantically searching for a sweepstakes ticket to claim first prize in a contest. After they locate it, the ticket blows out the window, leading Popeye to risk life and limb as he tries to retrieve it for Olive.
Episode: 1941-04-04 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1941
Popeye is trying to take a nap but is briefly disturbed by a group of flies. After shooing them out the window, one other fly who was left behind goes out of its way to pester Popeye, supercharging its shenanigans with spinach.
Episode: 1941-05-09 | Airdate: May 9, 1941
After stumbling across the slumbering Rip Van Winkle as he is being evicted from his home, Popeye brings the man home with him so he can have a bed to sleep in. When Rip goes sleepwalking, Popeye chases after him and winds up scuffling with some gnomes.
Episode: 1941-06-13 | Airdate: Jun 13, 1941
Popeye is looking to buy a bearskin coat as a birthday present for Olive Oyl, but a furrier tries to scam him. He then decides instead to hunt down a bear to make the coat himself, but guilt overcomes him when he finally corners one.
Episode: 1941-07-11 | Airdate: Jul 11, 1941
When Pappy starts to silence Sweet Pea's crying by slapping him, Popeye intervenes and shows him some lessons in a book on child psychology. When Popeye steps out, Pappy tries to make a "he-man" out of Sweet Pea by testing his nerves.
Episode: 1941-08-08 | Airdate: Aug 8, 1941
Popeye rejects Pappy's plea for a job as a pilot at his airport, saying he's too old to be a pilot, even if he knew how to fly. Stinging from the rejection, Pappy spots an unattended plane and makes off with it, causing havoc around the world.
Episode: 1941-09-19 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1941
When Olive Oyl discovers that a flock of crows is eating up the vegetables in her garden, she calls Popeye to get rid of them. The crows prove to be craftier than he anticipated as his various attempts to run them off fall flat.
Episode: 1941-10-14 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1941
Having enlisted in the US Navy, Popeye is aboard a training ship when the captain demands he demonstrate what he knows about a ship. More accustomed to "ships with sails", Popeye fumbles about as he tries to operate the modern ship's mechanisms.
Episode: 1941-12-19 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1941
Needing a human subject to practice on, a hypnotist randomly picks Olive Oyl's name out of a phone book, hypnotizes her over a phone call, and commands her to come to him. When Popeye catches on to what happened, he chases after her to save her.
Season 1942
Episode: 1942-01-17 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1942
Intent on stealing Popeye's girlfriend, Olivia Oyla, Bluto beats Popeye off ship for shore leave and reaches her first. After Popeye arrives to claim his date, Bluto follows them to a café and offers to dance with the señorita when Popeye won't.
Episode: 1942-02-13 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1942
Popeye finds the modern weapons of the battleship to be more complex than he can handle and fumbles his turn at target practice. He is then sent to shovel coal in the boiler room, but when an enemy submarine is spotted, he responds to the battle call.
Episode: 1942-03-13 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1942
Believing that he lacks discipline, the battleship captain is putting Popeye through a set of drills when an enemy plane attacks the ship. Popeye is sent after the plane in a patrol boat and finds its carrier, from which more planes are launching.
Episode: 1942-04-10 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1942
While Popeye is getting spinach for his nephews' lunch, the boys try to sneak out but he manages to herd them back to the table. When they express how they dislike spinach, Popeye is dismayed and sets to convince them of its benefits for the body.
Episode: 1942-05-08 | Airdate: May 8, 1942
Popeye and Bluto have sworn off women, considering them to be nothing but trouble, when Olive Oyl shows up at their ship for a tour. Forgetting their vows, the two men fight over who gets to show her around, with Olive caught in the middle.
Episode: 1942-06-16 | Airdate: Jun 16, 1942
In order to sneak off the army base, Bluto ambushes Popeye, swaps his army uniform for Popeye's navy uniform, then leaves base uncontested. Popeye then finds himself doing tank drills in Bluto's place, unfamiliar with how they operate.
Episode: 1942-07-03 | Airdate: Jul 3, 1942
Unimpressed with Popeye's gift of a toy sailboat, Sweet Pea is instead enamoured with the battleship that Popeye is stationed on. When Olive Oyl leaves him in Popeye's care to go shopping, Sweet Pea sneaks out of his carriage to explore the battleship.
Episode: 1942-08-07 | Airdate: Aug 7, 1942
While out on patrol, Popeye encounters a pair of Japanese fishermen. Expecting a battle, Popeye starts to confront the two, but stops when they offer a peace gesture. He is warmed by the offer and accepts it, but finds they are just toying with him.
Episode: 1942-09-04 | Airdate: Sep 4, 1942
While their battleship is moored off the tropical Isle of Woo Woo, Popeye and Bluto spot Princess Alona in the surf nearby. Popeye and Bluto follow the dream girl to shore and pursue her through the jungle, each hoping to gain her affections.
Episode: 1942-10-16 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1942
Popeye and Bluto are competing for a contract to build a fleet of ships, with the winner being who can deliver the first ship. The two men set to constructing their ships, with Bluto interfering with Popeye's efforts in the hopes of gaining the edge.
Episode: 1942-11-20 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1942
Popeye is performing maintenance duties on an aircraft carrier when a camouflaged enemy plane attacks the ship. Popeye goes after him, eventually finding himself aboard a Japanese repair ship, taking on them and a Japanese battleship nearby.
Episode: 1942-12-25 | Airdate: Dec 25, 1942
Exhausted and in need of rest, Popeye interrupts his nephews' music practice so they can get ready for sleep. The boys are still restless after Popeye puts them to bed, so they begin an impromptu practice session with makeshift instruments.
Season 1943
Episode: 1943-01-22 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1943
While crossing the Atlantic Ocean to deliver a cargo of spinach to Britain, Popeye stumbles into a German submarine, which proceeds to destroy his ship. Popeye salvages the rations and continues on in a rowboat, but is hounded still by the Germans.
Episode: 1943-02-19 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1943
After receiving a draft notice, Bluto arrives at the office of the draft board feigning illness in the hopes of dodging his service. Popeye, who is manning the office, calls Bluto's bluff, leading Bluto to run off to try and injure himself.
Episode: 1943-03-19 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1943
Bluto fakes being sick to get out of helping Popeye with maintenance on the ship's lifeboats, and is rushed off to the hospital. When Popeye comes to visit and catches on to the scam, he poses as a nurse to teach Bluto a lesson.
Episode: 1943-04-23 | Airdate: Apr 23, 1943
Popeye heads home on furlough, anxious to see his nephews. When he reaches home, he falls for a trap the boys set as part of their home defense training. When they realize they nabbed their uncle, they proceed to show off their other preparations.
Episode: 1943-05-28 | Airdate: May 28, 1943
While planting a victory garden, Popeye catches his nephews trying to sneak off to go fishing instead. After convincing them to help by telling them the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, he takes a nap and dreams of himself in the role of Jack.
Episode: 1943-06-25 | Airdate: Jun 25, 1943
Hungry for a meal, a goat is roaming about town when it comes across the battleship that Popeye is serving on. Seeing the ship as a tasty tin meal, the goat is determined to have a feast, but must outwit Popeye to do so.
Episode: 1943-07-16 | Airdate: Jul 16, 1943
Popeye heads out to visit Olive Oyl, who wants to bake him a birthday cake. He brings along his lonely shipmate, Shorty, but comes to regret it as the overly exuberant sailor ruins Popeye's day while trying to help Olive.
Episode: 1943-08-06 | Airdate: Aug 6, 1943
Popeye needs to make a mast to finish building his new boat, and heads off to his property to chop down a tree. He picks one that is inhabited by a woodpecker, who in turn is determined to stop Popeye from taking his home away.
Episode: 1943-09-03 | Airdate: Sep 3, 1943
Popeye wants to try his hand at animation and sets to making a home movie. After completing his amateur cartoon, he has Olive Oyl and his nephews over to watch the movie, which features himself as the hero who must rescue Olive from a villain.
Episode: 1943-11-26 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1943
Popeye's nephews happen by just as the glue factory is rejecting a sorry looking horse and decide to take it home. They want to treat it as a house pet, despite the obvious problems...
Episode: 1943-12-31 | Airdate: Dec 31, 1943
Popeye wants to propose to Olive, but can't work up the nerve. His fellow sailor, Shorty, helps him.
Season 1944
Episode: 1944-04-21 | Airdate: Apr 21, 1944
The good buddies Popeye and Bluto go to a nightclub in Rio to hear Olive sing. Later, they do a Samba dance.
Episode: 1944-05-26 | Airdate: May 26, 1944
Popeye and Bluto pass by Olive's blacksmith shop and are smitten. Olive needs help, and of course, both of the boys offer, and demonstrate their prowess at blacksmithing.
Episode: 1944-07-21 | Airdate: Jul 21, 1944
After donating blood, Popeye dreams that he needs to convince Olive he is still strong.
Episode: 1944-08-11 | Airdate: Aug 11, 1944
Bluto uses a lifelike Popeye marionette to make the one-eyed sailor look bad to Olive.
Episode: 1944-09-01 | Airdate: Sep 1, 1944
Popeye takes Olive to the zoo, where she's spotted by zookeeper Bluto, who tries various stunts to impress her and/or get rid of Popeye.
Episode: 1944-09-22 | Airdate: Sep 22, 1944
Popeye and Shorty help Olive move. Unfortunately, they start by running into a police car, and keep running afoul of the officer.
Episode: 1944-12-08 | Airdate: Dec 8, 1944
Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero's biggest fan, Olive Oyl.
Season 1945
Episode: 1945-01-26 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1945
Popeye sights land, disembarks from his raft and enters a café. He orders a meal, which the manager is glad to give him as he is a cannibal chef. Before long, Popeye finds in a large pot being cooked for dinner for a cannibal tribe. Popeye thinks this may be harmful to his health...and pops open a can of spinach.
Episode: 1945-03-16 | Airdate: Mar 16, 1945
Bluto is the ringmaster; Popeye is the star attraction. Bluto covets Popeye's assistant Olive. Popeye sticks his head in a lion's mouth, but Bluto has put a steak on Popeye's head. When he gets out of that, he does his high wire act: carrying a piano, and Olive, blindfolded. Bluto sabotages this with a banana peel and tosses Popeye to the monkey cage, while he has his way with Olive - until Popeye eats his spinach.
Episode: 1945-04-27 | Airdate: Apr 27, 1945
Bluto and Popeye are vacationing on a men's only island, when Olive happens by on a shipwreck raft. They both pretend to ignore her, but woo her behind each other's back.
Episode: 1945-06-08 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1945
Popeye and Bluto try to injure themselves so that they can be admitted to the hospital where Olive works. To get Bluto to beat him up, Popeye force-feeds him spinach. They later find out it is a dog and cat hospital!
Episode: 1945-08-24 | Airdate: Aug 24, 1945
Olive Oyl, a regular Rosie the Riveter, receives a blow to the head from a swinging grappling hook, sending her into a sleepwalking state. Popeye and Bluto, two rival factory workers, fight each other for privilege of saving her life.
Season 1946
Episode: 1946-03-15 | Airdate: Mar 15, 1946
Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let them build her house for her. She decides to split the job in half by splitting the blueprints in half and having each build one side of the house.
Episode: 1946-04-19 | Airdate: Apr 19, 1946
Olive runs a service station. The admiral pulls in and asks Olive to put some air in his tire, as he heads off to a cigar store.
Episode: 1946-05-31 | Airdate: May 31, 1946
At the Polar Bar & Grill in the Klondike, Popeye and Olive Oyl are the sole proprietors. Dangerous Dan McBluto, the owner of a fur farm, walks in and kidnaps Olive.
Episode: 1946-06-07 | Airdate: Jun 7, 1946
Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it. First, he sees to it that Popeye gets stuck inside a giant clam. Next, he jams a swordfish into the ship's figurehead, creating a mermaid that Popeye falls for, until the swordfish has enough and saws his way out.
Episode: 1946-08-16 | Airdate: Aug 16, 1946
Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars. Olive escapes, but Popeye gets to Mars, where he is attacked (by a group led by Bluto) that was preparing to invade Earth. Fortunately, Popeye has a can of spinach handy, so he can save the Earth.
Episode: 1946-11-29 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1946
Popeye and Olive enter the city of Badgag and spot Bluto doing magic tricks. He hypnotizes Olive like a snake charmer. Bluto introduces himself as the Great Bourgeois and gives Olive a fancy dress, turns Popeye into a donkey, and sits on a bed of nails.
Episode: 1946-12-27 | Airdate: Dec 27, 1946
Bluto is Robinson Crusoe; Popeye and Olive approach his island on a raft. This is Bluto's excuse to break out the romance: he gets his etchings from his "Hope" chest (next to the "Crosby" chest) and lays out a feast. But Olive is more interested in the food than the woo, and Popeye keeps getting in the way.
Episode: 1946-08-16 | Airdate: Aug 16, 1946
Popeye and Olive are at the rodeo, starring Badlands Bluto. Olive is impressed by Bluto's stunts, many of them designed to make Popeye look bad. Dynamite, the bronco that's never been ridden busts out and Popeye, seeing his chance, downs some spinach and manages an impressive series of tricks, culminating in firing a bullet at Bluto and lassoing it just in time.
Season 1947
Episode: 1947-04-25 | Airdate: Apr 25, 1947
Popeye and Bluto battle over Olive in an amusement park/carnival. First, Bluto breaks a couple of strength-testing devices, but Popeye still manages to one-better him. Then, Popeye and Olive go in the Tunnel of Love. Popeye and Bluto trade places in the boat and swimming behind, but eventually the two of them end up in the boat with Olive behind.
Episode: 1947-06-13 | Airdate: Jun 13, 1947
Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto. But when Bluto takes her up a ski lift and puts the moves on, she calls for Popeye to save her, and soon, everyone is skiing down that hill.
Episode: 1947-09-12 | Airdate: Sep 12, 1947
Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Popeye has to rescue Olive from the (initially charming) pirate captain. He tries tricks, like dressing in drag, but until the spinach, no luck. Fortunately, a passing swordfish reading a Popeye comic book recognizes him and feeds him the spinach on the comic cover.
Episode: 1947-09-12 | Airdate: Sep 12, 1947
Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo (Bluto), the magician (and practical joker), rides up on his horse and steals Olive away, while tricking Popeye with an exploding cigar and other gimmicks.
Episode: 1947-10-24 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1947
Popeye and Bluto are knights, jousting for the honor of Sleeping Beauty (Olive, with long blonde hair). Of course, Bluto plays dirty, squirting grease on the field in front of Popeye's horse, and using an extra-long lance. But Popeye wins anyhow, and climbs SB's tower with Bluto right behind him. They fight over her, playing tug-of-war with her pigtails.
Episode: 1947-11-07 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1947
Popeye and Olive are on a safari, he with a gun and she with a camera. She wanders off to stalk a chimp, and happens across Bluto as a Tarzan-like character. She's smitten, as is he, so he shows off a bit. Popeye finally catches on, and they start the usual round of fighting and one-upmanship.
Episode: 1947-12-19 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1947
Bluto, the daring hot air balloon rider, catches the eye of Olive at a carnival, much to Popeye's chagrin. Bluto manages to make Popeye look bad several times, eventually winning a ring at the ball toss and taking her up in his balloon. Of course, he tries to get fresh with her, and Popeye comes to the rescue with the help of some fireworks. The hot air balloon gets a bit too hot, putting Olive in even more danger.
Season 1948
Episode: 1948-01-30 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1948
In this musical cartoon, Popeye and Olive attend a political convention. One man is promising things in a language that no one understands, while another is a two-headed man who promises twice the results. Olive suggests that she should run for president, but when Popeye scoffs at the idea, she hits him on the head with a frying pan and he dreams about what it would be like if Olive were president.
Episode: 1948-02-17 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1948
Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock. Meanwhile, Indian princess Olive is showering beneath a waterfall. She accidentally gets stuck in Popeye's musket, and is blasted into the sky. When she comes down, Popeye kisses her to revive her, and they instantly fall in love. The chief, who has designs on Olive himself, sees this and goes after Popeye, but since he doesn't want to alienate Olive himself, avoids a direct confrontation.
Episode: 1948-03-26 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1948
Popeye and Olive are atop the highest peak in Yellowstone Park; Olive falls off into a deep hole, where a caveman and dinosaur are still living. Olive almost ends up in the dinosaur, but the caveman (longing for a woman) saves her.
Episode: 1948-06-18 | Airdate: Jun 18, 1948
The first Olympics, starring Hercules (looking, but not quite sounding, like a really pumped-up Bluto), who challenges anyone to do the same feats as him. Popeye takes that challenge, of course.
Episode: 1948-07-30 | Airdate: Jul 30, 1948
Popeye and Olive are riding a camel in Arabia. They stop to fill the camel with water and freshen up a bit; Olive muses aloud that she'd like to kiss a sheik. A sheik, looking a lot like Bluto, happens to overhear this and sets up a kissing booth.
Episode: 1948-08-27 | Airdate: Aug 27, 1948
Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day.
Episode: 1948-09-03 | Airdate: Sep 3, 1948
Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits. It carries them to the North Pole. Fortunately, a penguin comes by advertising Pierre's Trading Post; unfortunately, Pierre has eyes for Olive.
Episode: 1948-11-12 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1948
Popeye is Robin Hood; he's got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the owner/barmaid at the local pub. Bluto comes to the pub to collect 100% taxes and falls for Olive, who he tries to impress with trick archery, but Popeye/Robin makes a fool of him.
Episode: 1948-12-31 | Airdate: Dec 31, 1948
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.
Season 1949
Episode: 1949-03-25 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1949
Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and even handing the screen version of himself a can of spinach. The movie itself is the story of Aladdin, minus the songs and about half the footage of the short it's cut from.
Episode: 1949-05-27 | Airdate: May 27, 1949
Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl.
Episode: 1949-06-24 | Airdate: Jun 24, 1949
Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto's got a sort of rocket plane, and Popeye's got a sad old prop model that has to be hand-started.
Episode: 1949-07-22 | Airdate: Jul 22, 1949
Popeye and Olive are taking in a variety show. Popeye enjoys the juggling seal very much, but he's followed by magician/hypnotist Bluto. Bluto spots Olive in her luxury box and immediate makes plans.
Episode: 1949-08-12 | Airdate: Aug 12, 1949
Gunfights are diminishing the population (1,864- for the time being) in the tough Western town of Cactus Corners. After the demise of several previous lawmen, Popeye arrives to apply for the job.
Episode: 1949-09-09 | Airdate: Sep 9, 1949
Popeye's traveling department store comes to hillbilly country. He gets upset as Bluto, mistaking a radiator for an accordion, cuckoo clocks for a shooting gallery, and a girdle for a hammock, does violence to his store. But Olive arrives, looking for a makeover, and that distracts Popeye a while. Bluto sees the "new" Olive and gets jealous, and the feud is on.
Episode: 1949-10-28 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1949
Having to walk Olive's dainty French Poodle, Frenchy, both human and dog are bullied by Bluto and his vicious bulldog.
Episode: 1949-12-23 | Airdate: Dec 23, 1949
Popeye is settling in for a nap in his hammock, but every sound in the city is disturbing him until he moves indoors. Even there, he's plagued by houseflies. He chases them outdoors, except for one. That one ends up in a spinach can and gives Popeye a real fight.
Season 1950
Episode: 1950-01-27 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1950
To finally defeat Popeye, Bluto sets out to destroy the spinach crop.
Episode: 1950-03-17 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1950
Popeye runs a gym; his only customer on ladies day is Olive. Bluto, seeing Olive go in, dresses in drag to get admittance. Popeye comes on to him; all the while, Bluto is beating up Popeye and pretending they are accidents, until his wig comes off.
Episode: 1950-05-12 | Airdate: May 12, 1950
Popeye and Olive are having a day at the beach; the lifeguard (not drawn as Bluto, though he sounds and acts like him) sees Olive and puts the moves on.
Episode: 1950-06-23 | Airdate: Jun 23, 1950
Olive has invited the boys over, but finds Popeye old-fashioned compared to the zoot-suited Bluto. Popeye wants to dance a waltz, pull taffy, play pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and croquet, and bob for apples, but Olive turns up her nose at all these as Bluto sabotages them.
Episode: 1950-08-11 | Airdate: Aug 11, 1950
Popeye and Olive prepare to make a movie while his nephews watch. The movie is a significant portion of Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937), which makes up over 80% of this release (beginning with Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy suffering in the desert), and despite admonitions, the nephews get involved a couple times, most notably tossing Popeye his can of spinach.
Episode: 1950-09-29 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1950
Popeye calls on Olive and gets stuck baby-sitting Swee'Pea. While Popeye is preparing food (spinach, of course) for Swee'Pea, the tyke crawls outside after his ball and gets in a variety of dangerous situations that Popeye rescues him from in the nick of time (mostly animals in the zoo).
Episode: 1950-10-06 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1950
Popeye takes Olive to the carnival; while he's busy winning candy at the "ring the bell" stand, strongman Bluto muscles in on her. There follows the inevitable contest, invevitably rigged.
Episode: 1950-11-10 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1950
Popeye's nephews want to play their music all night. The four are practicing symphonic music when Popeye insists they go to bed. They become bored and start playing jazz. Popeye comes to life and offers to tell them a fairy tale if they will stop.
Episode: 1950-12-01 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1950
Olive Oyl's Farm is desparately in need of a farmhand. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the boys are driving by. They compete for the job. Chores: Getting water from a well, picking apples, shoeing a horse, gathering eggs.
Season 1951
Episode: 1951-01-19 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1951
Popeye and Olive are on vacation at Lake Narrowhead. Olive wants to take part in athletic activities, while Popeye just wants to rest (particularly since he had to substitute for one wheel of their sad excuse of a car). Olive goes off for athletic instruction while Popeye sleeps until he sees that the instructor is Bluto, and he's taking a personal interest in Olive.
Episode: 1951-04-20 | Airdate: Apr 20, 1951
Popeye, Olive, and Swee'pea take their pig, Smedley, to the fair to enter it in the livestock show. While Popeye is distracted, Swee'pea crawls off following his balloon and narrowly avoids all sorts of peril.
Episode: 1951-05-18 | Airdate: May 18, 1951
Popeye is climbing the Alps, and Olive is being hauled up behind him on a rope, taking pictures. Mountain guide Bluto spots them through binoculars, and goes crazy over Olive. He immediately intercepts them and tries to convince them they need a professional guide. Popeye resists, so Bluto uses a number of tricks: cutting the rope, burning a bridge they are crossing, using a magnet to break Popeye's climbing pick.
Episode: 1951-06-15 | Airdate: Jun 15, 1951
Popeye is driving across country against Count Noah Count. He's hopelessly outmatched; the Count has a very powerful car, and Popeye's is barely running. And to top it off, the Count doesn't play fair.
Episode: 1951-07-13 | Airdate: Jul 13, 1951
Popeye's been feeding a turkey in his backyard; it's Thanksgiving day, and his (3) nephews are all set to turn the turkey into the main course. But Popeye can't bring himself to do the deed, so he tells them a story about the time he was a pilgrim and a turkey saved his life.
Episode: 1951-10-19 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1951
Popeye's nephews don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his youth, before he liked spinach. In a Jack and the beanstalk scenario, he climbs a spinach-stalk and encounters a greedy giant. He ultimately vanquishes the giant with help from spinach that he accidentally eats from a giant can, and the nephews chow down on their sandwiches.
Episode: 1951-11-16 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1951
Popeye drops a TV off at the orphanage; the program that comes on is a boxing match he's supposed to be in, so he dashes off. The fight is against the champ, who is huge. Popeye gets pummelled in the first round, but his fighting spirit materializes and advises him to outwit his opponent.
Season 1952
Episode: 1952-01-25 | Airdate: Jan 25, 1952
Popeye sets out on a journey to reunite with his estranged father.
Episode: 1952-03-14 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1952
Popeye and Olive take his nephews on a picnic. They don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his school days, when Bluto repeatedly got Popeye in trouble and eventually stole Olive away until Popeye had his spinach and saved her from an oncoming train.
Episode: 1952-05-16 | Airdate: May 16, 1952
Popeye and Bluto are in a swimming race across the English Channel. As usual, Bluto has a million ways to cheat, and Popeye overcomes all of them to win.
Episode: 1952-06-30 | Airdate: Jun 30, 1952
To convince Popeye to throw away his spinach, Bluto fakes his death, after showing clips of "spinach moments" from a couple earlier shows.
Episode: 1952-08-15 | Airdate: Aug 15, 1952
Popeye is building a house while his nephews practice their music. The kids come out to help, but only cause trouble, so Popeye sends them back to practice. He finishes his house, goes in, and it collapses. The boys decide they can help Popeye and practice at the same time, so they build a skyscraper luxury apartment building to the tune of the ever-popular Poet and Peasant Overture.
Episode: 1952-08-29 | Airdate: Aug 29, 1952
Popeye is hosting three of his western-obsessed nephews on his ranch. To get them to eat their spinach, he tells about how he arrived at the ranch and was humiliated by foreman Bluto until, of course, he ate his spinach.
Episode: 1952-10-03 | Airdate: Oct 3, 1952
Popeye's snoring is keeping his resident mouse awake. The mouse fights back. Popeye makes a mistake: he traps the mouse in a spinach can that isn't completely empty.
Episode: 1952-10-12 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1952
Popeye tells his nephews the story of how he met Sindbad the Sailor and knocked the tar out him.
Season 1953
Episode: 1953-01-30 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1953
It's the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto's Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball where Princess Olive will choose her mate. Popeye's fairy godpappy appears and it's a reverse Cinderella story, with a car created from a can of spinach.
Episode: 1953-03-27 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1953
Olive invites the boys over for dinner. They play briefly with Swee'pea, but when the inevitable fight starts, they ignore him and he wanders off to a construction site. The boys alternate between fighting each other and rescuing the tot, with Bluto concentrating on fighting and Popeye on saving.
Episode: 1953-05-22 | Airdate: May 22, 1953
Olive is preparing a birthday party for Popeye. He arrives too soon, and she assigns his nephews (only three in this picture) to keep him out until she's ready. They do this in their usual creative ways.
Episode: 1953-06-12 | Airdate: Jun 12, 1953
Popeye and Olive are at a bullfight selling snacks. When toreador Bluto throws the bull, Olive falls for him. Then the bull throws Bluto, and it's up to Popeye to save the day and win his cutie back. Popeye upstages Bluto, who gets back at him by pouring jumping beans into his spinach can.
Episode: 1953-07-24 | Airdate: Jul 24, 1953
Popeye and Bluto fight over taking Olive out; she decides they'll all stay home together. While looking over a family album, Popeye tells the story of a day-long fight he and Bluto had as infants.
Episode: 1953-08-21 | Airdate: Aug 21, 1953
Popeye and Bluto are manning a fire station when the alarm comes in: it's Olive's house. Of course, with these two, Olive has to do most of the work herself. She even eats Popeye's spinach, saves the boys, and takes over their firehouse.
Episode: 1953-10-02 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1953
Popeye is abducted by Martians who conduct a series of hideous experiments on him, but thanks to his copious spinach supply (4 cans), all the experiments fail.
Episode: 1953-10-09 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1953
Olive refuses to go out with either of the boys until they get a shave and haircut (Popeye actually has stubble). Barber Wimpy is out, so they take turns. First Popeye takes care of Bluto, making him actually look presentable; then it's Bluto's turn to give Popeye the works of course, he's going to get a different treatment.
Season 1954
Episode: 1954-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1954
Popeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto gets jealous, so he starts rerouting Olive's plumbing and causing all sorts of leaks. Popeye needs some help from the goldfish to get to his spinach.
Episode: 1954-04-02 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1954
Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope'. When called on to make a speech, he instead shows clips from two of his movies. Bluto does a slow burn through this, finally stuffing Popeye's trophy onto Popeye's head - but the trophy is full of spinach, so Popeye clobbers Bluto.
Episode: 1954-06-04 | Airdate: Jun 4, 1954
Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.
Episode: 1954-07-02 | Airdate: Jul 2, 1954
Popeye is marrying Olive tomorrow; he's ecstatic. She has a dream of the future, including twin sons who prove to be a real handful. When Popeye comes by the next morning, he gets a frosty reception.
Episode: 1954-07-13 | Airdate: Jul 13, 1954
Popeye is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach, so he tells them about how Hercules (Popeye) defeated a bully (Bluto). Hercules gets his strength by sniffing garlic; he wins numerous tests of strength against the bully until the bully spots him sniffing garlic. The bully pulls out a handy bottle of chlorophyll and douses the garlic, disabling Hercules. He then knocks him into a field of spinach where Hercules discovers a new and better source of strength.
Episode: 1954-11-12 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1954
Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the gem than the butler takes it (and Olive). The rest of the cartoon is spent chasing the crook to Paris, the Swiss Alps, and North Africa; Popeye always gets there first, but fails to make the arrest until he lucks into some spinach, of course.
Episode: 1954-08-27 | Airdate: Aug 27, 1954
Olive is reading ghost stories to the boys. Popeye scoffs; Bluto decides to take advantage of this by staging various pranks (a headless man, an animated skeleton, and a sheet-over-balloon ghost). He pins the blame on Popeye and then goes to comfort Olive. Popeye retaliates by turning invisible, thanks to a jar of vanishing cream.
Episode: 1954-12-10 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1954
Popeye battles a gopher over his precious spinach plants.
Season 1955
Episode: 1955-01-14 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1955
The boys are taking Olive on a picnic. It's April 1, and Bluto plays a series of "jokes" on Popeye, though of course they go beyond the bounds of acceptability, particularly once they get to the picnic grounds; Bluto puts gasoline on the fire he asks Popeye to light and swaps a beehive for the lemonade. Bluto then launches a cruel joke against Olive and frames Popeye. The capper: he replaces Popeye's spinach with a joke can, and runs off with Olive for some canoeing. But Popeye gets the last laugh with an inflatable sea monster.
Episode: 1955-02-11 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1955
Olive is playing nanny in the park as Popeye and Bluto bicycle past. They fight over her, waking the baby. Then they take turns trying to stop the baby crying or sabotaging the other's efforts. Popeye does impressions of a dog and an airplane and juggles cannonballs; Bluto does some rope twirling and a snake-charmer act.
Episode: 1955-03-11 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1955
A virtual remake of Customers Wanted (1939), with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts, though in this case, rather than each arcade owner showing clips from the same story, they show different stories.
Episode: 1955-05-20 | Airdate: May 20, 1955
Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting, but Bluto had his fingers crossed and manages to do all his fighting behind Olive's back until Popeye feeds Bluto spinach and gets in front of Bluto's uncontrolled arms.
Episode: 1955-05-27 | Airdate: May 27, 1955
Popeye's nephews try to sneak a birthday present for their Uncle Popeye into his house.
Episode: 1955-07-22 | Airdate: Jul 22, 1955
Popeye arrives in a suit of armor to take Olive for her first driving lesson. Between her literal-mindedness ("choke the engine"), inexperience, an inattentiveness, she has several accidents, culminating in a showdown with a locomotive.
Episode: 1955-09-30 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1955
Christmas eve; Popeye's nephews are staying over with Olive, and Popeye is helping trim the tree. Bluto dresses as Santa and horns in on Olive until a candle burns off his beard and reveals him.
Episode: 1955-11-04 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1955
Olive joins the police force. Over-protective Popeye follows her around, "rescuing" her but she's fully capable of handling herself. Can't quite say the same for Popeye.
Episode: 1955-12-09 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1955
Olive's ranch needs a helper, and the boys just happen to be passing by. Bluto's convinced he's better, but Popeye wins at all of Olive's tests: riding a bronco and branding. As Popeye wins the job, Bluto starts a stampede and a fire simultaneously. With some spinach help, Popeye gets Bluto out of the way, douses the fire, and saves Olive from the stampede.
Season 1956
Episode: 1956-01-13 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1956
Popeye and Olive are driving through hillbilly country; a very large woman hillbilly is in search of a man, and grabs Popeye. And when Popeye's spinach falls, it's up to Olive to save the day.
Episode: 1956-03-30 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1956
Popeye and Bluto are running for president; it's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive is the only remaining voter.
Episode: 1956-06-08 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1956
Popeye's training for his boxing match with Bluto by jumping rope with a massive chain. Bluto, who's lazy about everything except sabotage, decides he needs to stop Popeye.
Episode: 1956-07-06 | Airdate: Jul 6, 1956
Bluto is accusing Popeye in judge Wimpy's courtroom. Bluto tells a sad tale of how Popeye attacked him without provocation, but Popeye tells his side, in detail...
Episode: 1956-08-10 | Airdate: Aug 10, 1956
Popeye has just finished his house when a band of termites attacks. He traps them in a metal garbage can, but they soon escape and launch a new attack, consuming his picket fence.
Episode: 1956-09-12 | Airdate: Sep 12, 1956
Olive is so captived by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that she'd rather stay home than go out on a date with Popeye. Bluto, overhearing this, comes to the door as the character. Popeye does his best to get Olive back, to no avail. Finally, Bluto challenges Popeye to a duel, ultimately stabbing him in the chest where his can of spinach was. Popeye unmasks Bluto, then eats another can of spinach to give himself a French accent.
Episode: 1956-11-16 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1956
Popeye has beaten Bluto to a date with Olive. Seeing that Olive is superstitious, Bluto changes the date to Friday the 13th, and proceeds to rig various proofs that bad things will happen if she goes out.
Episode: 1956-12-14 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1956
Popeye and Bluto are partners in a moving company. Both try to impress their customer, Olive Oyl.
Episode: 1957-02-08 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1957
Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over.
Season 1957
Episode: 1957-02-08 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1957
Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over.
Episode: 1957-04-05 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1957
Bluto muscles out Popeye to take Olive to the fair. Popeye rushes ahead and poses as a fortune teller, luring Olive in. He shows Olive her future (actually, her past) in the crystal ball...
Episode: 1957-05-10 | Airdate: May 10, 1957
Popeye is enjoying watering his patriotic garden on July 4 when he catches his nephews attempting to light fireworks. The game is on when he attempts to confiscate the fireworks and the boys strike back with edgy pranks.
Episode: 1957-06-21 | Airdate: Jun 21, 1957
Popeye opens a diner; Bluto pulls one up right across the street. Wimpy comes along, and they compete for his business. The competition escalates, until finally they are throwing things at each other; Wimpy stands between them and snags a complete meal from the stream of objects passing overhead. Another spinach-free Popeye.
Episode: 1957-08-09 | Airdate: Aug 9, 1957
Popeye and Olive are shipwrecked; they think they are saved when they see a ship, but what they don't realize is that the crew of the Sea Witch is all ghosts, and soon they are under attack, but they don't know from what for a while.
Season 1960
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye, Olive and Wimpy take an unintended trip to the moon, which is inhabited by cheese-people and tyrannized by the Big Cheese.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye wants to have a barbecue for two -- namely him and Olive. But Brutus, Wimpy and Swee' Pea all try to muscle in.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Olive watch Brutus the strongman performing at the carnival. The two men quickly become rivals for Olive. But she makes Popeye promise not to fight.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye in his junk-pile jalopy competes with Brutus in his slick race car to win a cross-country race. Brutus employs a series of dirty tricks to keep ahead, while keeping Olive Oyl trapped in his trunk.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Sheriff Popeye captures villain Brutus McBride and throws the scum into jail. His gang of thugs start a big shoot-out in an attempt to free their leader.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Olive take shelter from a thunderstorm in Mad Mueller's castle. But Mueller's monster, Irving, takes a shine to Olive.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye tells Olive the story of how his ancestor Prehesterical Popeye discovered the magical powers of spinach and stopped Prehesterical Brutus.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye objects to how a bull is being treated by the matador in the bullring, then when Olive Is caught in the Bull, between the matador and the bull, he must use spinach to save the day.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Flying saucers have landed, Olive is unfortunate enough to be captured by a robot man looking for humans. Popeye must take control of the spaceship save Olive and get her home.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Olive the college student is infatuated with Professor Brutus and contemptuous of Popeye's lack of education, leading Popeye to enroll in college himself.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye hears talk of abominable snowman sightings and so decides to take it upon himself to investigate.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
It's an ice cold winter, Popeye upsets a large hibernating bear while trying to impress Olive with his moves on the ski-jumps.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Olive are out testing Popeyes new boat on a relaxing boat ride. When out in the ocean they meet Jolly Roger the pirate. Unfortunately Roger takes a fancy to Olive. The pirate kidnaps her and sets school of sharks after Popeye.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Olive are searching the jungle for the rare Foola-Foola bird. Following close behind is Brutus, also hunting the bird as there is a reward of a million dollar for finding it.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Olive set-sail to a desert island with a map citing the location of Uranium, unknown to them Brutus is already there, He plans on dressing like a gorilla and scaring them away.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus dresses as a native Indian and claims the land as an Indian Reservation after Popeye strikes it lucky searching for gold in the old west. Popeye tries to beat him at his own game by dressing as an Indian too, declaring all out war.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus forces Popeye into the professors aging machine, turning him into a 2 year old.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye volunteers to stand guard to protect Poopdeck Pappy's ranch, a rustler tries to get rid of Popeye but is driven mad by his ability to reappear right after he's been lassoed, tied up and even thrown off a cliff.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Olive sees Brutus showing his athletic prowess at a track meet, Popeye gets jealous, runs on to the field and starts competing himself.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Wimpy has acquired the SeaHags crystal ball, he is using it to bet on sporting events. Brutus realizes this and steal the crystal ball. Popeye gets suspicious, so sets a trap to get the ball back.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus sinks to a new low in both greed and criminal activity by trying to abduct little Swee'pee from his family.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
As Popeye and Olive relax on their new boat "The Miss Olive" someone swims beneath stealing items from right under their nose. Luckily Brutus's boating store has a seemingly endless supply of stolen item replacements.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
A giant space magnet connected to the top of an astronomer's observatory pulls stuff from outer space to earth. One day it also pulls leather jacket wearing space greasers from Mars.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye is jailed for committing a bank robbery which he insists he didn't commit. He must prove he didn't do it. In a seemingly unrelated subplot, two thugs build a Popeye robot to do their bidding.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
The citizens are revolting, they want a new king, someone sweet like Swee'pea! Professor Wotasnozzle suggests making a soup out of Swee'pea is the best way to become just like him.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye, Olive, Wimpy, and Swee' Pea, set-sail to The Sea Hag's island, She has kidnapped Eugene, the Jeep. Unknown to them The Sea Hag is following in her submarine waiting for an opportunity to remove all spinach from Popeye's boat.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
The Professor, Popeye and their assistant Brutus are searching for the lost city of "Bubble-On". Popeye is suspicious, he thinks Brutus is more interested in taking the cities treasure than documenting scientific discoveries.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus beats up an alien he sees walking down the street, thinking its Popeye on the way to Olive Oyl's fancy dress party. The alien retaliates by trying to blow up the earth, Popeye and Brutus team up to stop him.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Someone has sent Popeye a present, he opens it to find shaving lotion, thinking it's something Olive Oyl has bought for him he puts it on.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye is undergoing a series of government tests, one of which involves using spinach to travel in a rocket at the speed of light. Meanwhile at home Brutus moves in on Olive.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye is called by a lawyer who tells him that he and Brutus are the beneficiaries of someone they know. And that he'll be reading the will at noon. And if one of them is not there at noon they will forfeit the inheritance. So Brutus tries to keep Popeye from getting there at noon.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Brutus are rival artists, each of whom wants to win a magazine contest for the best original flower painting.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Olive is a sculptor and puts an ad asking for a model. When Popeye and Brutus see it they both offer their services. and they try to show how masculine and virile they are. But Olive tells them she's not looking for someone who is strong and healthy but someone who is worn down and tired. So both Popeye and Brutus try to mess themselves up but one of them always stops the other.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye is showing off his stage act, a flea circus, Brutus is tired of hearing the rave reviews about it so destroys the act by setting a dog loose on stage.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Olive insists that Popeye babysit her Niece while she goes out, Popeye hasn't slept for 6 days and begins to fall asleep on the job, he gets put in a dress and Olive takes offence thinking he's making fun of her.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye, Olive and Wimpy accidentally walk to Egypt, Olive is Kidnapped by Egyptians and taken to the temple below a Sphinx, Popeye goes to rescue her and Wimpy does what he does best, cook the hamburgers.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye, Olive and Swee'Pea are on a skiing trip in the French Alps. But the vacation goes sour when someone steals Olive's raccoon coat.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye, Olive and Wimpy Dimpy Doo find themselves in a spooky mansion, full of apparent ghostly goings on. It turns out The Sea Hag and Toar use the deserted Crepe Cod Inn as a hideout for printing counterfeit money.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Poopdeck Pappy entertains Swee' Pea by telling him about his adventures in the old west. Popeye thinks he's lying and Pappy tries to prove it's true, which leads to Popeye rescuing him a lot.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye drifts off to sleep while reading a book about juggling. He dreams Swee'Pea is the star juggler in a circus and is under the contract of a Brutus like ringmaster.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Olive is captured and taken to Goonland to marry the Goonking, Popeye is caged and his can of spinach is taken from him. The situation is looking grim all round.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Olive break up after a bitter argument. In a rage, Popeye joins the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, a sultan decides Olive will be his 75th wife.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Olives new dog is taken by Brutus the dog catcher, Popeye dresses up in a dog costume to save her. A chase takes place, Popeye escapes still dressed up as a dog, confusing Brutus, who thinks he's seen a talking dog.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
The Sea Hag has an entire island believing that she is the god from the deep, her plan is to get rid of the natives and open an expensive villains resort. Chief Knucklebone, who is not convinced, summons Popeye to investigate.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus is an egotistical French director making a film about Antony and Cleopatra, starring Popeye and Olive Oyl. But Popeye may not survive the production.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye visits the local stream for a relaxing swim but is surprised to find a couple of dam-building beavers. A battle begins and eventually Popeye admits defeat and goes for a swim in the beaver's reservoir.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
It's a big Baseball game between Popeye's team and Brutus's team, with Wimpy as the umpire what could possibly go wrong. Olive is rooting for Popeye, at least she is at first.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye Journeys to the Lost deserted desert in a quest to find The Lost Dutchman's Mine and its rumored contents, golden nuggets. Brutus is of course also in the desert waiting to steal the goldmines treasure.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Brutus are diving for buried treasure, Brutus however has more than sunken treasure in his eyes, he spies the lovely mermaid Olive Oyl.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye is now the manager of a service station, he provides a good service with free extras. Brutus comes along only wanting the free extras, including free access to another customer, Olive Oyl.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus gets the upper hand on Popeye in their rivalry for Olive by catering to her sudden decision to become a beatnik.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Come to Popeye's gym, everyone from Brutus to Wimpy welcome. As the commercial says, he Builds the flat and reduces the fat.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
To stop Brutus and Popeye fighting over her, Olive Oyl suggests that they take up a hobby, like bird watching. Popeye likes this idea but Brutus would rather watch other things.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye goes back to the caveman days in The Professor's time machine. When he gets there he finds Caveman Wimpy trying to catch a cow and Olive in need of saving from Caveman Brutus.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye is the proprietor of a pet store whose motto is that all his customers are satisfied. Olive, Wimpy and Swee'Pea come in and get pets and leave satisfied. But Brutus who doesn't like it grabs all their pets. They then go back to Popeye saying he was the one who took them, which he denies. So he dons a dog disguise and tries to find the culprit.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus make fun of Popeye for donning a ballet costume and taking to the stage with Olive.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
The Sea Hag tries to tempt Popeye and Wimpy into a life of piracy. When Popeye refuses and tries to get her to change her ways she bribes Wimpy with hamburgers to get rid of Popeye for good.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus is a business tycoon who corners the market on spinach, causing a shortage that makes it impossible for Popeye to find any.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye buys a suit of armor, hires a horse and goes off to save Princess Olive from a dragon.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Wimpy see Olive calling for help from a smoke filled hotel room, fireman Popeye is called out to save her, it turns out to be smoke from Mr Brutus's cigar.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Things aren't going to plan at Popeye's pizza Palace, Wimpy as usual is trying to get a free lunch while Brutus constantly asks for pizza topping which are not on the menu.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye tells Swee'pea all about the olden days when his ancestor, captain Popeye ruled the seas. The adventure he recites involves Captain Popeye saving Wimpy's ship from the evil Pirate Brutus.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Olive Oyl visits Popeye at his lighthouse. Brutus is an unwelcome tag-along who proves worse than worthless when a shark causes trouble.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye is haunted and taunted by a mischievous ghost who steals his spinach.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
While out on a picnic Olive and comes face to face with a giant bull while Popeye's car gets a flat tire.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye uses The Professors time machine to take Olive, Swee' Pea and himself on a trip to the moon. When there they find it's just like earth.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Big hairy Madam Salami tells Olive that in order for Popeye to prove his love he must be able to perform several impossible acts. The bearded Madame Salami is then astounded when Popeye manages to perform the feats.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye's a lumberjack and he's alright, he works all day and sleeps all night. Brutus is also a lumberjack, he steals Popeye's trees and his best gal', Popeye ends up tied to a tree heading for the chopper.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus hires Popeye to Build on his site It comes to beatings as both of them fight. Throughout the punches Wimpy eat a dinner and Popeye the sailor comes out as the winner.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye, Olive and The Jeep are hired to search for someone smuggling diamonds by boat. Discriminating based on previous offenses Popeye suspects Brutus and his pickle importing scheme are a cover.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Little Olive Riding Hood is delivering hamburgers to her sick friend, Wimpy. The Sea Hag wants those hamburgers for herself.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus hypnotizes Olive into falling in love with him. Then he hypnotizes Alice the Goon into falling in love with Popeye.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
A sawfish, a Trojan horse, two princes and a damsel in distress figure in Popeye's storybook tale to a skeptical Swee'Pea.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Alice the Goon is terrorizing a small town. Popeye decides he wants to try and catch this monster, legend has it that just looking at Alice will make you so scared that you will turn white and stay that way forever.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
A classic cartoon duel in music, Olive, The master of ceremonies presents Popeye - the modern music master and the Bach of the Backwoods - Brutus.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye tells Swee'pea the tale of Grandpappy Popeye who accidentally joined the prairie schooner, a wagon train, thinking it was a ship.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
When the heat is so unbearable and being nagged by Olive and Swee Pea, Popeye decides to build his own swimming pool. And his neighbor Brutus wants to use it but Popeye won't let him. So he schemes to get it.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Swee'pea makes a new friend, Eugene the magic future predicting Jeep, Brutus realizes that the Jeep can answer questions about the future and plots with The Sea Hag to Jeepnapp him.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye, as the custodian of a museum, gets involved with a picture-snatching thief (Brutus) and a dinosaur that keeps falling to pieces (Eugene the Jeep likes the bones). Olive helps Popeye put the dinosaur together. Professor O.G. Wottasnozzle orders Popeye and Jeep to guard a $100,000 painting that Brutus attempts to steal. With the help of Jeep, Popeye captures the thief (after a chase through the museum) and saves the painting for Professor Wottasnozzle.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
A take-off on tournament golf, with Popeye and Brutus competing against each other. Also in the foursome are Wimpy (who can never hit the ball) and Olive (who knows nothing about golf). There's a series of golf gags resulting from a new meaning in the expression "Play the ball where it lies," to the misfortune of both Popeye and Brutus trying to outwit each other. In Brutus' case, this means atop Popeye's head! Olive wins the game on a freak setup.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Wimpy, a short-order cook at a hamburger wagon, leaves Popeye in charge while he goes to the bank. Olive is the waitress at the lunch counter. Popeye makes himself a "sandwich" and reads the paper. Brutus enters and wrecks the place. Popeye is unconcerned until he makes a pass at Olive, then he goes into action- into an all-out battle. He boots Brutus out of the lunch wagon and saves Olive.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus is after Popeye's job as a weather forecaster. Olive is the head of the weather bureau. Through sly tricks, Brutus gets Popeye's weather predictions fouled up.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus uses garden growth pills to turn Wimpy into a giant.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Olive and Popeye drive for an outing in the mountains, meet up with the McGoofs and the Hitchfields feuding, and get themselves involved. Popeye eventually bests both clans and stops the feud.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Olive Oyl are chosen as volunteers by magician Brutus. In this cartoon, there is a series of legerdemains. For example, Brutus turns Popeye into a giraffe, making him appear ridiculous to the audience.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus the Kid, "the most feared desperado of the early west," robs a train and comes to a Wild West town called Gravestone Flats, where he tangles with Popeye, the Sheriff. He's also wanted for nag nabbin'. Popeye vows to get Brutus when he discovers that the desperado has shot Swee'Pea's lollipop stick out from under his lollipop. Sheriff Popeye, the only law west of the Pecos, must end Brutus' reign of terror.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye (having trouble putting Swee'Pea to sleep) tells him a bedtime story of how he once sang baby whales to sleep. The bedtime story is about the ship Morpheus; its skipper, Captain Brutus; and Popeye, the harpoonist. Wimpy is also a whaler.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye climbs a giant spinach stalk and finds that Brutus the giant has kidnapped Olive and Eugene the Jeep in this skewed retelling of "Jack and the Beanstalk."
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Brutus engage in a perilous parachuting contest, all to impress Olive Oyl. Olive and Popeye are at an airfield. Olive wants Popeye to win the championship parachute jump.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Wimpy set out for darkest India and some "big-game" hunting. They learn that a native village is terrified of Tonga, the fiercest man-eating tiger of the land. Popeye wants to capture Tonga in the jungle.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Cattle rustler Brutus the Kid goes to Wimpy's chuckwagon for breakfast and wants ham and eggs. Wimpy has only burgers, so Brutus tries to swipe eggs from Popeye's chicken ranch.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
The king sends his daughter, Olive Drab, on a quest to find Prince Popeye and the Seven Swee'Peas.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye tries to keep the light burning in a lighthouse during a storm. It's a stormy night around the lighthouse,and Popeye is polishing brass. He hears knocking on a porthole. He opens the porthole, and water brings in a bottle containing a message that the Sea Hag is holding Swee'Pea hostage: he must turn out the light.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye, Olive Oyl and Eugene the Jeep go all over Aztec ruins in Mexico, but when Brutus goes into the scene, troubles begin. They discover that the Jeep can read the carvings, which starts them on a quest for Aztec treasure.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye tells Swee'Pea his own version of the Hans Christian Andersen story "The Red Shoes." In this version, a young girl (Olive) lives in the woods, and she has a sailor sweetheart (Popeye). She sings songs and wants someone to take her dancing, but he is too poor.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye tells Swee' Pea about the two monarch trees he saved from Brutus.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
In Rome 800 B.C. Popeye is challenged by Brutus The Gladiator to a fight in the arena.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye tells Swee'Pea the story of a king whose touch renders golden all (included Olive). The king, played by Popeye, is noted for making his people happy by giving them everything. He is, therefore, very poor. Popeye receives the golden touch by wishing on a star and summoning a Jeep, who warns him beforehand that it will not make him happy.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Wimpy catches a cow, who is really an enchanted princess. She grants him three wishes for letting her go, but the Sea Hag demands he use the wishes to make gold.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye buys a do-it-yourself kit and makes a mechanical robot servant. Brutus horns in by sabotaging it, turning the robot against Popeye!
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye, while bathing Swee'Pea, tells his story of building the first steamboat and facing a rival (Brutus).
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Olive gives up walks in the park with Popeye to ride in Brutus's flashy new car. In response, Popeye buys a used car from Wimpy and takes driving lessons from him, but winds up crashing through the wall of Olive's bedroom.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye reads Swee'Pea a Japanese true-fairy story which is oriented around Far East designs and cuisine.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye tells Swee'pea about the time his great, great papi found a dragon abandoned at his door.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
A parody of The Ugly Duckling.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye is sent back in time to the time of The Boston Tea Party. The local residents are fed up with being overtaxed, so they plot to throw the tea overboard into the sea.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye tells Swee' Pea his version of the story "Three Biily Goat Gruffs".
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye's duties as a lifeguard have made him a hit with the bathing beauties, and so Olive agrees to become Brutus's beach buddy in order to make Popeye jealous.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Wimpy camp in the woods for some peace and quiet. When Wimpy wants to cook some hamburgers, he starts making fire.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus plans challenges Popeye to a game of ping-pong and the winner is to receive a kiss from Olive Oyl. However, Popeye has problems beating Brutus without the aid of his spinach.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Brutus are rowing into each other. After a few words, Brutus asks Popeye to be his skin diving buddy. Popeye agrees. The two adversaries undertake deep-sea diving and discover the lost city of Atlantis, along with many other surprises.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye opens a car wash. Brutus has a car wash across the street.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye is reading a newspaper that reads, "Rare Stone Discovered in Egypt, Reward Offered by Museum If It Can Be Brought Back to States." Popeye goes to the Professor, and his time machine sends him to Egypt. Popeye gets a tired camel, and Brutus comes along on a fast- moving, conceited-type camel. Brutus' camel suddenly comes to a stop, and the two camels start flirting with each other.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye's bungling attempts to fix Olive's faucet lead to an escalating series of disasters that culminate in flooding all of New York City.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Night watchman Wimpy gets a cold, and he asks Popeye to take over. Popeye hears strange noises, and he starts investigating. Popeye finds himself atop a high water tower.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Olive accidentally switches on the Professor's time machine, which takes her to a bizarre planet. Popeye takes invisibility pills and goes to rescue her.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye has a chicken ranch. Swee'Pea finds a square egg in the chicken house. Everyone is very excited. The Professor tells Popeye and Olive that there is nothing more rare. While some people (Brutus!) want the egg to get rich, Popeye wants to keep the egg and its mother, the Whiffle Hen, together. Brutus hears the Professor, Popeye and Olive talking, and he takes the egg.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye fancifully explains to Swee'pea the reason why the ocean is salty.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye tells Swee'Pea the story of how Eugene the Jeep got his special powers. He tells a fairy tale about a mama jeep and her four children- three good girls and a mischievous boy named Jeepers.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy shop at Brutus' vast supermarket, where one man claims to have been lost for 15 years.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye goes back in time to ancient Greece and captures the Golden Fleece.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Olive convinces Popeye to become a white collar worker as an insurance agent.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
Olive Oyl asks Popeye how the mirror was broken. He tells her that Swee'Pea was wondering what was inside the mirror, so he and the Jeep followed the cuckoo bird's advice and walked through it. He falls into a hole and finds himself in a small house.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
The Professor sends Popeye back to the days of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. While there, Popeye meets up with King Wimpy The Arthur, Queen Olive Guenevere, Ethel Merlyn (played by the Sea Hag!), and the Black Knight (Brutus)!
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
In the jungle, Popeye and Brutus compete to get Olive a tiger skin.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
A carefree dragon is ruining King Blozo's kingdom with a happy-go-lucky philosophy (and yo-yo tricks)! King Blozo is upset that the monster, "Silky" (so called because of his silky smooth mode of speech), has all the subjects in his kingdom addled. King Blozo calls on his noble varlet, Popeye The Knight, to get rid of the beast and set things straight! However, when he does, Silky sweet-talks the King into letting him be.
Episode: 1960-01-01 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1960 (7 min)
A parody of the short story "Rip Van Winkle," by Washington Irving. Popeye is trying to sleep on a mountainside while Olive is heckling him, and the noise from a bowling game on a nearby mountainside is giving him nightmares.
Episode: 1960-01-08 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1960 (7 min)
On a Mississippi riverboat, the villainous Jean Baptiste le Brute chases Olive, demanding a mysterious letter. Olive gives it to Popeye so that the brutish le Brute can't get it.
Episode: 1960-01-08 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye competes in a cross-country auto race against an opponent who has a high-powered streamlined streak of a car.
Episode: 1960-01-15 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1960 (7 min)
Olive Oyl has Popeye and Brutus competing to see who will take her picture. Things get rather messy when Alice The Goon enters the fray! In their fighting, Popeye and Brutus break the camera.
Episode: 1960-01-22 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Swee'pea, and Olive and Wimpy switch personalities as a result of amnesia.
Episode: 1960-01-29 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Brutus are given one hour to wallpaper Olive's house before her company arrives.
Episode: 1960-02-05 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1960 (7 min)
Olive's niece Deezil (with a nasal-sounding voice) plays baseball with Swee'pea. Popeye tries to teach Swee'Pea and Diesel about the importance of good sportsmanship and playing games according to the rules, but Brutus has other ideas.
Episode: 1960-02-12 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1960 (7 min)
The Professor uses his time machine to take Popeye back to August 3, 1492, where Popeye becomes Christopher Columbus. Brutus is featured as the captain of the Nina, and Olive Oyl plays Queen Isabella (actually, "Queen Olivola")!
Episode: 1960-02-19 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye reads Swee'Pea an adaptation of the famous Longfellow poem. We then get a dose of history Popeye-style! Instead of Paul Revere, it was Popeye's Great-Great-Great-Gran'Pappy Poopdeck who made the famous ride. Wimpy and Brutus also get entangled in the story.
Episode: 1960-02-26 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1960 (7 min)
With Olive is a tourist in Hawaii and Popeye and Brutus are tour guides. They fight over who will be the one to show Olive the islands. Olive decides to take two tours, but only pays the guide who gives the best tour.
Episode: 1960-03-04 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1960 (7 min)
When Popeye is tricked into babysitting for Swee'Pea, he decides to tell him a story about where Olive's perfume comes from. Popeye tells the story of how he, Wimpy and Brutus looked for ambergris at sea. However, Popeye's tale of obtaining ambergris perfume from whales upsets Swee'Pea, and he bursts into tears just as Olive returns home.
Episode: 1960-03-11 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye decides to give Swee'Pea a history lesson and tell him about his grandfather Popeye De Leon, who discovered Florida and tried to find the Fountain of Youth. However, Popeye De Leon finds that the Fountain of Youth is really spinach, and that's what keeps him young. At the end of the story, Brutus falls in the fountain and is turned into a baby. Olive plays a native. Wimpy accidentally appears.
Episode: 1960-03-18 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1960 (7 min)
Olive Oyl and Swee'Pea talk Popeye into going fishing with them. Popeye teaches Olive and Swee'Pea to fish, bragging about his past adventures.
Episode: 1960-03-25 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Mr. Brumus (really Brutus) confront each other in a steeplechase. Fan Olive wants Popeye to enter a steeplechase, so he purchases a horse sight unseen from Brutus. However, the horse turns out to be a dud. Popeye manages to revive the horse with some spinach, and he goes on to win the race. Wimpy is the contest's commentator.
Episode: 1960-04-01 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye teaches Swee'Pea about the ethics of being a good driver. He tells him about all the bad kinds of drivers on the road and explains the different ways that people get into trouble by driving. Swee'Pea then vows never to drive his tricycle over 200 miles per hour.
Episode: 1960-04-08 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Brutus are piano movers; Olive Oyl is the owner of a piano that needs moving; and Wimpy is a traffic cop who takes chase when Popeye and the runaway piano tear down the street.
Episode: 1960-04-15 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1960 (7 min)
This time, Olive is taking Popeye out. She blindfolds him at the last minute and leads him to a big surprise. All his friends have a big dinner set up for him, where he is to be honored at a dinner for his brave deeds. Brutus, lurking in the shadows, becomes jealous and tries to besmirch Popeye's outstanding record. To cheer up Brutus, Popeye gives the bully his spinach... and Brutus tosses him across the room.
Episode: 1960-04-22 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Brutus try to win a barrel full of money on the Easy Come, Easy Go Show by racing around the world ("The world... that's a long ways!" says Brutus). During the race, they encounter many important world sites. However, when they make it back to the finish line after numerous mishaps, Brutus is declared the winner.
Episode: 1960-04-29 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Brutus run competing repair shops. However, Popeye appears to be doing very well, and Brutus becomes jealous. Things really boil over when Olive Oyl brings in a telephone for service. Brutus tries to discredit Popeye's ability to fix things. To end a Popeye vs. Brutus brawl, Olive eats spinach!
Episode: 1960-05-06 | Airdate: May 6, 1960 (7 min)
Olive Oyl plays an Asian maharanee who visits the Waldorf Hysteria Hotel, where Brutus is the manager and Popeye is the bellboy. Wait till they see her pet tiger Tootsie! Pandemonium breaks out when the tiger escapes.
Episode: 1960-05-13 | Airdate: May 13, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Olive are driving in the country when it starts to rain. They seek shelter in a a haunted ol' house haunted by some beatnik ghosts. The eerie and rather mischievous spirits have fun with them by pulling tricks until they have Popeye knocked out.
Episode: 1960-05-20 | Airdate: May 20, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye takes Olive Oyl out for some bowling lessons, only to find ol' Brutus up to his mischievous shenanigans. Brutus finds out that Popeye has a date to take Olive bowling. Brutus rushes over to Olive's house to tell her that Popeye has a date with a blonde, and that he asked him to keep the date with Olive.
Episode: 1960-05-27 | Airdate: May 27, 1960 (7 min)
Olive Oyl asks Popeye to take care of Swee' Pea while she goes to the beauty parlor. While watching Swee' Pea, Popeye gets a birthday present with Eugene the Jeep inside.
Episode: 1960-06-03 | Airdate: Jun 3, 1960 (7 min)
Olive tells Popeye that she's through with him unless he goes back to school and gets an "edumacation." Popeye enrolls in school and he is placed in the eighth grade.
Episode: 1960-06-10 | Airdate: Jun 10, 1960 (7 min)
Brutus convinces Olive that Popeye must be cured of fighting over the least provocation. and he recommends a psychiatrist. When Popeye comes to visit Olive, she drags him in a confused state to the doctor to help him cope with his fighting habits. The sailor takes the talking cure to determine the root of his aggressive behavior.
Episode: 1960-06-17 | Airdate: Jun 17, 1960 (7 min)
Wimpy inherits a million dollars and lives it up in a grand style with an English butler. He decides to double his fortune by waging his fortune in a boxing match, betting on Kid Nitro to beat Popeye in a prize fight.
Episode: 1960-06-24 | Airdate: Jun 24, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye takes Swee'Pea to the barber for a haircut but he's to scared and won't remove his hat. So Popeye tells him the story of Samson, the man who believed he got his strength from his long hair. And when another man played by Brutus who thought he was the strongest challenged Samson to a test of strength which Samson won. So he decided to try and cut Samson's hair so he will lose his strength. So he poses as a female hair stylist and tricked Samson into letting her work on his hair but actually cuts it; robbing him of his strength.
Episode: 1960-07-01 | Airdate: Jul 1, 1960 (7 min)
A circus ringmaster stops by for a visit at Popeye's house, and claims that he's Swee'Pea's real father. Popeye is forced to let him go. The ringmaster takes custody of Swee'Pea to work in his circus, and sends poor Popeye into a deep state of shock, lapsing into a wild mental state on the loss of Swee'Pea.
Episode: 1960-07-08 | Airdate: Jul 8, 1960 (7 min)
The Wiffle Hen has magical powers in its tail to grant any wish to anyone rubbing its tail feathers- like a wish to be back in Ye Good Old Days. Popeye and Wimpy touch the Wiffle Bird's feathers and are transported back to the Middle Ages.
Episode: 1960-07-15 | Airdate: Jul 15, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye accidentally joins a tough bloodthirsty crew who are traveling to Goonland for a cargo of Goonskin.
Episode: 1960-07-22 | Airdate: Jul 22, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye discovers he's not an orphan after all. An old man who looks just like him lives on a faraway island, and now Popeye is on a quest to find him.
Episode: 1960-07-29 | Airdate: Jul 29, 1960 (7 min)
The Sea Hag tries to enlist Popeye's aid in tracking down the legendary huge white whale. Popeye gets to like the whale, and the Sea Hag has her vulture carry Popeye off. The vulture drops Popeye from a great height, and he accidentally falls into the sleeping whale's mouth. Here, he finds the Seaman's Orphanage Treasury that was lost at sea. The Sea Hag was really after this. With the help of his spinach, Popeye returns the money to the orphanage.
Episode: 1960-08-05 | Airdate: Aug 5, 1960 (7 min)
The kingdom of Muscleonia was ruled by whoever was the strongest man in the land. Each day, King Brutus would ask his magic mirror who was the strongest man, and the mirror would say, "King Brutus." When the peasant Popeye grows to manhood, the mirror says, "Popeye is the strongest." Brutus does all that he can to rid himself of Popeye, an obvious threat to the throne.
Episode: 1960-08-12 | Airdate: Aug 12, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Brutus both arrive to woo Olive at the same time. They get into a fight, and Olive has to separate them. She sits on the sofa between them to keep them apart. But then her mother insists that Olive help her with the dishes. Olive demands that they laugh instead of fight, and that she hear the two laugh while she's in the other room helping her mother, so she knows that they aren't fighting.
Episode: 1960-08-19 | Airdate: Aug 19, 1960 (7 min)
Rough House is prepared to resist any and all of Wimpy's attempts to cheat him out of hamburgers. Wimpy's con job begins with buying a single raw oyster.
Episode: 1960-08-26 | Airdate: Aug 26, 1960 (7 min)
The Sea Hag makes Olive Oyl her zombie slave and puts a voodoo spell on Popeye that keeps his arms stuck to his sides. Only Eugene the Jeep can help him now.
Episode: 1960-09-02 | Airdate: Sep 2, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye finds himself a victim of Olive's enthusiasm for shopping. While out driving with Popeye, Olive spots a sale and drags him into the store with her. She keeps buying things that she doesn't need, just because they're on sale.
Episode: 1960-09-09 | Airdate: Sep 9, 1960 (7 min)
In this parody of "Gulliver's Travels," Popeye plays Gulliver and travels to the miniature land of Lilliput.
Episode: 1960-09-16 | Airdate: Sep 16, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Olive are summoned to Spinachia by their old friend King Blozo who is in dire need of the sailor's might after his kingdom started being invaded by a daily barrage of non-explosive missiles.
Episode: 1960-09-23 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye is on the way back to his ship when he befriends a little puppy that has a can tied to his tail. The abandoned puppy insists on following Popeye in spite of his pleas that dogs are not allowed on his ship.
Episode: 1960-09-30 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1960 (7 min)
Popeye and Olive travel to the small town Puddleburg where Popeye bought a newspaper company 'Puddleburg Splash'. Olive plans to teach the townspeople how to read but bullies tear down the new school. Popeye defeats the bullies and starts her classes.
Episode: 1960-10-07 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1960 (7 min)
On Christmas Eve, Popeye recites the Christmas favorite "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("'Twas The Night Before Christmas") by Clement Clarke Moore to Swee'Pea to put him to sleep.
Episode: 1960-10-14 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1960 (7 min)
At a fair, Olive Oyl and Popeye enter Swee'Pea in a contest against Brutus' Bully Boy (with Wimpy as the judge). The boys compete in three crazy athletic events, with an unexpected twist at the end.
The episode list was truncated because of the large number of episodes. Visit the seasons page to see individual seasons' episode guides.