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Private-Eye Popeye
Popeye the Sailor - S1 - E71
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.
Popeye the Sailor: Season 1 - 101 Episode s
1x21 - Interrupted Lullaby
September 9, 1960
Brutus sinks to a new low in both greed and criminal activity by trying to abduct little Swee'pee from his family.
1x22 - Sea No Evil
September 10, 1960
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.
1x23 - From Way Out
September 10, 1960
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.
1x24 - Seeing Double
September 10, 1960
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.
1x25 - Swee'pea Soup
September 11, 1960
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.
1x26 - Hag Way Robbery
September 11, 1960
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.
1x27 - The Lost City of Bubble-Lon
September 11, 1960
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.
1x28 - There's No Space Like Home
September 12, 1960
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.
1x29 - Potent Lotion
September 12, 1960
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. From that moment everyone hates him.
1x30 - Astro-Nut
September 12, 1960
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.
1x31 - Where There's a Will
September 15, 1960
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.
1x32 - Take It Easel
September 15, 1960
Popeye and Brutus are rival artists, each of whom wants to win a magazine contest for the best original flower painting.
1x33 - I Bin Sculped
September 15, 1960
Olive is a sculptor and puts an ad in a shop window asking for a model. Popeye and Brutus both offer their services. Olive tells them she's not looking for someone who is strong and healthy but someone who is worn and tired. So both Popeye and Brutus try to mess themselves up but one of them always stops the other.
1x34 - Fleas a Crowd
September 16, 1960
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.
1x35 - Popeye's Junior Headache
September 16, 1960
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.
1x36 - Egypt Us
September 16, 1960
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.
1x37 - The Big Sneeze
September 17, 1960
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.
1x38 - The Last Resort
September 17, 1960
Popeye, Olive and Wimpy Dimpy Doo find themselves in a spooky mansion Inn, full of apparent ghostly goings on. It turns out The Sea Hag is using the Inn as a hideout for printing counterfeit money. Jinkies!
1x39 - Jeopardy Sheriff
September 17, 1960
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.
1x40 - Baby Phase
September 18, 1960
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.
1x41 - Goon with the Wind
September 18, 1960
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.
1x42 - Insultin' the Sultan
September 18, 1960
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.
1x43 - Dog-Gone Dog-Catcher
September 19, 1960
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.
1x44 - Voice from the Deep or See Here, Sea Hag
September 19, 1960
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.
1x45 - Matinee Idol Popeye
September 19, 1960
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.
1x46 - Beaver or Not
September 22, 1960
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.
1x47 - Battery Up
September 22, 1960
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.
1x48 - Deserted Desert
September 22, 1960
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.
1x49 - Skinned Divers
September 23, 1960
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.
1x50 - Popeye's Service Station
September 23, 1960
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.
1x51 - Coffee House
September 23, 1960
That bad daddy-o Brutus gets the upper hand on Popeye in their rivalry for Olive by catering to her sudden decision to become a beatnik. Can the groovy cool cat defeat the hot dog?
1x52 - Popeye's Pep-Up Emporium
September 24, 1960
Come to Popeye's gym, everyone from Brutus to Wimpy welcome. As the commercial says, he Builds the flat and reduces the fat.
1x53 - Bird Watcher Popeye
September 24, 1960
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.
1x54 - Time Marches Backwards
September 24, 1960
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.
1x55 - Hillbilly Dilly
September 24, 1960
Olive and Popeye drive for an outing in the mountains and meet up with the McGoofs and the Hitchfields feuding and get themselves involved. Popeye eventually bests both clans and stops the feud.
1x56 - Popeye's Pet Store
September 25, 1960
Popeye the pet store owner likes to keep his customers satisfied. Olive, Wimpy and Swee'Pea come buy pets and leave satisfied. Someone then kidnaps all their pets. Popeye dons a dog disguise and tries to find the culprit...... in a 'suprise' twist, It's Brutus.
1x57 - Ballet de Spinach
September 25, 1960
Brutus make fun of Popeye for donning a ballet costume and taking to the stage with Olive.
1x58 - Sea Hagracy
September 25, 1960
The Sea Hag tries to tempt Popeye and Wimpy into a life of piracy.
1x59 - Spinach Shortage
September 26, 1960
Brutus is a business tycoon who corners the market on spinach, causing a shortage that makes it impossible for Popeye to find any.
1x60 - Popeye and the Dragon
September 26, 1960
Popeye buys a suit of armor, hires a horse and goes off to save Princess Olive from a dragon.
1x61 - Popeye the Fireman
September 26, 1960
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.
1x62 - Popeye's Pizza Palace
September 29, 1960
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.
1x63 - Down the Hatch
September 29, 1960
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.
1x64 - Lighthouse Keeping
September 29, 1960
Olive Oyl visits Popeye at his lighthouse. Brutus is an unwelcome tag-along who proves worse than worthless when a shark causes trouble.
1x65 - Popeye and the Phantom
September 30, 1960
Popeye is haunted and taunted by a mischievous ghost who steals his spinach.
1x66 - Popeye's Picnic
September 30, 1960
While out on a picnic Olive and comes face to face with a giant bull while Popeye's car gets a flat tire.
1x67 - Out of This World
September 30, 1960
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. .. No reason is given to how or way it's no longer populated by little cheese people, presumably the moon men killed them all and stole their land.
1x68 - Madame Salami
September 30, 1960
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.
1x69 - Timber Toppers
September 30, 1960
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.
1x70 - Skyscraper Capers
October 1, 1960
Brutus hires Popeye to Build on his site It comes to beatings as both of them fight. Throughout the punches Wimpy eat's a dinner and Popeye the sailor comes out as the winner.
1x71 - Private-Eye Popeye
October 2, 1960
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.
1x72 - Little Olive Riding Hood
October 2, 1960
Little Olive Riding Hood is delivering hamburgers to her sick friend, Mr. Wimpy. The Sea Hag wants those hamburgers for herself.
1x73 - Popeye's Hypnotic Glance
October 2, 1960
Brutus hypnotizes Olive into falling in love with him. Then he hypnotizes Alice the Goon into falling in love with Popeye.
1x74 - Popeye's Trojan Horse
October 3, 1960
A sawfish, a Trojan horse, two princes and a damsel in distress figure in Popeye's storybook tale to a skeptical Swee'Pea.
1x75 - Frozen Feuds
October 3, 1960
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.
1x76 - Popeye's Corn-Certo
October 3, 1960
A classic cartoon duel in music, Olive, The master of ceremonies presents Popeye - the modern music master and the Bach of the Backwoods - Brutus.
1x77 - Westward Ho-Ho
October 6, 1960
Popeye tells Swee'pea the tale of Grandpappy Popeye who accidentally joined the prairie schooner, a wagon train, thinking it was a ship.
1x78 - Popeye's Cool Pool
October 6, 1960
When the heat is so unbearable and being nagged by Olive and Swee Pea, Popeye decides to build his own swimming pool. His neighbour Brutus wants to use it but Popeye won't let him.
1x79 - Jeep Jeep
October 6, 1960
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.
1x80 - Popeye's Museum Piece
October 7, 1960
Popeye is the custodian of a museum. He gets involved with an art thief named Brutus.
1x81 - Golf Brawl
October 7, 1960
Popeye, Wimpy, Olive and Brutus compete against each other in a golf tournament.
1x82 - Wimpy's Lunch Wagon
October 7, 1960
Wimpy leaves Popeye in charge of his hamburger wagon while he goes to the bank. The villains wreck the place.
1x83 - Weather Watchers
October 8, 1960
Brutus is after Popeye's job as a weather forecaster.Through sly tricks, Brutus gets Popeye's weather predictions fouled up.
1x84 - Popeye and the Magic Hat
October 8, 1960
Brutus, the magician, involves Popeye in his act. He makes him appear ridiculous to the audience. Popeye gets mad, fights Olive, stops the fight and gets involved in a magic act too. Jeep is part of Brutus' act. A magic wand turns characters into various animals until Popeye manages to get the wand. This leads to a big fight in a magic hat between Brutus and Popeye.
1x85 - Popeye and the Giant
October 8, 1960
Wimpy eats "grow pills" and becomes a Paul Bunyon-like freak in a carnival. Brutus, the carnival owner, cannot make money on Wimpy -- he eats too many hamburgers. Brutus finally leaves Wimpy in Popeye's care. Popeye, with the help of Swee' Pea and Swee' Pea's chemistry set, invent a reducing pill to bring Wimpy back to normal.
1x86 - Pests of the Pecos
October 8, 1960
Brutus, "the most feared desperado of the early west," robs a train and comes to a town called GRAVESTONE FLATS, where he tangles with Popeye, the Sheriff.
1x87 - The Blubbering Whaler
October 9, 1960
Popeye tells Swee' Pea the story of how he once sung baby whales to sleep. The bedtime story is about the ship, Morpheus, its skipper, Captain Brutus, and Popeye, the harpoonist. Popeye refuses to harpoon a big mama who shipwrecks the Morpheus. Swee' Pea wants to know how Popeye got off the island.
1x88 - Popeye and the Spinach Stalk
October 9, 1960
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."
1x89 - Shoot the Chutes
October 9, 1960
Olive wants Popeye to win the championship parachute jump. Brutus also enters, Popeye starts to fall fast, but lands on top of Brutus' parachute.
1x90 - Tiger Burger
October 10, 1960
Popeye and Wimpy are in deepest darkest India, the natives are terrified of a man-eating tiger named Conga. Popeye wants to capture but Conga grabs Wimpy first.
1x91 - Bottom Gun
October 10, 1960
Brutus the cattle rustler goes to Wimpy's food wagon for breakfast, he wants ham and eggs but find Wimpy only has hamburgers. Brutus decides to swipe eggs from Popeye's all american chicken ranch.
1x92 - Olive Drab and the Seven Sweapeas
October 10, 1960
Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful Princess named Olive Drab. A shipment of gold meant for the castle is stolen by the Sea Hag. Olive's father sends her after Prince Popeye to retrieve the gold. Olive enlists the aid of the seven Swee' Peas. Together, they find Prince Popeye and he battles Sea Hag to get back the gold.
1x93 - Blinkin Beacon
October 13, 1960
The Sea Hag has kidnapped Swee' Pea and sent her vultures after Popeye.
1x94 - Azteck Wreck
October 13, 1960
Olive, Popeye and Jeep are at the Aztec ruins in Mexico. They discover that the Jeep can read the carvings, which starts them on a quest for Aztec treasure. Brutus, their Mexican guide, appropriates the Jeep to find the treasure.
1x95 - The Green Dancin' Shoes
October 13, 1960
Olive is a poor girl who lives in the wood, her sailor sweetheart, Popeye, is also poor and can not afford to take her dancing. While walking in the woods Olive meets the Sea Hag who trades a pair of her dancing shoes for a sea shell. The shoes are cursed and force Olive to dance forever without stopping.
1x96 - Spare Dat Tree
October 14, 1960
Popeye tries to protect an historical tree, Brutus, the woodsman, tries to cut it down.
1x97 - The Glad Gladiator
October 14, 1960
Popeye is transported by the time machine to the center of the Coliseum in Rome, Brutus Nero, is annoyed by his girlfriend's interest in Popeye. He makes Popeye battle gladiators, lions and himself.
1x98 - The Golden Touch
October 14, 1960
Popeye is king who 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. Popeye wants to be rid of the golden touch. The jeep makes him stop the Sea Hag from chasing Jeeps first. He does it with the help of spinach and lives happily ever after.
1x99 - Hamburger Fishing
October 15, 1960
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.
1x100 - Popeye the Popular Mechanic
October 15, 1960
Popeye buys a do-it-yourself kit and makes a mechanical servant. It continues its mechanical duties all through the night, pouring tea on Popeye, mixing salad in his mouth and tossing other items. It lights a match, causing Popeye to awaken blowing flames. Popeye ends by putting the mechanical servant in workshop vice. Popeye then does his own house work in an uncomplaining manner.
1x101 - Popeye's Folly
October 15, 1960
Popeye tells Swee' Pea the story of building the first steamboat, "Popeye's Folly", Brutus, the captain of the windjammer challenges "Folly" to a race.
1x102 - Popeye's Used Car
October 16, 1960
Popeye arrives at Olive's house to take her for a walk. She refuses and rides off with Brutus in his new car. Popeye goes to Wimpy's used car lot, and Wimpy sells him a car.
1x103 - Spinachonara
October 16, 1960
Popeye reads Swee' Pea a Japanese fairytale. Popeye, Wimpy, Olive and Brutus are all used as characters.
1x104 - Popeye and the Polite Dragon
October 16, 1960
A dragon steps out of swee'peas storybook, he tries to be kind and helpful, but sneezes fire and the whole house goes up in flames. It ends with Popeye holding Swee' Pea in his lap in charred remains, reading fairytale book.
1x105 - Popeye and the Ugly Ducklin
October 17, 1960
Popeye shows Swee' Pea a picture of himself, Olive and Brutus when they were children, he says that he was called the Ugly Ducklin'. One day after being bullied by Brutus for being very, very ugly, popeye set sail to a small island inhabited by goons, they were friendly and fed him sea spinach. The spinach made him powerful and very close to being handsome.
1x106 - Popeye's Tea Party
October 17, 1960
Popeye is sent back in time to The Boston Tea Party. The local residents are fed up with being overtaxed, so they plot to throw the tea overboard into the sea.
1x107 - The Troll Wot Got Gruff
October 17, 1960
Once again Popeye tells Swee'pea a fairy story using his friends and family as characters. Brutus is the troll.
1x108 - Popeye the Lifeguard
October 20, 1960
Popeye's a lifeguard and all the girls on the beach are falling for him. Olive is jealous and tries to get his attention by diving off a pier and yelling help! Popeye rescues her and is very angry because she took him away from all the girls.
1x109 - Popeye in the Woods
October 20, 1960
Popeye and Wimpy camp to the woods for peace and quiet but Wimpy wants to cook hamburgers.
1x110 - After the Ball Went Over
October 20, 1960
Popeye and Brutus play ping pong, and the prize is a kiss from Olive.
1x111 - Popeye and Buddy Brutus
October 20, 1960
Brutus asks Popeye to be his skin diving buddy. Popeye agrees. Popeye finds an ancient western sea cow town. Popeye finds gold, Brutus takes half, then hits Popeye and takes Popeye's share. Wimpy is fishing and catches Brutus on his line. The episode ends with Wimpy having his picture taken with Brutus hanging beside him like a big whale.
1x112 - Popeye's Car Wash
October 21, 1960
Popeye opens a car wash. Brutus has a car wash across the street. When Olive brings a long convertible to Popeye to be washed, Brutus mixes the controls and Olive's car comes out shrunken to midget size. Olive is burned up and Brutus takes her across the street to his beautiful "Brutus Beauty Bath." Olive swoons over Brutus and he chases her. Popeye comes to the rescue and gets the worst of it. Then he eats spinach. Popeye knocks Brutus' car wash apart and it settles back to Brutus' junk yard. Brutus lands in front of Popeye's Car Wash in the form of a statue spraying water from his mouth and ears. Popeye and Olive hop in the car and drive into his car wash singing.
1x113 - Camel Aires
October 21, 1960
Popeye travels to Egypt in the hopes of recovering a rare gem and bringing it to the USA.
1x114 - Plumbers Pipe Dream
October 21, 1960
Popeye's attempts to fix Olive's leaking pipework leads to an escalating series of disasters that culminate in flooding all of New York City.
1x115 - Popeye and the Herring Snatcher
October 22, 1960
Wimpy, a night watchman in a herring factory, gets a cold and asks Popeye to take over. He hears strange noises and starts investigating, many hijinx follow and Brutus turns up.
1x116 - Invisible Popeye
October 22, 1960
Olive accidentally switches on the Professor's time machine, which takes her to a bizarre Mars-like planet. Popeye takes invisibility pills and goes to rescue her.
1x117 - The Square Egg
October 22, 1960
Swee' Pea has a square egg, did he find it or did he lay it? However he got it (Porabably from Popeye's chicken ranch) it's very rare and valuable.
1x118 - Old Salt Tale
October 23, 1960
while at the beach Popeye tells Swee'Pea a tall tale that explains why the sea is salty.
1x119 - Jeep Tale
October 23, 1960
Popeye is telling Swee'Pea a fairytale about a mama jeep and her four children -- three good girls and a mischievous boy named Jeepers. One day they go to eat spinach in the good farmer's garden. Jeepers goes into the bad farmer's garden and eats weeds. The farmer catches Jeepers and locks him up, but mama rescues him that night. The next day, the bad farmer tries to chop down the jeep tree, but mama jeep foils him completely. Afterward, the good farmer invites them over for more spinach.
1x120 - The Super Duper Market
October 23, 1960
Olive, Popeye and Wimpy are shopping at a Supermarket where Brutus is manager.
1x121 - Golden-Type Fleece
October 24, 1960
Popeye goes back in time to ancient Greece. The king, mistaking him for Hercules sends him to capture the Golden Fleece. Zeus isn't happy about this and send out wave after wave of thunderbolt rain!!!