The All-New Popeye Hour

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The All-New Popeye Hour
Format	Animated
Created by	E. C. Segar Hanna-Barbera
Starring	Jack Mercer Marilyn Schreffler Allan Melvin Daws Butler
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	35
Broadcast
Original run	September 9, 1978 – September 5, 1983

The All-New Popeye Hour is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and King Features Syndicate. Starring the popular comic strip character Popeye, the series aired from 1978 to 1983 on CBS.

It was an hour-long animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which tried its best to retain the style of the original Thimble Theatre comic strip (Popeye returned to his original costume and Brutus to his original name of Bluto), while complying with the prevailing content restrictions on violence. In addition to providing many of the cartoon scripts, Jack Mercer continued to voice Popeye, while Marilyn Schreffler and Allan Melvin became the new voices of Olive Oyl and Bluto, respectively. (Mae Questel actually auditioned for Hanna-Barbera to recreate Olive Oyl, but was rejected in favor of Schreffler.) The All-New Popeye Hour ran on CBS until September 1981, when it was cut to a half-hour and retitled The Popeye and Olive Show. It was removed from the CBS lineup in September 1983, the year before Jack Mercer's death. These cartoons have also been released on VHS and DVD. During the time these cartoons were in production, CBS aired The Popeye Valentine's Day Special - Sweethearts at Sea on February 14, 1979. In the UK, the BBC aired a half-hour version of The All-New Popeye Show, from the early-1980s to 2004.