The BEST episodes of Popeye the Sailor (1960)

#1 - Plumbers Pipe Dream

Season 1 - Episode 114 - Aired 10/21/1960

Olive's leaky faucet is driving her crazy, but calling a plumber doesn't occur to her until Swee'pea suggests it. Unfortunately, she calls Popeye the plumber. His bungling attempts to fix her faucet lead to an escalating series of disasters that culminate in flooding all of New York City.

#2 - Sheepish Sheep-Herder

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/8/1960

Popeye and Poopdeck Pappy clash with rustlers.

#3 - I Bin Sculped

Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/15/1960

Olive the artist is sculpting a statue personifying weakness and exhaustion.

#4 - From Way Out

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/10/1960

Popeye, Olive, and the Professor deal with a Martian delinquent.

#5 - Ski-Jump Chump

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/4/1960

In an ice cold winter, Popeye upsets a large hibernating bear while trying to impress Olive with his moves on the ski-jumps.

#6 - Interrupted Lullaby

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/9/1960

Brutus learns from a newspaper headline that Swee'Pea has inherited 1 million dollars. Brutus devises a plot to kidnap the baby, but must get past Popeye, who has been left to babysit while Olive shops.

#7 - Goon with the Wind

Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 9/18/1960

Popeye and Olive enjoy a quiet stroll on the boat, arriving in Goon Island with the whole group of Goons.

#8 - Crystal Ball Brawl

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/9/1960

Brutus tries to steal a crystal ball in Popeye's possession.

#9 - Bullfighter Bully

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/3/1960

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.

#10 - Ace of Space

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/3/1960

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.

#11 - Mueller's Mad Monster

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/2/1960

Popeye and Olive tangle with a mad scientist's monster.

#12 - Muskels Shmuskels

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/1/1960

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.

#13 - Abdominal Snowman

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/4/1960

Popeye hears talk of abominable snowman sightings and so decides to take it upon himself to investigate.

#14 - College of Hard Knocks

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/4/1960

Olive the college student is infatuated with Professor Brutus and contemptuous of Popeye's lack of education, leading Popeye to enroll in college himself.

#15 - Oil's Well That Ends Well

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1961

Oily Brutus swindles Olive Oyl out of her game show winnings with a worthless oil well. It is up to Popeye to grease the path towards a happy ending.

#16 - Dead-Eye Popeye

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/2/1960

Sheriff Popeye captures villain Brutus McBride and throws the scum into jail. Brutus' gang of thugs starts a big shoot-out in an attempt to free their leader.

#17 - Hoppy Jalopy

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/2/1960

Popeye races to save Olive from Brutus, who places death traps around the track.

#18 - Hits and Missiles

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/1/1960

Popeye, Olive and Wimpy take an unintended trip to the moon, which is inhabited by cheese-people and tyrannized by the Big Cheese.

#19 - Barbecue for Two

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/10/1960

Popeye wants to have a barbecue for two -- namely him and Olive. But Brutus, Wimpy and Swee' Pea all try to muscle in.

#20 - Caveman Capers

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/3/1960

Popeye remembers his prehistoric ancestor's discovery of spinach.

#21 - Seeing Double

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/10/1960

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.

#22 - Popeye the Lifeguard

Season 1 - Episode 112 - Aired 10/20/1960

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.

#23 - Two-Faced Paleface

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/8/1960

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.

#24 - Shoot the Chutes

Season 1 - Episode 91 - Aired 10/9/1960

Popeye and Brutus engage in a perilous parachuting contest, all to impress Olive Oyl.

#25 - Track Meet Cheat

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/9/1960