The BEST episodes of The All-New Popeye Hour

#1 - The Ski's the Limit

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1978

Olive Oyl is teaching Swee'Pea how to skate. Popeye tries to learn also, but falls. Meanwhile, Swee'Pea is in danger, and Olive tries to rescue him, but in vain. Popeye goes to their rescue and saves them both.

#2 - The Big Wheel

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/16/1978

Popeye, Olive Oyl and Bluto are in an amusement park. Both Popeye and Bluto want to be alone with Olive. Naturally, Bluto starts planning little schemes to get Popeye out of the picture.

#3 - Popeye the Sleepwalker

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/23/1978

Popeye returns from a record-setting trans-Atlantic sailing trip. He has spent seven sleepless days and nights on the high seas. He is very tired and needs sleep. He wants to call Olive Oyl but he falls asleep. He starts to sleepwalk onto the roof of the boat. Olive Oyl follows along, trying to prevent him from being hurt. She ends up getting in more trouble than Popeye does.

#4 - Popeye and the Beanstalk

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/16/1978

Popeye is walking into town to sell his cow at the market. Along the way, he meets up with Wimpy and sells the cow to him for a bag of beans. Popeye is then run down by a speeding carriage that tramples both him and the beans into the road. The beans take root and a big beanstalk carries Popeye into the clouds.

#5 - I Wants Me Mummy

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1978

Popeye is delivered an Egyptian sarcophagus to the door of the Popeye & Olive Treasure Seekers Service Ltd. shack. Inside of it is his latest client, wrapped up like a mummy. He wants to hire Popeye to find Cleopatra's treasure.

#6 - The Treasure of Werner Schnitzel

Season 1 - Episode 62 - Aired 3/10/1979

#7 - The Mask of Gorgonzola

Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 2/3/1979

#8 - Popeye Snags the Seahag

Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 12/23/1978

A ship owner calls Popeye at the office of Private-Eye Popeye. The ship owner tells him that a whole fleet of ships were hijacked by Madam No-No a.k.a. the Sea Hag. Popeye sets out to pay the Sea Hag and her assistant Hugo a visit. He plans to end their stealing days forever.

#9 - Boola Boola Hula

Season 1 - Episode 60 - Aired 3/3/1979

#10 - Popeye's Roots

Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 12/16/1978

Poopdeck Pappy and the nephews are helping to clean Popeye's attic. Grandpa Poopdeck gives the boys valuable lessons about learning their roots. He reads them stories about their ancestors. Some of the stories include Cleopatra, Ponce de Leon and Columbus.

#11 - Popeye Goes Hollywood

Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 12/9/1978

Popeye and Bluto go to an audition at Big Dome Studios for a Hollywood stuntman job. They are looking for a stuntman for a million-dollar movie called "Stunts Galore". The producer decides to let them both try out. During the audition, they fight each other constantly while trying to perform their best. In the end, they find out the producer gives the job to stuntwoman Olive.

#12 - Popeye and the Pirates

Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 12/9/1978

Popeye and Princess Olive are out on the high seas with Wimpy at the helm. They spot a pirate ship hiding in an unnatural fog by a graveyard of ships. The pirate ship turns out to be that of the dreaded Blutobeard the Pirate. Popeye and Olive and are taken prisoners by Blutobeard and his salty and very crusty crew of four.

#13 - Popeye at the Center of the Earth

Season 1 - Episode 58 - Aired 2/24/1979

#14 - Here Stew You

Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 12/9/1978

Popeye and Olive are unfortunate enough to find themselves shipwrecked on a deserted island. Popeye paddles a raft to shore loaded with supplies from the ship. Olive makes something to eat as Popeye builds a log cabin.

#15 - A Trio in Rio

Season 1 - Episode 56 - Aired 2/17/1979

#16 - Popeye Meets the Blutostein Monster

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 11/25/1978

A mad scientist named Viktor creates an artificial robotic man who falls in love with Olive Oyl. He captures her and takes her back to the Castle Von Blutostein. After being rescued by Popeye, they find out that Viktor had also made an artificial robotic woman. The female robot looked exactly like Olive Oyl and it was only a case of mistaken identity.

#17 - I Left My Spinach in San Francisco

Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 2/10/1979

#18 - Popeye's Finest Hour

Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 11/25/1978

Popeye is recalled to the Navy through a computer error. While at Boot Camp, his new nemesis is Bluto's troublemaking nephew. Young Bluto looks just like his uncle. Popeye must put up with the younger Bluto for a while, just like he does with his uncle.

#19 - Take Me Out to the Brawl Game

Season 1 - Episode 53 - Aired 2/10/1979

Olive wants to play baseball alongside the men. Popeye's game but Bluto tries to stop her.

#20 - The Three Ring Ding-a-Ling

Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 12/23/1978

The Ding-a-ling Bros. Circus is in town. Wimpy is the ringmaster and is kept well supplied with hamburgers by a vendor on a chain. Bluto is the strongman, naturally. Popeye and Olive are the stars of the trapeze.

#21 - A Day at the Rodeo

Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 12/23/1978

Popeye and Bluto are competing in a rodeo for a date with rodeo queen Olive. The first event is bronc riding and Bluto cheats before they burst from the chute by slapping Popeye's hat over his eyes. Bluto shows off with some fancy trick riding but, even blinded, Popeye is still a match for him.

#22 - Popeye's Engine Company

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/11/1978

Olive is baking dinner in her oven and lighting the barbecue for her and Popeye in her high-rise apartment building. While she is cooking, she calls her sailor boyfriend to Popeye's Engine Company, where he is playing checkers with his fire dog. While talking to Olive, he sees smoke emanating from her building and rushes off to put it out. Meanwhile, across town at Bluto's Engine Company, Bluto wakes up to the alarm for the same fire.

#23 - Popeye of the Klondike

Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 1/13/1979

Olive tells Popeye's nephews the story of the time Popeye and Bluto went to Alaska during the Gold Rush. Bluto was the winner of the race, however, his prize turned out to be fool's gold.

#24 - Shark Treatment

Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 1/20/1979

When Popeye and Poopdeck Pappy head out to sea, Pappy vows to conquer his old enemy, Monster Maki, a great white shark. However, Monster Maki gives Pappy and Popeye a run for their money as he slowly rips apart their ship.

#25 - Mother Goose is on the Loose

Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 1/27/1979

Bluto and Popeye tell Swea'pea their own versions of Mother Goose fairy tales.