Popeye the Sailor (1960s TV series)

Popeye the Sailor
Genre	Animation Comedy
Based on	Popeye, created by E. C. Segar
Directed by	Jack Kinney (for Jack Kinney Productions) Seymour Kneitel (for Paramount Cartoon Studios) Gene Deitch (for Rembrandt Films/Halas and Batchelor) Paul Fennell (for Larry Harmon Pictures)
Voices of	Jack Mercer Mae Questel Jackson Beck
Theme music composer	Sammy Lerner (Original) Winston Sharples (Intro and Outro)
Composer(s)	Ken Lowman (for Jack Kinney Productions) Winston Sharples (for Paramount Cartoon Studios) Štěpán Koníček (for Rembrandt Films/Halas and Batchelor) Gordon Zahler (for Larry Harmon Pictures)
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	220
Production
Executive producer(s)	Al Brodax
Producer(s)	Jack Kinney Paramount Cartoon Studios William L. Snyder Larry Harmon Gerald Ray
Editor(s)	Joe Siracusa, Roger Donley, and Cliff Millsap (for Jack Kinney Productions) Dan Milner (for Larry Harmon Pictures) Norm Vizents (for Gerald Ray Studios)
Running time	5–7 minutes
Production company(s)	King Features Syndicate TV
Distributor	Hearst Entertainment
Release
Original network	Syndication
Original release	1960 – 1961
Chronology
Preceded by	Popeye the Sailor (1933–1957)
Followed by	The All New Popeye Hour (1978–1983)

Popeye the Sailor is an American animated series produced and syndicated by King Features Syndicate TV that was released in 1960 with 220 episodes produced. The episodes are grouped by the production studios of Larry Harmon Pictures, Rembrandt Films/Halas and Batchelor, Gerald Ray Studios, Jack Kinney Productions, Paramount Cartoon Studios, and Italy-based animation company Corona Cinematografica.

In the late 1950s, the original Popeye theatrical shorts released by Paramount Studios from 1933 to 1957 began airing in many television markets and garnered huge ratings.King Features Syndicate, who owned the print rights to the "Popeye" name, did not earn any money from the syndication of the Paramount theatrical Popeye films. In order to capitalize on Popeye's television popularity, King Features hastily commissioned a new series of made-for-television Popeye cartoons.Al Brodax served as executive producer of the cartoons for King Features' then-newly created television production and distribution division (known today as Hearst Entertainment, named after King Features' parent company, the Hearst Corporation). Jack Mercer, Mae Questel and Jackson Beck returned for this series, which was produced by several different animation companies: Gerald Ray Studios, Jack Kinney Productions, Rembrandt Films/Halas and Batchelor, and Larry Harmon Productions).

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