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Popeye the Sailor
Popeye the Sailor-Man!
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Popeye the Sailor actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Popeye the Sailor reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Spectacle.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The story
What it's about
Follows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man.
Popeye is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. This spunky but loveable spinach-eating sailor continues to delight young and old with his comic adventures, and the entire gang is around to provide plenty of rousing fun and action: Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Wimpy and Bluto.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
E. C. Segar
Showrunner
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Al Brodax
Executive producer
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Tom Hix
Writer
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Dick Kinney
Writer
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Walter Schmidt
Writer
Joe Grant
Writer
Jack Kinney
Writer
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Isadore Klein
Writer
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Irving Dressler
Writer
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Joe Siracusa
Writer
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Warren Bennett
Writer
Jack Mercer
Writer
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Harvey Toombs
Writer
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Joseph Gottlieb
Writer
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Osmond Evans
Writer
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Nick George
Writer
Sid Marcus
Writer
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Wesley Bennett
Writer
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Charles Shows
Writer
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Joseph Stewart
Writer
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Edwin Rehberg
Writer
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Tony Benedict
Writer
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Cliff Millsap
Writer
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Noel Tucker
Writer
Seymour Kneitel
Writer
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Raymond Jacobs
Writer
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Ruben Apodaca
Writer
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Gerald Nevius
Writer
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Rosemary O'Connor
Writer
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Carl Meyer
Writer
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Al Pross
Writer
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Ralph Wright
Writer
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Dennis Fraser
Writer
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Ken Hultgren
Writer
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Ed Nofziger
Writer
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Carole Beers
Writer
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Al Bertino
Writer
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Jim Rivind
Writer
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Cal Howard
Writer
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Milt Schaffer
Writer
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Howard A. Schneider
Writer
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Jack Miller
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Tom HixWriter
- Dick KinneyWriter
- Walter SchmidtWriter
- Joe GrantWriter
- Jack KinneyWriter
- Isadore KleinWriter
Direction
- Paul FennellDirector
- Jack KinneyDirector
- Bob BemillerDirector
- Gene DeitchDirector
- Tom McDonaldDirector
- Seymour KneitelDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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