Anyone remember the made for TV Popeye cartoons that aired in syndication throughout the 60s and 70s? There were 220 cartoons produced by several different studios from 1960 to 1962 and those shows were inconsistent, suffering from bad animation, lame gags and repetitive plots. . Most of those cartoons featured Popeye battling Brutus, whose name was changed from Bluto.

I remember them. Here in The Crescent City, WWL-TV (http://www.wwltv.com/) ran them briefly on Saturday mornings as part of Popeye And Pals, and WGNO-TV (http://www.abc26.com/) ran 'em weekdays.

The reason they were made is that King Features Syndicate, copyrighters of Popeye, didn't see one dime from the animated Popeye shorts produced at Fleischers and Famous Studios for 23 years, and felt that TV was a way to finally rake in some dough. :D

Yes, I remember them. I prefer the first two batches, the 30's and 50's I think. I still watched the newer ones anyway because I love Popeye.

Of course the Fliescher cartoon are the best; but as a kid I enjoyed the 1950s ones, too --and didn't mind the 1960s extremely-limited animation ones ( but I also liked "Clutch Cargo," too! ).

I wanted to verify that I am correct on a point of trivia: I think “Popeye, the Ace of Space” was in 3-D. I read a book about animated shorts which listed about 4 or 5 classic cartoons in the 1950s which were in 3-D. One was definitely the Bugs Bunny classic “Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk” --I recall one Popeye 'toon mentioned, and I am guessing that it must be The Ace of Space, based upon space being an odd venue for Popeye, and an obvious choice for 3-D. I remember some two-headed alien ( but there was also a 2-headed giant in "Popeye The Sailor Meets Sinbad The Sailor" ).

One was definitely the Bugs Bunny classic “Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk”.


It was called "Lumber Jack-Rabbit", the only Warner Bros. cartoon to be released in 3-D (Released: 11/13/1954).

For more, click here (http://www.davemackey.com/animation/wb/1954.html).

BTW, I like the Felix the Cat avatar! I used to watch those Felix cartoons when I was growing up on what was Kaiser Broadcasting-owned KBSC-TV channel 52, Corona/Los Angeles, CA. (now KVEA).

Thanks so much, BossRadio! I didn't want to get that wrong. I guess I remembered the Jack part of the name. Now, I'm trying to recall the other cartoons. It was in a really great book on cartoons, which I read in 1993. It was one of those coffee table books. It also detailed plenty of Trivia about various toons.
Walt Disney had a cartoon cat named Walter in his partly-live-action 1920s Alice silent cartoons. At the time, lots of animators were ripping off the popular Felix, and Felix creator Otto Mesmer ( or somebody else ) was going to sue --Walt ended up creating Oswald Rabbit, and Mickey Mouse.
It would've been nice if Felix was the star of Disney features, though! Too bad Felix did not have more syndication for those 1960s cartoons. I loved those. I've bought the DVDs of the silent films he did.

And yes, Dave Mackey ( on another page on his site ) does confim my guess: that it was Popeye the Ace of Space that was in 3-D.

"Popeye, The Ace Of Space
Rel 10/2/53 - MPAA 05495 - Popeye
Direction: Seymour Kneitel - Animation: Al Eugster, George Germanetti, Wm. B. Pattengill - Story: Carl Meyer, Jack Mercer - Scenics: Robert Little, Anton Loeb - Music: Winston Sharples
NOTE: Released in 3-D."
http://www.davemackey.com/animation/paramount/para50s.html