The Popeye Show

This version of "The Popeye Show" premiered in fall 2001 in an effort to present the Fleischer Studios/Famous Studios theatrical Popeye cartoons from 1933 - 1957 on television in their original form. Prior to this show's premier, most television airings of the Popeye theatrical cartoons bore the logos of Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.), the company that bought the films from Paramount Pictures for television distribution. This is due to the shorts having been sold in the 1950s, when most film studios did not want to be associated with television. As a result, a.a.p. was required to replace the original Paramount logo's with their own. Also, later on the black and white Popeye shorts were colorized. This is how the Popeye shorts aired on Cartoon Network from 1992 - 2001 on a prior version of "The Popeye Show" and were always shown on that form on Acme Radio Hour (1995). However, for this new revamped version of "The Popeye Show", efforts were made to present these films as close to their original theatrical form as possible: some of the cartoons shown were copies that actually had their original Paramount titles intact, while others needed to have their titles simulated through the process of digital video editing.