Two mysteries : popeye/count of monte Cristo

Hello,

Thanks to my successful first post yesterday with the help of TammiToon i thought I would try again today, so please assist with the following :

1. Its a version of the well known popeye and the argonauts I believe, but to my memory it's a newer version, almost sure it's early 90s late 80s, possibly with his son and I remember being impressed by the animations and the moderness of it (could it be partly computer animated?). Begins with popeye encountering the skeletons in an island he arrived at.

2.its a version of the count of monte Cristo, produced by halas & Batchelor, from the 70s/60s? I really want to see any video of this because strangely there are no traces of it on the web at all, besides this YouTube audio www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTpHTpSKFfs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Appreciate your help everyone.

Samer

Hmmm. The only cartoon I can find that comes close to "Popeye and the Argonauts " is,


Golden-Type Fleece | Popeye {60's Series}


However, he doesn't meet any skeletons on the island.

Thanks BobbyBickert for mentioning Hanna-Barbera's "Popeye and Son." I looked it up and think I found the answer to Samer's question. I believe the cartoon is called Ain't Mythbehavin'. Click the title to see the synopsis.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a video.

Well, there definitely was an animated TV series of "The Count of Monte Cristo", and I think it was made by Halas & Batchelor in conjunction with RAI, the Italian broadcasting company. I do remember watching at least one episode, here in the UK back in the 70s.

I actually recall someone visiting the small animation studio where I worked in the 1970s (very small: 4 people - 2 animators, me and the guy who ran it!), and him telling us he had just finished work, I think as director or production supervisor, on the series. He talked about his theory that for colour TV it was a good idea to limit the amount of colour, having one dominant hue per shot, with the other colours supporting it. (I can't remember if this practice was at all evident in the series). I had formed the idea, in retrospect, that this person was Tony Guy - but I could easily be wrong. Certainly the series does not appear on his CV.

It seems to have aired in either 1973 or 1975. I would tend to think the earlier date more likely, given my (admittedly very hazy) recollection of this visitor, but I can't be sure.

I'm sorry I can't add anything more useful, but at least it's confirmation!

Just found this reference, from Jeff Lenburg's "Who's Who in Animated Cartoons" (2006) under Halas, John:
Expanded heavily into television, Halas produced with Batchelor many popular animated series for British and United States television, including the stop-motion animated series, Snip and Snap (1960), featuring the exploits of a dog (Snap) made of paper and pair of scissors (Snip), and Do Do—The Kid from Outer Space (1964), their first color half-hour television series starring a young alien child and his half-mechanical bird later telecast in the United States on NBC-owned and operated stations from 1966 to 1970. In addition, they produced the animation for many other popular series studios for which they were commissioned, including The Lone Ranger (1966-69), The Tomfoolerys Show (Iso-7I), The Jackson 5ive (1971), The Osmonds (1972-74), The Count of Monte Cristo (1973), The Addams Family (1973-75), and Partridge Family: 2200 A.D. (1974-75).