Mighty Olive at the Bat

Mighty Olive at the Bat
Junior and Popeye hold up the entire team for Olive's victory.
Premiere date	October 17, 1987
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Eric Lewald
Director(s)	John Kimball Paul Sommer
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"Mighty Olive at the Bat" is the fifth episode (part two) of Popeye and Son season one. It aired on October 17, 1987 on CBS. It was written by Eric Lewald, and directed by John Kimball and Paul Sommer.

Despite knowing nothing about baseball, Olive trains hard to support her son in the local father-son baseball competition, when Popeye injures himself.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Popeye	Maurice La Marche
Popeye Jr.	Josh Rodine
Woody	Nancy Cartwright
Woody's father	Unavailable
Olive Oyl	Marilyn Schreffler
Bluto	Allan Melvin
Tank Bluto	David Markus
Rad	B.J. Ward
Puggy	Marilyn Schreffler
Rad's father	N/A
Puggy's father	N/A
Eugene the Jeep	Don Messick
Lizzie Bluto	Marilyn Schreffler
J. Wellington Wimpy	Allan Melvin
Arnold	N/A

Organizations

• All-Stars
• Maulers

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Sweet Haven
      • Baseball field
      • Popeye residence
• The Moon

Objects

• Spinach

Vehicles

• Bluto's car

Music

The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Behind the scenes

• Perhaps because Junior was completely willing to have the spinach, he doesn't show any hatred of it afterward.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• Not available. 😥