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Captain
Ray Heatherton ABOVE: Captain Ray Heatherton poses with a life size Popeye cutout on the deck of "The SS Popeye," the set of WPIX's long-running ' Popeye Show.'
ABOVE: Capt.
Ray Heatherton of the weekend
Ray Heatherton was also seen
in New York as The Merry Mailman  Before Heatherton assumed
the job, the 'Popeye Show' on WPIX was hosted by the very popular Captain
Allen Swift.
These songs are from Swift's first Popeye album, performed by the host (as Popeye) with Mae Questel as Olive: FROM SIDE ONE - Popeye's Song FROM SIDE TWO - I Like Popeye
"I started talking to the children who were watching the 'Popeye Show' at home the way that I talked to my own kids," Jack McCarthy recalled in a December, 1983 interview."We (the kids show hosts/performers at WPIX TV channel 11) had our own personalities. I did the show the way I thought that I would want to approach young people."
"Engineer Smokey Bill" (Bill Britten) screened Popeye TV cartoons on WPIX's 'Cartoon Express.'
Chuck McCann with The Paul Ashley Puppets screened Popeye cartoons on 'Let's Have Fun' on WPIX channel 11.
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Another local Syracuse TV personality Denny Sullivan sported a carnival barker's outfit to help open 'The Popeye Funhouse' on the station's weekday afternoon schedule. "Uncle Mike" Mearian and his puppet pal "Buttons" had been entertaining Buffalo, N.Y.'s young viewers for years when he left 'The Children's Theater' (not to be confused with WNBT/WRCA/WNBC TV 4 in NYC's kid's variety show of the same name) to helm 'Popeye's Playhouse on WBEN (now known as WIVB) TV channel 4. Capt. Mike and Buttons (who was created and manipulated by Bob and Ellen Knetchel) entertained and informed their viewers between the cartoons from the late 1950's until 1966. Len Hathaway's "Admiral Appleby" entertained on 'Popeye & The Admiral Show' on WNBF channel 12 in the Binghamton, N.Y. viewing area. The show later changed to a variety format where Admiral Appleby would help a child and their friends celebrate birthdays on 'The Admiral's Birthday Party Show' on channel 12 in which Popeye was the main attraction. WTEN-TV channel 10 in Albany, N.Y. hired George Leighton to host their Popeye Show as "The Old Skipper."
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Captain
Jack McCarthy followed
Allen Swift and Ray Heatherton as the third and last host performer of
WPIX's 'Popeye Show' in 1960 - and maintained its course for the next
12 years with his warm smile, gentle wit and soft spoken demeanor.
