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'''''Popeye''''' was a [[comic strip]] featuring a character of the same name. [[Malcolm (Time and Relative)|Malcolm]] enjoyed reading it when he was six years old in [[1963]]. It had a character named [[Wimpy]], who lent his name to [[London]]'s [[Wimpy Bar]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'')
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'''''Popeye''''' was a [[comic strip]] featuring a [[Popeye (character)|character of the same name]]. [[Malcolm (Time and Relative)|Malcolm]] enjoyed reading it when he was six years old in [[1963]]. It had a character named [[Wimpy]], who lent his name to [[London]]'s [[Wimpy Bar]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Time and Relative (novel)}}) Other accounts indicated Popeye to be a real person. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|TV Comic's Counter Game (1968 game)}}, {{cs|Basil Brush goes Rent Collecting (game)}})


There was also a single character, who was referred to as both '''Bluto''' and '''Brutus''', sometimes within the same story. Years later, some ignorant writers used "Brutus" and "Bluto" as two separate, but similar, characters. This eerily foreshadowed less-than-knowledgeable Doctor Who writers using "The Monk", "The War Chief" and "The Master" as '''three''' separate characters, despite all evidence to the contrary, simply for being listed under different names in the [[Radio Times]].
The [[Fourth Doctor]] whistled the theme to ''Popeye'' while visiting a [[Shanghai]] dock in [[1937]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Shadow of Weng-Chiang (novel)}})


The [[Fourth Doctor]] whistled the theme to ''Popeye'' while visiting a [[Shanghai]] dock in [[1937]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadow of Weng-Chiang]]'')
While stuck in [[Sol Transit System]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] tries to keep himself from disassociating by flying apart down all the logical pathways of probability by telling himself "I am what I am what I am." This results in part of himself detaching and spinning down an alternative pathway where he becomes Popeye the Sailor Man. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Transit (novel)}})


The [[Tenth Doctor]] described Popeye as being "hopelessly addicted to [[spinach]] and skinny women." Popeye's girlfriend Olive Oyl had a brother called Castor, leading the Doctor to joke that the spaceship ''[[Castor (spaceship)|Castor]]'' may have been named after him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wooden Heart]]'')
Other than Popeye, characters includeed [[Olive Oyl]] and her brother [[Castor (Popeye character)|Castor]]. The [[Tenth Doctor]] joked that the spaceship ''[[Castor (spacecraft)|Castor]]'' may have been named after him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Wooden Heart (novel)}})
 
== Behind the scenes ==
[[File:TVC Annual 1967.jpg|thumb|[[Popeye (character)|Popeye]] and [[Olive Oyl]] with the [[First Doctor]] and [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] on the cover of ''[[TV Comic Annual 1967]]''.]]
The ''[[Popeye (series)|Popeye]]'' comic strips were published alongside those of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in ''[[TV Comic]]''. Its characters appeared on the covers of the ''TV Comic Annual''s, occasionally depicted alongside the Doctor or some other elements from their universe.
 
== External links ==
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Popeye was a comic strip featuring a character of the same name. Malcolm enjoyed reading it when he was six years old in 1963. It had a character named Wimpy, who lent his name to London's Wimpy Bar. (PROSE: Time and Relative [+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"]) Other accounts indicated Popeye to be a real person. (GAME: TV Comic's Counter Game [+]Loading...["TV Comic's Counter Game (1968 game)"], Basil Brush goes Rent Collecting [+]Loading...["Basil Brush goes Rent Collecting (game)"])

The Fourth Doctor whistled the theme to Popeye while visiting a Shanghai dock in 1937. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Shadow of Weng-Chiang (novel)"])

While stuck in Sol Transit System, the Seventh Doctor tries to keep himself from disassociating by flying apart down all the logical pathways of probability by telling himself "I am what I am what I am." This results in part of himself detaching and spinning down an alternative pathway where he becomes Popeye the Sailor Man. (PROSE: Transit [+]Loading...["Transit (novel)"])

Other than Popeye, characters includeed Olive Oyl and her brother Castor. The Tenth Doctor joked that the spaceship Castor may have been named after him. (PROSE: Wooden Heart [+]Loading...["Wooden Heart (novel)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Popeye and Olive Oyl with the First Doctor and the TARDIS on the cover of TV Comic Annual 1967.

The Popeye comic strips were published alongside those of Doctor Who in TV Comic. Its characters appeared on the covers of the TV Comic Annuals, occasionally depicted alongside the Doctor or some other elements from their universe.

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