 The Katzenjammer Kids also appeared (along with other King Features comic-strip stars) in Filmation's TV special "Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter" (1972).In 1938, "The Captain and the Kids" became the subject of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first self-produced series of theatrical short subject cartoons, directed by William Hanna, Bob Allen and Friz Freleng