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    Appreciation: Tom Hatten was more than a TV host to this young viewer

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Mar 18, 2019 3 minutes

    Tom Hatten, who died Saturday at the age of 92, was best known for showing "Popeye" cartoons on local Los Angeles television.

    This might seem to some an insignificant sort of credit. But as the host of "The Pier 5 Club" and then "The Popeye Show," which ran on KTBC-TV Channel 5 (a station formerly connected to this paper) from 1956 to 1964, Hatten was very much an important person in my young life, just as, back hosting "Popeye and His Friends,"

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