weekend program. It would run an hour on Saturday mornings and on that showing often contained the 8 AM cartoon (when it was a half-hour offering) offered by ABC within the show. On Sunday mornings, it now ran for 30 minutes before Kids Are People Too. For a while a 15-minute edition was inserted into the showing of Kids Are People Too. In 1983, Captain Noah was scaled back to 30 minutes on Saturday mornings and ran this way until 1994 with no cartoons inserted. The staples of the show were the puppets, cartoons and songs. The theme song was, "I Can Sing a Rainbow" sung by Andy Williams. Another notable song that was played every episode was "Send Your Pictures to Dear Old Captain Noah". Celebrity guests on the show included Elvis Presley, Charles Barkley, Jon Stewart, Jim Henson, Martina Navratilova and Frank Perdue. The Phillie Phanatic, mascot of the Philadelphia Phillies, debuted to the public on the show in 1978. Carter and Pat Merbreier jointly decided to retire and end the show in 1994. Captain and Mrs. Noah were both inducted into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2001. They were also honored that year by the same organization as their Persons of the Year. A 35th anniversary show was aired in 2005 on WPVI from the Please Touch Museum. The set of the show has been preserved at the Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum's new home at Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, which opened on October 18, 2008. The show is now repeated every Saturday at 8:30 am on one of Channel 6's (WPVI) digital feeds. The reruns generally consist of the last few seasons the show aired (1993 or 1994). Captain Noah was grand marshal of the "Night In Venice" boat parade in Ocean City, NJ, on Saturday July 24, 2010. Patricia Merbreier died at age 86 on June 23, 2011 in Philadelphia. W. Carter Merbrier died at age 90 on August 9, 2016, following a short illness. He was living in Audubon, PA at the time of his death. Personal Carter Merbreier, a.k.a. Captain Noah, and Patricia Merbreier had one daughter, Pamela. In October 2014, Carter Merbreier published the book Captain Noah and His Magical Ark, detailing his experiences as a children's television show host on WPVI-ABCTV for over 30 years. References External links Captain Noah Anniversary Special wpvi.cpm Retrieved on March 18, 2007