Polycarp ( in the Cajun French manner) was a fictional character who was a local children's television show host. His program, Polycarp and Pals, was broadcast from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s on KATC Channel 3 in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. Background Polycarp was portrayed by the KATC employee John Plauché (27 July 1932 - June 1978), hired by KATC in May 1963 and who it credited for the show's originality. "It is a land created through the wonderful imagination of John Plauche, who as Polycarp Phillipe Pecot Number 2, makes our lives a little happier, the world a brighter place [in which] to live." (Polycarp often jokingly warned viewers in his Cajun-accented English, "Don’t ask for Number One 'cuz dat's my daddy and dey don't like him anyway.") An avuncular Cajun dressed in a plaid shirt, waistcoat and crumpled straw hat, Polycarp lived on a houseboat, the Narcisse Number 3, "somewhere way back in the Anse La Butte Swamp midway between the Parishes of Fantaisie and Réalité", as a KATC newsletter put it in 1967. (In later programs, Polycarp traded his houseboat for a general store.) KATC described Polycarp's imaginary world as "A modern-day 'fairytale' land of happiness and laughter for girls and boys and tall people . . . undoubtedly the happiest place in Acadiana". The station likened his program to "a cruise . . . [through] his small but laughing world of Cajun friends and swamp critters . . . [such as] Maurice Mostique, the giant mosquito with a wingspan of 13¾ feet, [who] sings a pesky song while Ole Blue, the 738½ pound junk-collecting catfish, thumps against the boat as we float along the bayou". In addition to showing classic Warner Bros. cartoons, the program had original skits and recurring characters. These cincluded T'Toot (a retired Indian fighter), the Crazy Professor (an inventor and graduate emeritus of the University of Pecan Island), Tante Baseline (owner of the Anse La Butte Swamp Gumbo factory), Joycie (a female filling station attendant "who's the world's champion dual-wheel semi-trailer flat-tire fixer"), The Headless Man (who "sent his head out to be cleaned and it was accidentally sent to the Avery Island Pickle Factory instead" and lived in the locked cabin of Polycarp's boat), Doctor Rollingstone ("the hipster swamp doctor who has a transistor radio stuck in his stethoscope), King Simon ("the duly elected boss of the swamp") and the Crazy