Popeye Theater with Mister Mac
Appearance
The Popeye Theater with Mister Mac is a local children's television show that aired on Cleveland's WKYC-TV from 1968 through 1971. The program was hosted by a character named Aloysius T. MacGillicuddy (or Mister Mac), played by Cleveland actor Leif Ancker.[1]
Mr. Mac lived in a tree and served as the "Commissioner of the Bureau of Elves, Leprechauns and Little People" in the "Department of Utter Confusion." Popeye cartoons were interspersed with skits featuring Mr. Mac and his upstairs neighbor, Clyde Moose.
References
[edit]- ^ Karl R Burkhardt, "Popeye Theater inhabited by elves and leprechauns," The Plain Dealer, 8 Nov 1969.(Available from Cleveland Plain Dealer Historical Archives, http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HA-CPDB&p_theme=histpaper&p_action=keyword)
Categories:
- Local children's television programming in the United States
- 1960s American children's comedy television series
- 1970s American children's comedy television series
- 1960s American sketch comedy television series
- 1970s American sketch comedy television series
- 1968 American television series debuts
- 1971 American television series endings
- American television shows featuring puppetry
- Children's sketch comedy
- Television in Cleveland
- American children's television series stubs