Noah in rabbinic literature When Noah and his family and everything that he had taken with him were inside the ark, the people left outside asked him to admit them too, promising repentance. Noah refused to admit them, objecting that he had exhorted them to repent many years before the Flood. The people then assembled in great numbers around the ark in order to break into it; but they were destroyed by the lions and other wild animals which also surrounded it (Tanhuma., Noah, 10; Genesis Rabba 32.14; "Sefer haYashar", l.c.). Noah was constantly occupied in the ark; for he had to attend to
Captain Noah and His Magical Ark Sunday morning leading out of ABC Sunday-morning cartoons and into the "Al Alberts Show". The show also featured four cartoon shorts per day during the week. These included Gumby, Popeye (the made for TV cartoons from the 1960s only), Porky Pig (pre-1940 and post-1947 episodes), and Bugs Bunny (post-1948 episodes). In 1975, when ABC began their morning show "Good Morning America", WPVI-TV opted to preempt that in favor of "Captain Noah and His Magical Ark." Starting in September 1976, WPVI began running the 7:00 a.m. hour of "Good Morning America" and scaled "Captain Noah" back to the 8:00 a.m. to