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 in 1970. The show starred Merbreier as Captain Noah and his real life wife, Patricia Merbreier, as Mrs. Noah. At its height, "Captain Noah and His Magical Ark" was syndicated to twenty-two television stations in markets throughout the United States. During the early 1970s, "Captain Noah and His Magical Ark" attracted a larger local audience in the Philadelphia region than "Sesame Street" and "Captain Kangaroo" combined. Started as a religious-oriented program, "Captain Noah and His Magical Ark" became a daily children's program in 1970. The show aired from 7:00 a.m. to 9 a.m. on weekdays and for 30 minutes on