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He is popularly called Captain Noah; W. Carter Merbreier is a former TV pioneer in Philadelphia with strong ties to Ocean City. He is well-known for his children’s TV series (Captain Noah and His Magical Ark) died on Tuesday in his country home in Pennsylvania. The news of the death of the Audubon based veteran broke in some major mainstream media outfits in Philadelphia.

Carter Merbreier’s Tv series (Captain Noah and his Magical Ark) aired as a series WPVI-TV (6abc) in Philadelphia for a little over 27 years.

Carter Merbreier will be remembered as a very passionate and cheerful giver. In 1993, he spent his summer in the Ocean City with his wife where they donated a surf chair to enable handicaps to have access to leisure.

Merbreier admitted during an interview that he felt he wasn’t still doing enough for the Ocean City as there were many other citizens doing better than him regarding cooperate responsibility. Merbreier was undoubtedly unchallenged for many years in the kid’s entertainment industry space. Until cartoon became much popular, Captain Noah’s show was making waves.

Captain America once said he was convinced that Ocean city’s slogan which is America’s Greatest Family Resort was fitting. He was also confident that the Ocean City authorities had done their bit in preserving the city, hinting that even though the city was not perfect yet, there was still laudable improvements and room for more.

In the early 1990’s, when shows like Ren and Stimpy and Beavis and Butterhead were very popular with teenagers and kids, Captain Noah always voiced his opinion regarding Children’s television.

In his words, he said, he felt some of the animated children’s tv at that time were unhealthy and disgusting and he felt they were terrible and demoralizing for the target audience.

Merbreier remained a stake holder till his death yesterday and he has his name will surely go down positively in history books. If you are below 40 years old, you may not be able to relate to this character, but he rocked kids in the 90’s.

Captain Noah is a former chaplain and is ordained as a Lutheran Minister for the Philadephia Police Department. He was aged 90.