''The Popeye Theater with Mister Mac'' is a local children's television show that aired on

Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...

WKYC WKYC (channel 3) is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. Its studios are located on Tom Beres Way (a section of Lakeside Avenue in Downtown Cleveland named after the station's lon ...

-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.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) 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 Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and i ...

featuring Mr. Mac and his upstairs neighbor, Clyde Moose.

References

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 {{US-child-tv-prog-stub