Mitchell Agruss(1923-2015)

For two years, in the 1950s, he worked at a local TV station in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, hosting Popeye cartoons as Captain Soloman Seawhiskers. This experience helped him land a job as Cap'n Delta on Channel 13 (KOVR) in Sacramento, California, USA, from 1963-1968. From 1968-1984, he was Cap'n Mitch at Sacramento's Channel 40 (KTXL).

[From a 2006 interview in which he discussed his lack of comfort in the aggressive methods often employed to advance an entertainment career]: "I had a naivete about how to deal with people, which I still have. I'd rather not press what I think are personal relationships in a way that people who are professionally driven do not mind doing."