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Captain Midnight was an aviation adventure fantasy that gained notoriety during the late 1930’s. Written by Robert M. Burtt and Willfred G. Moore, this series was initially broadcasted over the WGN network in Chicago and sponsored by the Skelly Oil Company. The show caught the eye of executives at Ovaltine, and they took this old time radio program to Mutual Network in order to reach a wider market. What started off as a simple narration of a fictional World War I hero named Captain Jim “Red” Albright (portrayed by Bill Bouchey on WGN and later by Ed Prentiss on Mutual) soon morphed into something much bigger than anyone could have ever anticipated. A historic icon was born in the golden age of radio-- the masked crusader, “Captain Midnight”. Before long, millions were avidly following the exploits of the secret agent and his band of merry followers that took each listener to exotic places around the globe. From aerial dogfights to shadowing the slums of the underworld, Captain Midnight together with the ever-faithful Chuck Ramsey and Patsy Donovan (who was later replaced by Joyce Ryan) gave chase to evil-doers and brought them to justice. In a time that was rife with the smell of gunpowder and the threat of war, this old radio show injected a sense of levity and normalcy to the populace. Dive into a world of adventure by enjoying Captain Midnight today! Click here to read more about Captain Midnight

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
01.17.1944	japanese bombers shot down	+Sponsored by: Ovaltine. The Japanese bombers have been shot down, despite the smokescreen. Fifty Fl...
04.20.1944	mountain battle	+ Sponsored by: Ovaltine. In South America, Captain Midnight has a confrontation with Senor Schrecke...
01.12.1940	mysterious voice ep01of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. Captain Midnight builds a radio direction finder to try to receive the f...
01.15.1940	mysterious voice ep02of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. (Commercial guests: a member of "The Dawn Patrol," and a student pilot a...
01.17.1940	mysterious voice ep03of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil (Capt. Midnight Photo premium). The wrecked airplane has been found; now ...
01.19.1940	mysterious voice ep04of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil (Capt. Midnight Photo premium). Bud Conley's temperature continues to ris...
01.22.1940	mysterious voice ep05of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil (Capt. Midnight Photo premium). A prospector with a supply of dynamite gi...
01.24.1940	mysterious voice ep06of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil (Capt. Midnight Photo premium). The plan is to dynamite trees to clear a ...
01.26.1940	mysterious voice ep07of33
01.29.1940	mysterious voice ep08of33	+Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. The last tree falls and Chuck starts his perilous take-off.
01.31.1940	mysterious voice ep09of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. (commercial guest: Ab Jenkins; race driver and Mayor of Salt Lake City)....
02.02.1940	mysterious voice ep10of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. Patsy's brother Steve returns to the Mexican desert to rescue Capt. Midn...
02.05.1940	mysterious voice ep11of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. Chuck Ramsey has disappeared!
02.07.1940	mysterious voice ep12of33	+Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. On the trail of the missing Chuck Ramsey.
02.09.1940	mysterious voice ep13of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. Clues to the disappearance of Chuck Ramsey...a flashback helps to explai...
02.12.1940	mysterious voice ep14of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. Chuck Ramsey is under arrest!
02.14.1940	mysterious voice ep15of33	+Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. Chuck is captured by Ivan Shark!
02.16.1940	mysterious voice ep16of33	+Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. Chuck is spirited away by Ivan Shark!
02.19.1940	mysterious voice ep17of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. Chuck's travels are traced up to the time of his disappearance...into th...
02.21.1940	mysterious voice ep18of33	+Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. Capt. Midnight has landed at the field where Chuck was held prisoner by I...
02.23.1940	mysterious voice ep19of33	+Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. Captain Midnight arrives at Ivan Shark's secret landing strip...but where...
02.26.1940	mysterious voice ep20of33	+Sponsored by: Skelly Oil. Fiendish Ivan Shark plans to use Chuck as a weapon against Capt. Midnight...
02.28.1940	mysterious voice ep21of33	+Sponsored by: Skelly Oil (airline route map premium). Ivan Shark is landing...but where? Will he fi...
03.01.1940	mysterious voice ep22of33	+ Sponsored by: Skelly Oil (airline route map premium). Ivan Shark's plan becomes clear...but first ...
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Captain Midnight is my favorite OTR show.

Matthew

The opening of this juvenile air adventure was the sound of a tolling of a bell, the roar of a plane and the announcer saying Captain Nnnn Midnight! It was broadcast on the West Coast from 1939 to 1940, then on Mutual from 1940 to 1949. Midnight was based very loosely on the real-life adventures of Captain Red Albright, a WWI flying ace.

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I completely enjoyed Captain Midnight in perada’s treasure and the Mysterious Voice. Have been hoping for decades that more from the Skelly run would surface, but none have. I did discover a lost episode from the Ovaltine series five or six years ago.

Rick

My grandson likes Captain Midnight. Sponsored by the Skelly Oil Company in here in Tulsa.

Todd

The October 1947 Captain Midnight radio scripts featured a new kind of gas. Ivan Shark is in a Washington prison and his daughter, Fury, has found an eccentric professor who has invented one of the most extraordinary gases ever discovered! It is so powerful that no gas mask can stand up against it and it spreads like lightning to a surrounding area of almost a quarter of a mile! The gas does not kill, it merely puts everybody into a deep coma! The professor also invented an immunizing tablet that renders the gas harmless to anyone who swallows one. Both the gas and tablets last for two hours. If you need more time, you simply release another cylinder of gas and take another tablet! Fury has obtained some of the gas and tablets to get her father out of prison! Fury leads Gardo and three henchmen to the prison. All of them take a tablet and a small cylinder of gas. Fury drops off one man off at each corner of the prison while she returns to the main gate. She fires a shot into the air which is the signal for the men to release the catches on their cylinders! Anyone who arrives at the prison for the next two hours will crumple as though they had been hit by a blackjack! From inside the prison, the warden hears a shot in the distance, the telephone rings but he collapses before he can answer! Fury calmly walks in with Gardo, they find her father, slip a tablet into his mouth, he regains consciousness and walks out of the prison! The 1964 James Bond movie, "Goldfinger", used a similar gas on Fort Knox. It was sprayed by airplanes and hundreds of soldiers collapsed, seemingly unconscious! I wonder if Ian Fleming ever listened to Captain Midnight!

Liz

Eleven days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in a November 26, 1941 Captain Midnight radio broadcast, this dialog took place at Pearl Harbor ... MID: Everything points to a plot against our outposts in the Pacific. Sometime we can expect a lightning attack. When or how that will come I don't know. JONES: An attack! But certainly not against us here! This is one of the strongest naval bases in the world! MID: I agree. But here's the way I look at it. Anyone planning to take away our Pacific possessions must sooner or later capture the Hawaiian Islands. JONES: Right! And if they start something, say in the Philippines or at Guam, we'll be well-prepared for them here. MID: Exactly! Therefore, why not attack here first? If this falls everything else falls with it. JONES: It seems incredible! But I suppose a blitz attack would not be impossible! The invader would have to accomplish two things. He would have to block the entrance of Pearl Harbor so that Naval vessels inside couldn't get out and all of the air bases on the island would have to be destroyed -- probably by dive bombers. MID: I realize all that but if the invader caught us completely by surprise --

Larry