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Captain Midnight was a U.S. radio serial broadcast from 1938 to 1949. It was originally sponsored by Skelly Oil as a syndicated show, from 1938 through the spring of 1940. In the fall of 1940, Ovaltine took over sponsorship, and moved it to the Mutual Radio Network, where it remained through December of 1949. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (900x1109, 285 KB) Summary fairusein/Captain Midnight Web source: http://www. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (900x1109, 285 KB) Summary fairusein/Captain Midnight Web source: http://www. ... Motto: E pluribus unum (1789 to present) (Latin: Out of Many, One) In God We Trust (1956 to present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York, New York Official language(s) None at federal level; English de facto Government • President  â€¢ Vice President Federal republic... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Ovaltine (registered trademark of Associated British Foods) is a brand of milk flavoring product made with sugar, malt extract, cocoa, and whey, by Wander AG, a subsidiary of Novartis Consumer Goods. ... The Mutual Broadcasting System (1934 - 1999) was a radio network based in the USA. The ancestor of Mutual was the Quality Network, founded in 1929 with four radio stations: WLS in Chicago, WOR in New York City, WLW in Cincinnati, and WXYZ in Detroit. ...

The title character, Charles James ("Jim") Albright, was a World War I pilot. "Captain Midnight" was his code name, given by the general who sent him on a high-risk mission. When the show began in 1938, he was a private aviator who helped people; however, this changed in 1940. When the show was taken over by Ovaltine, his origin story explained how he was recruited to head the Secret Squadron, an aviation-oriented paramilitary organization fighting sabotage and espionage during the period prior to the United States' entry into World War II. The Secret Squadron acted both within and outside the United States. Combatants Allies: • Serbia, • Russia, • France, • Romania, • Belgium, • British Empire and Dominions, • United States, • Italy, • ...and others Central Powers: • Germany, • Austria-Hungary, • Ottoman Empire, • Bulgaria Casualties 5 million military, 3 million civilian (full list) 3 million military, 3 million civilian (full list) World War I, also known as the First World... Ovaltine (registered trademark of Associated British Foods) is a brand of milk flavoring product made with sugar, malt extract, cocoa, and whey, by Wander AG, a subsidiary of Novartis Consumer Goods. ...

When the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor, the show shifted the Secret Squadron's duties to fight the more unconventional aspects of the war. Besides the stock villain, Ivan Shark, the war years introduced Axis villains, Baron von Karp, Admiral Himakito and von Schrecker. After the war, some of the newer villains used war surplus equipment to carry out their activities. The show was extremely popular, with an audience in the millions. Just under half the listeners were adult, and it was a favorite of Army Air Corps crews during World War II, when they were stationed in the United States. Premiums offered by the series were "decoders," called Code-O-Graphs, used to decipher weekly messages at the close of a program, giving a preview to the forthcoming episode. The Army Air Corps is a vital component of the British Army. ... Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France/Free France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others• Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, • ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II... Although several different items are called decoders, in the popular mind, these are primarily premiums from old radio and television shows, which sent out messages to be deciphered by their audiences. ...

The scripts depicted women who were treated as equals, not just people to be rescued. Both Joyce Ryan, a young woman in the Secret Squadron, and Fury Shark, daughter of villain Ivan Shark, pulled their own weight in the adventures. Joyce even went on commando raids and became involved in aerial dogfights during World War II.

In 1942, a movie serial, loosely based on the program, was released by Columbia Pictures. A newspaper comic strip and a Fawcett Comics title, only vaguely based on the radio program, were also published in the 1940s. This article is about the year. ... Movie serials were short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film. ... The Columbia Pictures logo, since 1996. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Whiz Comics #2, the first appearance of Captain Marvel, the companys most popular character. ...

Captain Midnight was also the title of a thirty-minute science fiction television series, which premiered on CBS in 1954. It followed the adventures of pilot Captain Midnight (actor Richard Webb) and his Secret Squadron. The series ran for thirty-nine episodes over two years. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... For other uses, see CBS (disambiguation). ...

Listen to

• Captain Midnight episodes

External links

• Captain MIdnight Decoder

• Captain MIdnight and The Secret Squadoron - Independent Motion Picture based on the Original Radio Program from The Golden Era.

For Captain Midnight the infamous satellite hacker see Captain Midnight Attacks section of the Home Box Office article. HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network with headquarters in New York City. ...