Captain Midnight

Premier Air Date: 1938

Final Air Date: 1949

Station: WGN Chigaco

Cast: Bill Bouchey, Ed Prentiss, Marilou Neumeyer, Angeline Orr and Sharon Grainger

Sponsors: Skelly Oil

Writer: Wilfred G. Moore and Robert M. Burtt

Radio / Adventure / Fantasy

Captain Midnight was sponsored by the Skelly Oil Company, who had previously scored a success with their boy pilot adventure serial The Air Adventures of Jimmie Allen.  The title character, Captain Jim 'Red' Albright, was a World War I U. S. Army pilot.  His Captain Midnight code name was given by a general who sent him on a high-risk mission from which he returned at the stroke of 12:00 a.m.  Captain Albright 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.