Captain Midnight - "2 Episodes From 1943" (04-12-43) (05-26-43)

The Silver Dagger Strikes (04-12-43) and The Secret Squadron Strikes (05-26-43)

Captain Midnight was a U.S. radio serial broadcast from 1938 to 1949. Created by radio scripters Wilfred G. Moore and Robert M. Burtt, the program was developed at WGN in Chicago. Sponsored by the Skelly Oil Company, it began as a syndicated show in the fall of 1938, airing on a few midwest stations through the spring of 1940. In the fall of 1940, Ovaltine took over sponsorship, and the series was then heard nationally on the Mutual Radio Network where it remained until December, 1949. The title character, Charles James Albright, was a World War I pilot. His Captain Midnight code name was given by a general who sent him on a high-risk mission. When the show began in 1938, Albright was a private aviator who helped people, but his situation changed in 1940. When the show was taken over by Ovaltine, the origin story explained how 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.

 

THIS SHOW:

Cat# 83665. Captain Midnight. April 09, 1943. Blue Network. "The Silver Dagger Strikes". Sponsored by: Ovaltine. The Nazi Count Raddick has demanded that the British and The Secret Squadron surrender. Has Agent 3F11 gotten through to Captain Midnight? Has the Silver Dagger Group sold out to the Nazis? Captain Midnight and the Secret Squadron are to be executed at dawn!. Ed Prentiss, Pierre Andre (announcer), Robert Burtt (creator). 14:30.

Cat# 64028. Captain Midnight. May 26, 1943. Blue Network. "The Secret Squadron Strikes". Sponsored by: Ovaltine. The Nazis plan to use their secret weapon to win the war. Captain Midnight plans to stop them, starting with a raid on a supply warehouse. Ed Prentiss, Pierre Andre (announcer), Robert Burtt (creator). 14:30.