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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2016 : Issue 69
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Captain Midnight's Flight Log         [ Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed] ]

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    Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:35:48 -0400
    From: Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Captain Midnight's Flight Log

    Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed]; notes,

>     1938   Captain Midnight was heard on radio for the first time, on
>     Mutual. The Captain flew his single engine plane all over the place

    The /Captain Midnight/ adventure serial was unusual for an adventure
    serial running in the "Children's Hour."  The show was sponsored by
    Skelly Oil, whose products were aimed squarely at adult consumers.  The
    title character was an aviator, and the program had a significant
    aviation content, with the scriptwriters World War I pilots.
    One of the Skelly Oil subsidiary companies was Spartan Aircraft.  Spartan
    planes were mentioned from time to time on the program, and guests
    included airline captains who were graduates of the subsidiary, Spartan
    School of Aeronautics (which still exists).
    In the Fall of 1940, the program's sponsorship was taken over by
    Ovaltine, and Captain Midnight became the leader of the newly formed
    Secret Squadron.  The show continued under Ovaltine sponsorship through
    1949. (The Ovaltine stories are preserved in my book, /Radio's Captain
    Midnight: The Wartime Biography/, and Leonard Zane's /Captain Midnight's
    Postwar Radio Years, both currently in print.)

    Stephen Kallis, Jr.

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