Captain Midnight

First heard as a local program from 10/17/39 to 03/27/40 over WGN, Chicago, for the Skelly Oil Company. The show soon moved to Mutual beginning on 09/30/40 and was heard five time a week until 07/03/42 for Ovaltine. From 09/28/42 to 06/22/45 the program was carried over the Blue Network as a 15 minute, five days a week program. It continued on Mutual from 09/24/45 to 06/17/49 as a 15 minute program and then for a short run, as a 30 minute program, from 09/20/49 to 12/15/49.

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03/29/39 # 23 Photographic Mission (VG-)

04/21/39 # 40 The New Tornado Airplane (VG)

05/23/39 # 63 The Crash Of Red Roberts (VG)

05/25/39 # 64 The Gold Mine (VG)

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10/17/39 #167 Juan Pareda Reveals Ivan Shark’s Plans (VG)

10/18/39 #168 Surrounded (VG)

10/19/39 #169 The Black Plane Follows

10/20/39 #170 The Cabin’s Opened Door

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10/23/39 #171 Explosion At The Cabin

10/24/39 #172 Hoot Of An Owl

10/25/39 #173 Zollinger Escapes (VG)

10/26/39 #174 Zollinger Lies To Ivan Shark

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10/27/39 #175 A Plan For Takeoff

10/30/39 #176 The New Enemy

11/06/39 #181 Friend Or Enemy From The Air

11/07/39 #182 The Vanishing Field

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11/08/39 #183 Escape From Ivan Shark’s Planes (VG)

11/09/39 #184 Pablo's Surprise And Dolores’ Discovery (VG)

11/10/39 #185 Dolores Escapes; Patsy And Chuck Explore Cave

11/13/39 #186 Ivan Shark Discovers Cave Escape Panel

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11/14/39 #187 Chuck Swept Away In Cavern River

11/15/39 #188 Temple Of The Aztecs

11/16/39 #189 Capt. Midnight Secretly Arrives

11/17/39 #190 Ivan Shark Knows Treasure Location

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11/20/39 #191 Zollinger Helps Captain Midnight

11/21/39 #192 Captain Midnight Approaches Ivan Shark

11/22/39 #193 Ivan Shark Waiting In Ambush

11/23/39 #194 Captain Midnight Escapes Dire Peril

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11/24/39 #195 Ivan Shark Attacks Several Ways (VG)

11/27/39 #196 Chuck Is Shot Down

11/28/39 #197 Amazing Crash Landing (VG)

11/29/39 #198 Captain Midnight Escapes And Ivan Shark Is Furious

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11/30/39 #199 Preparing For A Thrilling Takeoff

12/01/39 #200 Strange Things Are Happening

12/04/39 #201 Ivan Shark Plans An Attack

12/05/39 #202 Taken By Surprise

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12/06/39 #203 Strange Plane Approaches

12/07/39 #204 Pinky & Slim Missing

12/08/39 #205 Cattle Drive By Airplane

12/11/39 #206 Forced Landing Into Stampeding Cattle

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12/12/39 #207 Ivan Shark Mad At Gordo (VG)

12/13/39 #208 Ivan Shark’s Plan To Trap Captain Midnight

12/14/39 #209 Captain Midnight Plans To Burn His Plane

12/15/39 #210 Chuck Shot Down By Ivan Shark

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12/18/39 #211 Chuck Parachutes To Safety

12/19/39 #212 Plans For River Escape On A Raft

12/20/39 #213 Captain Midnight And The Dungeon Of Death

12/21/39 #214 A Watery Grave For Captain Midnight

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12/22/39 #215 Captain Midnight And Ivan Shark Face To Face

12/25/39 #216 The Trap In An Aztec Temple Dungeon

12/26/39 #217 Water Rises Trapping Captain Midnight And Ivan Shark

12/27/39 #218 Water Levels Drop In The Dungeon Trap

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12/28/39 #219 Where Is Ivan Shark?

12/29/39 #220 Battle Of The Hacienda

Format change to 3 times a week

01/01/40 #221 Questioning Zollinger

01/03/40 #222 What's In The River?

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01/05/40 #223 Ivan Shark’s Plane Takes Off

01/08/40 #224 Ivan Shark Escapes With Fury And Fang

01/10/40 #225 The Mexican Fiesta And A S.O.S.

01/12/40 #226 Voice On The Radio

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01/15/40 #227 The Voice Again On The Radio

01/17/40 #228 The Wreckage Is Found

01/19/40 #229 Sick And Injured

01/22/40 #230 Help For Conley

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01/24/40 #231 Smoke On The Ridge

01/26/40 #232 Dynamite

01/29/40 #233 The Tree

01/31/40 #234 Flight To Ridgeville

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02/02/40 #235 Rescue From The Mexican Desert

02/05/40 #236 What's Happened To Chuck

02/07/40 #237 Chuck Ramsey Has Disappeared

02/09/40 #238 The Mystery

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02/12/40 #239 The Stranger On Chuck’s Plane

02/14/40 #240 Under Arrest

02/16/40 #241 Caught By Ivan Shark

02/19/40 #242 Ingenious Scheme

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02/21/40 #243 The Search Begins

02/23/40 #244 The Trail Of Clues

02/26/40 #245 No Bodies At The Crash Site

02/28/40 #246 Battle Of Wits

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03/01/40 #247 Secret Airfield

03/04/40 #248 The Telegram

03/06/40 #249 The Message

03/08/40 #250 Midnight Message

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03/11/40 #251 Ingenious Method’s Planned

03/13/40 #252 Chuck's Message

03/15/40 #253 Another Message

03/18/40 #254 The Plan

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03/20/40 #255 Only 42 Hours Left

03/22/40 #256 The Phony Midnight

03/25/40 #257 The Flying Arrow

03/27/40 #258 The Hideout

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Mutual

09/30/40 # 1 The Origin Of Captain Midnight (VG)

10/01/40 # 2 SS-1

06/09/41 Two Submarines (VG)

10/24/41 Trapped In Tiger Tong's Car

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Blue Network

10/08/42 Assignment Under The Sea

11/20/42 Destruction From The Sky

11/24/42 Fighting With The Commando

12/30/42 The Nazi Sub Base

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02/16/43 Trapped By The Nazis

02/22/43 Challenge Of The Crossroads

04/09/43 The Silver Dagger Strikes

04/21/43 The Silver Dagger Strikes

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05/26/43 The Secret Squadron Strikes