@@samisunc I have my jet decoder with the red tip, but the blue pointer-thingy on the back is missing darnit. Still have my Ovalteen mug, too. Boy it's small as an adult! Ovalteen is great in a smoothie and makes some dandy hot chocolet.
Thanks for posting. I used to love this show as a kid. Though made on tight budget, it had higher production values than many of the other SF kid programs. .
Wow. This surely takes me back. I remember that my brother and I had a secret decoder ring --- I think it was a cereal box prize. So nice to see this show here.
perhaps you tore off a label on container and sent in a dime? and waited for it to come?....very exciting for e kd's discovering..... mail?....come back good buddy
And how could I have forgotten Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Pancho and Cisco, Lone Ranger, and the Saturday Morning weekly movie serials like Flash Gordon..
Remember kids to wear your Secret Squadron emblem so that Captain Midnight will know that you're one of his guys, and also to drink your chocolate flavored Ovaltine, not some cheap imitation milk flavoring, so that you'll have the strength and stamina to help fight evil men everywhere.
What's really a hoot: a Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket (one of three built) is displayed at Antelope Valley College, my alma mater. The Captain's 'Silver Dart' is based on the Skyrocket's design...
The kids that grew up with Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, Captain Midnight, and others weren't Boomers, but I sure envy them. I wasn't familiar with any of these serials until now. They're really a lot of fun. We don't have hero's like these anymore. I think kids need heroes.
I was born in '52 so Baby Boomer and watched these and wow they are some of my most distant misty memories! :). Some years later I'd picture that mountaintop base and landing strip and wonder if I had dreamed them up!
Yes we are Boomers. I watched all of these, and more: Raymour of the Jungle, Cisco Kid, Tales of Texas Rangers, Howdy Doody, Pinky Lee, Circus Boy... !950 was my arrival year.
I remember watching Captain Midnight . According to the broadcast dates I was only three years old at the time. Ovaltine is malted milk powder with a hint of chocolate.
Mostly, in the fifties, we didn’t know what we we missing. Believe it or not, fast-food wasn’t around in the fifties! We didn’t have cable TV. Cars weren’t so very reliable. We only had one or two wonder drugs. We did get polio vaccination in grade school though and that was very big. There were A-bombs and H-bombs but no missiles yet.
@@thisismyname007 Food was REAL food, doctors CURED diseases (rather than "treat" peope to death with toxic drugs), women were still skinny, and a quarter allowance would last you all week!
I am a baby boomer, and I remember this show as part of the Saturday morning lineup. The lineup consisted of “rough and ready” cartoons, and “fury, the story of a horse, and the boy who loved him.”
"Captain Midnight (Jet Jackson in other countries): Starring: Richard Webb as Capt. Midnight; Co-Starring: Sid Melton as Ikky; and: Olan Soule as Tut. "Arctic Avalanche." Guest Performers: Marc Krah as Dr. Zarka, Philip Ahn as Sutoc, Lane Nakano as Gorba, and: Tetsu Komai as Kinda. "
I remember this show. My sisters and I watched it on our Philco. I especially recall the sponsor , Ovaltine. I wanted to.ask.my mother to.buy some,. But after watching the captain demonstrate how to make it I thought we did not have the proper ingredients to make it. The captain said to mix it with "tap water" and milk. Well, we had the milk (25 cents a quart) but I never heard of "tap water". When we wanted water we went to the kitchen sink and turnef on the faucet. It was years later before I heard the faucet referred to as a "tap". So, I never drank ovaltine !!!! Now, no one goes to the sink for water. They open a plastic bottle. Kids are shocked by the notion of drinking water from the faucet!!! I've still never tasted ovaltine.
I think the Captain Midnight show was being referred to by Art Carney in a Honeymooners episode.....Norton was watching TV and he said " space helmet on o Captain Video"....
Ovaltine owned the rights to "Captain Midnight," so when they no longer sponsored the series, the producers had to change the name to "Jet Jackson." The actors had to come back in & overdub when someone called him Captain Midnite with Jet.
TV commercials on adult programs of this period might have had phony physicians, dentists and nurses endorsing the supposed health benefits of cigarettes like: Camels, Old Gold, Luckies, Viceroy et. al.
Regarding commercials: I kinda of remember one going something like this. (It could have been another brand). “A surgeon needs steady hands. That’s why more doctors smoke Lucky Strike than any other cigarette.”
@@Sherwoody Yeah, that would have been typical of the kind of advertising pitch made back then. We were so dumb, suckers to the sales psychology employed to manipulate us into buying what they were selling to us.
@@Sherwoody I know, I can remember those slogans and jingles so clearly from 60 something years ago but can't remember where I laid my car keys down 5 minutes ago.
Little did people know that now in the year 2021 we're all flying in our personal jets and flying cars. It's so wonderful that society hasn't regress to racism, criminal politicians, poverty. All those nasty things people in the past worked so hard to avoid...
Ovaltine: even before there was such a thing as truth in advertising (maybe I am wrong on that, though), calling itself a " Dietary Supplement ". IOW, no claims it might be forced to verify.
What, nobody had a red plastic ovaltine mug like me ? Will have to check but I think they still sell ovaltine. Anybody decode the message at the end of this episode ? Lots of shows had similar decoder buttons like Orphan Annie and Sargeant Preston (who also had a pedometer I got as a kid). Along with Winkie Dink, Soupy Sales, Howdy Doody, Sky King, and Space Patrol the greatest era for kid TV I grew up on. Now its crap quality animation. Sad.
Sid Meltzer was just too creepy for me to ever appreciate. I never found him funny - just kind of stupid and slimy. He tried for the Jerry Lewis gimmick but never made it work. I especially didn't like him in the role as Dick Van Dyke's side kick co-worker. Nevertheless, he still seemed to pop up regularly in reruns during the 60's and 70's such that I made it a habit of changing the channel whenever he showed up - which I'm going to do right now after finishing this insult commentary/memorial that I'm sure he's up (or down) there acknowledging as "yahh, you're right, I was always a stoopie dope just like youze always said..."
Still have my Captain Midnight club card from when I was a Kid!
Still have your Capt. Midnight decoder ring? haha
@@samisunc I have my jet decoder with the red tip, but the blue pointer-thingy on the back is missing darnit. Still have my Ovalteen mug, too. Boy it's small as an adult! Ovalteen is great in a smoothie and makes some dandy hot chocolet.
I tried Ovaltine one time and it was so bad it was no wonder the kids who regularly consumed it in the fifties were so stupid.
Thanks for posting. I used to love this show as a kid. Though made on tight budget, it had higher production values than many of the other SF kid programs. .
I also had my Secrets Squadron decoder ring! I still do! Dr.Tim Rasico
Wow the complete first season I remember Captain Midnight so well, when I was a child in 1955 i was only 7 thanks for this.
Wow. This surely takes me back. I remember that my brother and I had a secret decoder ring --- I think it was a cereal box prize. So nice to see this show here.
perhaps you tore off a label on container and sent in a dime? and waited for it to come?....very exciting for e kd's discovering..... mail?....come back good buddy
When I was little I took my brother's plastic toy football helmet and drew a lightening bolt on the front. He was a little angry with me! :P
And how could I have forgotten Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Pancho and Cisco, Lone Ranger, and the Saturday Morning weekly movie serials like Flash Gordon..
I remember this tv show as a little kid, l wish there were more to see.
Remember kids to wear your Secret Squadron emblem so that Captain Midnight will know that you're one of his guys, and also to drink your chocolate flavored Ovaltine, not some cheap imitation milk flavoring, so that you'll have the strength and stamina to help fight evil men everywhere.
That's a new one to me! Thanks a lot! Also -- THANKS for keeping in the commercials!!
What's really a hoot: a Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket (one of three built) is displayed at Antelope Valley College, my alma mater. The Captain's 'Silver Dart' is based on the Skyrocket's design...
Budgets were low for many of these shows and it’s possible the plane may have been from an out of the box model kit.
The kids that grew up with Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim,
Captain Midnight, and others weren't Boomers, but I sure envy them. I wasn't familiar with any of these serials until now. They're really a lot of fun.
We don't have hero's like these anymore.
I think kids need heroes.
I was born in '52 so Baby Boomer and watched these and wow they are some of my most distant misty memories! :). Some years later I'd picture that mountaintop base and landing strip and wonder if I had dreamed them up!
Yes we are Boomers. I watched all of these, and more: Raymour of the Jungle, Cisco Kid, Tales of Texas Rangers, Howdy Doody, Pinky Lee, Circus Boy... !950 was my arrival year.
I remember watching Captain Midnight . According to the broadcast dates I was only three years old at the time. Ovaltine is malted milk powder with a hint of chocolate.
I wish I was around in the 50's. Seems like a wonderful time!
Mostly, in the fifties, we didn’t know what we we missing. Believe it or not, fast-food wasn’t around in the fifties! We didn’t have cable TV. Cars weren’t so very reliable. We only had one or two wonder drugs. We did get polio vaccination in grade school though and that was very big. There were A-bombs and H-bombs but no missiles yet.
@@thisismyname007 Food was REAL food, doctors CURED diseases (rather than "treat" peope to death with toxic drugs), women were still skinny, and a quarter allowance would last you all week!
Sid Melton pops up in the weirdest places on tv!
I am a baby boomer, and I remember this show as part of the Saturday morning lineup. The lineup consisted of “rough and ready” cartoons, and “fury, the story of a horse, and the boy who loved him.”
DON'T FORGET black beauty, Lassie, rinn-tin-tin, Andy's gang, etc. What a great time for kids to grow up
I had my own SQ Decoder ring! I still do! Tim
My third grade teacher confiscated my Silver Dart Decoder. Had it about two days. Never saw it again. Funny how it still kinda pisses me off.
olan soule in the laboratory-a prelude to an appearance as a medical examiner on dragnet
I remember him as John Masters, the hotel clerk and choir director from the Andy Griffith Show.
He was also the voice of Batman in the Superfriends.
..Just The Facts~!!!
Batman in the Sixties Filmation cartoons, Super Friends, and even a couple of animated segments on Sesame Street!
Passou aqui no Brasil por volta de 1962-66....como " Jet Jackson" "O comandante meteoro"....lembro vagamente dos personagens..
"Captain Midnight
(Jet Jackson in other countries):
Starring:
Richard Webb as Capt. Midnight;
Co-Starring:
Sid Melton as Ikky;
and:
Olan Soule as Tut.
"Arctic Avalanche."
Guest Performers:
Marc Krah as Dr. Zarka,
Philip Ahn as Sutoc,
Lane Nakano as Gorba,
and:
Tetsu Komai as Kinda. "
I remember this show. My sisters and I watched it on our Philco.
I especially recall the sponsor , Ovaltine.
I wanted to.ask.my mother to.buy some,.
But after watching the captain demonstrate how to make it I thought we did not have the proper ingredients to make it.
The captain said to mix it with "tap water" and milk. Well, we had the milk (25 cents a quart) but I never heard of "tap water".
When we wanted water we went to the kitchen sink and turnef on the faucet. It was years later before I heard the faucet referred to as a "tap".
So, I never drank ovaltine !!!!
Now, no one goes to the sink for water. They open a plastic bottle. Kids are shocked by the notion of drinking water from the faucet!!!
I've still never tasted ovaltine.
I think the Captain Midnight show was being referred to by Art Carney in a Honeymooners episode.....Norton was watching TV and he said " space helmet on o Captain Video"....
wow...so there really was a Capt. Video......thanks
Yes sir. Episodes are up on TH-cam if you want to see it!
I'll check it out ...thanks
I must have lived a totally depraved childhood. I never got my decoder ring. And I had a crush on Ernest Duckworthy/Johnny Jupiter.
Arr, Jet Jackson and Ikarbard Mudd (with 2 D’s). I wonder, is a Ikie the multiple great grandfather of Star Trek’s Mudd.
It's sort of like the Lone Ranger with airplanes (and a very low special effects budget).
Ovaltine owned the rights to "Captain Midnight," so when they no longer sponsored the series, the producers had to change the name to "Jet Jackson." The actors had to come back in & overdub when someone called him Captain Midnite with Jet.
It Called "Jet Jackson" here in Australia.
I knew it as Jet Jackson in the USA also. Not sure what the deal was.
Jim, when Ovaltine stopped sponsoring the show, they owned the rights to the name Captain Midnight. So they had to change the name to Jet Jackson.
@@KRW628 Thanks, I always wondered.
Australia had a bushranger (outlaw) called Captain Midnight, could be a reason for the name change.
TV commercials on adult programs of this period might have had phony physicians, dentists and nurses endorsing the supposed health benefits of cigarettes like: Camels, Old Gold, Luckies, Viceroy et. al.
Regarding commercials: I kinda of remember one going something like this. (It could have been another brand).
“A surgeon needs steady hands. That’s why more doctors smoke Lucky Strike than any other cigarette.”
@@Sherwoody Yeah, that would have been typical of the kind of advertising pitch made back then. We were so dumb, suckers to the sales psychology employed to manipulate us into buying what they were selling to us.
@@videomaniac108 the funny thing is, I can still remember some of the slogans and jingles from the tobacco ads.
@@Sherwoody I know, I can remember those slogans and jingles so clearly from 60 something years ago but can't remember where I laid my car keys down 5 minutes ago.
Gotta get me some of that Ovaltine!
Unwatchable now, although I loved it in 1955
Is this show related to Jet Jackson?
Little did people know that now in the year 2021 we're all flying in our personal jets and flying cars.
It's so wonderful that society hasn't regress to racism, criminal politicians, poverty.
All those nasty things people in the past worked so hard to avoid...
I purchased poor quality copies of this series on ebay. This is outstanding. Since they ar ein public domain, are you willing to sell copies of this?
Now I want a glass of Ovaltine.😅
Ovaltine. Tasted like funny tasting chocolate milk, I thought.
James Snee ~ That is why the manufacturers had to use the nutrition guilt trip to promote sales.
I have an unopened CAN of Ovaltine from the early 40s I found in a basement shelter.
I think it was malted . . I drank it as a kid. LOL
What's the code???
How is it Secret if on TV?
Ovaltine: even before there was such a thing as truth in advertising (maybe I am wrong on that, though), calling itself a " Dietary Supplement ". IOW, no claims it might be forced to verify.
Who's that on the Captain's right in the plane? Chim Chim?
Sid Milton,who was a character actor.He played Sophia Putrillo's husband in" Golden Girls" memories of Sophia.
Wow
How do you have a Hall of Fame for a secret squadron?
I did not care for Olvatine. I drank Tang! Tim
You may want to edit your title. There's no such word as "artic". It's Arctic.
After 10 years, who cares?
The bad guy is Master Kan from "Kung Fu"
b e s u r e t o d r i n k y o u r o v a l t i n e
a stupid commercial?
yep just what every secret org. needs...a hall of fame with free ours for any interested party.
Arctic.
Sid Melton.
midnight edge
Arctic
What, nobody had a red plastic ovaltine mug like me ? Will have to check but I think they still sell ovaltine. Anybody decode the message at the end of this episode ? Lots of shows had similar decoder buttons like Orphan Annie and Sargeant Preston (who also had a pedometer I got as a kid). Along with Winkie Dink, Soupy Sales, Howdy Doody, Sky King, and Space Patrol the greatest era for kid TV I grew up on. Now its crap quality animation. Sad.
I drink Ovaltine, too!
Goes great in a smoothie!
Jet Jackson
Great kid stuff for its time, shameless in advertising. That part, I don’t remember; we were starved for this.
I was an oval teen! :P
Ovaltine wasn.t very good. * I think Cpt. Midnight later played Paul Drake on Perry Mason.
Ovaltine was nasty. It didn't taste anything like chocolate milk or hot chocolate.
"And chocolate flavored ovaltine is delicious to"
in my refrigerator right now, are 2 pints of Kemp's. The Dom Perigon '63 of chocolate milk.
Yum Ovaltine....Yuckk
Sid Meltzer was just too creepy for me to ever appreciate. I never found him funny - just kind of stupid and slimy. He tried for the Jerry Lewis gimmick but never made it work. I especially didn't like him in the role as Dick Van Dyke's side kick co-worker. Nevertheless, he still seemed to pop up regularly in reruns during the 60's and 70's such that I made it a habit of changing the channel whenever he showed up - which I'm going to do right now after finishing this insult commentary/memorial that I'm sure he's up (or down) there acknowledging as "yahh, you're right, I was always a stoopie dope just like youze always said..."
Jet Jackson