Captain Midnight

In 40 episodes, Captain Midnight, of the Secret Squadron, flew around the globe in his personal jet the Silver Dart. He fought various criminals and spies with his comical sidekick Ichabod Mudd aided by a scientist, Dr. Aristotle Jones.

Genre: Sci-Fi

Cast:Richard Webb , Sid Melton , Olan Soule , Henry Rowland , Harry Lauter , Don C. Harvey , Baynes Barron , Mel Welles , Harold Dyrenforth , Tom Nolan , George Eldredge , David Colmans , Leonard Bremen , William Fawcett , Peter Brocco , Zon Murray , Bobker Ben Ali , Greta Granstedt

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Murder by Radiation

Sat, Sep 4, 1954

Captain Midnight goes into action when a fragment of a powerful radioactive element called Ormondium is stolen by foreign agents.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Electronic Killer

Sat, Sep 11, 1954

Dereck Strange, calls Jet Jackson requesting a meeting at the rocket proving grounds. At the presentation it is noticed Strange is absent. After the successful test Jackson goes to investigate Dereck's disappearance. Elsewhere Stange, has been abducted and forced to reveal the secrets of the rockets. Following a series of clues pertaining to Greek Gods, Jackson tracks down the kidnappers. Jackson arrives at their lair to find three of the kidnappers, but they have already disposed of Strange. Jackson discovers the scientist is on the next plane destined to be shot in tests. Ikky fails to stop the test and at the last second Jackson and Strange parachute to safety.

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S1.E3 ∙ Deadly Diamonds

Sat, Sep 18, 1954

While Jackson plays with his newest invention, and omni-counter, old friend George Maynard arrives at headquarters. George has concerns about diamonds being smuggled over the Mexican border. Jackson flies down to New Mexico to investigate and accidentally picks up readings of diamonds in the desert. Jackson lands to investigate, and deducts that someone is using herds of wild horses to run diamonds back and forward between Mexico and the United States. While out investigating, someone tries to shoot Jackson but escapes. Later the shooter meets two other men and discusses the situation. Jackson follows a set of horse prints till they stop at tire tracks. There they find a discarded horseshoe with a diamond in it. Heading to the local town they see the sheriff. It is arranged to drive the wild herd through the town, and the trained horse will join them and betray its owner, assumed to be the leader of the smuggling ring. The plan works and the sheriff arrests the men

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S1.E4 ∙ The Lost Moon

Sat, Sep 25, 1954

Jackson explains to Ikky that the US is currently in a race to be the first to put a space station in orbit will dominate the Earth. Jackson then receives a call from Paul Elwood, an astronomer in San Francisco who's discovered something important. Before he can explain further he is shot dead. Jackson flies out to help the police investigate. They find a strange roll of film. When they watch it, someone opens fire on the party. Later at the police station, the piece together clues left by Elwood and realize the roll of film shows an undiscovered Moon orbiting only a 1000 miles from Earth. Jackson realizes that a foreign government has the co-ordinates to this Moon, Jackson suspects the person is Chinese. While searching Chinatown they are attacked in a restaurant after having received a clue to the whereabouts of the data. The new lead requires them to take one of the Chinese to Vancouver in Canada. The man turns out to be the agent they are looking for and hijack's Jackson's plane. Jackson puts the craft into a steep dive until the man passed out and died because of the extreme G force. Unfortunately the man's death meant all knowledge of Paul's discovery was now gone.

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S1.E5 ∙ Death Below Zero

Sat, Oct 2, 1954

Tut shows Jackson his latest invention, a universal lock opener. The discussion is interrupted by a news flash about a major bank robbery. A young boy, Jefferson Bishop arrives for a meeting with Jackson. His dog is sick and the boy thinks he might be poisoned by some bad meat he purchased. Jackson agrees and decides to talk to the meat merchant. The butcher is amicable and agrees to help the boy out. As the pair leave, two men enter the shop. Jackson recognizes one of them as the guard from the bank robbery earlier in the day and organizes Ikkie and the boy to follow the men. Jackson continues sniffing around and finds a locker rented by the men full of money. Jackson follows up on Ikkie's lead and attempts to apprehend the two men, but is himself ambushed by a third gangster. The three criminals regroup and decide to dispose of Jackson in the ice cooler. Ikkie goes back to HQ and calls all secret squadron members to be on the lookout for Jackson. As the criminals get ready to divide up the money and leave town, they discover Jackson has substituted it with meat, and decide to return to take care of him. At the ice works, Jackson carves SQ1 into a block of ice that is seen by a customer who is also a member of the secret squadron; she contacts Ikkie at HQ who heads to the ice warehouse and rescues Jackson.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Operation Failure

Sat, Oct 9, 1954

Jet Jackson examines 'Tut's latest invention, a language translation machine. As the fine tune it, a distress message comes through. Branco Pravelic urgently needs to meet with Jackson at the fishing docks. Jackson flies to the rendezvous. Branco explains the leader of his former country, Zarbor, needs to be freed and returned to the USA. As Jackson flies over the Bacarvian border they come under anti aircraft fire, but avoid this before landing near Zarbor's location. They are intercepted by a female soldier who believes their story of being exchange students. Reaching a major town, they touch base with a local contact who shows them how to find Zarbor. Ikky distracts a guard while Jackson makes contact with the prisoner. It is planned to return that night and free him man. The plan worked and despite security forces being on high alert Jackson flies out with Zarbor. Part way home Zarbor begins to explain that he needs to remain in the country and assist his people in attempting to remove the enemy from his country. Jackson finally agrees and reports home that the mission failed.

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S1.E7 ∙ Trapped Behind Bars

Sat, Oct 16, 1954

A member of the prison board asks Jet Jackson for help. Someone on the outside is getting prisoners to riot and escape at various State Prisons. Jet Jackson and Ikky go undercover and pretend to be convicts and see what they can find out. It's not long until they are contacted with an escape plan. Will Jet Jackson find out who is behind the prison riots and escapes?

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Counterfeit Millions

Sat, Oct 23, 1954

Midnight gets a job driving a produce delivery truck after he suspects the company to be a front for counterfeiters.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ The Walking Ghost

Sat, Oct 30, 1954

The Stanhope mansion is haunted by a ghost. Captain Midnight decides to check it out and see if there is any truth to the curse. Captain Midnight decides to use science to uncover what is really going on. Will Captain Midnight find out what is behind all the spooky scary things going on around the mansion.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Secret of the Jungle

Sat, Nov 6, 1954

In Africa, Midnight tries to stop inter-tribal warfare and learn the sinister plot behind the unrest.

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S1.E11 ∙ Sabotage Under the Sea

Sat, Nov 13, 1954

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S1.E12 ∙ Isle of Mystery

Sat, Nov 20, 1954

Captain Midnight is helping the U.S. government with the evacuation of a Pacific island that is set for an Atomic test. But due to an outsiders interference the islanders refuse to leave and begin to cause trouble for Captain Midnight And Ikky.

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S1.E13 ∙ The Curse of the Pharaohs

Sat, Nov 27, 1954

Captain Midnight and Ikky fly to Cairo, Egypt to find a lost archeologists. Along the way the explorer's daughter joins Captain Midnight in their search. Finding the archeologists isn't the only thing they find. Egyptian ruins, mummy tombs, and pharaohs curses are sure to follow. Will they find the secret behind why the archeologists is missing?

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S1.E14 ∙ The Deserters

Sat, Dec 4, 1954

Jackson is approached by a group of children concerned the lot their baseball diamond is on has been bought and fenced off by a businessman, planning to build a factory. Jackson suggests a number of solutions, all rejected for various reasons. Jackson then agrees to meet with the business man, who point blank refuses to sell, no matter how much Jackson tries to sweeten the deal. Back at HQ Jackson is convinced he's seen the man before and goes through his records till he identifies the bank robber and a number of his associates. We discover the businessman has dug under the lot and is tunneling to a nearby bank. A curious child discovers what is going on and sounds the secret squadron alarm. Jackson arrives, a fist fight breaks out and all the criminals are apprehended. Jackson makes arrangements for the vacant lot to be returned to open land and the boys to never have their baseball diamond threatened again

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S1.E15 ∙ The Electrified Man

Sat, Dec 11, 1954

Jet Jackson returns to his mountain home to find Professor Bergland and his ward Lisa wanting Jackson's help to investigate the Radioactive Dust Bomb. Bergland believes that passing a mild electrical charge through humans will repel the radioactive dust. One evening during an experiment Bergland over exposes himself to an electric current and falls into a trance like state. Next morning Jackson and discovers the professor missing and all the power out at HQ. Elsewhere Lisa is betrays she is a spy during a phone. She is arranging a meeting with two men to discuss further instructions about the impending attack on the USA. Jackson finally discovers Bergland location after contact with Local Secret Squadron members reveals he's being held at a local farm. A fight breaks out with the thugs and Bergland wanders off. Jackson takes Lisa back to HQ and challenges her about her roll in events. Bergland suddenly appears and Jackson using Lisa as bait draws the professor into a device that will drain the electricity from his body The process works but unfortunately Bergland dies shortly after.

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S1.E16 ∙ The Young Criminal

Sat, Dec 18, 1954

Captain Midnight gets a letter from a distraught mother asking him to help her son. He has been hanging out with some other boys who are under the influence of a man who's up to no good.

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S1.E17 ∙ The Deadly Project

Sat, Dec 25, 1954

Professor Morgan requests the help of Jackson's chief scientist 'Tut' an experiment he's working on consistently fails. He wants to relocate to Jackson's labs and try again. The experiment continues to fail and no one understands why. Unseen at Jacksons labs, a man has setup a gun on a nearby hill and is disrupting the experimenters using sound waves. Prof Morgan's assistant is seen at a meeting with the inventor of the gun Vranki. The gun is destined to be delivered to a foreign government but first Vranki wants to kill Morgan in an act of revenge. On the mountain, Jackson theorizes someone is using a sound gun to attack the labs. He believes he can use metal shielding special shaped to send the sound charge back to the point of origin. Vranki calls Jackson, claiming to be the now injured Henderson's doctor. Jackson video traces the call, and recognizes a number of the men in the room and knows the illness is a charade. He further plans to accompany Morgan on his visit to the dying assistant. The pair walk into the expected trap and Vranki begins shooting at them and taunting them about their intended death. Vranki thinks he has killed the couple emerges from cover only to be ambushed by Jackson. Vranki makes a break for it and ends up on a building ledge, before surrendering to Jackson.

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S1.E18 ∙ Touchdown Terror

Sat, Jan 1, 1955

Jackson and the gang head out to watch the annual rival game at Dexter University. Jackson visits his old football coach John Harrison, seems a betting scandal is about to break involving the teams quarterback. Jackson is introduced to the boy, but can't get anything out of him. Jackson asks for 48 hours to sort the situation out or the boy will be reported to the athletic board. The player is then seen talking to two mobsters who want him to throw the game and earn enough money for an operation on his sister's legs. After the boy leaves Jackson confronts the criminals, who attack him but are beaten off. Jackson believes the story of the cost of the child's operation is faked and he contacts the doctor who agrees to do the operation for no fee. When the mobsters realize their plan is failing they kidnap the star quarterback. Jackson convinces the men that their boss has been arrested and they make a break for it till Jackson apprehends them. Now free, Jackson races to the game with the quarterback who enters to game just in time to assure a Dexter victory

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S1.E19 ∙ Top Secret Weapon

Sat, Jan 8, 1955

At headquarters Jackson (Capt Midnight) tests the new Hoffner Land torpedo. Suddenly a boy arrives at HQ with a story of running away from an unfriendly power in Europe. Jackson takes the boy in, and begins the immigration process. However we discover at a baseball game, the boy is a spy when he meets two men who give him a camera with orders to photograph the weapon. That night the boy attempts to complete his mission, but is accidentally electrocuted by the land torpedo. The next day to boy meets the agents and explains he's lost the camera. The senior agent hypnotizes him and discovers he did complete the mission and has the camera. The agents program the boy to rig the torpedo with a special explosive that will not only destroy the weapon but kill everyone at HQ. Jackson becomes aware the boy is hypnotized and discovers the agent's plan. Jackson stops the device then rigs it to attack the enemy agent's lair. Aware of the threat the torpedo posses they escape only to be ambushed by Jackson and subdues. We then discover the boys immigration has been approved and Professor Hoffner is going to adopt the child

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S1.E20 ∙ The Human Bomb

Sat, Jan 15, 1955

At HQ Jackson and Tut discuss the research needed to develop a new conventional explosive. Suddenly a former criminal and explosives expert that Jackson captured 'Vulmer' calls Jackson and threatens terrorist action. Jackson calls on members of Secret Squadron to report any sightings of the man. Vulmers first target is Judge Bell, the man who put him behind bars. Jackson through his Secret Squadron network tracks Vulmer down. Vulmer appears to have left the location, but Jackson's suspicions are raised and he decides to sneak back to the apartment and investigate. He finds a clue that suggests a pen given to the judge may be a bomb. Jackson gives chase unaware Ikkie also has one of the pens. Jackson intercepts the judge's car on the way home and destroys both pens. Not realizing the plan failed Vulmer arranges his next attack, Jackson himself. Jackson returns to the apartment and is knocked unconscious. Vulmer then replaces his money clip with one containing explosives before he wakes up. Unwittingly Jackson continues his investigation, completely ignorant he is carrying a bomb. He eventually tracks down Vukmer and his gang and attacks them. During the fight that breaks out Jackson discovers the danger in his money clip and disposes the bomb at the last second.

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S1.E21 ∙ The Mark of Death

Sat, Jan 22, 1955

A messenger from Calcutta is killed at Captain Midnight's fortress. But before he dies, he tells of a notorious plan to take over his country's people. Captain Midnight and Ikky fly off to Calcutta on a mission to find the kidnapped dignitary. A plot to forcibly send him away and replace him, in order to take control of his followers.

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S1.E22 ∙ The Arctic Avalanche

Sat, Jan 29, 1955

Flying home, Captain Midnight and Ichabod stop to refuel in White River Alaska. They agree to fly a small prop plane to a remote location to pick up a sick man where they are kidnapped by a group of foreign spies disguised as Eskimos.

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S1.E23 ∙ Mystery of the Forest

Sat, Feb 5, 1955

While investigating a seismic disturbance near the Canadian border in Washington, Captain Midnight takes goes undercover as a lumberjack.

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S1.E24 ∙ The Invisible Terror

Sat, Feb 12, 1955

A group of German spies are trying to smuggle a antidote for a germ warfare gas out of the country. Their plan is to hide the antidote underwater with a time release. So they can pick it up later. Captain Midnight finds out about their plan, but gets captured. They try the poisonous gas on Captain Midnight. Will the antidote save his life?

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S1.E25 ∙ Saboteurs of the Sky

Sat, Feb 19, 1955

After Captain Midnight flies through a freak hurricane he gets a message from one of his Secret Squadron members. It turns out that the creator of a climate changing machine has been kidnapped, along with his daughter. Captain Midnight follows the clues that the girl has left behind. Captain Midnight eventually tracks down the kidnappers. But will he be in time to save the girls life.

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S1.E26 ∙ Peril from the Arctic

Sat, Feb 26, 1955

The Captain and Ikky go to Alaska to test the transmission range of Dr. Jones newly invented transistor. When their ski plane is forced to land, they are grabbed by foreign agents.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Secret Room

Sat, Oct 1, 1955

It's suspected that some foreign power is after a inventors new gadget. The inventors wife is having a fortune teller do a séance. Captain Midnight and Ikky investigate the Swami's phony fortune telling scheme. Captain Midnight suspects it's a plan to steel the inventor's new invention.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Mission to Mexico

Wed, Oct 5, 1955

Mr. Hobson, an American security specialist, reports that an enemy radio transmitter in Mexico has broken down. Since his men have broken the enemy's code, they want the transmitter repaired as soon as possible so they can continue to monitor the broadcasts. Captain Midnight and Icky volunteer to travel to the remote mountain area where the transmitter is located posing as fix-it men in hopes of being hired to repair the broken equipment - and do some poking around in the enemy's base on the side.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Frozen Men

Wed, Oct 12, 1955

Noted scientist Dr. J. P. Hartley has been kidnapped by foreign agents. Captain Midnight, Ikky, and Tut determine he'd been working with extreme cold to make a metal that could withstand practically anything. An ice sheet in the desert tips the guys off to the doctor's location. As Captain Midnight tries to revive the frozen scientist in the spies' icy lair, the military drops an atomic bomb nearby at the government's atomic testing grounds.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Doctors of Doom

Wed, Oct 19, 1955

The "Doctors" have a secret nuclear laboratory in a sanitarium. Captain Midnight, Ikky and Dr. Jones try to sneak in.

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S2.E5 ∙ Sunken Sapphires

Wed, Oct 26, 1955

Captain Midnight and Ikky get involved with a sunken jewel mystery. A woman and her son tell Captain Midnight about her husband who went down with the ship he was on. The woman believes his small chest of jewels are still on the sunken ship somewhere. Now Captain Midnight is on a underwater adventure in search of this sunken treasure.

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S2.E6 ∙ Master Criminal

Sat, Dec 3, 1955

A wanted criminal surrenders to Midnight but it's a ruse to gain access to our hero's file cabinet. When that fails, Dr. "Tut" Jones is kidnapped.

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S2.E7 ∙ Secret of Superstition Mountain

Sat, Dec 10, 1955

When Captain Midnight is informed that a friend who is in Arizona looking for a mineral named "Thorium" and was shot needs help, he and Ikky fly in their Silver Dart jet plane to help him.

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S2.E8 ∙ Mountain of Fire

Sat, Dec 17, 1955

Captain Midnight and Ikky are checking out a tunnel in a volcano. Some unsavory crooks have something to hide and plan on causing a cave-in to trap them in. Unfortunately for them their plan fails and Captain Midnight and crew escape. Now Captain Midnight plans on checking the volcano closer to the lava using a "fire-suit" invented by Tut. But will he survive when one of the crooks also puts on a "fire-suit".

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S2.E9 ∙ The Jungle Pit

Sat, Dec 24, 1955

Jerry, the gardener of Captain Midnight's Fortress, asks the help of Captain Midnight and Ikky, to find his father, who has been missing for years. Recent found evidence that has turned up brings speculation that he may be on a island in the Pacific.

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S2.E10 ∙ Flight Into the Unknown

Sat, Dec 31, 1955

The daughter of a distinguished businessman, asks for the help of Captain Midnight. After hearing the girls story, that is cut short by her mother, Captain Midnight and Ikky decide to visit the girl and her mother. Captain Midnight decides to help the family after hearing the whole story. Captain Midnight is now on a mission to bring home the businessman and millions of dollars that he is protecting from some desperate crooks.

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S2.E11 ∙ The Runaway Suitcase

Sat, Jan 7, 1956

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S2.E12 ∙ Million Dollar Diamond

Sat, Jan 14, 1956

A kidnapped diamond cutter is replaced by a lookalike thief. The diamond cutter's son seeks out help from Captain Midnight.

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S2.E13 ∙ The Human Bullet

Sat, Jan 21, 1956

Captain Midnight volunteers to be the first human to test ride a rocket rail car after the only test dummy is damaged during the first test run. Sabotage is suspected.