"Captain Midnight" (1954) TV series 1954-1958

Directors:

Lee Sholem
Robert G. Walker

Writers:

Peter Dixon
Lee Erwin
(more)

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

4 September 1954 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

Captain Midnight was a daring, jut-jawed war hero who led a mysterious government group known as the Secret Squadron...

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title

Cast

Richard Webb	...	Captain Midnight (39 episodes, 1954-1956)
Sid Melton	...	Ichabod 'Ikky' Mudd / ... (16 episodes, 1954-1956)

Series Directed by
D. Ross Lederman		(10 episodes, 1954-1956)
Lee Sholem		(unknown episodes)
Robert G. Walker		(unknown episodes)

Series Writing credits
Wallace Bosco		(4 episodes, 1954-1955)
Malcolm Stuart Boylan		(2 episodes, 1954-1955)
Robert Leslie Bellem		(2 episodes, 1955-1956)
Peter Dixon		(unknown episodes)
Lee Erwin		(unknown episodes)
Roy Hamilton		(unknown episodes)
Tom Kilpatrick		(unknown episodes)
John O'Dea		(unknown episodes)

Series Produced by
George Bilson	....	producer (6 episodes, 1954-1956)

Series Cinematography by
Henry Freulich		(2 episodes, 1954)
Benjamin H. Kline		(2 episodes, 1955)
Ray Cory		(unknown episodes)

Series Film Editing by
Robert B. Hoover		(4 episodes, 1954-1955)

Series Casting by
Marjorie Benson		(unknown episodes)

Series Art Direction by
Robert Peterson		(4 episodes, 1954-1955)

Series Set Decoration by
Frank Tuttle		(4 episodes, 1954-1955)

Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Irving J. Moore	....	assistant director (2 episodes, 1954)
Mitchell L. Gamson	....	assistant director (2 episodes, 1955)

Series Special Effects by
Franz Dallons	....	special effects (unknown episodes)
Oscar Dallons	....	special effects (unknown episodes)
Paul Dallons	....	special effects (unknown episodes)

Series Editorial Department
Henry Batista	....	supervising editor (2 episodes, 1955)

Series Music Department
Don A. Ferris	....	composer: theme music (39 episodes, 1954-1956)
Irving Friedman	....	composer: theme music (39 episodes, 1954-1956)

Series Other crew
Frederick Briskin	....	production executive (39 episodes, 1954-1956)
Harold Greene	....	assistant to producer (2 episodes, 1954)

Production Companies

• Screen Gems Television

Distributors

• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1954-1956) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Columbia TriStar Domestic Television (2001)
• Sony Pictures Television (2002-)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

30 min (39 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Filming Locations:

Columbia/Sunset Gower Studios - 1438 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Screen Gems Television

Trivia:

Captain Midnight was called 'Jet Jackson' in Australia, because Captain Midnight was the name of an infamous bushranger (outlaw).

Quotes:

Aristotle 'Tut' Jones:You were my friend when nobody else knew I was alive. We were an odd combinaton: the campus hero and the greasy grind.
Captain Midnight:You taught me all I know about science; I could never teach you anything about football.
Ichabod Mudd:Gosh! Nobody could teach me anything.
Captain Midnight:Ikky, if you weren't the best flight engineer in 70 states, I'd never made it back from that last recon run in Korea.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Bob Cummings Show: Bob Gets Harvey a Raise (#4.24)" (1958)

This was one of the shows I watched religiously after school.

Does anybody remember what kind of plane Captain Midnight flew in the 50's show? They used to identify it in the closing credits--as I recall it was a Douglas aircraft. I barely remember the show from it's run as "Captain Midnight". I watched it quite a bit when it was syndicated as "Jet Jackson".

Looking back, the convenient appearances of Secret Squadron members whenever and wherever Captain Midnight got into trouble was pretty contrived. I remember an episode where the Captain and Icky were locked in a basement. A sweet little old lady was toddling by, saw them through the window, reached into her little bag, and pulled out her Squadron communicator to call SQ 3. From the perspective of the paranoid 21sr century it seems sort of creepy. Loved it at the time, though.