Captain Midnight Mission to Mexico starring Richard Webb

Captain Midnight (later rebranded on television as Jet Jackson, Flying Commando) is a U.S. adventure franchise first broadcast as a radio serial from 1938 to 1949. The character’s popularity throughout the 1940s and into the mid-1950s extended to serial films (1942), a television show (1954–1956), a syndicated newspaper strip (1942-late 1940s), and a comic book title (1942–1948). This is an episode of Captain Midnight in Mission to Mexico, with the original Ovaltine commercials I restored for Sandoz Nutrition, who owned Ovaltine at the time in 1980’s. The print was to be donated to the Smithsonian Institute to honor actor Richard Webb for his television portrayal of Captain Midnight, and he was donating the his Captain Midnight jacket that night to the museum. They couldn’t find a copy at the time of the event, and the museum told Richard Webb, yes my childhood hero,needed me to come to his rescue and find his lost television history. It would be nice to honor the character of Captain Midnight, while I tell the story of the pro’s and con’s of trying to help childhood heroes, but that’s another story. Learn more at Are there any Captain Midnight Collector’s out there?