Captain Midnight is adventure franchise first broadcast as a radio serial from 1938 to 1949. The title character, originally Captain Jim "Red" Albright, was a World War I U.S. Army pilot. His Captain Midnight code name was given by a general who sent him on a high-risk mission from which he returned at the stroke of 12. When the show began in 1938, Albright was a private aviator who helped people, but his situation changed in 1940.The character's popularity led to a series of films a television show (as Jet Jackson, Flying Commando), a syndicated newspaper strip, and a comic book.