Captain Kangaroo has died

Hush, you muskies!

But, who amongst us, can remember Captain Midnight and his secret decoder sponsored, on AM radio, 5:30-6:00 PM, eastern time, by Ovaltine? Forget which network but, then, there are those who preferred, at the same time, to listen to "Nick Armstrong-all American Boy", sponsored by Wheaties.

OK...I date myself...cannot help it. :(

Ray H. Durham, MNC

Somewhere, in the attic of my mothers winter home, are 4 secret decoder rings ... I don't think she's thrown them out!??

Paul

You need to get out more.

Who said "Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy!"? (And who could get away with saying something like that today!)

'Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons', and 'The FBI in Peace and War' and 'Inner Sanctum' and 'Suspense' and, later, 'X-1', were all part of my radio listening; and WHO (Des Moines, jazz all night) and WLAC (R&B and boogie from Louisville) were often what I went to sleep to.

Perhaps a factor in the decline of model railroading among today's youngsters is that they had images fed to them, and ddn't have to - no, make that GET TO - create their own.

Do you remember what product Straight Arrow was associated with?

If we think there is violence in today's programs can anyone remember the armament of Sky Kings aircraft and how many plane he shot down during one episode. I think I remember the 20mm cannon but there was more!

with?< Nabisco shredded wheat????????

UMMM, I remember Sky Kings aircraft as a twin engine Beachcraft without any armorment.

The plane's name or his radio name was Songbird.

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Speak for yourself.

The "environment they are brought up with" constitutes a good deal more than just television programs.

Cessna 310 (T-50), later a Cessna 310B, both used callsign "Songbird".

Earlier writer may have been thinking about "12 O'Clock High"...

- RWM

Uhhhh,.....'scuze me Jon, but I think you've the wrong "villain" here. Sky King flew a Beech 18 for a few years then graduated to a Cessna 310. I don't think either of those aircraft were ever fitted with armament suitable for shooting down other aircraft. You can't put a 20mm cannon in a Cessna 310. It won't pick it up along with the pilot and sufficient ammunition to shoot it. There is no way to mount it except on the top of the fuselage, and beside all that......the airframe would never survive the shock of firing the thing even if you did manage somehow to get it off the ground.

.................F>

Jerry Buckner & Gary Garcia

........F>

don't think either of those aircraft were ever fitted with armament suitable for shooting down other aircraft<

Found a site for the Sky King TV show. Original airplane was a Cessna T-50. Second plane was a Cessna 310B [Cessna 310B powered by two 265hp naturally aspirated Continentals]. Also found the following on the radio show. Started in '46.

"Originally a daily fifteen minute serial, by 1947 it had become a twice-weekly thirty minute program sponsored by Peter Pan on ABC. It aired on Mutual from 1950-1954; a television version ran in 1953-1954."

I don't remember the TV show as we got TV very late but the shows I thought I remembered would have been radio. Was there any other radio show in that time frame who had the hero in an armed aircraft?

Not to beat a dead horse but I also seem to remember some western (on radio) where the hero always shot them between the eyes (would have been middle to late '40s again). It wasn't Gunsmoke but before Gunsmoke. We didn't get TV until around '56 (I think) so as a kid I always listen to the radio.

That, and Schultz was an avid skater...

Did I ever tell you I was once the only zamboni mechanic in Georgia?

JS Omni, Ga.

They had a Zamboni in GA!???

Two of 'em...the Omni had a hockey rink in the arena, and a public rink in the hotel.

Those things are a blast to drive...

Jeff Sc. Cold Feet, Ga.