On the Air Live with Captain Midnight

On the Air Live with Captain Midnight is a 1979 American comedy-drama film directed by Beverly Sebastian and Ferd Sebastian with Tracy Sebastian as Marvin Ziegler,[1] also known as Captain Midnight (not to be confused with the Captain Midnight serial character from the 1930s and 1940s), who runs his own pirate radio station and becomes an underground cult hit.[citation needed]

On the Air Live with Captain Midnight
Directed byBeverly Sebastian
Ferd Sebastian
Written byFerd Sebastian
Beverly Sebastian
Produced byFerd Sebastian
Beverly Sebastian
Ben Sebastian
Cary Glieberman
StarringTracy Sebastian
John Ireland
Dena Dietrich
Ted Gehring
CinematographyNicholas Josef von Sternberg
Edited byBeth Bergeron
Dwight Rasmussen
Music byBob Feldman
E. Baker Scott
Release date
  • 1979 (1979)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The film was released in 1979 although it was filmed in 1977. The film is about a teenager who has a mobile broadcast transmitter in his van that allows him to take over the airwaves as a renegade disc jockey. Veteran Los Angeles DJ Jim Ladd co-stars in the film as a disc jockey.[2]

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Drawing upon the pirate radio themes in the film, the protagonist's name was later used in the 1986 Captain Midnight pirate satellite broadcast on HBO protesting scrambling equipment and high fees.

References

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  1. ^ TV Guide
  2. ^ Free, Erin (6 July 2023). "Unsung Auteurs: Beverly & Ferd Sebastian". Filmink.
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