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Running time 83 minutes Editor Beth Bergeron | 7.5/10 IMDb Initial release 1979 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by Beverly SebastianFerd Sebastian Produced by Ferd SebastianBeverly SebastianBen SebastianCary Glieberman Starring Tracy SebastianJohn IrelandDena DietrichTed Gehring Music by Bob FeldmanE. Baker Scott Edited by Beth BergeronDwight Rasmussen Cinematography Nicholas Josef von Sternberg Cast John Ireland, Kathy Hilton, Tracy Sebastian, Barry Greenberg Similar The Boat That Rocked, Bill Maher: The Decider, Outlaw Blues, Touch‑Me‑Not, It's Showtime | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On the air live with captain midnight 1979 full movie
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, 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.
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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 D.J. Jim Ladd co-stars in the film as a disc jockey.
In popular culture
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.