Let's Not Forget Al Hodge

Joy
I was a video ranger back in the 50's.  I used to hurry home during the week and watch Captain Video.  It seems to me it was only 15 minutes long or a half hour at the most and of course black and white.  But I loved the show and enjoyed being a video ranger.  I used to have an identification card but its long since been lost in my moving.  They would send out a code and we had a deciphering book to find out what the code meant. It was all very exciting.

What I remember as I was older or learned was that long after the series was over Al Hodge had tried out for other jobs but he had nothing to show for his years as Captain Video because there was a time when the movie moguls had sold off miles of footage of old films to be melted down and used for something else.  There are lots of movies that have been lost because they used the minerals in the films for what they deemed more important things.

Al Hodge died rather pathetically.  He had been almost forgotten, it's pretty sad.  He was known to lots of kids who now are in their 60's and when we are gone, I suppose he will too in the minds of those who are left.
Turner Classic Movie has tried to restore many old films and have been successful with lots of them.  But it was just sad that they destroyed all the old Captain Video shows.  Just a little tidbit I thought I'd pass on.

Oh, one more thing.  Back when I used to watch Sgt. Preston on TV with Richard Simmons there was a time when they offered as an advertisement one square inch of land in Alaska.  You had only to send in a box top and a small amount of money and they would send you your official certificate of the land you owned in Alaska, ONE SQUARE INCH.  But for a kid it was a treasure.
Clint

You can listen to AL Hodge as the Green Hornet by clicking on the link and find out more about Al Hodge by clicking on this link.

Happy listening my friends,