- [first lines of each episode]
- Announcer: On a mountaintop, high above a large city, stands the headquarters of a man devoted to the cause of freedom and justice... a war hero who has never stopped fighting against his country's enemies... a private citizen who is dedicating his life to the struggle against evil men everywhere... CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT!
- Aristotle 'Tut' Jones: You were my friend when nobody else knew I was alive. We were an odd combinaton: the campus hero and the greasy grind.
- Captain Midnight: You taught me all I know about science; I could never teach you anything about football.
- Ichabod Mudd: Gosh! Nobody could teach me anything.
- Captain Midnight: Ikky, if you weren't the best flight engineer in 70 states, I'd never made it back from that last recon run in Korea.
- [Ikky explains his theory on why the missiles disappeared]
- Ichabod Mudd: Sure. It's like this: They fire off the rocket - BANG! - It flies through the air - WHOOSH! - It hits the water - SPLASH! - It sinks to the bottom - BUBBLE, BUBBLE, BUBBLE! - Along comes a great, big whale - GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE! See?
- [Ikky sees Captain Midnight, Tut and Steve staring at him incredulously]
- Ichabod Mudd: No?
- Captain Midnight: [dryly] No.
- Captain Midnight: When do they fire the next rocket?
- Steve Darby: Tomorrow morning. And by tomorrow night, if I don't recover it, they'll be firing *me*.