Captain Neptune - US Naval submarine commander Bill Hollister (Tod Griffin) was called "Captain Neptune" because of his vast experience in exploring the bottom of the sea. When ship's around the world began disappearing, Captain Neptune battled the evil Kebeda (Harold Conklin), a resident of the undersea kingdom of Nadiria (32,000 feet beneath the ocean) who was out to destroy the surface dwellers on the live Sunday night children's sci-fi program OPERATION: NEPTUNE/NBC/1953. Other cast members were Richard Holland as Captain Neptune's young assistant Dink Saunders; Dehl Berti as Mersennus, Kebeda's henchman; Rusty Lane as Admiral Bigelow, Margaret Stewart as Thirza; and Humphrey Davis as Trychus. Created by Maurice Brockhauser, this sci-fi adventure ran from June 28 to August 16, 1953.

TRIVIA NOTE: In Roman mythology, Neptune was the God of water, later identified with Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.  The Normandy invasion of France on June 6, 1944 (a.k.a. "D-Day") received the code name "Operation: Neptune" - the naval contribution of the overall campaign dubbed "Operation Overlord." According to The Early Eagle newsletter at vetjobs.com (Issue 4:06 - Thursday, June 5, 2003) "Operation Neptune involved huge naval forces, including 6,939 vessels: 1213 naval combat ships, 4,126 landing ships and landing craft, 736 ancillary craft and 864 merchant vessels. Some 195,700 personnel were assigned to Operation Neptune: 52,889 US, 112,824 British, and 4988 from other Allied countries. By the end of 11 June, 326,547 troops, 54,186 vehicles and 104,428 tons of supplies had been landed on the beaches."