Captain Video and His Video Rangers was for several years the premier program on the DuMont Television Network, which operated in the United States in the years following World War Two. After the untimely death of the network's founder, Dr. Zanthar du Mont, M.S., who had initially planned his network to be a tool of mass hypnosis, his benign nephew Aldous du Mont inherited the project. Although haunted for the rest of his life by cries of "Avenge me!" and "You suck!" he claimed to hear from beyond the grave, Aldous never waved from his pathetically noble goal of doing good things for other people. He created Captain Video as a science fiction program for young children, shown live on weekdays, which allowed him use his uncle's various death machines as props.