The show was initially sponsored by Ovaltine, a flavored milk supplement, and its scripts were written by Ovaltine's Chicago ad agency staff.

Ovaltine was developed in Berne, Switzerland, where it is known by its original name, Ovomaltine ( from ovum, Latin for " egg ", and malt, originally its main ingredients ).

Ovomaltine was exported to Britain in 1909 ; it was a misspelling in the trademark registration that led to the name being shortened to Ovaltine in English-speaking markets.

By 1915 Ovaltine was being manufactured in Villa Park, Illinois, for the US market.

Villa Park, Illinois, was home to the Ovaltine factory until the company's purchase and withdrawal in 1988.

With this purchase, Nestle immediately ceased Ovaltine's previous television advertising campaign targeted to older and nostalgic audiences, where Ovaltine was presented as more nutritious than former competitor Nesquik, and though it is still sold widely in the United States, Ovaltine is currently not advertised on American television.

Near the factory was a health farm run by the Ovaltine works which was set up as a model farm and a health resort for disadvantaged children, which operated through to the 1960s.

In October 2002 the food and drinks division of Novartis, the maker of Ovaltine, was bought by Associated British Foods.

In Japan, Ovaltine was sold for a short period in the late 1970s by Calpis Industries ( presently Calpis Co., Ltd .), but it was not a commercial success.

In 1947, Harry Gibson's song " Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine " was popular on the radio.

Ovaltine was mentioned by the British crime fiction writer Patricia Wentworth in several of her novels about Miss Silver.

Kings Langley was the home of the makers of Ovaltine and the listed factory facade is now all that is left and still stands alongside the railway line among a new housing development.

The former Ovaltine Egg Farm was converted into energy-efficient offices which house Renewable Energy Systems.

When the show was taken over by Ovaltine, the origin story explained how Albright was recruited to head the Secret Squadron, an aviation-oriented paramilitary organization fighting sabotage and espionage during the period prior to the United States ' entry into World War II.

When the TV series went into syndication in 1958, Ovaltine was no longer the sponsor.

Ovaltineys or League of Ovaltineys was a children's club developed in the 1930s to promote the sale of Ovaltine brand drink in the United Kingdom.

In 1975 the song We Are The Ovaltineys came back to a new audience when it was used by Ovaltine in a TV advertisement and released as a single record.

In November 2006, Nestlé purchased the Medical Nutrition division of Novartis Pharmaceutical for $ 2. 5B, also acquiring, in 2007, the milk-flavouring product known as Ovaltine.

Malt Ovaltine ( a version without cocoa ) and Rich Chocolate Ovaltine ( a version without malt ) are also available in some markets.

Ovaltine has also been available in the form of chocolate bars, chocolate Easter eggs, parfait, cookies, and breakfast cereals, where it is only the brand name that connects the cereals with the chocolate drink.

Ovaltine also manufactured PDQ Chocolate Flavor Beads, PDQ Choco Chips and Egg Nog Flavored PDQ, which are no longer available.

The song " Mankind " by Pearl Jam also mentions Ovaltine (" I'll be playing with my magazine, using up my Listerine, like Ovaltine ").

She offers him a short list of things, concluding in Ovaltine, which he also refuses.

Non-candy products featured in Seinfeld include Rold Gold pretzels ( whose advertisements at the time featured Jason Alexander ), Kenny Rogers Roasters ( a chicken restaurant chain ), Oreo Cookies, Triscuits, Ben & Jerry's, H & H Bagels, Baskin-Robbins, Dockers, Drake's Coffee Cakes, Ring Dings, Pepsi, Mello Yello, Snapple, Clearly Canadian, Bosco Chocolate Syrup, Kix ( cereal ), Cadillac, Saab, Ford Escort, Tyler Chicken ( a parody of Tyson Chicken ), Specialized Bicycles, Nike, BMW, Volvo, Toyota, Tupperware, Calvin Klein, Klein Bicycles, Ovaltine, Yoo-hoo, Arby's, TV Guide, Trump Tower, Glide Floss, Gore-Tex, Entenmann's, J. Peterman clothing catalog, and the board games Risk, Boggle, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, and Battleship.

They are typically drunk late at night, as are Ovaltine and Horlicks.

Ovaltine and other companies that marketed early decoders to children often included " secret messages " on their radio shows aimed at children.

Ovaltine is mentioned in at least three songs from Broadway shows — " Marry the Man Today " from Guys and Dolls, " You're the Top " from Anything Goes, and " Go Into Your Trance " from High Spirits.

(" Dancin ' close, little moron jokes, and cooties in her hair Captain Midnight, Ovaltine and The Whip at the County Fair ...")

In " The Fatigues " episode of Seinfeld, one of Jerry's acquaintances and struggling comic, Kenny Bania, played by Steve Hytner, reads an attempt at observational humor that Jerry wrote for him: " Why do they call it Ovaltine?

Former Ovaltine factory, Kings Langley.

The art deco style Ovaltine factory in Kings Langley is a well-known local landmark.

Former Ovaltine factory, Kings Langley.

They shunned the overt political themes of Gray's newspaper strips and concentrated instead on pitching Ovaltine, using almost seven minutes of each broadcast to do so.

In the United States Nestlé manufactures Ovaltine, using a trade dress in cursive writing instead of print.

In the 1983 film A Christmas Story, the main character Ralph is a fan of the Little Orphan Annie radio drama, listening to the show religiously while waiting for his Ovaltine decoder pin.

Malted grain is used to make beer, whisky, malted shakes, malt vinegar, confections such as Maltesers and Whoppers, flavored drinks such as Horlicks, Ovaltine and Milo, and some baked goods, such as malt loaf.

Unlike similar drinks, such as Ovaltine, Horlicks is not a dry blend of malt extract and milk powders.

There is generally thought to be no prohibition against herbal tea, hot chocolate, or malt drinks such as Ovaltine or Milo.

Ovaltine is a brand of milk flavoring product made with malt extract ( except the blue packaging in the US ), sugar ( except in Switzerland ), and whey.

* Ovaltine a brand of chocolate malt powder

and the men's magazine Oui offered a Captain Jet Decoder Ring-and in 2000 Ovaltine offered a Secret Decoder Ring to be worn on the finger which used their traditional A-Z to 1-26 scheme.

Ovaltine, a registered trademark of Associated British Foods, is made by Wander AG, a subsidiary of Twinings which acquired the brand from Novartis in 2003, except in the United States, where Nestlé acquired the rights separately from Novartis later on.

They had promotions in which listeners could save proofs-of-purchase from Ovaltine jars to obtain radio premiums, like " secret decoder ring " badges or pins that could be used to decode messages in the program.

Brazilian fast food chain Bob's, the largest competitor to McDonald's in that country, offers, since 1959, milkshakes and sundaes made with Ovaltine, which became a flagship product of the fast-food chain in Brazil.

Though both of these factories are still in operation today but not so for the Ovaltine factory on the Main North Road and the Birdseye Frozen Foods factory which used to be sited next to the railway line in Harewood Road.