One of the many things I like about this series is that Britt Reid was no pushover. Every bit as formidable as the Green Hornet ! And of course there was Kato and Miss Case !
This episode was brilliant. It shows that the Hornet wasn't invincible and how neither Hornet or Shadow care about how they're seen by the public, who deems them enemies to the law.
I used to watch these as a kid. I was a big Bruce Lee fan. The thing I notice about them now is how much I like the incidental music. I paid no attention to it back then. Now I’m digging it!
Besides the great acting, writing, and action scenes. Green Hornet, had a very hip cinematography. I like the dark grittiness of the night time scenes. But I also dig the seductive brass, and horn work. It's like the Green Hornet and Kato's life were happening in a seedy jazz, strip club. Watching these episodes again is pure magic.
Absolutely! Professional acting on the parts of all. That's also what I appreciated in the old Superman TV series with George Reeves in the title role. There we had a serious actor who'd had a part in Gone With The Wind, no less, running around in a cape and red and blue pajamas---I didn't know that at the time, of course...I was watching on black & white sets---and letting us kids readily accept that he was indeed "a strange visitor from another planet." Even when I watch it today, some 60 years later, I can't see any trace of falseness or self-consciousness in his of any of the other performances. Bravo.!
It was interesting seeing a situation where Britt couldn't move around as well as he normally does. Especially since this is the first time one of them has gotten seriously injured. Great episode, thanks for uploading!
I think, as The Green Hornet was debuting, people were already getting tied of Batman's camp antics. Plus, there were assurances from the producer that The Green Hornet wouldn't be campy. Many audiences probably didn't tune in because they assumed it would be like Batman.
Actually, the late Van Williams has said he was glad the series only lasted one year. He said doing it was one of the most difficult things he ever did as an actor. The hours were incredibly long, the filming on a deadline and very taxing to the cast and crew. He said the only thing he liked about doing the show was the very good friendship he made with Bruce Lee that lasted for the rest of Mr. Lee's life. Mr. Williams has said that he himself was a very shy and reserved man and only had a very few friends and that Bruce Lee was one of them
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Van Williams became extremely good friends with Bruce Lee and was constantly trying to get him more air time on the show--he felt Lee was the true reason people turned in to watch the show and hence he should be more featured in every episode
its heartwarming to know that back in the 1960's when Racism was high, Van Williams treated his co-star like anyone else, shame the producers weren't prepared to do more
According to an interview I saw with Van, Bruce discovered when he went to Hong Kong that, over there, the series was referred to as "The Kato Show". 😁
Batman came first on ABC in 1966. Unfortunately, Batman was "campy" and the audience thought the "Green Hornet" would be much of the same. Instead, it was played dramatically and the audience simply didn't receive it well. In the years since and especially when the Green Hornet went into syndication, it was appreciated for just how great a series it was. I'd bet that if it had premiered before Batman did it would have done far better.
I haven't seen this episode in over half a century but, ten million martial arts kicks later, I've never forgotten that spectacular kick. I always felt sorry for the poor innocent clown he slammed though. Guy was just trying to keep Brit from getting shot and POW! I don't think Bruce punched, kicked or flipped any other "non-combatants" in any other episode....only the bad guys got Wing Chuned or Jeet Kune Do'd the rest of the time.
As I've watched this from episode 1-24 i was looking at a few different directors and written by a few different people it was very well done. Good. Dark. Funny here and there. But done great!!!! Man why did it have to end!!! They can do it again. But no Seth Rogen. Keep the guy who played his partner. Or start from scratch. I'd love to see a couple of good directors and writers do this. PLEASE. Somebody here our cries for the return of THE GREEN HORNET!!!!!
@@billschauberger1150 Right! In the big fight scene, the guy Billy Jack told which part of which foot he was going to slam him with in what part of his face and he "wouldn't be able to do a damn thing about it." And then he did exactly what he said he'd do. Hapkido that time. Looks like Bert may have been getting typecast as a "foot magnet." 😆
Yeah. Same with the Firefly and the Hornet episode. And, yes, the Hornet was only supposed to come out at night. As if anyone, especially the police, could miss the Black Beauty day OR night! Besides, Brit and Kato had day jobs.
Oh yeh true!!!! Bruce doesn't normally move like that in his other movies but now that you mentioned it, Kato seems to move in a very stalky way which Bruce Lee did it so perfect.
🤣 .. Y’all, please find me a very good & well-experienced psychiatrist, lol. .. seriously though. I fell back in love with all 3 guys… Van, Britt & TGH when the show aired in the 60s. - Now, thanks to the wonderful pers❤️n who has provided all of these great episodes for us to watch here, I am a nut all over again over Van. - How pathetic & pitiful, huh? 🤣 I told my best friend if there had been a law against a man who looked as gorgeous as Van did, he would have gotten 5 life sentences… she cracked UP laughing 😆. - I told her I have seriously lost my mind because what ‘normal’ person not only renews a mad 55-year crush on a man who not only never even knew that I exist, but was married before I was born AND has passed away over 5 years ago as an elderly man…. SMH!!! 😂 - Maybe Santa will bring me a new brain this Christmas. - Prayers please, haaa ha haaa!! LBVS.. 😊🙏🏽
Bert Freed as the crooked cop who later potrayed Stuart Posner in Billy Jack - Kato tells him "I'm gonna take this right foot and whop you right upside your head"
I don’t remember this one but I was always 13 years old when they aired so hard to remember now at 70 years old! This was sure a Good Show better than the tv ever is wish they would put on tv would bounce the shows that they want us to watch in no time flat!!
Since Seth Rogan had to have watched that episode in order to borrow heavily from it for the end of his Green Hornet movie, Seth definitely had no excuse *(&^ing up the movie. >:(
the movie itself was awesome it was just seth rogans written adaptation of the green hornet that was trash and seth starring it. britt/green hornet in the movie was a spoilt entitled imbecile whose only talent was being a dumbass, hell the character didnt even have a love for the Sentinel, unlike the series.
Axford was a buffoon... but his buffoonery only added to the entertainment, this show was hugely underrated, it should have lasted at least three seasons.
Kudos to Mike. He was a journalist who always meant well. Miss Case was a babe. The Green Hornet always had a great right hand. The best part of all these episodes is the anticipation of when Kato was going to kick the bad guy's ass.
Only The IMPERIAL, among all American Luxury Cars , could handle and corner like that. That’s the reason why IT was chosen to be The Black Beauty, instead of Cadillac and Lincoln… and also why it , although out of production today, was chosen to be GH and KATO’s car in the 2011 Green Hornet movie !!
Ok, so everyone who was at the sentinal took no notice of how when Kato fired a blank at him, he had no hole in his suit and there wasn't blood everywhere from the shot? They all just stood there and screamed even after Kato was gone? No one even came to see if Britt was ok? hahahaha I love how certain things in this show were just so absurd but that's a part of its charm, I guess...
CT: My thoughts exactly--except I WASN'T charmed by it. In a previous episode a guy stands there for a full ten seconds WAITING for a bulldozer to run him over. As a serious writer I'm driven NuTs by plot flaws!
@@SAHogan-ih3bo absolutely right! fear is the simple fact here. ppl who dont run or fight simply succumb to paralysis due to fear... again fear paralyses and prevents any common thought process.
FoF: Only if you're a helpless idiot--as opposed to a construction worker whom you would think would be accustomed to getting out of the way of big, hazardous things (unless he just couldn't see with this tricky "night lighting")!
the typesetter was lazy. the title involves a double hyphen (--) instead of the em dash (-). also, did anyone think of looking for a bullet hole in the suit jacket and shirt britt was wearing? that would’ve indicated right away that something odd was afoot. van williams looks very good without a shirt, even bandaged! just how many b&h warehouses are in this city? recall that one was burned down by the arsonist (ben wade)! how many of the crimes the hornet is wanted for involve assault on a peace officer? they seem to do that fairly often, even if the cops are crooked, as here.
I was going through the shooting at 11:00 to see the jacket's non-appearing hole and I noticed the guy to the left of the scene using the woman in the orange dress as a shield! What a coward!
@@wayneb8495 no one ever said the series had to make sense, just that it was good television in that era. i would say that the ideas presented in the show often went over the heads of children who watched it. i had to wait till i was an adult to be able to understand some of the nuances.
Steve20127 You want them to put a hole in BR's suit, or get blood on it? This is 60's TV, the family hour, no blood possible in those days says the FCC? And besides, you heard Britt, "Miss Case would you remind him(Mike) that I am a very sick man?"
If I were brit reed I'd find Mike axford another job because he is the super pain in the neck and if he did die it be his own problem because he can't take care of himself I found him to be annoyingish character that I not want him around that's because he is not a good listener and while he has some useful information some of the time and episodes and by that I mean 2 episodes nor 3 and not enough to leave a inpack on he cry because he wanted the green hornet like a baby and does not understand the danger he is in . if you like Mike that's fine, but for me this is a character that I don't want to see and the movie did not help . he is like Lois Lane from the old max Fleisher superman 1940s and has to be rescue by the green hornet nor the police I don't care if he did not did not know that reed was the green hornet nor not he is still a little brains and cannot take care of himself and cannot take a hint that is why he is doing to get himself kill and no green hornet may be able to stop in time he should have been a ice cream guy . where did his father find this guy ? I know that he is trying to help his friend son but if his dad was frame for a crime by the bad guys and killed then he should not be doing it and I would find him a safe job and if he doesn't like it then I will not be surprised if he death is in a episode if this show had a second season of the green hornet and I think that should have regular bad guys like this and that's it! I dislike this guy .
I know suppose to be at night or early morning when the crimes happen. But if in THE CITY ...they had street lights that certainly would have helped to see most of the show in actually SEEING the actors. Lousy director on this series'
