The Green Hornet. Made by Greenways productions and produced by William Dozier. The Show has fallen under the myth that it wasn't as good as BATMAN. Or that the only thing it had going for it was The Legendary Bruce Lee as Kato. The show wasn't played campy like BATMAN was. and that makes all the difference.The Green Hornet was introduced on radio as the nephew to the Lone Ranger. Daily Sentinel publisher Britt Reid takes a page from his great uncle and puts on a green mask and pretends to be a criminal while smashing the underworld. The Radio show proved to be as popular as the Lone Ranger resulting in two movie serials one starring Gordon Jones as the Green hornet and a second one starring Warren hull as the Hornet.The Gordon Jones THE GREEN HORNET gets as close to anything as to providing a origin for the Green Hornet.When Dozier got the rights for the Green hornet he wanted to play it straight no campiness. And he found Bruce Lee who rose to fame playing the hornet's trusty aide Kato. Van Williams became such a fan of Lee's he tried to get Lee more scenes or even dedicate a episode to Kato which never panned out.Together they created one of the greatest shows of the sixties. It has often been a mystery to me as to why did BATMAN Become such a cultural and iconic show? When The Green hornet was a much better show and much superior to BATMAN .The Stories are thrilling and original the acting is solid and the shows proves it was more then Bruce Lee Van Williams portrayal of Britt Reid AKA the Green Hornet is just as iconic as Adam West's as Batman. The Stories are almost noirish in their telling. Even the worst episodes are fun.The Green Hornet should have gone on for more then one season. but I'm glad we got what we did. simply because it is one of the finest examples of TV magic at its best.

Kato is Britt Reid's driver. They fight against vicious power together. There are two mean stories in this movie. First story is that a bad guy try to destroy the whole city, and kidnap Casey. Kato and Britt go their lair through the signal launcher in Casey's cloth. Second story is that Kato and Britt rescue Mary from King. At the same time, they help jimmy to reseize his father's business. Like typical American Hero movie, there must be an important people for this hero be kidnapped by bad guy, and hero go into bad guy's liar and try his best to rescue the hostage. Always the episode here is climax of movie. In hero movie, almost every hero have an assistant. And this assistant has different character from the hero. Like Kato use KongFu to fight with enemies. On the other hand, Britt fight with enemies by the crutch that can destroy enemies' any weapon. There are many fighting episodes. You can get the different characters between Kato and Britt in these episodes. American like hero movie, for they growing with frontier culture. They advocate individualism, like the hero never make deal with anybody, never surrender, never complain. They always have cool face and deep sound. American belief that god bless the people who help himself. So the movie editor set the hero's characters such as individual, no love, no more words. Like Batman, Spiderman, Superman, all these "man" have similar character. That is the American taste. You can find little boy wear a superman costume, or t-shirt printed a big spider logo. Frontier Culture been printed in little children's mind stably. And it will influent American from gesture to big decision in whole life. After 200 years, it didn't ever change or devastate a little. Even movie technology developed so much, from black and white no sound to 3D. From Bruce Lee's Green Hornet in 1966 to Jay Chou's Green Hornet in 2011, there are so many differences that we can not deny. However, the hero spirit never changed.

what a show the green hornet was i loved watching him work.the show was a milestone in its time,i just wish it had run more than one season.it just so happens that i have the entire shows run on VHS tape.i have a bit of trivia for hornet fans in the episode called the praying mantis the actor called Mako fought Bruce lee,Kato to a standstill plus he was a mentor/manipulator of Brandon lee,Bruce lees son in the TV movie called Kung Fu the movie.in which he hypnotized Brandon lee in to believing that Kwai Chang Cain was his enemy.And to top it all off Bruce lee wanted to portray Kwai Chang Cain in the TV show Kung Fu.PS i also have the movie called Kung Fu the movie in which Brandon Lee made his film debut.

It was remarkably tough, comparatively sophisticated and genuinely action-packed.Comparisons will always be made between "The Green Hornet" and its TV stable mate "Batman". So what were some of the similarities?To start with, both were made by 20th Century Fox. In keeping with the time-honored super hero tradition, the "real-life" identities of the respective title characters were successful, well-connected and highly respected members of the community. When in character as their alter egos, both drove amazing custom-built cars that were veritable killing machines on wheels, armed with a vast array of deadly, concealed weapons. Both had capable, intelligent and gutsy sidekicks who could more than hold their own when the chips were down and the fists were flying.But there were some major differences as well.Where "Batman" was decidedly over the top and essentially in the business of extracting squeals of the delight from the younger set, "The Green Hornet" was deadly serious when it came to crime fighting. In the former show, the resident bad guys were exotic fantasy figures who wore crazy and colorful costumes and had cute names like "The Joker" and "The Penguin". Indeed, the Art department at 20th really pulled out all the stops on "Batman" to cash in on the newly-arrived novelty of color TV.In "The Green Hornet", the villains of the piece were traditional bad guys and girls.Star Van Williams handled the dual role of Britt Reid, Editor of "The Daily Sentinel" newspaper and the Green Hornet with panache. Creating a stern-faced 007 type of character, Williams proved to be no slouch when it came to manufacturing his own brand of ice-cube intensity in the style of James Bond.Bruce Lee, as Kato, the Hornet's faithful Chinese partner in crime busting, was there primarily to handle the ultra rough stuff. And, indeed, when he made with the high kicks and karate chops he created some for good television.Generally well-written, sharply directed and competently acted by all those in the cast who really mattered,"The Green Hornet" flashed across our TV screens only fleetingly but it made a lasting and favorable impression on a lot of us.What it lacked was true fantasy and humor - the two key ingredients that made "Batman" a classic."The Green Hornet" was good - very good in fact. But it didn't have those special qualities that guarantee immortality.