The Green Hornet (1966)

Specials

The Green Hornet is a television series on the ABC US television network that aired for the 1966–1967 TV season starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet/Britt Reid and Bruce Lee as Kato.

Released Sept. 9, 1966 Episode 24 min 10+

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Science Fiction

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Production Companies: 20th Century Fox Television

Network: ABC

Country: United States
Languages: English, Spanish

IMDb 4479

7.3

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Trakt

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TMDb

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Tomatoes

Fran Striker
Director

Van Williams
Britt Reid / The Green Hornet

Bruce Lee
Kato

Wende Wagner
Leonore "Casey" Case

Lloyd Gough
Michael Axford

Walter Brooke
Frank P. Scanlon

William Dozier
Narrator

Gary Owens
Newscaster

Ken Strange
Guard #2

S0E1 - Unaired Test Pilot

The Green Hornet was created by Fran Striker and George W. Trendle for a radio program in the 1930's, the plot centres around Britt Reid that is an vigilante known as the green hornet. In 1966, William Dozier succesfully brought the green hornet character to the small screen (after two failed attempts, one in 1952 and appearantly one in 1958). This is the test pilot for the green hornet, it stars Jay Murray in the role made famous by Van Williams.

S0E2 - Bruce Lee Screen Test

International actors such as Bruce Lee are given screen tests to demonstrate that they were sufficiently articulate in the relevant language. In Lee's case, for the role of Kato in The Green Hornet, he was asked to converse about Chinese culture in English to judge his grasp of the language, then to demonstrate some martial art moves to show off his physical skills.