[HartleyMBaldwin]

Best theme song ever.

[gov_bean_ counter]

“Let’s roll, Kato”

[who knows what evil?]

Always enjoyed the ‘Green Hornet’ when I was a teen because it avoided the god-awful camp of the ‘Batman’ television show. Bruce Lee was an added bonus.

[Huskrrrr]

RIP. A good actor in a so-so series (The Green Hornet).

The series paired martial art master Bruce Lee (Kato) against Burt Ward (Robin) in a fight scene in which they fought to an apparent draw. Years later Burt Ward admitted this was a mistake, “Robin should have gotten his ass kicked.”

[jalisco555]

I liked that show when I was a kid. I remember being surprised when it was cancelled after only one season.

[longfellow]

Great show.

[\/\/ayne]

Both actors in the TV series played it super cool with a hint of mischief and did a fantastic job. The latest movie was just two buffoons. Not cool.

[OrangeHoof]

Bruce Lee = Kato = O.J.’s houseguest. You can’t make this stuff up.

[DiogenesLamp]

I guess everyone knows that the original Green Hornet was from the 1930s?

[Sans-Culotte]

The Green Hornet is an example of a 1-season TV show that everybody remembers. Nowadays, a 1-season show is usually forgotten because it has to complete 3 seasons in order to be syndicated. Back in the 50's and 60's, a 1-season show was not quite the failure it would be today. Another such show that comes to mind is Honey West. Although on for only one season, when Anne Francis died the headlines called her "TV's Honey West".

I loved The Green Hornet as a kid. A couple of years ago, I caught some re-runs on METV. There was still an aura of coolness about it, with Van Williams and Bruce Lee and the Billy May/Al Hirt trumpet variation on "Flight of the Bumblebee" as the main theme. But the plots were really fairly boring and predictable. Aside form the Hornet and Kato suiting up and dashing out of their secret lair in the "Black Beauty", there wasn't all that much to it.

[katana]

That show was on around the same time as the campy Batman series and was more like the modern day comic book based films. In other words it was about fifty years ahead of its time. Bruce Lee as your sidekick? It was great and I remember being sad that it was cancelled by the network suits after just one season.

[mancini]

I loved that show. He was so handsome!

[Zionist Conspirator]

As a kid I was crazy about "The Green Hornet," which I thought a much better show than "Batman." It broke my heart when it was canceled.

The funny thing is, as a kid back then I didn't understand that the Hornet fought crime by posing as a criminal (only two other people aside from himself and Kato knew the truth). I thought he was just a typical straight-up superhero. I didn't get it until that "Batman" episode where he and Kato joined Batman and Robin in fighting Roger C. Carmel. I couldn't understand why everyone was so negative towards him and why Batman and Robin thought they had to fight him.

I absolutely lived for that sequence where the Reid's convertible was switched for the Black Beauty and went out through that breath mint ad!

[Polyxene]

Van Williams, Florence Henderson, Fritz Weaver, Robert Vaughn.......sigh.......

[MinuteGal]

His picture minus mask is at link.

I never saw his show, but I wish I had...man, was he ever handsome!

Leni

[bjorn14]

What is truly amazing is that Mr. Williams was married 57 years to the same woman. RIP.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.