The next part was even funnier. "You're gonna break me getting that door fixed!" That was hilarious.

True that. The 1966 Batman was deliberately campy and tongue in cheek. But the Green Hornet took itself quite seriously. And it's better for that. I can't imagine Bruce Lee being a comic sidekick, he's too good of a fighter to be turned into a joke.

@Hotshotter3000 Amen to that! Though, it was especially refreshing to see Kato cracking a smile, with an accompanied short laugh, near the tail end of the episode's climax. I find it even more impressive that they somehow managed to shoehorn in both the Green Hornet and Kato in one exceptionally memorable Batman episode back in the '60's, "A Piece of the Action ", executing things so masterfully between both the campy cape crusaders and the more straight laced Hornet and Kato, without making the latter pair come across oafish and ridiculous looking. IMO, that was definitely one of the absolute best comic book crossover attempts in the entire TV viewing history since I've been alive... reruns or otherwise!

At least the Green Hornet comes through doors. Batman, or Superman always used windows.😂

Wende Wagner was a very proficient swimmer who did some stunt work on the old Lloyd Bridges TV show Sea Hunt; Wende was also an expert Scuba diver as well. She did some modeling on the side, too! ☺️

She is certainly well rounded

HarbingerOfBattle I loved how it was more realistic than Batman ever was. The equipment Hornet and Kato used was plausable, no campy BAM POW KACRAK crap. And none of the villians were costumed cornies crap, closest was John Caradine as the Scarf but he was a legit serial killer. And the Black Beauty was 10x better than the Batmobile.

+HarbingerOfBattle Arguably, the realism was good and gave it more of an edge than Batman, but in retrospect, the scenes shot day for night, with the bad filters, made anything outside, nearly invisible. Granted, they were probably on a tight schedule, but you'd think once they saw the early dailies, they'd fix that.

Batman starring Adam West was created to appeal to young children. And that it did. All the colorful costumes appealed to little kids. And those little kids were loyal to their favorite show. It is because of them that the show lasted three seasons. My friend's 6 year old son did not understand anything about Wing Chung and other martial arts. He just knew that Batman was colorful and fun to watch. And he also would get to wear a colorful Batman costume his mother made for him. I was like that little kid when I was 10. When I became and adult and a friend of mine who is a Wing Chun instructor began to give me an understanding about the art, I then began to see the show the Green Hornet in a new light. Now I could much more appreciate how Kato would beat up guys much more quickly than Batman and Robin ever could during their long battles with lots Pows, Bams, etc and cool Batman fighting music.

That's a good point. I recently watched two episodes in black and white, which is how most people would've watched it in 1966, and many of the day for night scenes were hard to see. I love the tone of the show also but it was out of sync with the times. Also the 30 minute adventure show was a 1950's formula. There was only one other half-hour adventure show in prime time in 1966; T.H.E. Cat. It was also dropped at the end of the season. Ratings and economics killed the show.

Nobody said that filming at night would have been better ( too expensive anyway). The fact that the day-for-night was inconsistent in that ,some shots were actually brighter than others may have actually helped. You could see what was happening.

William Dozier (who produced The Green Hornet and Batman) asked ABC/Greenwood Productions after the first season to expand the show to a full hour if a second season was to happen. ABC simply wouldn't do it (costs etc) so The Green Hornet was canceled. The late Van Williams said he was glad that it only lasted only one season as it was a very tiring show to do physically and as well as how hectic/rushed it was to put out a 26-episode season. Mr. Williams did say that he loved working with the cast and became lifelong friends with Bruce Lee and admitted that Mr. Lee was only one of the very few people who were truly his friend.

The late Van Williams became very good friends with Bruce Lee and he knew that most people watched The Green Hornet to see Mr. Lee in action. As such he tried to get the writers to incorporate Mr. Lee into more of the storylines instead of just being his "sidekick"

Jay Leno has one there were 3

He also worked a lot with George Reeves

I bet a lot of people would've liked seeing lee choke out seagal.

@@josephvanburen887 It was Gene Lebelle that choked him, and Seagal soiled himself, allegedly.

Can’t. Replace. Two. Legends.

Every remake America makes these days is trash, with mindless banter, bad language instead of good dialogue, and carbon copy actors. Leave the Green Hornet alone, I'd say. That 2011 movie was atrocious enough.

Nope.

The Black Beauty is a Custom Chrysler Imperial

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I totally agree with you on that. The updated version of The Green Hornet really stupid and the comedy was childish.