Yep. Had one in my town until the early to mid eighties.

yep...some made "house calls" too...

HOUSE calls 😕

my dad OWNED one, we also did vhs repairs and were one of the few in town to offer betamax repairs!

Yes

Steve20127 ......America wasn’t ready for Bruce Lee

This is way better than the campy Batman series & I watched both as a kid

@@benyaakov6453 I totally agree! I was 9-10 at the time. I remember initially thinking Batman was cool but when the green hornet came on it changed my mind. No silly gadgets. Just the hornet sting a gas gun and kato! And no over the top costumed criminals. This was a lot more realistic. I still love this show. Seth rogens movie was horrible!

@@rodmoore1577 Seth's movie was an insult to the Hornet.

The late Van Williams had said he was grateful the series only lasted one year. He said the work/deadlines that were involved in making an episode were intense and horrendous. He said the only good thing that came out of his experience on the show was becoming very good friends with Bruce Lee

***** Not bright but a helluva a loyal guy. Someones gotta get this series in this quality on dvd!

Yeah, not the brightest light on the Christmas tree. Also, if I were him, I'd be madder than hell at the fellow who was leaving as he came in, for letting people get into the tank in the first place. ...and we won't even get into the fact that live ammunition isn't stored in the vehicles when they're mothballed like that.

This series really is quite good.

I can't believe it only last one season. Maybe because of Batman over powered the ratings. they even showed Batman in the green hornet show.

After Batman people didn't want a serious crime-fighter. I think if the Green Hornet had come on in 1964 or '65 it might've had more of a chance

No , the Hornet was on Batman.

Oddly enough, I'm Batman's universe the Green Hornet was a real person, But in the Green Hornet's universe Batman was a T.V. show.

They didn't pick it up. Too much competition for the batman series. Try to save it third season flopped

William Dozier (who produced both The Green Hornet and Batman) would only agree to go on with the series if it could be expanded to 1 hour. ABC refused as the cost to make the show was prohibitive. I wonder if Dozier tried to get another network at that time to take over making it (as this was not unusual at this time as Get Smart/My Three Sons all moved to other networks). Van Williams had said that making the show was physically taxing and there were a lot of deadlines just to get out the 26 episodes 1st season

I'm doing the same ... haven't seen this since they were new.

I believe it's already out on blu-ray. They also put the long street episode with Bruce Lee

That's because the Green Hornet was a wanted criminal, while Batman was a crimefighter...and Gordon was in charge of the police.

By all accounts, Van Williams didn't want to be a "star". From what I've read, he didn't like the whole publicity/meet the fans thing, and wanted to treat acting as a business.

Bruce Lee didn’t become a star until he made two films in Hong Kong. He had bit parts in “Ironsides” and “Longstreet “ and “Marlowe”. He wouldn’t have made it on those parts alone.

Hollywood had thousands of good-looking guys, but only one Bruce Lee. He was unusual and a bit of a mystery at a time when people were ready for something exotic.

Yup. "I do believe I got you covered son!" As the guy peers at the end of the barrel less than a foot from his face.

Poe Jr Nicholas Produced by Richard Bluel. Written by Jerry Thomas. Directed by george waGGner.

I would presume that the show took the fact that she eventually figured out that Britt was the Green Hornet late in the old radio show and used that for the show's status quo.

As remarkable as it seems there actually was somebody who not only stopped one tank but a whole column of them at the Battle of the Bulge. By a freak lucky shot he managed to shoot the driver through the tank's visor slit and the bullet bounced around killing everyone in the tank which got stuck in a narrow mountain pass blocking all the tanks behind it. Hey Patton's prayer for the snow storms to clear up worked at Bastogne too. God hates Nazis.

But I wish I had that faith in my abilities...believing my aim could stop a tank.

BingCherry11 They could have used one of The Black Beauty's rockets and taken out one of its treads.

Cool! I like that!!!

No, you're thinking of" The Firefly and the Hornet"

George Senda---I hope it is better than the last one.

@@Tazzman225 should be the last one wasnt bad it was only seth rogan that fucked it up by making the green hornet a buffoon of a sidekick instead of a strong super hero.

God, if they do, they better get it right this time! The irony is, at the time the show came out, it tried to be serious and people wanted humor. Then the movie comes out trying to be humor, but people wanted it serious. Green Hornet was never supposed to be campy, so they better keep Seth Rogen FAR away from it.

@@moonwatcher99 good point. The minute I found out Rogen was attached to the movie I knew it was going to be bad

Personally, I think it was the "race card" against Bruce Lee. Kato was becoming a more prominent character on the show. Bruce Lee's stardom was on the rise AND everybody knew it. (On a sidenote, the show was on during the middle of the Vietnam War. This probably amplified the bias against Asians. For example: There might be some kid who wants to grow up to be like KATO, but the family would be upset...because there is somebody in the family, either fighting in the war..OR died overseas. )

He was also on “Star Trek”.

I think Kevin James (King Of Queens) would have been a lot funnier than Seth. LOL!!!!!

not really looking for a comedy, just a straight up 1 1/2--2 hour big screen version of this classic tv show.

just weak ratings it didnt draw alot of viewers at the time sadly, even batman lost viewers several seasons in. the 2011 movie was great only thing crap was seth rogan. made the green hornet a plucky comedic idiot instead of a strong hero type. sadly seth rogan wrote the script and opted for the movie so therefore he casted himself as the lead, he should of made james franco the lead seeming they are tight buds.

@@Old-Boy_BEbop: The reason the Green Hornet didn't last more than a season is because it came on around the same time as a bunch of even more popular shows, so that's what cut it short---nothing wrong with the show itself, though.

@@alondathomas293 no the reason it didnt last long for more then 1 season was it was played straight and on account of it, it lost viewers and lead to its demise.... batman had a more successful stint but it too was eventually cancelled on account of low viewership.

Not the same music. Billy May scored the Hornet. Nelson Riddle scored Batman. May worked some on Batman's third season. Dozier did do the narration for both.

If you listen carefully the Black Beauty when It turns the corners, the wheels made the same noise of the Batmobile.

Gerry Dooley Theme played by Al Hirt. Music conducted by Lionel Newman.