The Green Hornet is a fictional crime fighting TV series, was brought to television from 1966-1967 by ABC, inspired by the success of Batman series. Both are produce by the same company. But they have differences, Batman was known from it's heavy camp and semi-comedic story telling while The Green Hornet was based on a realistic crime fighting using masked. The series introduced martial arts master Bruce Lee to the American audiences. The story is all about the young owner of The Daily Sentinel named Britt Reid, is a blood relative of The Lone Ranger. The character of Dan Reid, who appeared on the Lone Ranger program as the Masked Man's nephew who was also featured on The Green Hornet as Britt Reid's father, making the Green Hornet the grand-nephew of the Lone Ranger.
The detailed story of the series was that by day Britt Reid was just an ordinary newspaper publisher and by night his a crime-fighting masked hero. He was accompanied by his similarly masked partner named Kato, described as a Japanese, and eventually as a Filipino. Together they fight the criminals. The Green Hornet became a popular nickname for General J.Edgar Hoover prompted them to remove the line implying that some crime fighting was beyond the abilities of the FBI.
There are only two person who knows the dual identity of The Green Hornet, they are the secretary and the district attorney.
The duo masked men called "The Green Hornet", together with their car Beauty.
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I have like this show when I was a kid...my uncle is great fan of this so we watch this in his own copy... a really good story and this guys here are one of my Childhood heroes....
Green Hornet was one of the best fictional crime fighter series
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