The Green Hornet
Crime Wave
TV Flash files “Crime Wave” as hour 4 of 27 in the TV Flash guide — The Green Hornet (1966–1967) on ABC, season 1, episode 4, aired 1966-09-30, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E04: listed hour 4 of 27 in the The Green Hornet guide, hour 4 of 27 in season 1. It aired 1966-09-30 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Programmed for Death” (S01E03). Next is “The Frog is a Deadly Weapon” (S01E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Britt is as surprised as anyone when a computer genius determines a way to predict the Green Hornet's next crimes... crimes that Britt wasn't involved with.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Crime Wave sit in the The Green Hornet guide?
S01E04 is listed hour 4 of 27 — hour 4 of 27 in season 1, season 1 episode 4.
When did The Green Hornet S01E04 air?
Crime Wave aired 1966-09-30 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Reid and Kato, Black Beauty, a fight that lets Lee choreograph — that is the outsized hour. Twenty-six episodes; the crossover with Batman is extra universe flavor.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The Green Hornet lasted one ABC season and still changed the room: Van Williams as Britt Reid, the Black Beauty, and Bruce Lee's Kato stealing fights with choreography American television had not seen. A Batman-adjacent hero hour that became a martial-arts star launch. Lee's precision against comic-strip vigilantism — short, stylish, outsized in every later reboot talk.
One ABC season. **Twenty-six episodes (twenty-seven hours in this pack), 1966–1967.** That is the whole window, and it still changed the room: Van Williams as Britt Reid, the Black Beauty, and Bruce Lee's Kato stealing fights with choreography American television had not seen. George W. Trendle and Fran Striker's pulp hero, Wende Wagner as Lenore Case, gas gun and two-fisted newspaper-playboy vigilantism. A Batman-adjacent hero hour that became a martial-arts star launch. Rex will toast the pulp cathedral. The…
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- Van Williams as Britt Reid / Green Hornet
Van Williams’s Britt Reid — the Green Hornet — lasted one ABC season and still changed the room: the Black Beauty, a Batman-adjacent hero hour, and Bruce Lee’s Kato stealing fights with choreography American television had not seen.…
- Bruce Lee as Kato
Bruce Lee stole The Green Hornet as Kato — one ABC season, Van Williams as Britt Reid, the Black Beauty, and fight choreography American television had not seen. A Batman-adjacent hero hour that became a martial-arts launch. TV Flash…
- Wende Wagner as Lenore Case
Wende Wagner’s Lenore Case kept The Green Hornet’s newsroom human while Van Williams’s Britt Reid and Bruce Lee’s Kato changed the room in one ABC season. Black Beauty chrome, Batman-adjacent hero hour, martial-arts star launch. TV Flash…