The Green Hornet
The Ray is for Killing
TV Flash files “The Ray is for Killing” as hour 9 of 27 in the TV Flash guide — The Green Hornet (1966–1967) on ABC, season 1, episode 9, aired 1966-11-11, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E09: listed hour 9 of 27 in the The Green Hornet guide, hour 9 of 27 in season 1. It aired 1966-11-11 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Beautiful Dreamer (2)” (S01E08). Next is “The Preying Mantis” (S01E10).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Art robbers use a laser to get away with a fortune in paintings, and Hornet has to find a way to counter their deadly ray.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Ray is for Killing sit in the The Green Hornet guide?
S01E09 is listed hour 9 of 27 — hour 9 of 27 in season 1, season 1 episode 9.
When did The Green Hornet S01E09 air?
The Ray is for Killing aired 1966-11-11 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…