The Green Hornet
The Preying Mantis
TV Flash files “The Preying Mantis” as a desk essential hour — The Green Hornet (1966–1967) on ABC, season 1, episode 10, aired 1966-11-18, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E10: listed hour 10 of 27 in the The Green Hornet guide, hour 10 of 27 in season 1. It aired 1966-11-18 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Ray is for Killing” (S01E09). Next is “The Hunters and the Hunted” (S01E11).
Essential hour: “The Preying Mantis”. The Preying Mantis keeps the insect-title house style: Kato's choreography as the launch, Reid as the newspaper mask.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A gangster tries to turn a Chinatown Tong into his personal protection racketeers, and Hornet and Kato get involved.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Preying Mantis sit in the The Green Hornet guide?
S01E10 is listed hour 10 of 27 — hour 10 of 27 in season 1, season 1 episode 10.
When did The Green Hornet S01E10 air?
The Preying Mantis aired 1966-11-18 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…