The Green Hornet
The Hornet and the Firefly
TV Flash files “The Hornet and the Firefly” as a desk essential hour — The Green Hornet (1966–1967) on ABC, season 1, episode 27, aired 1967-03-24, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E27: listed hour 27 of 27 in the The Green Hornet guide, last listed hour of season 1. It aired 1967-03-24 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Invasion from Outer Space (Part II)” (S01E26). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “The Hornet and the Firefly”. The Hornet and the Firefly closes twenty-seven ABC hours — catalog tail of a hero show that became a martial-arts star launch.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Hornet and the Firefly sit in the The Green Hornet guide?
S01E27 is listed hour 27 of 27 — last listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 27.
When did The Green Hornet S01E27 air?
The Hornet and the Firefly aired 1967-03-24 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…