[BluesDuke]

The television version of The Green Hornet should have lasted longer than a year. I read an interview with Van Williams (who played the role on TV) some years back in which he said that if they'd moved to concentrate as much on certain further character development---I think he mentioned, especially, Britt Reid, Kato, D.A. Scanlon, and secretary Lenore Case---the show might have been more successful.

Sad note: Of the original five main players on the television version of The Green Hornet (Williams, Bruce Lee, Wende Wagner, Lloyd Gough, and Walter Brooke), Van Williams is the only one still alive today.

[greene66]

I liked the “Green Hornet” tv-series, for the most part. The cast was particularly fine, and played things just right, for my tastes. In other words, without the kind of self-conscious camp hokeyness that was gradually coming into vogue, courtesy its production-mate, “Batman.” It’s one of the reasons I tend to prefer old-time fare, because of the protagonists’ propensity to exude a kind of stalwart, straight-forward sincerity. Everything nowadays has a jokey, sarcastic undertone that I find extremely grating. I was told the recent “Green Hornet” movie had this in spades.