The Green Hornet Season 1 Episodes

Episode 0

Unaired Pilot

Wed, Feb 2, 19665 mins

Episode 1

The Silent Gun

Fri, Sep 9, 196630 mins

A tiny gun so quiet that a murder at an interment goes unsolved, despite the D.A.'s stakeout, propels the Green Hornet into attack. Mobsters battle over the smokeless gun, providing Daily Sentinel publisher Britt Reid's secret identity, The Green Hornet - feared as a criminal mastermind by citizens everywhere, but actually in cahoots with the D.A. - a reliable excuse to horn in on his supposed competition. The Hornet's martial artist sidekick Kato and state-of-the-pop-art weapons intensify the brutal struggle over the silent Saturday special, avidly covered by the Sentinel's crack crime reporter - without a clue his boss is a green-masked, green-eyed crime-fighter.

Episode 2

Give 'Em Enough Rope

Fri, Sep 16, 196630 mins

Publisher Britt Reid employs his alter ego The Green Hornet to bail him out when a overzealous reporter, exposing a fake injury insurance scam, leaves Reid's newspaper vulnerable to a libel suit. A masked man in a black costume swoops down on a rope, strangling the reporter's source, and the reporter alleges the Green Hornet's behind the racket. Reid sweet-talks a luscious libel attorney, while The Hornet and sidekick Kato pretend to horn in on the racket. Al Hirt's blaring jazz trumpet backs the action.

Episode 3

Programmed for Death

Fri, Sep 23, 196630 mins

Pat Allen, a Daily Sentinel reporter, is mysteriously killed by a leopard. While cleaning out his desk, Britt Reid discovers a large diamond that turns out to be a perfectly-manufactured fake, and wonders if Allen uncovered something bigger than he expected. He also finds a transmitter that emits a supersonic tone - the type audible to cats. Britt Reid suspects the leopard must have been trained by someone to kill at that signal. Donning his Green Hornet gear, he sets out to visit Frank Miller, a shady gemologist, for clues leading to Pat Allen's death.

Episode 4

Crime Wave

Fri, Sep 30, 196630 mins

The Green Hornet is framed for a jewelry heist he didn't commit. Not long after, the Daily Sentinel receives a letter from Able Marcus, describing the robbery in detail before it ever happened and claiming he can predict every crime of the Green Hornet's. Daily Sentinel owner and publisher Britt Reid suspects Marcus may be behind the crimes and pays him a visit in his Green Hornet guise. Marcus' plan soon becomes clear. He intends to build up the police's confidence with his "predictions" so he can send them on a false lead during his big caper. Marcus offers to cut the Green Hornet in on his next crime, but the Green Hornet suspects a double-cross and plans ahead.

Episode 5

The Frog Is a Deadly Weapon

Fri, Oct 7, 196630 mins

A sleazy PI basking on a yacht is dragged under and drowned by frogmen. The PI had just visited Britt Reid, alleging that a dead gangster who framed Reid's father had faked his death and is now back in town, and offering to sell the publisher further information. Reid didn't believe him THEN, but now suspects a zillionaire confined to a yacht is involved. The coroner rules the drowning accidental, tying the DA's hands and forcing Reid to adopt his Green Hornet criminal persona to apply pressure. Reid also dispatches his secretary to rifle the PI's office for what he had tried to sell, but she is caught in the process by thugs, and attempts to protect herself and her boss by claiming to be the dead man's kept-in-the-dark secretary. Nevertheless they take her to THEIR boss, the wealthy recluse, who believes her but adds that she now knows too much about him to be set free. The next morning a young woman is found dead in the harbor.

Episode 6

Eat, Drink, and Be Dead

Fri, Oct 14, 196630 mins

Bombs dropped from an insect-like helicopter obliterate 2 hoods in a sedan. Britt is after the bootlegging operation behind the killing, so as The Green Hornet he puts pressure on by demanding a share of the moonshiners' proceeds for protection. From their car The Black Beauty, Kato dispatches a "scanner" (small flying remote TV camera) which tracks the undertaking to a dairy farm run by Dirk.

Episode 7

Beautiful Dreamer: Part 1

Fri, Oct 21, 196630 mins

A wave of thefts by prominent citizens, & a car explosion which kills a psychology professor baffle police. The citizens claim to remember nothing of their heists. But The Green Hornet discovers an armored car rammed the professor's auto, and a tipster steers him to the Vale of Eden, an upscale spa. As Britt, he tours the health club, becoming suspicious that the rejuvenation method includes individualized relaxation audiotapes, and the clientèle includes some of the thieves.

Episode 8

Beautiful Dreamer: Part 2

Fri, Oct 28, 196630 mins

After Eden tried to have Britt killed by brainwashing Casey, Britt as the Green Hornet goes to Eden and tells him that he knows what he's doing and that he wants in. Eden tells him where his next job is. But instead he brainwashes Vanessa and sends her to see him and places some explosive in her purse.

Episode 9

The Ray Is for Killing

Fri, Nov 11, 196630 mins

An art show at Britt Reid's home is heisted and held for a ransom of $1.5 million. The Green Hornet wants a piece of that pie, but watch out, it's piping hot. The high-tech heisters have a mounted laser rifle and itchy trigger fingers.

Episode 10

The Preying Mantis

Fri, Nov 18, 196630 mins

When a Tong war breaks out in Chinatown, Britt and the paper investigate and think that it's actually a protection racket moving into Chinatown. When someone calls him telling him is he wants to know what's going on he will send someone to a restaurant in Chinatown. When they get there they find a man knocked out in front of the restaurant and the place trashed and the owner beaten up. Britt tells Scanlon he has to find the man, Jimmy Kee cause he knows what's going on. Later Mike discovers that a known protection man meeting with one of the Tongs. Later a friend of Jimmy's tells Britt where he will be. They go there and find him. They're about to bring him to Scanlon when they learn that Jimmy's friend was kidnapped. They decide to hold Jimmy and go to the boss and offer Jimmy in exchange for money and the girl. But at the exchange, the Tong leader reneges and is challenged to fight Kato to the death.

Episode 11

The Hunters and the Hunted

Fri, Nov 25, 196630 mins

A number of top-level racketeers are murdered, each one with a different, unusual weapon. The Green Hornet is contacted about a known list of targets, but before any more information is divulged, his racketeering informant is also killed. The Green Hornet realizes that the key to this mystery is in that list. With his aid Kato, he sets out to discover where it originated and soon finds himself investigating the elite Explorers Club. It quickly becomes obvious that a group of criminals meeting there are the ones behind the murders; and furthermore, that they intend to make the Green Hornet their next target.

Episode 12

Deadline for Death

Fri, Dec 2, 196630 mins

A wave of robberies is committed, all linked by the fact that each victim was interviewed by reporter Mike Axford. When Axford is found at one of the crime scenes and jailed on charges of murder, his boss Britt Reid sets out to uncover the truth. In his Green Hornet guise, Reid investigates a lead beginning with Ardis Ralston, a photographer working with Axford, and soon works his way up to the head of the operation. Testimony from Ralston could easily free Axford and convict the true criminal. However, capturing the crook without destroying their witness proves to be a difficult task.

Episode 13

The Secret of the Sally Bell

Fri, Dec 9, 196630 mins

Two million dollars worth of narcotics have been smuggled into the country, and the only man who knows where they are, Gus Wander, is brought to a hospital in a coma. His associates have no clue where to begin looking. But The Green Hornet has an approximate idea, due to some earlier work. He tracks down the head of the operation in hopes of finding the narcotics and bringing the criminals to justice. On the pretense of wanting a piece of the action, he offers his help in locating the drugs. But the crooks have no plans of sharing, and set up for "Honey Boy" to finish him off.

Episode 14

Freeway to Death

Fri, Dec 16, 196630 mins

While investigating a construction company insurance racket, Daily Sentinel reporter Mike Axford comes under attack from a bulldozer. He is rescued by the Green Hornet (who, unknown to him, is actually his boss Britt Reid). In an unusual turn of events, Axford agrees to work with the Hornet in discovering who is behind the racket. The two try to bluff their way into meeting with the organization's head. But when Mike alone is contacted about the time and location of the meeting, he decides to head off by himself to wrap up the story. Britt Reid suspects Axford may be in grave danger, and as the Green Hornet, intentionally walks into a trap to try to save his friend.

Episode 15

May the Best Man Lose

Fri, Dec 23, 196630 mins

While running for re-election, District Attorney Frank Scanlon narrowly escapes a car explosion. Rumor spreads that the attack was the work of Calvin Ryland, his electoral opponent. But it is his brother, Warren Ryland, who so desperately wants Scanlon out of office. The Green Hornet manages to track Warren down and, on his usual pretense of being a shady crook, offers to help his brother by pulling a crime wave to make Scanlon look bad. But Warren has an even surer plan to guarantee Calvin's election. If successful, it may cost the Green Hornet his life.

Episode 16

Seek, Stalk, and Destroy

Fri, Jan 6, 196730 mins

An old military tank is stolen, and Bradford Devlin, a war hero now on death row, believes he knows who did it. He contacts Daily Sentinel owner Britt Reid to tell him his old tank crew likely swiped the vehicle in order to spring him from jail. Reid believes Devlin is innocent and knows that an attempted jailbreak will ruin any chance for a pardon. He sets out as the Green Hornet to track down Devlin's old war crew and proposes a deal - Devlin in exchange for the vehicle. But when the crooks figure he is bluffing about Devlin, the Green Hornet and Kato are forced into a fight with the tank.

Episode 17

Corpse of the Year: Part 1

Fri, Jan 13, 196730 mins

While making its nighttime rounds, a Daily Sentinel delivery truck is fired on by an imposter Green Hornet, driving an exact duplicate of the Black Beauty. Attacks on the paper's employees continue throughout the night; it appears someone has declared war on the Sentinel. Britt Reid is soon contacted by Dan Scully, a reporter for the rival Daily Express paper, claiming that his boss Sabrina is out to destroy the Sentinel using any means necessary. That goal seems close to fulfillment when Reid attends a party of Daily Express publisher Simon Neal's. As he and Neal stand outside, the Green Hornet poser drives up, announces his intentions to kill Britt Reid, and fires his gun.

Episode 18

Corpse of the Year: Part 2

Fri, Jan 20, 196730 mins

Britt Reid believes that the death of the Daily Express publisher, Simon Neal, was no accident, and that Neal was the fake Green Hornet's target all along. When a would-be informant is killed, all clues point to Dan Scully as the phony Green Hornet. However, Scully himself had nothing to gain from Neal's death. Reid believes someone else was behind the scheme, and narrows the suspects down to two - Neal's niece Melissa, and his managing editor Sabrina Bradley. He intends to smoke out the phony Green Hornet one more time to figure out which it is.

Episode 19

Bad Bet on a 459-Silent

Fri, Feb 3, 196730 mins

Two rogue cops, Bert Clark and Jim Dixon, have been moving in after robberies to collect some of the loot for themselves. Britt Reid discovers them while on patrol as the Green Hornet, but they also notice him and fire a bullet into his shoulder. With the Green Hornet being blamed for the robbery, heading to a hospital is out of the question. Reid instead fakes an injury in front of a large audience to get proper treatment. While still recuperating, he learns that his reporter, Mike Axford, has set up a trap in hopes of snaring the Green Hornet. Reid fears the snare will instead draw the rogue cops, and against doctor's advice, leaves the hospital to protect his friend.

Episode 20

Ace in the Hole

Fri, Feb 10, 196730 mins

After years of battling each other, Phil Trager and Steve Gant plan to merge their criminal organizations into one mob. The Green Hornet plans to use reporter Mike Axford as bait in order to sow distrust between the two gangsters and rupture their budding criminal alliance.

Episode 21

Trouble for Prince Charming

Fri, Feb 17, 196730 mins

The fiancée of a visiting dignitary, Prince Rafil, is kidnapped. The crooks demand Rafil return home and announce his abdication, or else the future princess will be killed. Britt Reid knows that meeting their demands will be no guarantee of the young lady's safety, but when he is unable to dissuade the prince from returning home, he works out another strategy. In his Green Hornet guise, he kidnaps Prince Rafil and offers to free his fiancée in exchange for a fee. Suspecting she is being held by some of Rafil's own men, he sneaks into the foreign consulate to look for the hostage.

Episode 22

Alias the Scarf

Fri, Feb 24, 196730 mins

When a wax museum adds models of Green Hornet and Kato to their collection of famous killers and criminals, it causes excitement among the press and public. The heretofore most notorious exhibit showed a Jack the Ripper-like murderer who strangled strangers with a Scarf, whom he was known as. One of the curators of the museum secretly was the Scarf, and now jealously restarts his deadly career to regain the attention he feels is rightly his.

Episode 23

Hornet, Save Thyself

Fri, Mar 3, 196730 mins

At a surprise birthday party for Britt Reid, a gun he is given as a present by Dale Hyde mysteriously fires, killing a man who is an old enemy and former employee. With all evidence pointing to Reid as the murderer, it is up to him to prove otherwise. He escapes custody and breaks into a police station as the Green Hornet to examine the weapon. The fact that the clip is now missing from the gun, together with further events of the evening, convince Reid that Dale framed him. With no concrete evidence, Reid must make Hyde confess in order to prove his own innocence.

Episode 24

Invasion from Outer Space: Part 1

Fri, Mar 10, 196730 mins

Britt's at home, preparing to go out with Miss Case when he hears on the TV a report of aliens landing. Britt thinks it's a mistake but suddenly some people who appear to be from another planet come in to his house. And they make demands among them is for him to call Scanlon to clear the road so that their space craft can land and pick them up. Scanlon does it. They then leave but take Miss Case. They knock Britt and Kato out. Scanlon later shows up to tell them that he just heard that a military convoy is on the road they cleared carrying a warhead. Britt turns into the Green Hornet and follows them. He suspects the leader is not an alien but a disgruntled scientist and he plans to get the warhead.

Episode 25

Invasion from Outer Space: Part 2

Fri, Mar 17, 196730 mins

Mabouse gains possession of the warhead.

Episode 26

The Hornet and the Firefly

Fri, Dec 30, 196630 mins

The Green Hornet and Kato try to stop an arsonist who is terrorizing the city.