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Program: Green Hornet
Episode: The Voice
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If you thought the last election was brutal, hold off judgment until you hear this episode. John Waterbury, the current District Attorney has just won re-election. The celebration is short lived when a bomb goes off in his 18th floor office killing him. Making it even stranger a clue has been sent to the office in the form of an audio recording on a record. The voice on the record refers to himself as, well, The Voice.
It takes the police department, the reporters of The Sentinel and of course The Green Hornet, with his faithful valet Kato, to uncover just who The Voice is and why kill the D.A.
The Green Hornet careened onto America’s airwaves in 1936, and didn’t leave until 1956. Britt Reid, the daring young publisher, owned the Daily Sentinel. As such he could find out interesting stories, and uncover corruption. If the police wouldn’t take an interest in his muckracking, then it was time to don the mask, and with his faithful valet, Kato, do some investigation as…the Green Hornet. But Kato was not your typical sidekick, he graduated from college, he was an expert chemist, and excellent stunt driver (who else could handle the hornet’s car, Black Beauty) and boy could he fight. If you have to get Bruce Lee to play the character on television, you know he can fight. If only they had a Kato show. The love interest, such as it was, was Lenore Case (but Reid always referred to her as Miss Case – this give you an idea of the level of romance in the show.)
As a point of interest, both the Green Hornet and the Lone Ranger were created by George W. Trendle, and both shows were largely written by Fran Striker. Both characters wore masks, had fast transportation, great partners, and fought for truth and justice. You could say that it ran in the family. Britt Reid, the Green Hornet, is the grand nephew of the Lone Ranger.
