One thing to note: this is the one time that The Green Hornet never tried to muscle in on the operation. This time it was personal. So while these episodes were a step down from what we're used to, at least they had that going for them.
As a lot of people here are saying this was a sort of 'testing the water' story and if the series had continued onto its second series it would probably have been in a more fantastic and 'comic book' direction like this, more on the wavelength of the Batman series. As it is it is a curse and a blessing. Curse in that the show was cancelled and remains always in the shadow of Batman in popular culture and awareness but a blessing in that the series at least maintained its dignity and was not remembered as being too outlandish or ridiculous (like this is clearly)
This TV series,although short lived,was part of that vast and creative area of 20th Century Fox Television,back in the height of its success with ABC's "BATMAN" series, and CBS's "LOST IN SPACE" series-this was the perfect arrangement for superior productions,and "THE GREEN HORNET" never failed to disappoint,although ABC's faith was less then optomistic! the lovely young lady,who shot the electrical bolts at Kato in Pt.1 of "Invasion From Outer Space",was Linda Gaye Scott,who later that same year,guest starred,along with a pre "HILL STREET BLUES" Daniel J Travanti,as a bunch of misfit space hippies(?) in "Colision of The Planets" episode of "LOST IN SPACE",another enjoyable romp from 1960s TV!
When the Green Hornet became a Godzilla film. Loved how in the Zilla films the aliens were just humans in chrome outfits and sunglasses, like the ones here but more cool.
WFIL-TV 6, Philadephia supposedly received tons of complaints from parents whose kids "had the hell scared out of them" at the appearance of "Dr. Mabuse".
Something of a serious thriller episode. Surprising and refreshing, after so many campy episodes of the Batman TV series. Also, that conveyor leading up to the furnace stunt looked genuinely risky for the actress.
I’m inclined to agree that these two episodes sealed the series’ fate...there was a different producer on these shows, which turned out to be a mistake which Bill Dozier usually didn’t make
What Really Happened: ABC had already decided to cancel Green Hornet; Dozier had to fill out the string to meet the contract, and brought in Shpetner to just put anything on film. What Dozier really wanted all along was a serious, one-hour show, to air at a later time slot; that's why he scheduled so many two-part shows. Late in the season, Dozier wrote a long memo to the ABC brass, requesting exactly this procedure ( a recent book about the series reprints the memo in its entirety).
Van Williams said that the producers were now in a panic over the show by this point because it wasn't garnering the strong ratings like its sister series Batman. So they tried this over-the-top episode to see if they could make the GH show more spectacular by having larger-than-life villains similar to the ones Batman and James Bond faced. Van wasn't pleased and stated he would have disliked this direction for the show. Larry D. Mann who plays the mad scientist Dr. Mabuse also was the voice for Yukon Corneilus in the classic stop-motion animated TV holiday classic "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer."
So excellent that bruce lee featured so much in this series....it is a different side to him we would never have known from the woefully short martial arts movies
At 8:33 watch the automatic dialer, using small punched cards to dial out. In 1967 the tone dialing system was not in use, so the punched cards triggered pulses for dialing.
You are correct. Linda Gaye Scott, who plays Vama, also played the Riddler's moll Moth in the Batman two-parter ”The Ring of Wax”/ “Give 'Em the Axe”, episodes S1E23 and S1E24, respectively.
I think this was the one time that Green Hornet reached a certain campiness like Batman, seeing those..." aliens" ..in those ridiculous outfits zap Kato, I kept wondering in Batman was gonna show.
wrong. a madman with an H-bomb is James Bond. It was what they were going for from the start. If it had gone to a second season you would've seen more episodes like this. There was only so many stories you could do about gangsters.
Bill Corman (1:20) was played by Joe di Reda who also portrayed one of the Joker's henchmen on the Batman episode the "Zodiac Crimes". Would guess William Dozier would use actors from Batman under contract with Greenwood Productions
Larry D. Mann's character of Dr. Eric Mabuse is the closest thing to being a costumed villain for the Green Hornet in this 2 part episode which was also the last of the series.🤔🧐🦸🦸🦹🦹
Notice the change in Line Producer? I did. Notice the change of Line Producer for Season 3 of Star Trek and Season 2 of Space: 1999? I did. Shame on ABC.
This episode was to try and catch the camp crowd that was following Batman at the same time. The Green Hornet was originally shot as straight with no camp and gangsters and hit men getting killed. Sorry it was a little to violent for kids back in 66. ABC had no faith in the legs for this show and wanted more campy crap like in Batman. Bruce Lee was all business no camp. So if camp is what your looking for in this series look somewhere else.
Not really. there was no camp in this episode. This is James Bond not Batman. They were trying to do something a little different from the gangster stories. I thought they did a good job
Sorry, these last two episodes have some weird non-standart resolution, but you're right, I should check and search again, maybe this time I would be more lucky.
"The Green Hornet" was canceled for the next season at the last minute. This silly episode with space aliens probably sealed its fate. Most of the episodes were played seriously compared to "Batman". William Dozier was producer and narrator for "Batman" and "The Green Hornet". Adults and kids could enjoy "Batman" -- adults for laughs and kids for the action. "The Green Hornet" did not attract many adults, and since the show aired on Friday night, it had little chance to attract what small adult audience who might watch. Van Williams said the show would have greatly improved if it were expanded to an hour.
+Tony Williams Word also was that Dozier felt he had gone too far in the opposite direction. He was looking to strike some sort of balance between the silly camp and the straight seriousness of his respective entries. The Dick Tracy pilot was his proposed solution. Unfortunately, he made three significant misfires: he didn't use a highly established villain (considering the huge rogues' gallery Tracy dealt with); it took far too long to introduce the main character; and the description of the coming episode, which showed only Tracy's likeness in a Dragnet-like shot, *followed* the outro (it's on Dailymotion). Still, that pilot fared far far better than his proposal for Wonder Woman (only a screen test).
Yep. From a fandom site "Green Hornet and Kato first made a cameo appearance in "The Spell of Tut", appearing in the window of a building that Batman and Robin are scaling. Batman and Green Hornet appear to know each other, and introduce their sidekicks to one another. Later in the season, they appear in the (Batman) two-parter "A Piece of the Action" and "Batman's Satisfaction" in a team-up and square-off." "In an in-joke cameo on Batman, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson watch their favorite television show, The Green Hornet, while on The Green Hornet Britt Reid and Kato watch their favorite show, Batman." I don't think Batman and Robin had a guest appearance on the Green Hornet show though.
Kato has the worst disguise to his dual identity... his name is the same, his KungFu is the same and he carries that Hornet dart even in his butlet guise... even a moderately competent detective can deduce and expose Kato and connect Reid to the Green Hornet... 8:36 that's so cool... a punch card operated phone to instantly speed dial whoever you want to call... a 60s solution and precursor to the speed dial...
This is, without a doubt, the absolute worst episode of the season and series. God-awful. It's nearly 50 years later, but it's a damn shame this series never got a second season. I would have loved for Adam West and Burt Ward to cross over onto their show and do a serious take of their characters on the Hornet's show.
I'm sure this episode had nothing to do with it being cancelled. While you're watching episode 1, the studio was already thinking about the future of the series.
These last two episodes of this series are pretty awful to say the least. The only thing good about it is Miss Case's dark-green go-go boots. 👢👢👢👢👢 💚💚💚💚💚 😁😁😁😁😁
few episodes have such gaping holes as this one. britt needed to ask the “leader” three things: 1. how do you know our language? 2. how do you know our units for time and distance? 3. how did you know where i live, and my position with the paper? had that been done, it would’ve been unlikely that a plausible explanation would’ve been forthcoming. also, mr. scanlon usually isn’t this gullible. here, he never bothers to check if anything of any import would be on those roads. again, that would’ve undone the entire operation. i m o, this is probably the worst episode, and two parts make it that much more difficult to watch.
It was not an aliens episode anymore than a person wearing a sheet is a ghost. It was the end of the world stuff which is refreshing from the episodes involving insurance fraud.
the green hornet was way ahead of its time if it was on tv now it would get huge ratings
Ah, no it wouldn’t
@@slobjitsu ...whata name SJ ...
They would have made this woke too !
@@gregorydotson6776 ...van williams would be pregnant man
@@gregorydotson6776 Whats the matter? Do you miss the good ol' days of straight white male dominance?
One thing to note: this is the one time that The Green Hornet never tried to muscle in on the operation. This time it was personal. So while these episodes were a step down from what we're used to, at least they had that going for them.
As a lot of people here are saying this was a sort of 'testing the water' story and if the series had continued onto its second series it would probably have been in a more fantastic and 'comic book' direction like this, more on the wavelength of the Batman series. As it is it is a curse and a blessing. Curse in that the show was cancelled and remains always in the shadow of Batman in popular culture and awareness but a blessing in that the series at least maintained its dignity and was not remembered as being too outlandish or ridiculous (like this is clearly)
This TV series,although short lived,was part of that vast and creative area of 20th Century Fox Television,back in the height of its success with ABC's "BATMAN" series,
and CBS's "LOST IN SPACE" series-this was the perfect arrangement for superior
productions,and "THE GREEN HORNET" never failed to disappoint,although ABC's
faith was less then optomistic! the lovely young lady,who shot the electrical bolts at Kato in Pt.1 of "Invasion From Outer Space",was Linda Gaye Scott,who later that same
year,guest starred,along with a pre "HILL STREET BLUES" Daniel J Travanti,as a bunch of misfit space hippies(?) in "Colision of The Planets" episode of "LOST IN SPACE",another enjoyable romp from 1960s TV!
The scanner the 1rst GPS system,the Hornet Sting the 1rst Taser
When the Green Hornet became a Godzilla film. Loved how in the Zilla films the aliens were just humans in chrome outfits and sunglasses, like the ones here but more cool.
Many thanks for uploading these. You,ve brightened an otherwise cloudy day.
WFIL-TV 6, Philadephia supposedly received tons of complaints from parents whose kids "had the hell scared out of them" at the appearance of "Dr. Mabuse".
Something of a serious thriller episode. Surprising and refreshing, after so many campy episodes of the Batman TV series. Also, that conveyor leading up to the furnace stunt looked genuinely risky for the actress.
Thank you utube this is one of the greatest t,v,shows. Of. All time. Bruce Lee is the greatest at what he did. Good. To. See him. In this. Series..
I’m inclined to agree that these two episodes sealed the series’ fate...there was a different producer on these shows, which turned out to be a mistake which Bill Dozier usually didn’t make
Sadly it ended.
What Really Happened:
ABC had already decided to cancel Green Hornet; Dozier had to fill out the string to meet the contract, and brought in Shpetner to just put anything on film.
What Dozier really wanted all along was a serious, one-hour show, to air at a later time slot; that's why he scheduled so many two-part shows.
Late in the season, Dozier wrote a long memo to the ABC brass, requesting exactly this procedure ( a recent book about the series reprints the memo in its entirety).
Van Williams said that the producers were now in a panic over the show by this point because it wasn't garnering the strong ratings like its sister series Batman. So they tried this over-the-top episode to see if they could make the GH show more spectacular by having larger-than-life villains similar to the ones Batman and James Bond faced. Van wasn't pleased and stated he would have disliked this direction for the show.
Larry D. Mann who plays the mad scientist Dr. Mabuse also was the voice for Yukon Corneilus in the classic stop-motion animated TV holiday classic "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer."
Vana is electrifying!
Jumping the shark episode! ( "Out of this world, Batman!") Still, Green Hornet was awesome!l
So excellent that bruce lee featured so much in this series....it is a different side to him we would never have known from the woefully short martial arts movies
At 8:33 watch the automatic dialer, using small punched cards to dial out. In 1967 the tone dialing system was not in use, so the punched cards triggered pulses for dialing.
The guy who invented rotary dialing was doing it to catch his cheating wifes lover
This series was so much better than Batman. The missed opportunity when they didn't renew this. I'm binge watching and loving every minute.
No, it wasn't. Batman was infinitely more fun. This show was good, but pretty dull in comparison.
A great episode. Thanks for uploading. Watching from European Union, Lithuania.
As much as I know they do not look like Aliens I still love this episode. It had a great plot.
Vama was so 🔥 Hot, and so was Casey.
God rest their souls those 3
Linda Gaye Scott was also in Batman. Riddler episode I believe.
You are correct. Linda Gaye Scott, who plays Vama, also played the Riddler's moll Moth in the Batman two-parter ”The Ring of Wax”/ “Give 'Em the Axe”, episodes S1E23 and S1E24, respectively.
Also on Lost In Space in The Promised Planet. As a space Hippie
I think this was the one time that Green Hornet reached a certain campiness like Batman, seeing those..." aliens" ..in those ridiculous outfits zap Kato, I kept wondering in Batman was gonna show.
Green Hornet jumps the shark here...
wrong. a madman with an H-bomb is James Bond. It was what they were going for from the start. If it had gone to a second season you would've seen more episodes like this. There was only so many stories you could do about gangsters.
Bill Corman (1:20) was played by Joe di Reda who also portrayed one of the Joker's henchmen on the Batman episode the "Zodiac Crimes". Would guess William Dozier would use actors from Batman under contract with Greenwood Productions
Finally, some thoughtful, intelligent science fiction.
One absurd chapter, yet I am watching it,😂😂🤣
OMG..it's Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys...he finally got into outer space
Good one 😉
Champagne 🥂. Expensive tastes for an 👽 alien from outer space.
14:13. Pete Dixon took a day off from Walt Whitman High School and joined the Air Force!
Larry D. Mann's character of Dr. Eric Mabuse
is the closest thing to being a costumed villain
for the Green Hornet in this 2 part episode which
was also the last of the series.🤔🧐🦸🦸🦹🦹
I bet Vama gives great helmet.
Too pretty for that
No doubt.
21:31
Even the spacemen know who the green hornet is
Notice the change in Line Producer? I did. Notice the change of Line Producer for Season 3 of Star Trek and Season 2 of Space: 1999? I did. Shame on ABC.
This episode was to try and catch the camp crowd that was following Batman at the same time. The Green Hornet was originally shot as straight with no camp and gangsters and hit men getting killed. Sorry it was a little to violent for kids back in 66. ABC had no faith in the legs for this show and wanted more campy crap like in Batman. Bruce Lee was all business no camp. So if camp is what your looking for in this series look somewhere else.
Not really. there was no camp in this episode. This is James Bond not Batman. They were trying to do something a little different from the gangster stories. I thought they did a good job
@@gerrydooley951But there were aliens in this episode.
You'd think if the Green Hornet 2011 movie got a sequel an actual invasion from outer space would be the imminent threat...
Linda gaye Scott was an Riddler batman episodes,lady in the gold outfit
Excellent image and sound...
this was a good episode one of the best to me
Hello, can you please re-upload the quality to 480?.These last two episodes don't have the same thing.
Sorry, these last two episodes have some weird non-standart resolution, but you're right, I should check and search again, maybe this time I would be more lucky.
Green Hornet
Meets
Lost in Space
l've watched the whole series. And l've always noticed that Ms. Case is always being kidnapped.
Naturally. The villains always kidnap the beautiful girl so that the hero(es) will have to go to her rescue.
It's pretty funny how britt is more taller than the alien leader
"The Green Hornet" was canceled for the next season at the last minute.
This silly episode with space aliens probably sealed its fate. Most of the episodes were played seriously compared to "Batman". William Dozier was producer and narrator for "Batman" and "The Green Hornet".
Adults and kids could enjoy "Batman" -- adults for laughs and kids for the action. "The Green Hornet" did not attract many adults, and since the show aired on Friday night, it had little chance to attract what small adult audience who might watch.
Van Williams said the show would have greatly improved if it were expanded to an hour.
+Tony Williams Word also was that Dozier felt he had gone too far in the opposite direction. He was looking to strike some sort of balance between the silly camp and the straight seriousness of his respective entries. The Dick Tracy pilot was his proposed solution. Unfortunately, he made three significant misfires: he didn't use a highly established villain (considering the huge rogues' gallery Tracy dealt with); it took far too long to introduce the main character; and the description of the coming episode, which showed only Tracy's likeness in a Dragnet-like shot, *followed* the outro (it's on Dailymotion).
Still, that pilot fared far far better than his proposal for Wonder Woman (only a screen test).
Really, it looks like a good tv show
It a great green honet episodes, probably my favorite one
Great green honet episodes, outer space invaders
@hambone31000 you got it
Green Hornet: Episode 24.
Season 1. Episode 24. "Invasion from Outer Space". (Part 1).
Wednesday, February 22 - 2023.
"A person can be smart. People are panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
Agent K
So that's Dr. Mabuse!
Or Dr abuse?
Lost in space meets The Green Hornet.
Batman had a flying saucer episode where the Joker had one,
Now the Green Hornet is dealing with one as well.
I could swear there was,a two part episode between batman and this show which shared each episode on each others shows. Anyone else think the same
Yep. From a fandom site "Green Hornet and Kato first made a cameo appearance in "The Spell of Tut", appearing in the window of a building that Batman and Robin are scaling. Batman and Green Hornet appear to know each other, and introduce their sidekicks to one another.
Later in the season, they appear in the (Batman) two-parter "A Piece of the Action" and "Batman's Satisfaction" in a team-up and square-off." "In an in-joke cameo on Batman, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson watch their favorite television show, The Green Hornet, while on The Green Hornet Britt Reid and Kato watch their favorite show, Batman." I don't think Batman and Robin had a guest appearance on the Green Hornet show though.
Kato has the worst disguise to his dual identity... his name is the same, his KungFu is the same and he carries that Hornet dart even in his butlet guise...
even a moderately competent detective can deduce and expose Kato and connect Reid to the Green Hornet...
8:36 that's so cool... a punch card operated phone to instantly speed dial whoever you want to call... a 60s solution and precursor to the speed dial...
Again a part where his sidekick show weakness
It's Cosmo Smallpiece in a Bacofoil suit!!!!!
This is, without a doubt, the absolute worst episode of the season and series. God-awful. It's nearly 50 years later, but it's a damn shame this series never got a second season. I would have loved for Adam West and Burt Ward to cross over onto their show and do a serious take of their characters on the Hornet's show.
ADayForeverGreen agreed. that would have been awesome!
It's a madman with an H-bomb, that's James Bond. Sorry you didn't get it
I'm sure this episode had nothing to do with it being cancelled. While you're watching episode 1, the studio was already thinking about the future of the series.
Apparently 1 in 4 aliens is obese. Is this how McDonald's was able to sell billions and billions of hamburgers?
And make billions of dollars
Bloody aliens. They are everywhere!
23:22 It's Space Angel... after too many burgers. :)
You know they're aliens because they wear gold and silver clothes, look oddly human and speak perfect English with an American accent.
And "Silver & Gold" is what Larry Mann is best known for! (Hint: Think of Christmas specials...)
Yes because everyone knows that an aliens favorite color is grey
The first drone i ever saw was the hornet drone.
I actually like the invasion from outer space episodes
Sure they were new to what we were used to but it still made a great story
Miss CASE.....in boots...., Classy woman...not a damsel !
5:30 doesn't know the name of our planet, yet speaks English perfectly.
It's a shame they weren't given an opportunity to take this show in a more fun Batman-like direction.
All seriousness where can i buy the outfits they're using for the aliens
this looks like a job for... not the green hornet
These last two episodes of this series are pretty awful to say the least. The only thing good about it is Miss Case's dark-green go-go boots. 👢👢👢👢👢 💚💚💚💚💚 😁😁😁😁😁
That looks like Paul sorvy now Mira sorbino's father! But everybody knows who Paul sorbino is!
few episodes have such gaping holes as this one. britt needed to ask the “leader” three things:
1. how do you know our language?
2. how do you know our units for time and distance?
3. how did you know where i live, and my position with the paper?
had that been done, it would’ve been unlikely that a plausible explanation would’ve been forthcoming.
also, mr. scanlon usually isn’t this gullible. here, he never bothers to check if anything of any import would be on those roads. again, that would’ve undone the entire operation.
i m o, this is probably the worst episode, and two parts make it that much more difficult to watch.
Not Supposed to be SERIOUS.....seriously.......ha.....
......A Kids Show....
.
.🤠
@@shawnthatcher3747 Who cares? Relax, watch the show, have fun, ENJOY YOURSELF!!!
I actually like this better than independence day, and wende wagner is a lot better looking than Vivica a fox.
THE GREEN HORNET, A TRIPPY 60'S SHOW WITH BRUCE LEE
To kingdom come
Miss Case can run.
Back when crashed was pronounced “crayshed”
WENDE WAGNER WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN! 😄😀😃😁😂🤣🥰😍💋❣
Horrible editing. When Bruce Lee looks back at Vama the two other men are behind her. Next shot, they're gone.
Jumping the shark
It's a shame but I think this episode was the worst of all tv show series, it's not very credible and boring...
my iPhone has more technology than these aliens
Jessica Milano Ah but can it use stun ray lighting lol
Its your american govt spying on you not aliens
This episode is stupid dude tbh. From a crime show to a fantasy of space villians lol
It was not an aliens episode anymore than a person wearing a sheet is a ghost. It was the end of the world stuff which is refreshing from the episodes involving insurance fraud.
It was the biggest flaw in the show. Kato beating up middle age old men or young guys with no fighting skills.
The writers were on Prozac l s d or had Trump fever to write such crap
Green hornet might have ran for a couple of years it had a story behind it