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This promotional spot for ABC’s The Green Hornet is from the 1966-1967 season (the show only ran for that one season).
This promotional spot for ABC’s The Green Hornet is from the 1966-1967 season (the show only ran for that one season).
The Green Hornet itself got stung Friday nights against the first half hours of The Wild Wild West on CBS and Tarzan on NBC…
“The Green Hornet” was a good show. I think another reason, besides being in the wrong time slot, that it failed was that it was stupidly ‘introduced’ on “Batman”. The 2 shows were nothing alike. “Batman” fans expected it to be on that level while others just assumed it would be ‘camp’ since it was ‘associated’ with “Batman”. It was a VERY bad mistake to connect the 2 shows in that manner.
It became connected because 1) both “BATMAN” and “THE GREEN HORNET” were produced by William {“Desmond Doomsday”} Dozier, and- even though The Hornet and Kato were briefly seen in a September 1966 ‘BATMAN” episode, primarily to remind viewers THEY were on Friday nights- 2) when ratings for the “HORNET” slipped, ABC tried to promote it through that special two-part “BATMAN” crossover episode in March 1967 [the episode titles I need not mention here]. Never mind that “BATMAN” himself was starting to falter in the ratings- it helped neither series.
Can you explain the “Desmond Doomsday” nickname?
Any chance that this series can get released on DVD??