The Green Hornet (above) and Kato (below).

The Green Hornet was a United States radio program that ran 1936-1952, created by George W. Trendle, who also created The Lone Ranger. It was later made into a 1966-67 television program starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet and Bruce Lee as Kato. Cover of Green Hornet #14. ... Cover of Green Hornet #14. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1952 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger was an early, long-running radio and television show based on characters created by George W. Trendle of Detroit, Michigan and developed by writer Fran Stryker of Buffalo, New York. ... Van (Van Zandt) Williams is an American actor (born February 22, 1934, in Fort Worth, Texas) best known for his brief yet world famous television role as Britt Reid aka Green Hornet with the late Bruce Lee as his sidekick Kato, in the 1966-1967 ABC The Green Hornet television... Martial arts actor Bruce Lee. ... Kato is a fictional character from the Green Hornet radio program. ...

The series detailed the adventures of Britt Reid, debonair newspaper publisher by day, crime-fighting masked hero at night, along with his trusty sidekick, Kato. Kato was Filipino of Japanese ancestry. With the outbreak of World War II his Japanese heritage was down-played, leading to the common misperception that the character's nationality had been switched by the show's writers. (When the characters were used in a pair of movie serials Kato's nationality was inexplicably given as Korean.) Lee's popularity in his native Hong Kong was such that the show was marketed as "The Kato Show". Reid is said to be a descendant of The Lone Ranger. The character of Dan Reid, who appeared on the Lone Ranger program as the Masked Man's nephew was also featured on the Green Hornet as Britt's father. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... This article is about serials in fiction. ... The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger was an early, long-running radio and television show based on characters created by George W. Trendle of Detroit, Michigan and developed by writer Fran Stryker of Buffalo, New York. ...

The original introduction of the radio show proclaimed that the Green Hornet went after criminals that "even the G-Men (F.B.I. agents) couldn't reach". The shows were called by F.B.I. chief J. Edgar Hoover who prompted them to remove the line implying that some crime fighting was beyond the abilities of the F.B.I. For other uses of the initials FBI, see FBI (disambiguation). ... Hoover in 1961 John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from May 10, 1924, until his death in 1972, having been appointed to that position for life by President John Calvin Coolidge. ...

The Green Hornet was adapted into a pair of movie serials in the early 1940s. It is best known through the 1966-67 TV series adaptation, which introduced martial arts master Bruce Lee to American audiences and starred Van Williams as the Green Hornet. The television program was inspired by the success of the campy Batman series. Unlike Batman, the TV version of Green Hornet was played straight, but in spite of the considerable interest in Lee, it was cancelled after only one season. Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the first ballistic missile, the... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ... Batman was the title of an exceptionally popular TV series based on the comic-book character Batman that aired on ABC TV for 2 1/2 seasons from 12 January 1966 to 14 March 1968. ...

In the 1990s a comic book series attempted to reconcile the different versions of the character. The Britt of the radio series was the version of the Hornet who fought crime in the 1930s and 1940s before retiring. The television character was revealed to be the nephew of the original Britt Reid, who took up his uncle's mantle. In the comic a young descendant named Paul Reid takes on the role of the Hornet and is assisted by a new, female Kato. Events and trends Technology The World Wide Web was born at CERN Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft... Events and trends Technology Jet engine invented First atom was split with a particle accelerator Golden Age of radio begins in U.S. Disney adopts a three-color Technicolor process for cartoons First Kit Kat in UK The photocopier is invented by Carlson Air mail service across the Atlantic Science... Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the first ballistic missile, the...

As of the summer of 2004, Kevin Smith was writing a screenplay for a new rendition of The Green Hornet which is scheduled for release in 2005 or 2006. It is rumored that Jet Li will portray Kato, and Jake Gyllenhaal will play as the Green Hornet This page is about the American film maker; for the New Zealand actor see Kevin Smith (actor). ... Jet Li Jet Li (Traditional: 李連杰; Simplified: 李连杰; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Li Lien-chieh; Cantonese: Ley5 Lin4 Git6) (born April 26, 1963) is a martial artist and film actor. ... Jake Gyllenhaal Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal (pronounced Jill-en-hall) (born December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film actor. ...

The radio show's name was used as a codename for SIGSALY, secret encryption equipment used in World War II. A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. ... SIGSALY exhibit at the National Cryptologic Museum In cryptography, SIGSALY (also Green Hornet) was a telephone scrambler used in World War II for the highest-level Allied communications. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

One of the best-remembered elements of the TV series was the Green Hornet theme. Whereas the radio show used Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" as its theme song, the series used a jazzed-up variation played on trumpet by Al Hirt. Years later, this recording was featured during a key scene in the 2003 film, Kill Bill, which paid tribute to Kato by featuring dozens of swordfighters wearing Kato masks during the film's key fight sequence. Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Никола́й Андре́евич Ри́мский-Ко́рсаков), also Nikolai, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, (March 18, 1844 – June 21, 1908) was a Russian composer and teacher of classical music particularly noted for his fine orchestration, which may have been influenced by his synaesthesia. ... Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov is an orchestral interlude from his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan. ... Al Hirt (November 7, 1922 - April 27, 1999) was a popular trumpeter and bandleader. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kill Bill is the fourth feature film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. ...