The Green Hornet
Crime-fighter serial follows newspaper publisher Britt Reid posing as an outlaw while Kato helps expose rackets and crooks.
The Green Hornet is a superhero created in 1936 by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, with input from radio director James Jewell.
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The Green Hornet. Radio program.
Original schedule
- 19385:30 PM ETMutual Broadcasting System · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19385:30 PM ETMutual Broadcasting System · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19398:00 PM ETNBC Blue Network · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19398:00 PM ETNBC Blue Network · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19408:30 PM ETMutual Broadcasting System · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19408:30 PM ETMutual Broadcasting System · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19427:30 PM ETNBC Blue Network · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19434:30 PM ETBlue Network / ABC · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19485:00 PM ETABC · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19485:00 PM ETABC · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19505:30 PM ETABC · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19525:00 PM ETABC / Orange Crush · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19525:00 PM ETABC / Orange Crush · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
B
Bob Hite
Announcer
CCharles Woods
Announcer
FFielden Farrington
Announcer
FFred Foy
Announcer
H
Harold 'Hal' Neal
Announcer
Mike Wallace
Announcer
BBeryl Vaughn
Cast
BBill Saunders
Cast
CChuck Webster
Cast
EErnie Winstanley
Cast
HHarry Goldstein
Cast
JJack Manning
Cast
JJay Michael
Cast
LLois Kibbee
Cast
PPaul Hughes
Cast
P
CPhilip Guest Adams
Cast
Charles D. Livingstone
Director
J
James Jewell
Director
T
Ted Robertson
Director
A
A. Donovan Faust
The Green Hornet (1943)
Al Hodge
Britt Reid / The Green Hornet
B
DBill Hengsterbeck
Sound effects
Dewey Cole
Sound effects
DDonovan Faust
Britt Reid / The Green Hornet
Fran Striker
Creator
FFred Flowerday
Sound effects
F
GFred Fry
Sound effects
Gil Shea
Michael Asford
Jack McCarthy
Britt Reid / The Green Hornet
JJack Petruzzi
Ed Lowry
J
Jim Irwin
Michael Asford
J
JJimmy Fletcher
Sound effects
John Todd
Dan Reid
K
Ken Robertson
Sound effects
Lee Allman
Lenore Case
M
Michael 'Mickey' Tolan
Kato
R
RRaymond Hayashi
Kato
Raymond Toyo
Kato
R
RRobert 'Bob' Hall
The Green Hornet (1944-51)
Rollon Parker
Michael Axford
T
GTony Caminito
Sound effects
George W. Trendle
Producer
DDan Beattie
Writer
J
Jim Lawrence
Writer
L
LLee Randon
Writer
Leo Boulette
Writer
SSteve McCarthy
Writer
TTom Dougall
Writer
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