Has anyone ever seen anything like the gun (or whatever the heck it is) that the Green Hornet carries? Does anyone remember the Green Hornet? Is anyone else tired of the presidential debates? (though Hillary and Barack gave it a good go tonight; all John Edwards could do was stand there and say, "don't forget me.")
Back to classic television. Newspaper publisher Brit Reed would don a green mask and dark fedora and trench coat, jump in the back of his cool dark sedan -- The Black Beauty -- driven by Bruce Lee, er . . . I mean Kato (yes, that Bruce Lee) . . . and fight bad guys. Though people thought Green Hornet was a criminal because he blackmailed criminals for a "piece of the action," that was his way in to set up criminals for a fall. Only his trusted secretary -- and the district attorney -- knew his true identity.
Green Hornet's weapon of choice for fighting crime was this collapsible, long-barreled (and I mean LONG) device that fired bullets, sleeping gas, laser beams, and some sort of anti-gravity rays that could push a gun out of a bad-guy's hand in a fraction of a second. Maybe I can find one on e-Bay.
Not to mention the Hornet was just plain cool. And of course, there was that jazzy, loungy spy music I'm hooked on of late. Take a look for yourself and see if you remember. Yeah, I know. An hour or so of escapism and now back to debates, politics and spreading common sense.
Did I mention The Black Beauty? As transportation goes, it was a far cooler ride than the Batmobile any day.
1 comment:
Great show. Campy, like Batman. Same kind of music too. Very slick for its day. Brit was cute. If you can't find the Hornet's weapon on e-Bay, try GunBroker.com. They seem to have everything. :)
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