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Green Hornet marathon on SyFy

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jools&jim

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I've been watching it off and on since I got home from work. Bruce Lee and some of the swingin' '60s chicks are the best things about it. The car and gadgets are pretty cool, too.

 

I remember my friends and I going nuts when the Green Hornet and Kato made a guest appearance on "Batman" -- this was in the early '70s when Batman was in syndication, and Bruce Lee was already a legend to us. But no local station carried "The Green Hornet", so we didn't even know it existed...

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TupennyConan

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I've been watching it off and on since I got home from work. Bruce Lee and some of the swingin' '60s chicks are the best things about it. The car and gadgets are pretty cool, too.

 

I remember my friends and I going nuts when the Green Hornet and Kato made a guest appearance on "Batman" -- this was in the early '70s when Batman was in syndication, and Bruce Lee was already a legend to us. But no local station carried "The Green Hornet", so we didn't even know it existed...

 

The only time I ever saw the GH & Kato was on Batman. I still haven't seen an episode of TGH. It just wasn't aired on the UHF stations of my youth. Damnit.

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Hard to believe this was a one season show.

 

Ditto. It's a pretty good show.

 

Having not watched Green Hornet 1960`s show in a decade I really was surprised at how it held up better then the Adam West Batman 1960`s show,it seemed much more serious than the Adam West Batman show and much less campy. In other words it aged better then the Batman Adam West show.

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Tempus Fugit

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I had not seen this show in many, many uears. I hope they show it more now.

 

Slightly campy, but not near as bad as Batman. Looks like it is from the same outfit, but has a much classier vibe.

 

Worth watching just for Bruce Lee and the (George Barris?) modified Chrysler.

 

I like how all of the driving is on the backlot set, and Bruce never actually seems to steer.

 

Holds up fairly well. Extremely watchable. Two thumbs up.

 

 

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Hard to believe this was a one season show.

 

Ditto. It's a pretty good show.

 

Having not watched Green Hornet 1960`s show in a decade I really was surprised at how it held up better then the Adam West Batman 1960`s show,it seemed much more serious than the Adam West Batman show and much less campy. In other words it aged better then the Batman Adam West show.

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+1. The show is more serious, and I appreciate that. The Adam West Batman is hard (for me) to watch now, since it's just so...campy. (shrug)

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jools&jim

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For me, the more serious "Green Hornet" show--which I did enjoy yesterday, btw--was harder to stomach as an adult than the self-consciously campy (and intentionally so) '60s "Batman" series, which I've seen many times since I was a kid.

 

A lighter touch sometimes goes a long way. And that series-ending two-part episode (the faux "alien invasion"--complete with central casting "heavies" in shiny silver suits--as a cover to steal an H-bomb) was pretty damn dated and terrible...Bruce Lee and the VERY vivacious Wende Wagner notwithstanding... :)

 

Still, I'd rather watch re-runs of almost ANY '60s TV show than most of the utter rubbish which passes for TV "entertainment" these days. So I applaud SyFy for their vintage marathons, and hope they keep airing them...!

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The marathon was pretty cool. I only saw a few shows when I was a kid and remember almost nothing. Hopefully they'll release the entire series on DVD soon to coincide with the movie release.

 

Acting was cheesy of course, but at least there was a lot of use of outdoor shots and environments compared to the Batman show's many use of sound stages.

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