The Green Hornet — 1940
80 episodes broadcast in 1940.
January 6, 1940
The Killer Takes Cover
January 11, 1940
The Samaritan Turns Swindler
January 13, 1940
Barter over the Dam
January 18, 1940
Cupid Aids a Crook
January 20, 1940
Profit from Premiums
January 24, 1940
The Trap Clicks Twice
January 25, 1940
Damage Makes a Graft
January 29, 1940
A Racketeer Reborn
January 31, 1940
Unbalanced Books
February 5, 1940
The Missing Racketeer
February 7, 1940
Victory and Defeat
A ring of phony insurance advisers charges for guidance available free -- and claims to know the Hornet's real identity.
February 26, 1940
The Directory Pays Dividends
February 28, 1940
The Trapped Witness
A gasoline racket unravels after a train wreck is falsely blamed on the Hornet.
A blackmailer fakes immigrants' citizenship tests so he can squeeze them later; the Hornet steps in.
The Hornet goes after a child-labor racket that puts youngsters to work peddling handkerchiefs on the street.
A check-kiting scheme in the tax office frames an innocent clerk until the Hornet intervenes.
March 27, 1940
Union for Profit
April 1, 1940
Racketeers Go to the Dogs
April 3, 1940
Death Strikes a Bargain
April 8, 1940
Pinball Pins a Murder
April 10, 1940
A Clean Sweep in Office
April 15, 1940
No Sale in Premiums
April 17, 1940
Bars for the Barrister
April 22, 1940
Appeal from Extortion
April 24, 1940
Laid Trips a Lawmaker
April 29, 1940
Graft Beyond the Grave
May 1, 1940
Measure for Measure
May 8, 1940
Cheating the Cheaters
May 13, 1940
Welfare Fares Too Well
A crooked politician's son resolves to confess and expose his father's associates in the Daily Sentinel.
May 29, 1940
He Also Serves
June 3, 1940
Paid Back with Interest
June 10, 1940
The Politician Takes a Walk
The Sentinel's finance editor spots a sales-tax fraud, and the Hornet moves to nail the man behind it.
The Hornet takes on a politician running a graft racket off the WPA.
An asylum head is milking graft from the state treasury until the Sentinel and the Hornet expose him.
June 26, 1940
A Cure for Cure-Alls
July 1, 1940
Trade in Tourists
July 3, 1940
Money Goes the Wrong Way
July 8, 1940
The House That Fear Built
July 15, 1940
The Numbers Add Up
July 22, 1940
Fixing the Fixer
July 24, 1940
The Ring Has Angles
July 29, 1940
Water Gets the Works
July 31, 1940
Money for the Mission
August 5, 1940
Concrete Evidence
August 7, 1940
Build a Crooked Road
August 12, 1940
The Politician Has a Past
August 14, 1940
The Spirit Is Willing
August 19, 1940
Death Takes Two for One
August 21, 1940
Add Up to Zero
August 26, 1940
Acid Makes the Test
September 2, 1940
Murder and Mystery
September 4, 1940
Playground for Politics
September 9, 1940
Fake Patent Racket
September 11, 1940
Innocence Accused
September 16, 1940
The Dead Man Tells His Tale
September 23, 1940
Cleaning the Cleaners
September 25, 1940
Crime Caps the Bottles
September 30, 1940
Beauty and the Beat
October 2, 1940
Death Parts Sealed Lips
A machine boss pays a racketeer to buy up votes, so the Hornet relieves him of the payoff cash.
Reporter Axford chases the scoop on a land deal quietly enriching crooked politicians.
December 28, 1940
Murder Will Out
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