The Green Hornet — 1945
50 episodes broadcast in 1945.
January 30, 1945
Cold Storage
February 15, 1945
A Load of Cigarettes
March 1, 1945
Pacific Service
March 8, 1945
Intrigue in Washington
A witness is murdered before he can testify against two racketeers (the broadcast was pre-empted the next week for President Roosevelt's death).
A racketeer secretly snaps an infrared photo of Britt Reid unmasked, nearly giving away the Hornet.
May 3, 1945
San Francisco Adventure
A scheme peddling overpriced books to veterans' families draws the Hornet's fire -- the gang even steals the Sentinel's newsprint.
May 24, 1945
Bottled in Bond
Saboteurs striking at munitions shipments and troop trains draw the Hornet into the chase.
June 14, 1945
Not So Smart
The city's slickest con man sets out to pin a murder on the Green Hornet.
A scandal-sheet publisher hides behind a detective's guise while blackmailing -- and killing.
June 28, 1945
The Hornet Keeps a Date
Police try to snare the Hornet using a woman as bait while he chases a black-market gang.
Britt Reid discovers the newly elected district attorney owes his office to crooks.
The Hornet suspects a jewel smuggler who is shot dead before he can be caught.
A councilman in league with mobsters over a highway deal is framed after his opponent is gunned down.
A numbers ring, exposed after a pool-hall killing, abducts Britt Reid to get even.
Oliver Perry, still convinced Britt is the Hornet, asks his help recovering a stolen jewel.
August 9, 1945
Frame-Up That Backfired
The Hornet is framed for a truck hijacking and a jewelry-store robbery.
Britt and Kato retrieve a briefcase of documents vital to a South American nation while Oliver Perry keeps hunting the Hornet's identity.
A gangster learns the son he thought lost in the war is alive and decorated, and needs the Hornet's help to leave the mob.
The widely disliked Mrs. Killbourne is murdered, leaving no shortage of suspects.
A writer exposing Nazis receives the "black feather of death" from a ring of underground agents.
September 27, 1945
God-of-Luck
Two Sentinel reporters lean on a tax evader as the secret of a stuffed panda comes to light.
An armored-car robbery -- and a clever crook who has learned Britt Reid's secret -- both fall to the Hornet.
The murder of Dr. Spencer exposes his own sideline dealing dope.
The Hornet unmasks a racket in dangerous cosmetics.
Days before an election, a radio commentator turns up dead.
Framed for murder, the Hornet turns the tables and frames the real culprit.
A rash of fires convinces police an arsonist is loose, and the Hornet joins the hunt.
A shoddy new highway puts the road inspector under suspicion of graft.
The Hornet moves against "Dynamite" Fletcher, whose crew shakes down the city's fruit sellers.
An anonymous voice promises a district-attorney candidate death if he takes office -- and makes good on it.
Soon after complaining about a predatory "Instant Loan Company," a borrower is found shot dead.
A crooked loan company silences a complaining borrower, shot dead soon after (a rebroadcast of the same case).
An inventor's anti-atomic-bomb device vanishes, and the Hornet gives chase.
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