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''The Green Hornet'' is an American radio adventure series that debuted in 1936 and introduced the character of the Green Hornet, a masked vigilante. ==Production history== The series originated on January 31, 1936, on WXYZ, the same local Detroit station that originated its companion shows ''The Lone Ranger'' and ''Challenge of the Yukon''.〔Dunning, John. ''On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio'' (Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 297. ISBN 0-19-507678-8.〕 Beginning April 12, 1938, the station supplied the series to the Mutual Broadcasting System radio network, and then to NBC Blue and its successors, the Blue Network and ABC Network, from November 16, 1939, through September 8, 1950. It returned from September 10 to December 5, 1952.〔 It was sponsored by General Mills from January to August 1948, and by Orange Crush in its brief 1952 run.〔 Distinguished by its use of classical music for themes and for bridges between scenes, ''The Green Hornet'' was "one of radio's best-known and most distinctive juvenile adventure shows".〔 The series detailed the adventures of Britt Reid, debonair newspaper publisher by day, crime-fighting masked hero at night. In 1935, George W. Trendle, the WXYZ co-owner and managing partner who had spearheaded the development of ''The Lone Ranger'', sought to bring on air a similar series. With writer Fran Striker and director James Jewell, Trendle sought to create a series that would "show that a political system could be riddled with corruption and that one man could successfully combat this white-collar lawlessness."〔Dunning, p. 298.〕 Liking the acoustic possibilities of a bee sound, Trendle directed it be incorporated into the show. The team experimented with names, with Trendle liking ''The Hornet'', but that name had been used elsewhere and could have posed rights problems. Colors including blue and pink were considered before the creators settled on green.〔 The vigilante nature of her hero's operation quickly resulted in the Green Hornet being declared an outlaw himself, and Britt Reid played to it. The Green Hornet became thought of as one of his city's biggest criminals, allowing him to walk into suspected racketeers' offices and ply them for information, or even demand a cut of their profits. In doing so, the Green Hornet usually provoked them to attack him to remove this competitor, giving him license to defeat and leave them for the police without raising suspicion as to his true motives. He would be accompanied by his similarly masked chauffeur/bodyguard/enforcer, who was also Reid's valet, Kato, initially described as Japanese, and by 1939 as Filipino of Japanese descent.〔 Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, references to a Japanese heritage were dropped.〔Nachman, Gerald. ''Raised on Radio'' (Pantheon Books : New York, 1998), p. 186. ISBN 0-375-40287-X.〕 Specifically, in and up to 1939, in the series' opening narration, Kato was called Britt Reid's "Japanese valet" and from 1940 to '45 he was Reid's "faithful valet." However, by at least the June 1941 episode "Walkout for Profit", about 14 minutes into the episode, Reid specifically noted Kato having a Philippine origin and thus he became Reid's "Filipino valet" as of that point.〔radio episode "Walkout for Profit", ''The Green Hornet Collection'', Volume 2, Tape 1, Side B, Wireless, 1995 (original airdate: June 21, 1941, Blue Network).〕 When the characters were used in the first of a pair of movie serials, the producers had Kato's nationality given as Korean.〔Grams, Martin and Salomonson, Terry. ''The Green Hornet: A History of Radio, Motion Pictures, Comics, and Television'' (OHR Publishing, LLC, 2010), p. 372. ISBN 978-0-9825311-0-5.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Green Hornet (radio series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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