Episode
The Green Hornet: May the Best Man Lose
Overview
Its election time again and District Attorney Scanlon is running although someone wants to permanently remove him from the ballot.
Details
- Series
- The Green Hornet
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1966-12-23
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
May the Best Man Lose is Episode 15 in Season 1 of The Green Hornet. It aired on 1966-12-23. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 14: Freeway to Death
Britt Reid orders Mike Axford to team up with the Green Hornet to uncover the ringleader in a insurance scam.
Mike reluctantly agrees, but later tries to expose the ringleader alone, leaving it up to the Green Hornet & Kato to save him before it is too late.
Episode 16: The Hornet and the Firefly
An arsonist wreaks havoc setting fire to buildings at the stroke of midnight. The Green Hornet and the District Attorney work behind the scenes to aid the Commissioner to put a stop to this HOT situation. Throughout the arsonist's reign, Reporter Mike is kidnapped.
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Episode 13: The Secret of the Sally Bell
""The Sally Bell"" a cargo ship with $2 million in narcotics en route to the U.S. from Hong Kong, is initially lost with her crew at sea, now mysteriously shows up at a salvage yard. The only survivor, Gus Wander, knows ""The Secret"" of her special cargo with only one big problem -- he's currently unconscious.
Episode 17: Seek, Stalk and Destroy
A tank crew who served together in Korea steal a tank to free their former captain from prison before he is executed for murder. It's up to The Green Hornet & Kato to stop them before they can accomplish their goal.
Episode 12: Deadline for Death
After a rash of wealthy homes are burglarized, Reporter Mike Axford becomes so suspicious he places himself at the next possible home to be targeted, only to find himself being arrested, behind bars, for suspicion of murder.
Episode 18: Corpse of the Year (1)
As a carbon copy of the Green Hornet's Black Beauty attacks a Daily Sentinel delivery truck and terminates it's driver right in front of Britt Reid -- and Reporter Mike has an explosive visit from a Green Hornet impostor, leads the real Hornet on a cat and mouse chase of his shadow car disrupting Sentinel deliveries.
Episode 11: The Hunters and the Hunted
Big game hunters are using mobsters as quarry but their next target may be their most dangerous game yet, the Green Hornet.
Episode 19: Corpse of the Year (2)
After another death, Simon Neal, publisher/owner of the Daily Express, by the phony Green Hornet, part 2 begins with Britt Reid bringing on-board Daily Express's previous employee, Dan Scully, to help investigate Simon's termination. After finding out from Sabrina Bradley, Managing Editor of the Daily Express, that a copy Black Beauty was produced for the Press Club's Masquerade Ball, the real Green Hornet sets a trap with her help.
Episode 10: The Preying Mantis
Organized crime's ""Protection"" Boss Duke Slate decides it's time to acquire the oriental businesses in town and uses Low Sing's gang to handle his influence. Low Sing, a martial arts professional, instructs his craft to his gang using the actions of a caged Preying Mantis, analogizing its intricate moves to proper Kung-Fu application. After a kidnapping, engineered by Low Sing, a challenge between Low Sing & Kato results in an interesting result.
Episode 20: Ace in the Hole
The Green Hornet uses Mike Axford in a plan to get mobsters Phil Trager & Steve Gant to take each other out.
But when Axford shows up when he isn't expected to, the plan may fail and cost him, the Green Hornet, and Kato their lives.
Episode 9: The Ray is for Killing
A charity art auction of fine paintings at Britt Reid's home is interrupted on live television by three masked, gun toting criminals. The police, nearby, manage to wound one of the thieves, but before they can arrest the other two, a laser ray is unleashed on their squad car with devastating results. The Green Hornet and Kato find themselves in quite a confrontation against this roving killing machine.
Episode 21: Bad Bet on a 459--Silent
Britt Reid must figure out how to get medical attention for a wound he received as the Green Hornet and stop two cops who are using silent alarm calls for their own profit.