The Green Hornet (Season 1)

The Green Hornet (1966) is an American action-crime series from ABC that you can watch online on iFILM, with Van Williams as masked vigilante Britt Reid and Bruce Lee as his partner Kato — the role that introduced Lee to American audiences.

Britt Reid runs the Daily Sentinel by day. After dark, he and Kato operate outside the law, targeting organized crime in a way that leaves the police uncertain whether to arrest them or thank them. Their edge: speed, a gadget-loaded car called the Black Beauty, and Kato himself. Lee's martial arts moves were so fast the cameras couldn't track them at normal speed — editors slowed down the footage to make the fights readable on screen.

The series ran one season alongside Batman on the same network, conceived as the harder-edged counterpart. Seven years before Enter the Dragon, this is the earliest long-form record of Bruce Lee working at full force. Watch The Green Hornet online on iFILM.