Episode #181 [NO TITLE LISTED] Broadcast Tuesday, November 2, 1937
Copyright Registration D-2-#53101, script received at Registration Office Nov. 10, 1937.
Plot: Jack Preston, a junior member of his father’s investment firm, runs up a $5,000 debt in Gangloff’s Plaza Club, an underworld gambling joint. In order to pay off the liability he prefers his father not know about, young Preston is forced into making investments for Gangloff, using someone else’s collateral against his account. Mike Axford and The Daily Sentinel staff have been investigating Gangloff’s illegal and rigged roulette wheels and slot machines, but his indebted victims don’t care to talk. When Reid meets up with young Preston and learns he went into debt, The Green Hornet goes to steal the I.O.U.s that would incriminate the guilty parties — and get back Jack’s I.O.U.
Episode #182 [NO TITLE LISTED] Broadcast Thursday, November 4, 1937
Copyright Registration D-2-#53102, script received at Registration Office Nov. 10, 1937.
Plot: Police Commissioner Langdon is frustrated that an organization is forcing bums to pay a percentage for rights to panhandle in specific territories. The organization belongs to Ogden Jenks, whose goal is to have Langdon out of office so a new commissioner, one of Ogden’s type, will overlook larger rackets. When Britt Reid learns about a private entrance to Jenks’ office suite, he becomes The Green Hornet and overhears some of Jenks’ conferences. When Jenks tries to murder the commissioner in his secret office, having learned the newspapers won’t run a story against Langdon, The Hornet arranges for reporters and police to find the secret entrance to the private office.
Episode #183 [NO TITLE LISTED] Broadcast Tuesday, November 9, 1937
Copyright Registration D-2-#53321, script received at Registration Office Nov. 19, 1937.
Plot: John Baldwin, an insurance racketeer, employs Jim Jaundell, former boss of a hi-jacking ring. Jaundell supposedly lives a respectable life, and try as they might, police can find nothing to criticize his conduct. Meanwhile, accidents involving trucks of Five State Corp. continue, but there’s no evidence leading to Jaundell. But Jaundell makes a mistake in attempting a shakedown of Baldwin by committing a murder, and The Green Hornet and Kato set out to stir things up, suggesting a double-cross between the crooks and exposing Baldwin’s insurance racket and Jaundell’s gang-land approach to murder.
Episode #184 [NO TITLE LISTED] Broadcast Thursday, November 11, 1937
Copyright Registration D-2-#53322, script received at Registration Office Nov. 19, 1937.
Plot: Ormand Weeks operates Ancestors Inc., which charges a fee to prepare a genealogical table for his customers. Weeks profits by “unearthing” material that his high-priced clients do not want public, offering to withhold the information for a price. For those desperate to prove they are legal heirs of a deceased millionaire, he charges a hefty sum for the fake documents. The Green Hornet tries muscling into the racket and when Weeks attempts to trick the masked man into capture by the police, The Green Hornet seeks vengeance by taking letters Weeks wrote that establish his guilt and mailing them. Being merciful, the masked man orders Weeks to get out of town and go honest — or else.
Episode #185 [NO TITLE LISTED] Broadcast Tuesday, November 16, 1937
Copyright Registration D-2-#53455, script received at Registration Office Nov. 26, 1937.
Plot: The Arnold and Gordon Corp. handles stock sales for Dr. Adrian, who developed an automobile headlight made with polarized glass. Through misrepresentation, crooked stockbrokers cheat investors, and when Britt Reid learns of it from Adrian, he and Kato set out to make Arnold and Gordon pay back every cent they’ve taken, with interest. The Green Hornet tricks the stockbrokers into buying all the stock they can with their own money, and the next day, they learn of its worthless value. Reid, however, plays the stock accordingly and profits enough to make a substantial contribution to a worthy charity.
Episode #186 [NO TITLE LISTED] Broadcast Thursday, November 18, 1937
Copyright Registration D-2-#53456, script received at Registration Office Nov. 26, 1937.
Plot: Politician Max Miller is trying to profit from the state’s new flood control measure, even though the federal government is taking care of the project. Police Chief Higgens is against Miller’s attempts, so Miller goes public against Higgens. Meanwhile, Damon Pitcairn, head of a concrete construction business, who has profited from graft with previous state projects, gets involved because of what Miller has on Pitcairn. When Britt Reid learns of the ruse, by way of Mike Axford’s disappearance, he sets out as The Green Hornet to steal and extort in order to smash Max Miller’s game and save taxpayers money.
NOTES: These plot summaries were reprinted from The Green Hornet: A History of Radio, Motion Pictures, Comics and Television, by Terry Salomonson and Martin Grams, Jr.
