Episode #202 [NO TITLE LISTED] Broadcast Thursday, January 13, 1938
Copyright Registration D-2-#54638, script received at Registration Office Jan. 17, 1938.
Plot: Wilfred Chatterling, wealthy bachelor about town, is caught speeding and is given a ticket. Appearing before Judge Woodmancy, who is known for being strict, Chatterling gets 30 days behind bars. Since he wants to avoid being married to Muriel Pankow, the jail term provides a pleasant solution. When Britt Reid learns the stiff sentences are thwarted by Mark Pringle, an attorney who was once a gangster’s mouthpiece but never disbarred, he suspects the attorney, the judge and the bail bondsman of profiting from the victims. The Green Hornet attempts to set a trap, but Kato overhears the men planning to cross The Hornet, so Reid sets up a plot of his own to smash the racket.
Episode #203 [NO TITLE LISTED] Broadcast Tuesday, January 18, 1938
Copyright Registration D-2-#54687, script received at Registration Office Jan. 21, 1938.
Plot: The brokerage house of Stevens and Wade was in bad shape. Three months ago it was threatened by lawsuits on every side, and before the partners landed in jail for violating a dozen laws, Benjamin Wade was found dead in his study — an apparent suicide. Now, Hymie Hawks is hurt in an auto accident and in his dying words confesses to Ed Lowry, a reporter on the scene, how he murdered the prominent stock broker, faking evidence to suggest suicide. Hymie dies before he can reveal who hired him. Lowry writes a story for The Daily Sentinel, and Reid uses Lowry as bait to catch the killers. After gassing a fake cop, The Green Hornet learns the names of the guilty parties and arranges for evidence to fall into the hands of the police to convict Kirk Stevens.
Episode #204 [NO TITLE LISTED] Broadcast Thursday, January 20, 1938
Copyright Registration D-2-#55314, script received at Registration Office Feb. 18, 1938.
Plot: Jane Birch of the school board is accused of graft and resigns without making a statement to the press. The Daily Sentinel had learned she was receiving a cut from wholesalers from whom she ordered musical instruments, books and school supplies. Late at night, Kato and The Green Hornet set out to meet the school board’s Henry Altman, one of the individuals taking a cut from the pay of the teachers he promoted and arranged for Jane Birch to take the rap for him. The masked men tie and gag their victim; Kato keeps the man unconscious with injections for two days while Reid tracks down the missing Jane Birch, who tells all to police when she believes The Hornet killed Altman and she may be next.
Trivia, etc. Fran Striker reused this script, with slight revisions, about a crooked councilman and a school board member named Jane, in “Find the Woman,” broadcast March 2, 1948.
Episode #205 [NO TITLE LISTED] Broadcast Tuesday, January 25, 1938
Copyright Registration D-2-#55315, script received at Registration Office Feb. 18, 1938.
Plot: A bill is being introduced in the state legislature to regulate finance companies, making fraud more difficult. The finance companies, however, hire lobbyists to oppose the bill. When Reid learns how they are putting pressure on representatives from upstate communities to vote against the bill, he becomes The Green Hornet. Issuing wholesale threats, The Hornet hopes public concern will turn against the lobbying and sets off smoke bombs in the Grand Hotel in broad daylight to lure the legislators who are against the bill to leave the capitol long enough for the measure to pass.
Episode #207 [NO TITLE LISTED] Broadcast Tuesday, February 1, 1938
Copyright Registration D-2-#55316, script received at Registration Office Feb. 18, 1938.
Plot: Having walked in front of a speeding bus, Andrew Clark, is dying and confesses to reporter Ed Lowry that he took his own life because he was swindled and broke. Steered to real estate crooks through an ad in The Daily Sentinel, he was fleeced. Clark’s wife visits the newspaper office intending to shoot Britt Reid because of the advertisement, but Reid takes the gun away and hears her story. The Green Hornet sets out to smash Arnold Bixby by picking up Mert Holmlund, a suspected killer, outside police headquarters and driving to Bixby’s office, where he establishes a set-up that has the police following The Hornet’s trail. The scheme works and some of the money Bixby stole from the public is recovered.
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.
