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Oddzball
03-31-2009, 05:19 AM
1) http://www.otr.net/?p=ghrt for some of the episodes

2) Factlets gleaned from listening to the shows.

a) There is an Urban Myth that Kato was a Japanese 'valetttt' (how it's pronounced on the show) up until Pearl Harbor when he suddenly became Filipino.

Not true. While he had been refered to being Japanese in the Mid 30s, the description disapeared, replaced with 'faithful valLET'. Almost six months prior to the attack however, the Hornet refers to Kato being Filipino, in the episode "Walkout for Profit".

b) Many radio shows of that era did their best to keep the cities where the story was set generic and unnamed. This left wriggle room for facts and defenses should the 'crooked mayor' of an episode be identified by a real life mayor.

The Alan Ladd series "Box 13" was notorious about refering to "This City" when giving out the mail address that people from all over the world were supposedly sending problems to Dan Holliday, for instance. :D

The Hornet people mostly did a good job this way. The city was clearly midwestern but not Detroit, despite originating from WXYZ in Detroit. Many mentions of the river, no mention about any Great Lakes.

But in the episode "Ballots and Bluff", the news hawker yelling headlines of the just finished adventure specifically says the saboteurs were caught in the Mississipi river.

So Speculation time people: Which City on the Mighty Miss was the home city of the Green Hornet?

Kent Allard
03-31-2009, 12:17 PM
The first cities along the Mississippi R. that come to mind are St. Louis - MO, Minneapolis - MN, and St. Paul - MN -- they're probably the largest Mid-Western cities.

BATS N' HORNETS
09-27-2009, 10:17 AM
In my mind, i've always based the Hornet's world in Detroit, because of WXYZ.

In an interview with G.W. Trendle, sometime after the 60's show took off, he said that even though he would rather a city be nameless, he first conceptualized the Hornet as being in Detroit, Michigan