An exciting dramatization of a Green Hornet broadcast that you’ve probably never heard and a visit from the man who played Kato in the radio series.
That man is Paul Carnegie. The Southeastern High School grad was hired to work in the WXYZ sound-effects department, considered one of the best in the business. That was “pretty heady stuff” for the teenager, who got paid $1 an hour and was responsible for sound effects on many well known shows including the legendary Lone Ranger. “Whenever some character was socked on the jaw, I’d smack the palm of my hand with this little pad of rubber,” he says. “It hurt like hell.” Galloping hoofbeats were created by pounding small toilet plungers into a box of dirt. A companion show of The Lone Ranger was The Green Hornet. The Hornet series began on radio station WXYZ on January 31st , 1936 and was supplied to the Mutual Broadcasting System beginning April 12th, 1938 and later to the Blue network and its successor the ABC Radio Network. Towards the end of the series run, Paul Carnegie began playing the part of Kato (assistant to the Green Hornet). Mr. Carnegie will join us this April at the REPS SHOWCASE to lead the way in bringing The Green Hornet back to the radio microphone. Courtesy of Radio Historian, Martin Grams, who has provided the original radio script for this exciting Green Hornet adventure of which there is no known recording, so unless you happened to have heard the original broadcast back in 1938, chances are this exciting adventure will be completely new to you.
The Green Hornet Returns!
