A Piece of the Action
“Look busy- and honest!"
Sigh. It's been a good solid run of stories for a while. I suppose we were due a dud. I'll admit I know very little about the Green Hornet and Kato beyond what I've just read on Wikipedia- standard 1930s pulp protagonists, it seems, and most pertinently appearing on a contemporary TV series on the same channel- but not even Bruce Lee can save this dross, not even getting any decent fight scenes. Roger C. Carmel is splendid as the villainous Colonel Gumm, but the character he plays is rubbish. And what's this silly plot about stamp collecting? This is literally the first Batman episode I've struggled to follow. poor storytelling, then, and very little to be amused by.
Even the cliffhanger is absurd and rubbish, with the Duo not even under any serious threat. Dire.
Batman’s Satisfaction
“It's sure good you brought that empty alphabet soup Bat-container!"
Things don't improve in the second episode: the best thing in this is the window cameo by Edward G. Robinson. Even the silly secret identity farce at the end, admittedly quite funny, isn't enough to amuse me after sitting through this aimless, plotless dross with its two "visiting heroes" acting with a touch of plywood and poor Roger C. Carmel not even getting "special guest villain status.
We even get an odd sequence where Aunt Harriet's hairdryer stops the Batcomputer working and Robin has to encourage Batman not to give up. This is truly awful.Can we not have any more rubbish cliffhangers ever again please?
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