What happens
Michael Axford, a reporter for the Daily Sentinel, is hired by a film company looking for an unknown lead for a picture about the life of the gangster Smoothie Gorman, who escaped prison two months earlier. Britt Reid, the publisher, becomes suspicious of the new actor Douglas Gray and asks Cato to look into the matter. Smoothie Gorman's criminal gang plans a bank robbery built around a movie scene, and the Green Hornet becomes involved in the plot. The Green Hornet Strikes Again, original air date March 29, 1945, on The Green Hornet series. Britt Reid and Cato are the leading figures, and the episode follows the reporter's new career in Hollywood.
The offices of the Daily Sentinel newspaper and the Ajax motion picture company in a city, with scenes at a casting call, a hotel, a bank on Water Street and an old warehouse on the River Road.
Characters: Michael Axford, Britt Reid, Cato, Lenore Case, Smoothie Gorman, Douglas Gray, Dave, Joe
Listen for: Listen for Michael Axford's excited, comic account of his sudden casting, and for Britt Reid noticing the scar and the parallels between the actor and the escaped killer.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.