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The Green Hornet

Van Williams as the Green Hornet and Bruce Lee as Kato in The Green Hornet TV SeriesThe Green Hornet is a fictional crime fighter which is originally created by Fran Striker for an American radio program in the 1930s, the character appeared in other media including it's television appearance in the 1960s. Inspired by the success of the Batman series, ABC brought The Green Hornet to television in 1966-67, an adaptation which introduced martial arts master Bruce Lee to American audiences and starred Van Williams as the Green Hornet.

Green Hornet is Britt (or "Brit") Reid, a newspaper publisher by day who by night goes out in his masked "Green Hornet" identity to fight crime as a vigilante. While the police and public believe the Hornet to be a ruthless criminal, the District Attorney knows Reid's secret identity, and welcomes his assistance in fighting racketeers and criminals. Also assisting Reid in his crusade are his secretary, Lenore Case, and his faithful valet, Kato (played by none other than the best in the business Bruce Lee), who is a Kung Fu expert and who drives the sleek "Black Beauty", the Hornet's well armed car. The Black Beauty could fire explosive charges from tubes at its bumpers, which were said to be rockets with explosive warheads, had a concealed-when-not-in-use, drop-down knock-out gas nozzle in the center of the front grille, and could launch a small flying video/audio surveillance device through the trunk lid. One relatively minor aspect of the character which tends to be given limited exposure in the actual productions is his blood relationship to The Lone Ranger, another character created by Striker. The Western property was sold to another company in the 1950s, a legal complication that resulted in the identity of the Masked Rider of the Plains being obscured when it has been dealt with at all in Green Hornet depictions.

Van Williams and Bruce Lee in The Green Hornet TV SeriesThe first episode of the series entitled, "The Silent Gun", aired at 730pm on Friday 9th September 1966 and was followed by the fantasy/time travel series "Time Tunnel". A few weeks later, on 28th September 1966, both the Green Hornet and Kato made guest appearances on the "Batman" episode "The Spell of Tut" in what was the first of two crossover plots in three episodes (the others being "A Piece of the Action" -1st March 1967 and "Batman's Satisfaction" -2nd March 1967). The music of "Flight of the Bumblebee" was so strongly identified with The Green Hornet that it was retained as the theme, orchestrated by Billy May (who also composed the new background scores) and conducted by Lionel Newman, with trumpet solo by Al Hirt.

Prison Break

Wentworth Miller as Michael Scofield and Dominic Purcell as Lincoln Burrows in Prison BreakPrison Break is an American serial drama television series which the story revolves around a man who was sentenced to death for the crime he did not commit and his brother's elaborate plan to help him escape his death sentence. Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) is accused of murder of Terrence Steadman, who is the brother of the Vice President of the United States. Strong evidence charges him of first degree murder and sentenced him to death. He was sent to the Fox River State Penitentiary to await his execution. Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), his brother, deliberately sent himself to prison in order to help him to escape. After installing himself at Fox River, time works against Michael as he must overcome various obstacles and make the right connections among the inmates and prison staff to be successful in breaking out his brother. The most amazing tactics that Scofield did is hiding some messages and plan in his body tattoo. The tattoo consist of jail house blueprint and some details for escape. The brothers are aided by their lifelong friend Veronica Donovan, who begins to investigate the conspiracy that put Lincoln in jail. However, they are hindered by covert agents, who belong to an organization known as The Company.

In the season two of the series the prisoner from Fox River State Penitentiary escaped including Scofield and Lincoln. New characters are introduced including federal agent Alexander Mahone, who is assigned to track down and capture the eight escapees. The fugitives journey to locations across America with the authorities close behind them as they each pursue their individual goals. The Company continues their plan to locate and eliminate Lincoln Burrows and others who get in their way. As the season progress many conflict emerge regarding the case of the fugitive, until the President step down to protect herself and the nation from the thing she did. It is because Scofield made an agreement to the President that in exchange of their freedom which is need to be done in the President SONA is the tape revealing the President adultery. However the President made her decision and the only choice that the brothers can do is to disappear forever. The Next step is to go to Panama where it is planed before by Scofield. The plot continue where most of the main characters have ended up in Panama.

In season three the plot continue from the second season finale, it is much different in tone from the previous seasons. Lincoln is exonerated from his alleged crimes and Michael is imprisoned at Sona Federal Prison facing a homicide charge. In these season some of our characters has their redeeming moments and Michael soon discovers that he was purposely placed in Sona to engineer another daring and seemingly impossible prison break. This is to free Whistler, a mysterious inmate hiding within the prison’s sewer system. Lincoln must work outside the prison walls to help the plan of escape, as well as rescue his kidnapped son, LJ, and Michael’s true love, Sara Tancredi.

Numb3rs

Numb3rs or Numbers TV SeriesNumb3rs ( also capitalized as NUMB3RS and pronounced as Numbers) is the story of FBI Special Agent Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz), who help Don solve crimes for the FBI. The show focuses on the relationships between Don, his brother Charlie and their father Alan (Judd Hirsch), and the brothers efforts to fight crimes. Usually the episodes begins with the crime and the subsequent FBI investigation lead by Don and by the help of Charlie's mathematical formulation about the given data provides some way crucial to solving crime. As a seasoned investigator, Don deals in hard facts and evidence, whereas Charlie, a math professor at a California university, functions in a world of mathematical probability and equations. Now, despite their disparate approaches to life, Don and Charlie are able to combine their areas of expertise and solve some killer cases. Charlie has his friend Larry Fleinhardt (Peter MacNicol) who help him in formulation of some logic and one of the doctoral student Amita Ramanujan (Navi Rawat), who also help him.

In the first episode of Season 1, FBI Special Agent Don Eppes got a case regarding the serial rapist-turned-killer. His brother Charlie voluntarily help him and produced a mathematical equation to identify the killer's point of origin by working back from the crime scene locations. Charlie compared the theory in a sprinkle drops of water, main plot line revolves around determining from a set of points (locations of murders by a serial killer) the home base of the killer. Much rambling about sprinklers and how from the location of the drops one can reconstruct the location of a rotating sprinkler. That is a brilliant idea of Charlie, unfortunately the first theory that he gave is suddenly missed out because he taught that the killer has only one base. So Don and Charlie talked together and again discuss the matter. Finally Charlie figure out that there is a great probability that there is a two based so he make another theory and produced a two hot zone pointing the rapist location. With Charlie brilliant idea FBI save the last victim and put the rapist in jail.