The Green Hornet was a popular American radio Juvenile Detective Series which ran for more than a decade.It's first broadcase was January 31st 1936 and it ended on December 5th 1952.

Distinguished by its use of classical music for themes and for bridges between scenes, not least "Flight of the Bumblebee," composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, for its title theme, The Green Hornet was "one of radio's best-known and most distinctive juvenile adventure shows."[2] The series detailed the adventures of Britt Reid, debonair newspaper publisher by day, crime-fighting masked hero at night.