{"id":28197,"date":"2021-09-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28197"},"modified":"2021-09-17T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T22:27:00","slug":"bruce-lees-best-non-kato-tv-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28197","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Lee&#8217;s Best Non-Kato TV Roles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z091921brucelee_nonkatoroles.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fine folks at Me-TV decided to turn the spotlight on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/metv.com\/lists\/5-forgotten-television-appearances-by-the-legendary-bruce-lee\">5 Forgotten Television Appearances by the Legendary Bruce Lee<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 After playing Kato on <em>The Green Hornet<\/em>, Bruce Lee made appearances on four other US television shows: <em>Ironside, Blondie, Here Come the Brides<\/em> and <em>Longstreet<\/em>.\u00a0 Me-TV also snuck in Lee&#8217;s appearance in the feature film <em>Marlowe<\/em> since it played on television in 1972 (released to theaters in 1969).\u00a0 Before you click over, here are my thoughts on each&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Ironside<\/em>:\u00a0 I used to watch this series with my grandparents.\u00a0 Lee plays a karate instructor who teaches Ironside&#8217;s female associate a few tricks.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to see the episode now to see if it holds up.\u00a0 I had just turned 9 when I saw the show originally.\u00a0 I remember it being just okay (it needed more Bruce Lee).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Blondie<\/em>:\u00a0 This is one Bruce Lee appearance I&#8217;ve never seen.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t watch <em>Blondie<\/em> and didn&#8217;t even remember the show (which looks pretty bad).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Here Come the Brides<\/em>:\u00a0 I used to watch <em>HCtB<\/em> regularly, but barely remember the Bruce Lee episode or much of the series.\u00a0 This is another show I&#8217;d like to check out to see how it holds up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Longstreet<\/em>:\u00a0 I loved the idea of Bruce Lee training a blind investigator self-defense.\u00a0 Lee appeared in four of the 24 episodes.\u00a0 I liked this show (with Lee in it) quite a lot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Marlowe<\/em>:\u00a0 Lee only has two scenes but they are the ones you will remember!\u00a0 In the first he threatens Marlowe (James Garner) and in the second they fight to the death (although the way Lee dies is pretty lame).<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fine folks at Me-TV decided to turn the spotlight on 5 Forgotten Television Appearances by the Legendary Bruce Lee.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28198,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28197\/revisions\/28198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}