There was no "original concept"! Bob Kane came up with the name "Bat-Man" and Bill Finger fleshed it out. They were grasping around for something that would catch on, whatever that might be. If he had fought "The Syndicate" every month, "Batman" wouldn't have lasted a year.
Funny you should say that because The Green Hornet was one of the great radio successes with that specific format. Moreover, Batman had out of the ordinary villains, but none of the best were as silly or over the top as that which hurt the Dozier series.
Man they did some stupid titles!
...something repeatedly said of
Batman's titles since its ABC years.
Notice by the final episode, as a last ditch effort, GH did a two-parter with tin-foil covered "space aliens".
The "alien" business was merely a ploy to cover Dr, Mabuse's mission to obtain an H-bomb warhead (to its credit, a plot more in line with the espionage genre). Further, the story was no "last ditch effort" as it is believed the producers already knew the series was not going to continue by the time
"Invasion from Outer Space" went before the cameras. Dozier was wise in not tying to copy
Batman, as the series were never meant to be the same, and as we all witnessed with
Batman, the more the series upped the ridiculous antics of villains (so silly that by comparison, even Archie comics would seem serious), the more the series spiraled toward a shameful end.
And it was a lot more fun than a lot of what had already aired! A few real-world villains might have helped "Batman", but a few colorful once might've saved the Hornet.
No, it would not. Avoiding anything even hinting at Archer, Black Widow, Puzzler, Tut, the season two versions of Mr. Freeze and 99% of season three's made for TV villains was a blessing. If those kind of villains did not help Batman, it would not do a thing for TGH.