The Lone Ranger

[electra225]

I was tinkering with the Stereo Theater this morning and ran across a DVD of the Lone Ranger. At the end of the first episode where Tonto finds the Lone Ranger and saves his life, I saw the date. MCMLIX. MCML would be 1950. IX would be nine, so MCMLIX would be 1959. I thought the Lone Ranger was lots earlier than that, 1949 maybe. He sure was a pompous, self-righteous character.

Glenn Strange, the actor who played Sam, the bartender, on Gunsmoke was the bad guy named Cavendish on the first episode of the Lone Ranger.

[TC Chris]

The Lone Ranger started on the radio, in Detroit. I just verified:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Ranger

Chris Campbell

[Ken Doyle]

Episode 1 released September 15, 1949.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAFyGUZfs0I

The end credits on this print say MCMXLIX

[19&41]

ABC originally carried the series. Both The Lone Ranger and Crusade In Europe that premiered that year, are still seen regularly in different markets across the country.