The Lone Ranger
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2026 4:30 pm
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.
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.