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The Lone Ranger (1949-57)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
Sal Crisanti, Rina Fox, R.H Callaghan, L.H. Allgood
references:
TV Guide /
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)
The Lone Ranger (season 1) (ABC) (1949-50)
Clayton Moore - 52 b&w Episodes
The Lone Ranger (season
2) (ABC) (1950-51) Clayton Moore - 52 b&w Episodes
The Lone Ranger (season
3) (ABC) (1951-52) Reruns
The Lone Ranger (season
4) (ABC) (1952-53) John Hart- 52 b&w Episodes
The Lone Ranger (season
5) (ABC) (1953-54) Reruns
The Lone Ranger (season
6) (ABC) (1954-55) Clayton Moore- 52 b&w Episodes
The Lone Ranger (season
7) (ABC) (1955-56) Reruns
The Lone Ranger (season
8) (ABC) (1956-57) Clayton Moore - 39 Color
Episodes
Jack Wrather Corporation
Apex Film Corporation (eps. 17-78) (1950-51) (Clayton Moore)
Jack Chertok Productions, Inc. (eps. 79-130)(1952-53)(John Hart)
C. M. Television Productions, Inc. (ep. 131-136)(1954)(Clayton Moore return)
Lone Ranger, Inc. (eps. 137-182)(1954-55)(Clayton Moore)
for
ABC (Thursdays 7.30pm EST)
Executive Producers: George W. Trendle
and Jack Wrather
Produced by Jack Chertock
/ Associate Producer,
Harry H. Poppe (b-w
eps)
PRODUCTION MANAGER: HUGH MCCOLLUM
Produced by
Sherman A. Harris (1956-57)(color eps)
Story Editor Bertram Millhauser
(1956-57)(color eps)
Created by George W. Trendle and
Fran Striker
US Western series 1949-57 221 episodes x 30 min
(182 bw + 39 color)
season 1 1949-50 (52 eps bw) Clayton Moore
season 2 1950-51 (26 eps bw) Clayton Moore
season 1951-52 (re-runs)
season 3 1952-53 (52 eps bw) John Hart
season 1953-54 (re-runs)
season 4 1954-55 (52 eps bw) Clayton Moore (returns)
season 1955-56 (re-runs)
season 5 1956-57 (39 eps color) Clayton Moore
Starring
Clayton Moore as John Reid, The Lone Ranger
(1949-1952) (eps 1-78) / (1954-1957) (eps 131-221)
(horse = Silver)
Jay Silverheels as Tonto (1949-1957)
(horse = Scout)
John Hart as The Lone Ranger (1952-1953) (eps 79-130)
Recurring Cast:
Tristram Coffin as Dan Reid, brother of The Lone Ranger (1949-50)
Chuck Courtney
as Dan Reid Jr., nephew of The Lone Ranger (1951-57)
(horse = Victor)
Stunts: (some stuntmen also appear in various roles)
John Day (stunts)
*
Sandy Sanders (stunts) *
Charles Horvath (stunts)
Wayne Burson (stunts) *
Allen Pinson (stunts) *
Paul Stader (stunts)
Bob Woodward (stunts) *
Carol Henry (stunts) *
Fred Graham (stunts)
Chuck Roberson (stunts)
* Alex Sharp(stunts) *
Al Wyatt (Stunts)
Premise:
The Lone Ranger was really a Texas Ranger, named John Reid, who was
the only survivor of an ambush by Butch Cavendish's Hole in the Wall
Gang. Nursed back to health by Tonto (coincidentally, the two had
been childhood friends), he vowed to help bring justice to the West,
and donned a masked (originally to fool the Cavendish Gang)
"A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a
harty hi-ho silver ......"
read by announcer Fred Foy.
*
Directors Include:
George B. Seitz Jr. *
George Archainbaud *
John H. Morse (aka
Hollingsworth Morse)
Paul Landres * WILLIAM J. THIELE ,
Earl Bellamy (color eps)
/ Oscar Rudolph
(color eps)
*
ASSISTANT DIRECTORS INCLUDE:
LESTER D. GUTHRIE, GENE ANDERSON,JR., LEONARD J. SHAPIRO
*
WRITERS INCLUDE:
ROBERT SCHAEFER AND ERIC FREIWALD (TEAM),
TOM SELLER, ORVILLE H. HAMPTON, JOE RICHARDSON, CURTIS KENYON,
CHARLES LARSON, GEORGE B. SEITZ,JR, LOUISE ROUSSEAU, POLLY JAMES,
WELLS ROOT, DORIS SCHROEDER, FRANK L.MOSS
*
FILM EDITORS INCLUDE:
FRANK CAPACCHIONE, BEN MARMON, EVERETT DODD
*
CINEMATOGRAPHERS INCLUDE:
MACK STENGLER, ROBERT PITTACK WILLIAM P. WHITLEY
*
MUSIC (EARLY EPISODES)
FRANZ LISZT(FROM "LES PRELUDES"),
,Theme music Rossini's "William Tell Overture"
RICHARD WAGNER(VARIOUS PIECES)
MUSIC(LATER EPISODES) AL FRIEDE
*
STORY EDITOR BERTRAM MILLHAUSER
*
FILMING LOCATIONS INCLUDED:
IVERSON RANCH AND WESTERN STREET,CORRIGANVILLE RANCH AND
WESTERN STREET, JACK INGRAM RANCH AND WESTERN STREET, KANAB,UTAH
Please visit:
Steve Jensen's <sj12969@cedarnet.org>
Tribute pages to Clayton Moore and John Hart:
https://members.tripod.com/~ClaytonMoore/
https://members.tripod.com/~JohnHart/
Republic Serial #9. The Lone Ranger (1938)
(15 chapters) Genre: Western.
Based on the radio series 'The Lone Ranger'.
Directed by William Witney and John English
Starring Billy Bletcher (voice)
Republic Serial #13. The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939)
(15 chapters) Genre: Western.
Based on the radio series 'The Lone Ranger'.
Directed by William Witney and John English
Starring Robert Livingston / Billy Bletcher (voice) &
Chief Thunder Cloud (as Tonto)
ctva Playlist -
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
(1939) (Chapters 1 to 5) - "serialsquadron"
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