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The series was filmed in both Utah and in California. The Lone Ranger was the first Western Hit on TV. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.
One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. Audiences rejected Hart in the role, and after 36 episodes Moore was back atop Silver. The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. He was being paid only $500 an episode for his hit show, and wanted a substantial raise. In 1952, B-film actor John Hart replaced Clayton Moore.
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The show had never intended to be broadcast as a serial despite the serial background of its star Clayton Moore. Gould, however, had been suffering from a misunderstanding. The New York Times writer accused everyone associated with the program of keeping children "emotionally hopped upped." As a result of his criticisms, the cliffhanger type endings were never used after the first two episodes. When the Lone Ranger appeared, The New York Times critic Jack Gould ripped the show, as "just another Western, and not a notably good one at that." Gould considered the first three episodes manipulative, mostly because of the cliffhanger endings of the first two episodes. Jack Wrather, however, was more concerned about the competition to his kid's show from the new adult westerns that had began to appear on TV. The Cisco Kid, starring Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo had been filmed in color since its first aired in 1950. Starting in 1956, the Wrather Company began filming the program in color. The Lone Ranger was also one of the earliest shows to film mostly outdoors. Glenn Strange played the villain Butch Cavandish in these episodes. The first three episodes told the the familiar story of how the Lone Ranger came to be, his connection to Tonto, and the origins of his prize horse Silver. The Lone Ranger was the biggest hit on the new ABC network in its early years. As a consequence, many of the earliest episodes show their radio origins with the use of a narrator who links the different scenes together.
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When The Lone Ranger was brought to TV in 1949, many of the radio plays were adapted to the younger medium. Ironically, Hopalong Cassidy was also a Mutual radio program. It quickly went nationwide and was the cornerstone of the old Mutual Radio network. Trendle created the Lone Ranger as a local radio program in 1933. (In 1947, Boyd had bought to the rights to his Hoppy films.) Fran Stiker and George W. Hopalong Cassidy actually debuted in 1948, when Boyd syndicated his films to NBC. Along with William Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy TV series, which was first telecast on NBC on June 24, 1949, it was among the earliest TV western series. With Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Glenn Strange, George J. Once the iconic Rossini theme tune starts and a runaway train steams towards the finish, it all comes together as absolutely thrilling, top-flight escapism.The Lone Ranger appeared on the ABC network on Septemin the first of a three part episode that told the history of the famous masked man of the West. Enter the Lone Ranger: Directed by George B. Verbinski employs classic western vistas like Monument Valley to create a stunning backdrop for brilliantly staged action, helping to distract from a bloated midsection and Helena Bonham Carter's redundant turn as a one-legged madam. Director Gore Verbinski engages in the same kind of myth-making that made the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise such a success, and he's aided enormously by Depp, who delivers yet another wonderfully quirky performance, and relative newcomer Armie Hammer who is perfectly cast as his clean-cut cowboy foil. The story mainly revolves around the pair's efforts to thwart a corrupt railway magnate (Tom Wilkinson) from rolling through Comanche territory. How did an idealistic Texas Ranger become the legendary masked man of mystery? The Lone Ranger's partner Tonto (Johnny Depp) relates the story to a wide-eyed kid at a Wild West sideshow in this visually resplendent adventure. Lone Ranger on DVD Decemstarring Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Tom Wilkinson, Ruth Wilson.