On this date in 1949, the Lone Ranger TV show premiered. We didn't get a tv until several years later, but I remember many Saturday mornings watching the Lone Ranger and other such TV shows. I do remember sitting in front of the radio and listening to the show prior to the tv.

I am sure this is where my love of firearms started, especially handguns. Not to mention my belief in the concept of one honest man with a gun.

Late in life i discovered that the LR’s sidekick original name had been changed for the spanish speaking audience. “Tonto” means dumb in spanish. He has been “Toro” (bull) for most of my life.

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They named him Tonto due to the fact he was Indian (Native American). Now calling a Native “Tonto” is considered derogatory. When I was young, it was considered normal around here. (I’m not saying it’s right) There were places when I was young that were called “Tonto”, like the Tonto shopping center, etc. all have been renamed as far as I know. Same with the word “Squaw”. It’s now considered a derogatory term. Squaw Peak has been renamed Piestewa Peak, and as far as I know, all roadways and landmarks here in AZ have had “Squaw” replaced.

ETA, the Tonto National Forest hasn’t been renamed AFIK.

I remember listening to the Lone Ranger on radio. Now you can see the program on GRIT TV week days:

https://www.grittv.com/schedule

Did you ever get a Silver Bullet??

My dad always spoke fondly of listening to it on the radio and then watching the tv show. The tv intro always brings me back to his memory and makes me smile.

Thanks for the reminder.

I remember watching the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid and a few years later, Roy Rogers on Saturday mornings.

One of my favorites was Tales of the Texas Rangers.

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Cisco Kid

Every episode ended with, "Oh, Ceesco!" "Oh, Pancho, ho ho ho!" just before they rode into the sunset.

Have absolutely no clue why they were showed in Argentina, but i share memories of Cisco and RR as well.

Likely less known to you guys, “Zorro” with Guy Williams is sort of a national treasure down here.
Guy Williams moved to Argentina and eventually died and was buried in Buenos Aires. Think they broght him back to the US years later. The show is still on, mondays thru fridays.

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Have absolutely no clue why they were showed in Argentina, but i share memories of Cisco and RR as well.

Likely less known to you guys, “Zorro” with Guy Williams is sort of a national treasure down here.
Guy Williams moved to Argentina and eventually died and was buried in Buenos Aires. Think they broght him back to the US years later. The show is still on, mondays thru fridays.

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That’s an interesting bit of trivia about Mr. Williams. When I were a lad, sir, I had a official Zorro costume, consisting of the hat, mask, cape and sword that had a tip that would accept a piece of chalk, the better to make the mark of Zorro on anything that would hold still long enough to allow it. And that you wouldn’t get yelled at for. I remember marking up every piece of concrete with crudely done Zs and running around, the cape flapping. Ah, youth!

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I remember listening to the Lone Ranger on radio.

1949, 1950, every Tuesday evening.

I've always been a huge Lone Ranger fan. In addition to watching the reruns over and over again as a kid in the 60s and 70s, I read some of the Fran Striker LR books created in part from his radio scripts. GoodReads shows there were 18 books in all, but our local library only had a few of them even then.

Still enjoying seeing Lone Ranger from time to time even today, I wrote a LR fanfiction story as part of a writer's challenge a few years ago and ended up adding a few more stories later. It was fun being able to use some of the LR lore from so many sources from over the years to do that.

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Originally posted by 0-0:
Have absolutely no clue why they were showed in Argentina, but i share memories of Cisco and RR as well.

Likely less known to you guys, “Zorro” with Guy Williams is sort of a national treasure down here.
Guy Williams moved to Argentina and eventually died and was buried in Buenos Aires. Think they broght him back to the US years later. The show is still on, mondays thru fridays.

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That’s an interesting bit of trivia about Mr. Williams. When I were a lad, sir, I had a official Zorro costume, consisting of the hat, mask, cape and sword that had a tip that would accept a piece of chalk, the better to make the mark of Zorro on anything that would hold still long enough to allow it. And that you wouldn’t get yelled at for. I remember marking up every piece of concrete with crudely done Zs and running around, the cape flapping. Ah, youth!

So many good shows from my youth, it would be impossible to name a favorite, but Zorro ranks very high, and Guy Williams was perfect as the character. This was a Disney production if memory serves, and another Disney production that I loved was “The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca.” Didn’t remember who played the title role (or the full series title) without looking it up, but it was Robert Loggia, and he was great.

Loved the Lone Ranger. The only episode I recall with clarity is the origin story where the Rangers are ambushed by the Butch Cavendish Gang, (Glenn Strange as Cavendish, I looked it up), and Tonto nurses the man who would become the Lone Ranger back to health.

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Did you ever get a Silver Bullet??

I thought my memory was failing me, but no, here it is.

Did the Lone Ranger use silver bullets?
The best known of these was the Lone Ranger in all his incarnations: after solving the problem of the week, he would leave a silver bullet behind as his mark. Clayton Moore, who played the Ranger in the television series, was known to give away silver bullet props, made from aluminum, to fans in the 1950s.

Didn't TLR own a secret silver mine?

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I've always been a huge Lone Ranger fan. In addition to watching the reruns over and over again as a kid in the 60s and 70s, I read some of the Fran Striker LR books created in part from his radio scripts. GoodReads shows there were 18 books in all, but our local library only had a few of them even then.

Still enjoying seeing Lone Ranger from time to time even today, I wrote a LR fanfiction story as part of a writer's challenge a few years ago and ended up adding a few more stories later. It was fun being able to use some of the LR lore from so many sources from over the years to do that.

The Lone Ranger originated in 1933 on WXYZ radio in Detroit.

Earle Graser, one of several actors that portrayed The Lone Ranger was killed in an auto crash. From Wikipedia:

On April 8, 1941, Graser was killed in Farmington, Michigan, when his car crashed into a parked truck trailer on Grand River Avenue in front of a Methodist church. It was surmised that he had fallen asleep at the wheel while on his way from the WXYZ studios in Detroit where he had completed three performances.[5] He was survived by his widow, Jeanne, and a 15-month-old daughter, Gabrielle.[9] By that time, he had voiced the Lone Ranger approximately 1,300 times and had some 15 million listeners in several countries, including New Zealand, Mexico, Canada and locations in South America.[7] After his death, Graser's role as the Lone Ranger finally became widely publicized.[5]
He was buried in Detroit's Grand Lawn Cemetery

Many years ago a friend of a friend owned the Graser house, I was in there without knowing any of its history.

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Originally posted by clubleaf206:
That’s an interesting bit of trivia about Mr. Williams. When I were a lad, sir, I had a official Zorro costume, consisting of the hat, mask, cape and sword that had a tip that would accept a piece of chalk, the better to make the mark of Zorro on anything that would hold still long enough to allow it. And that you wouldn’t get yelled at for. I remember marking up every piece of concrete with crudely done Zs and running around, the cape flapping. Ah, youth!

That rings a bell. I'm pretty sure I had the costume, too. Some Robin Hood costume stuff as well.

Because of a pay dispute, Clayton Moore left the show for a season, replaced by John Hart. Hart had a long career as a character actor, but was utterly lame and wooden playing that character. I consider these episodes to be the "lost" ones. Like William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy, Moore threw himself into the role, long after the shows ended.