I was scrolling through YouTube and saw in the feed The Lone Ranger Takes on the Masked woman. The masked woman was played by Phyllis Coates who played Lois Lane from The Adventures of Superman. It was a fun episode that took me back to waking early on Saturday morning going into the living room and turning on the old black and white TV and switching between numerous westerns including the Lone Ranger and Sid and Marty Krofft shows.
This was one of the few Tonto-less episodes. These shows are so simplistic but still fun to watch. I would be interested in a new, updated series that takes it seriously. Not too long ago I rewatched The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) I enjoyed it but they really effed up by going after Clayton Moore and alienating old fans. And it was much better than the 2013 movie and not just because of the casting of Johnny Depp.
I’ll probably now see more recommended episodes and I will watch them. There are some voices that stand out from back then that instantly take me back in time. Clayton Moore is one and Adam West is another.
I get why people hate on the 2013 Lone Ranger (one critic summed it up as “bloated, ungainly and much too long”), but I really liked it. The blu-ray looks and sounds terrific.
Just watched it on YouTube. I’d never seen this one before, been a long time since I’ve seen any of them. My god those sets are cheesy, but not as cheapo as the woman’s white mask which is obviously a 50’s style plastic costume mask.
The one with Klinton Spilsbury? The actor who managed to win three bad acting awards? The $18 million film that only took in $12 million? Alienating old fans was the least of that film’s problems.
I just watched the episode on YouTube. Yeah, I really ate this stuff up when I was a pre- and primary-schooler 60-odd years ago. I watched so much TV in the afternoons (e.g., Westerns, Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Whirlybirds, Sea Hunt, and The Adventures of Superman) I got sent to the Principal’s office for neglecting my homework.
I’ve always wondered how the Lone Ranger kept his clothes so damned clean, and how he could sleep next to his campfire fully clothed and wake up fresh as a daisy the next morning. Didn’t even wash his face when he got up, and never disappeared behind a rock to empty his bladder. (I remember a Dennis the Menace cartoon where the lad’s watching TV and asks his mom “Don’t cowboys ever have to go to the bathroom?”)
Whenever they stopped somewhere for the night, the Lone Ranger would always send Tonto to buy supplies in the nearby town, where he’d invariably get roughed up by the locals. I wish now they had filmed an episode in which Tonto says “Tonto have better idea. Kemo Sabe ride into town, buy supplies. Tonto stay here and set up camp.”
I always hoped to meet Clayton Moore someday once he moved to my neck of the woods in 1964, but it was never to be.
Unlike John Hart, who replaced him as the Ranger in the series’ third season, I could recognize his voice immediately. I have nothing against Mr Hart, who was an okay actor, but I could always tell when one of his episodes was on TV, and I never cared for them as much as I did Moore’s.
He and his brother (who, IIRC, was killed in the ambush by the Cavendish Gang) owned a silver mine. That’s also where he got the silver for his bullets.
