# Who else remembers the 1960s Lone Ranger cartoon ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2008, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-remembers-the-1960s-lone-ranger-cartoon/445274 "2008-04-14T11:08:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-remembers-the-1960s-lone-ranger-cartoon/445274/1 "2008-04-14T11:08:13Z")
Back when Saturday Morning \*was \*Saturday Morning, there was an animated versiuon of The Lone Ranger that ran for a couple of seasons in 1967 or thereabouts. This being the same time the original \*Wild Wild West \*was being broadcast, the storylines often had the Ranger and Tonto facing old-timey renditions of Mad Science like ray-guns, hovercrafts, robots and man-eating plants, or actual monsters and supernatural menaces. I seem to recall one episode (it was a half-hour show with three segments in each) about a bad guy who’d had the paws of a grizzly bear grafted onto his arms, which was pretty weird for a cartoon adventure show (one that that wasn’t _Jonny Quest_), and plenty scary to an imaginative 8-year old. And there was a recurring character who was either a blatant rip-off of, or direct homage to, _The Wild Wild West_ – Tiny Tom, a little archvillain who was either a precocious J.D. or a vicious midget like _TWWW_’s Dr. Loveless. He was always trying to take over the world with robotized toy soldiers or something equally bizarre. The animation was limited, but drawn in a dark, gritty style that suited the rest of the cartoon excellently.; while the stories were fairly simple they were also pretty imaginative. There’s a handful of episodes on You-Tube, but none of the ones I recall vividly and would like to see again. Obviously this is one of those cartoons which I dug as a kid for its own sake but now have distinct, grown-up interests in. So I’m just throwing it out to whoever else might’ve seen it – does anyone else have fond memories of this cartoon? Was it really as good and as weird as I remember it? Tiny Tom – a midget, or a kid? And what about that guy with the bear claws instead of hands? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-remembers-the-1960s-lone-ranger-cartoon/445274/2 "2008-04-14T11:46:44Z")
I have memories of it, but not fond. I wasn’t into westerns as a kid – even souped-up sci-fi westerns like Wild, Wild West and the curiouisity that was the animated Lone Ranger. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-remembers-the-1960s-lone-ranger-cartoon/445274/3 "2008-04-14T12:39:52Z")
My favorite bit: “What the hell do you want Tonto for, anyway?” “To perform an unnatural act.” What? Oh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-remembers-the-1960s-lone-ranger-cartoon/445274/4 "2008-04-14T12:59:36Z")
I remember it well. There were even segments that were solo adventures for Tonto. I was a big fan of The Wild Wild West, so this cartoon appealed to me. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-remembers-the-1960s-lone-ranger-cartoon/445274/5 "2008-04-14T13:03:16Z")
[This is the only Lone Ranger I really remember](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjxiJOye3Y), and I can’t even remember that. There’s talk they’re going to try and make [a new movie](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i0253b4ed794b135a4980bb7be375dd49). ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-remembers-the-1960s-lone-ranger-cartoon/445274/6 "2008-04-14T14:14:13Z")
I remember it well. Came on just before the Road Runner. They were fond of using Grieg’s _Ase’s Death_ as theme music when things were quiet/ominous. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-remembers-the-1960s-lone-ranger-cartoon/445274/7 "2008-04-14T14:54:42Z")
Ah, Tiny Tom…I remember his “Speedy The Alka-Seltzer Boy” voice well. IMDB doesn’t list it, but I am 100 percent certain that [Dick Beals](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Beals) did “Terrible Tiny Tom’s” voice. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-remembers-the-1960s-lone-ranger-cartoon/445274/8 "2008-04-14T17:30:45Z")
The 60’s cartoon was, unfortunately, my introduction to the character. I say “unfortunately” because that weird-ass cartoon probably gave me the wrong idea about what the Lone Ranger was supposed to be like. In any case, [here’s a sample of the series](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocLjZv0Idp4&feature=related) courtesy of YouTube.