My dad is Lone Ranger fan since it's inception has the original LR books, big little books, LR gun, and bunch of other stuff. Gonna show his this. Thanks you for putting up.
Awesome episode. I appreciate the bloopers and information. I wish they had "behind the scenes" on Wild Bill Hickock radio shows with Guy Madison and Andy Devine (aka Jingles P. Jones). Just to see how it was made. The sound effects. Different characters. This was well before my time but I still enjoy listening to it before going to bed. I try to put myself in the scenes just watching from the sidelines and not getting involved... 😆 Hop Along Cassidy is another one of my favorites. I found all the episodes in a Walmart $5 DVD bin. I instantly grabbed it.
Every "update" of the Lone Ranger treats him as a complete incompetent. Then again, they always start him from scratch. Then they have him shoot to k1ll, but he NEVER fires except to disarm. It's why the Green Hornet uses the Sting and Sleep Gas too.
Yeah, a good update to the Lone Ranger would be more realistic. The Legend of the Lone Ranger movie in 81 I think was on the right track with showing him be around Indians a lot and learning how to fight and so forth. I think humor is important, but like you say, the Ranger shouldn't be shown to be incompetent.
I love when items are there, then they dissapear then the item is magicaly back. 😅 that happened in Time After Time with Malcolm Mcdowell and a spoon. Lol!!!! It also happened with Rik Mayall and a pair of glasses. Lol!
“Mayberry” and the other TV show you mention were filmed on Culver City’s famous “40 Acres” lot. It originally belonged to Cecil B De Mille, who leased it to his son-in-law, David O. Selznick, who filmed “Gone With The Wind” there. After that, it became Desilu Studios. Parts of many TV shows were filmed there. When Lucille Ball decided she’d had enough of being a Studio Mogul, she sold the whole thing to Paramount Pictures. (Part of Lucy and Desi’s real estate holdings were the RKO Studio on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. RKO/Desilu were on the southwest corner of the Paramount lot, so it was no big deal when Lucy sold Desilu to Paramount after her divorce from Desi Arnaz. Almost nothing had to be physically moved from Desilu Culver across town to Paramount. Stalag 13 from Hogan’s Heroes was on the Desilu Culver (40 Acres) lot, the first version of King Kong (with sound) was filmed there as well. Literally HUNDREDS of movies and TV shows were filmed there. Right noe, the sight that once read, “Selznick International Studios” now says “Amazon Studios”.
"The Andy Griffith Show" was also filmed on Desilu studio "back 40 lot." ~ Thank you for the historical background that you've provided here in your comments. I really enjoyed reading them. As an aside, I was a teenager in the 1960s and living in Northridge, CA, which is in the northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley. We did not have a color television for a while, so I would walk up several cul-de-sacs to a friend's house and watch "Bonanza"on their color TV on many Sunday nights. Then at some point during those years of living there with my folks, I became aware that Dan Blocker, who played the character of Hoss on "Bonanza," lived f(during that period) actually very close to our house. We lived in a place called Chateau Highlands Estates, on Ballinger Street, where it ended in cul-de-sac. The side of our house was bordered by Tampa Street, which at the time we moved in was not a busy street, and even tumbleweeds would roll down off the nearby mountains onto Tampa, and past our house, during the Santa Ana winds of winter. I'm not sure how I found this out, but across the Tampa Street was Halstead Street that came in at right angles, and several houses down is where Dan Blocker and his family lived. I ended up going trick-or-treating there (yes,even as a teenager), and his kids handed out candy to our small group of fiends, but he wasn't there. (Although I think I would have been too shy to have pursued asking if he were there to then ask for an autograph.) Then sometime in the later 1960s, I believe, the Blocker family moved to a 7,500 ft home near the Beverly Hills area. But, unfortunately, as you probably know--as well as other people who followed Bonanza's sagas, he died shortly after a fairly routine surgery--at least "routine" by today's medical standards. And he was only in is early 40s. Interesting, too, is that he held a master's degree, I believe in education, and taught physical education at a high school in Texas. This can all be researched on the Wickedpedia page about him, of course. Besides being a good family man, I heard he was a really nice man, and what we often think is rare for "Hollywood-at-large."
The Lone Ranger came on every Saturday morning in the 70's and 80's on WMC right after Memphis Wrestling. We got to see Jerry Lawler whoop up on the bad guys and then The Lone Ranger and Tonto whooping up on the bad guys. In S7 of The Beverly Hillbillies, "Sam Drucker's Visit," Larry Pennell (Dash Riprock) dressed up as The Lone Ranger because he was Granny's favorite TV star!
You are completely right about the lawsuit & the movie. It soured my enthusiasm to see the movie when they made the decision to be jerks and took legal action against Mr. Moore and his ability to appear in the mask.
He was a great heroe he stood for reason Clayton Moore aka the lone ranger. Thank you Clayton Moore I know you are in gods house but here on earth you always be remembered as the lone ranger. And to your daughter you had a great Dad he will always be the lone ranger hi ho sliver ha way
John hart was okay but Clayton Moore was the to me was the best and in my mind will always be the best I never met you but I always wanted to I told my mother I always wanted to be like you you were the best lone ranger I will always still and always will watch your TV series am I'm going to be a fan for ever. HI ho silver away that kool horse silver I love you big fellow your in heaven with Clayton Moore aka the lone ranger. Ride on big fellow you are together again. Peace and love to the both of you guys I will miss you both that's a promise
I recall the begging of lone ranger his 6 silver bullet gun will fire about 12 round hi ho silver reminds me of cannon ball and lassie same time in the 50s
Something you missed regarding the Lone Ranger. In the very first episode, one of the bad guys that was the scout for the Cavendish gang was George Lewis, who later played Don Alejandro de la Vega on the Walt Disney Zorro show as the father of Don Diego de la Vega (Guy Williams) aka Zorro. George Lewis also was in the Batman Movie as one of the people who gets dehydrated by the villains. Also a very little part that he didn't get credit for in the Batman Movie was that Van Williams aka The Green Hornet, was the voice of the President of the United States. You never saw him, only heard him.
My dad used to love pointing out how cheap these productions were. His favorite was someone accidently shaking a jail cell door open, then quickly jerking it back closed and finishing the scene holding it shut, all while still pretending to be trying to escape. (They could easily have just reshot the scene with the door actually locked, but..)
I liked both of the movie remakes for what they were. Though they could have given Clayton Moore a cameo in the 1980s one the way they fid with John Hart.
I had my own Mandela effect on the Lone Ranger. In the 1980's I thought I saw a badge on the Lone Ranger, but he is not wearing one now. Did I imagine it?
I couldn't understand why the Lone Ranger never used all that time he and Tonto spent riding through the wilderness together to teach Tonto how to speak better English. At the very least, he could have said, "Tonto, it's 'I am going into town,' not 'Me go to town." Tonto's pretty sharp. He could have picked that up pretty quick.
Hmm...maybe he didn't want to make Tonto mad or hurt his feelings, but that is a good point. Tonto was a smart guy. I do wonder if they asked Jay Silverheels about the dialogue in the script.
i guess my other obvious blooper that may have been from using left over radio scripts is like by the 3rd or fourth episode afater the 3 part pilot, everybody knew who he was, and or the meaning of the silver bullet. there's an episode early in season 1 where he stops to guys from beating each other up in a fight who are freinds but apparently love to fight to, and he says he's looking for their boss, they not only act like they know who he is but takes them straight to their boss. (their all good guys), and she doesn't know him but when he gives her a bullet, she says something about her dad mentioning him to her and that if she was ever in trouble he'd help. now we're like 5 to 8 episodes from the pilot i think, so how come everybody already knew this guy? i'm assuming it's a script left over from the radio shows, or moe likely aired out of order, but still the 2 sequences amke absolutely no sense. i mean air that farther into season 1 ok it kind of does, air that in season 3 or 5 yes definitely. 5 to 8 episodes after the pilot? no..................... after looking this up it's episode 7 4 episodes after the 3 part pilot. speaking of which has there ever been a series to air that many episodes or even close to that many and only have 1 multi part story? and i don't mean something that continued on cause someone was sick or hurt then ignored when they came back, (which happened with tonto in season 4 where he disappeared for half the season due to jay silverheels having a heart attack and nephew dan filling in for half the season). i mean heck gunsmoke was 20 years and 560 something episodes and i dont' know about the half hour ones but once they went to full hour episodes was averaging at least one a season......
The problem with The Lone Ranger on RU-vid (and other digital platforms) is that most of the episodes are the 22 minute super sped up action scenes version. And scenes are missing to fit this time frame :( (to fit the 8 minutes of commercials on whatever cable or classic tv net has the show)
Personally, I think it was likely because Moore asked for more money possibly related to merchandise, but I didn't find anything definitive. I did hear his daughter on one video talking about merchandise and how Gene Autry and Roy Rogers were getting lots of money because it was their names on the toys.
Louis B. Mayer--NOT Cecil B. DeMille--was the father-in-law of David O. Selznick(Irene Mayer was his first wife; Jennifer Jones was his second wife, until his death)…..
"Kemo Sabe" is an Americanization of the Spanish "Quien no sabe" (One who knows nothing) "Tonto" is Spanish meaning "Box-of-rocks stupid" Ifyou want to pick a fight, call a Latino, or a group thereof"tonto". --Bob Bailey in Maine
they had one VERY OBVIOUS BLOOPER IN THE 3 PART OPENER. i'm not sure how that made it all the way through production and apparently noone noticed. i mean it should have been obvious. i know i'm not the smartest guy on planet earth (even when in a nursery) but when you call or refer to a character as two gun like 15 times...................... shouldn't he actually have 2 guns? i mean i know it was the 1940's but still you'd think someone would have looked at the actor playing the sherriff and noticed houston we got a problem. and the thing is he's never shown with two guns ever! i mean even when he's on a horse where usually the person had one in the saddle boot bag what ever you don't see one on the horse nad he's only wearing one holster. like i said i'm not very smart, but shouldn't that be more obvious than it apparently was? i guess another blooper of sorts fromt he premiere is ranger's wearing one gun for the 3 part opener, then for rest of series (at least as the ranger not in disguise) he's wearing 2. i'm not sure this should be considered a blooper because it may have been something from the radio programs or the old mini movies they made in the 30's, but just seems odds especially since there's no explanation. they explained tonto, they explained how he got silver, they even showed why he used silver bullets, but oh he picked up a second gun thats apparently not important.
I was told that Kemosabe mean, King No Sabe, Sabe in Spanish is to know or to know how. So King doesn't know and Tonto is spanish for Fool or Foolish. I bet is was an inside joke.
i've seeen most of the episodes with hart. and while i think continity wise it was a horrible idea, i don't think he did a bad job. the main problems i notice is his very different height and voice from moore. he's 2 or 3 inches taller, and his voice is much deeper. though ironicaly after seeing his appearance without the mask as the soldier in one pepisode i wonder if he was doing this voice different on purpose. i don't think the episodes were that bad, and if you irnore the fact someone else is playing the ranger, you can enjoy them. iroincally thouogh (and haen't seen this vidoe all the way through) hart and moore actually both appeareed in the great american hero. hart in the early episode as himself and acting as the lone ranger in a public appearnace , and moore in what turned out to be a final episode/attempt at a spin off with the girl being the new hero. i can't seem to find that episode, but apparently moore is credited in that one as a wrestler, or truck driver. i did see a movie recently made it appeared during the hart season with moore................AS A BAD GUY! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i guess either the producers were trying to help him out in case he went back to the ranger role, or he asked them to do his shots a certain way, or maybe by this point he was headed back to ranger but just hadn't started appearign again, as he was rarely shown on scfeen (in the parts of movie i saw which was about last 1/3) in full face. there'd be a shadow from his hat, or he'd be partially hidden some other way. curious about why or how given that he wasn't playing the ranger at this point, (like i said during his season 3 hiatus) but still a cool and respectful way to try to keep the allusion especially given the fact it was part of a movie series by the main star of the movie where he kept playing different named guys but it was basically the same role. so i guess that movie wasn't real big on continuity.
Maybe it was during the time they forced Moore to discontinue wearing the mask. Of course, I know he was wearing sunglasses instead of the mask and still going out that way.
