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The Best Episodes of The Lone Ranger

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The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 1 - Enter the Lone Ranger
    9.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Enter the Lone Ranger

    S1:E1

    John Reid, the sole surviving Texas Ranger of a murderous ambush, becomes the great masked hero with his companion, Tonto.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 2 - The Lone Ranger Fights On
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The Lone Ranger Fights On

    S1:E2

    The origin of the Lone Ranger's horse Silver and his use of silver bullets is explained.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 3 - The Lone Ranger's Triumph
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Lone Ranger's Triumph

    S1:E3

    The Lone Ranger still on the trail of Butch Cavendish and his gang sends Tonto to the town of Colby to organize a posse with the sheriff. Tonto receives no help and the suspicion is a number of people in the town are working for Cavandish. The Lone Ranger must launch a daring plan to foil the Cavendish gang's plan to take over the town of Colby.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 5 - Rustler's Hideout
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Rustler's Hideout

    S1:E5

    The Vance family settles right in the middle of a war between the Madden gang and local ranches. Despite the hostility to Fred Vance over his past, he decides he will not be run off this parcel of land. The Lone Ranger believes in Fred's innocence, and asks him to help stop the ranchers riding into an ambush and then set a counter trap for the gang after rescuing the son of one of the ranchers being held hostage

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 13 - Finder's Keepers
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Finder's Keepers

    S1:E13

    Nat Parker has just gotten out of prison after serving 4 years for bank robbery, and is determined to kill his two outlaw partners whom he took the rap for, and recover the $75,000 in stolen money for himself. His loving girlfriend Beata, and Father Paul, ask the Lone Ranger to help before Nat makes a grave mistake and ends up back in prison.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 14 - The Masked Rider
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Masked Rider

    S1:E14

    The Lone Ranger, pretends to be a notorious outlaw known as "The Mask Rider" so he can join a gang that is holding the sheriff's fiancée hostage and save her.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 18 - Outlaw Town
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Outlaw Town

    S1:E18

    Jim Andrews holds up the Wells Fargo office and steals a specific amount of money (5,000.00). He needs the money to enter "Outlaw Town" a safe haven for outlaws who can pay the equivalent of the price on their head. The Lone Ranger decides to infiltrate the town and find out who is behind the operation. Along the way the Lone Ranger discovers Jim Andrews's real motives for his actions.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 16 - Best Laid Plains
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Best Laid Plains

    S3:E16

    A range war threatens to break out in Sunset Valley. The Lone Ranger decides to investigate and try to understand the complete lack of action from the local sheriff.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 28 - Son by Adoption
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Son by Adoption

    S3:E28

    A young man who was adopted as a child and raised by a loving family has always believed that his real father is dead. Now the father, who is not dead but is a notorious outlaw leader, shows up, and the Lone Ranger and Tonto try to prevent his son from finding out who he is.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 29 - Mrs. Banker
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Mrs. Banker

    S3:E29

    In order to find out who's behind a rash of stagecoach robberies, the Lone Ranger disguises himself as an old prospector.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 38 - The Wake of War
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Wake of War

    S3:E38

    A town is still trying to heal from the emotional wounds created by the war of the states. The Lone ranger discovers someone has a lot to gain from stirring up trouble between the Northerners and Southerners.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 39 - Death in the Forest
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Death in the Forest

    S3:E39

    After discovering a badly wounded old man near a deserted settler's shack, the Lone Ranger and Tonto discover that the territorial governor's bodyguard has been paid to assassinate the governor by a man who wishes to control the governor.

    Director:Hollingsworth Morse
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Lone Ranger Season 4 Episode 35 - Wanted: The Lone Ranger
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Wanted: The Lone Ranger

    S4:E35

    The Lone Ranger and Tonto have been involved in an ongoing action against the inhabitants of Windgate City. A town set up as a refuge for any outlaw seeking sanctuary.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Lone Ranger Season 4 Episode 36 - The Woman in the White Mask
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Woman in the White Mask

    S4:E36

    The Lone Ranger and Dan encounter a stage drive who'd been shot. He explains he was attacked by the Woman in the white mask gang. The Lone Ranger decides to investigate and try to break up the gang.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Lone Ranger Season 5 Episode 23 - Code of Honor
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Code of Honor

    S5:E23

    The Lone Ranger and Tonto encounter a man who seems to have just been robbed by an officer in the US cavalry. The Ranger is struggling with how such a good man become an outlaw.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Lone Ranger Season 5 Episode 24 - The Turning Point
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - The Turning Point

    S5:E24

    A group of vigilantes corner and kill a seemingly innocent cowboy in Blue Creek. One of the townspeople contacts the Lone Ranger and asks him to try and deal with the growing power of these men.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 32 - The Durango Kid
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Durango Kid

    S3:E32

    The Durango Kid has broken out of jail and has sworn to take revenge on the judge who put him in jail.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 33 - The Deserter
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Deserter

    S3:E33

    The Lone Range in company with Dan and Tonto encounter a private from the army who seems to have deserted during a battle.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 4 - The Legion of Old Timers
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - The Legion of Old Timers

    S1:E4

    Bob Kittredge is being forced by Red Devers to sell the ranch he inherited from his father. The Lone Ranger and Tonto, aided by Banty Bishop and the old ranch hands rescue Kittredge, and the ranch (and jobs of the ranch hands) are restored.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Tom Seller

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  20. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 6 - War Horse
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - War Horse

    S1:E6

    A promoter wants to purchase the famous war horse 'Black Cloud' owned by the Chief Lame Bear. Instead of purchasing the horse the people he employs steal the animal instead, taking Lame Bear's son as hostage in the process. After the capture of Tonto, the Lone Ranger needs to use all his diplomacy and cunning as a law enforcer to stop out right war between Lame Bear's tribe and the US cavalry.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Gibson Fox

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  21. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 7 - Pete and Pedro
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Pete and Pedro

    S1:E7

    Pete and Pedro don't like working, until the Lone Ranger persuades them to help an attractive young woman save her ranch.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Tom Seller

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  22. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 8 - The Renegades
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - The Renegades

    S1:E8

    While on the trail, Tonto gets an urgent message to meet Chief Swift Eagle. The Lone Ranger continues on to a local mission to discover there are reports of Indian raids on supply trains, and any Indians found off the reservation are to be arrested and sent to Florida. Slowly the truth about the raids becomes apparent and the Lone Ranger must do all he can to save his friend Tonto and avoid an Indian War.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writers:Harry Poppe Jr., Edmond Kelso

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  23. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 9 - The Tenderfeet
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - The Tenderfeet

    S1:E9

    A murder is pinned on two cowboys who strike it rich, until the Lone Ranger traps the real killer.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 10 - High Heels
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - High Heels

    S1:E10

    The Lone Ranger and Tonto aid a short rancher who is so embarrassed by his lack of height he resorts to specially made platform shoes to add inches to his stature.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 11 - Six Gun's Legacy
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Six Gun's Legacy

    S1:E11

    A tenderfoot stage coach driver is killed then one of his murderers takes his place driving the coach. The Lone Ranger and Tonto come across the scene and realize the boy is still alive and arrange for medical care while covering up the boy is still alive. The Lone Ranger then goes on a quest to find out who the boy is and what was so important that someone would want him dead.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Enter the Lone Ranger" is the best rated episode of "The Lone Ranger". It scored 9.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by George B. Seitz Jr. and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/15/1949. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Lone Ranger Fights On".