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The Worst Episodes of The Lone Ranger

Every episode of The Lone Ranger ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Lone Ranger!

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...
Genres:WesternAction & Adventure
Network:ABC

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Whimsical Bandit" is the worst rated episode of "The Lone Ranger". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/31/1950. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Double Jeopardy".

  • The Whimsical Bandit
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    #1 - The Whimsical Bandit

    Season 1 Episode 51 - Aired 8/31/1950

    Dan, the Lone Ranger's nephew comes across a dead man. The Lone Ranger quickly identifies him as 'click' Philiips, the fastest Morse code operator in the area and known member of Juan Branco's gang. They believe 'click' was sending a message when he fell and died.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Double Jeopardy
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    #2 - Double Jeopardy

    Season 1 Episode 52 - Aired 9/7/1950

    Clyde Hinshaw who is in jail for murder seems peculiarly nonchalant about his upcoming trial. When the Lone Ranger sees Ma Hinshaw and her son talking to Judge Brady who has seen the murder, he talks to the judge and learns that the Hinshaws hold the judge's daughter Molly under threat of murder if the judge does not present his testimony so that Clyde is acquitted.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Diamonds in the Rough
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    #3 - Diamonds in the Rough

    Season 3 Episode 51 - Aired 8/27/1953

    While the Lone Ranger is visiting the Govenor of the Western Territory, he is asked to help cover a group of diplomats from another country on tour through the territory.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Red Mark
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    #4 - The Red Mark

    Season 3 Episode 52 - Aired 9/3/1953

    The Lone Ranger is returning to his silver mine to replenish his ammunition when he discovers a famous criminal, Hank Durgan has been seen around Badger City.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Counterfeit Redskins
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    #5 - Counterfeit Redskins

    Season 4 Episode 51 - Aired 8/25/1955

    Three men dress as Indians to try and intimidate local homesteaders into moving out or attacking the real local Indians. Either way the land owners run the risk of losing their land.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • One Nation Indivisible
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    #6 - One Nation Indivisible

    Season 4 Episode 52 - Aired 9/1/1955

    Two brothers, working their way west after they lose their farm because of the Civil War, encounter the Lone Ranger and learn about what a future can be if they can let go of the past.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Treason at Dry Creek
    7.1/1045 votes
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    #7 - Treason at Dry Creek

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/4/1952

    Tonto and the Lone Ranger set a trap for a crooked Pony Express agent who has been intercepting army dispatches and selling them to the Indians.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Finder's Keepers
    7.2/1092 votes
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    #8 - Finder's Keepers

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1949

    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: N/A

  • Outlaw's Son
    7.3/1057 votes
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    #9 - Outlaw's Son

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1952

    The Lone Ranger and Tonto are after an outlaw who is trying to leave the gang and go back to the wife and son he left years ago.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sinner by Proxy
    7.3/1046 votes
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    #10 - Sinner by Proxy

    Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 3/5/1953

    Lone Ranger is arrested for robbing a bank in Johnsville. It seems a man in jail for the robbery claims the Lone Ranger was his partner in the crime. The Lone Ranger works to clear his name.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ghost Canyon
    7.3/1044 votes
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    #11 - Ghost Canyon

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 12/27/1956

    The Lone Ranger becomes involved after a number of Indians are killed while watching their cattle herd.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cannonball McKay
    7.4/10112 votes
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    #12 - Cannonball McKay

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1949

    The Ranger investigates why a series of Wells Fargo robberies throughout the territory seem to have spared Boone County.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Frame for Two
    7.4/1049 votes
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    #13 - Frame for Two

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1952

    The Lone Ranger and Tonto get involved when they hear of a feud between two ranchers. The situation is so explosive it is feared the entire community may be engulfed in hatred.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Devil's Bog
    7.4/1041 votes
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    #14 - The Devil's Bog

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/5/1953

    Tonto comes down with a bad fever, after treatment he recovers and the Lone Ranger decides to investigate to source of the disease.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Black Gold
    7.4/1041 votes
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    #15 - Black Gold

    Season 3 Episode 31 - Aired 4/9/1953

    The Lone Ranger encounters a geologist who while injured has mentioned the existence of oil in farmland around the town of Franklin. He becomes aware of a number of confidence men working the town trying to get the land very cheap.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Legion of Old Timers
    7.5/10148 votes
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    #16 - The Legion of Old Timers

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1949

    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

  • War Horse
    7.5/10114 votes
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    #17 - War Horse

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1949

    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

  • The Renegades
    7.5/10102 votes
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    #18 - The Renegades

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1949

    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.

    Writer: Edmond Kelso, Harry Poppe Jr.

  • High Heels
    7.5/1097 votes
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    #19 - High Heels

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1949

    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: N/A

  • Special Edition
    7.5/1051 votes
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    #20 - Special Edition

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1952

    The Lone Ranger gets word of a swindle being run in the town of King Creek. Money is being raised to build a gold stamping factory. The Ranger must act before the swindlers escape with the money.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Word of Honor
    7.5/1046 votes
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    #21 - Word of Honor

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/1952

    When the sheriff of Mesa Junction is murdered a seemingly innocent man is blamed. The Lone Ranger and Tonto get involved in trying to clear the young man and discover who the real murderer is.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Condemned Man
    7.5/1044 votes
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    #22 - The Condemned Man

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/11/1952

    Chief Lone Eagle's son is murdered by an Indian agent. Tonto and the Lone Ranger have to find the killer in time to prevent an Indian war.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Stage for Mademoiselle
    7.5/1045 votes
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    #23 - Stage for Mademoiselle

    Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 3/12/1953

    The Lone Ranger is on the trail of Marianne Mornay, a famous and talented singer. He has noticed a pattern that in every town she sings a series of home and bank robberies occur.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lone Ranger's Triumph
    7.6/10176 votes
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    #24 - The Lone Ranger's Triumph

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1949

    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: N/A

  • Rustler's Hideout
    7.6/10120 votes
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    #25 - Rustler's Hideout

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1949

    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: N/A