The Lone Ranger

…the 11th radio episode of The Lone Ranger by producer George W. Trendle and writer Fran Striker in order to give the Lone Ranger someone to talk to. The role, which persisted throughout the radio drama’s 21-year run, was voiced by actor John Todd. In the television series, which ran…

the popular western adventure program The Lone Ranger) withdrew to join the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network in 1935, Canadian station CKLW in Windsor, Ontario (serving the Detroit market), replaced it. (The Lone Ranger remained on Mutual until 1942 under contractual obligation.)

…with popular shows such as The Lone Ranger. In 1934 WXYZ joined with the powerful 50,000-watt stations WLW in Cincinnati, WOR in New York, and WGN in Chicago to form the Quality Group, an association that was soon rechristened the Mutual Broadcasting System. The network had 19 stations by the…

…at children debuted in 1933: The Lone Ranger, which was first broadcast from Detroit’s WXYZ on January 31, and The Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters, which first aired over NBC on September 25. Both series would last into the early 1950s.

…these western radio dramas were The Lone Ranger, featuring the mysterious lawman of that name, and Death Valley Days, which was set in the Far West. Television also took up westerns in its earlier years. Such long-lived series as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Big Valley, and a half-dozen others captured large…