Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 25 April 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- Mutual
- Years active
- 1929–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 55
- Genre
- western
"A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty hi-yo silver! With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States.
1951 · 11948 · 11938 · 441937 · 11931 · 11930 · 41929 · 2
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Listenable · 52 of 54Rough but complete · 2 of 54
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_LoneRanger_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
15 dated broadcasts across 23 years on the air, with 16 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1929, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Lone Ranger Ezra Stoke's Irrigation Project · 20 Nov 1929
- 2. The Lone Ranger At the End of the Rope · 25 Dec 1929
- 3. The Lone Ranger Reluctant Horse Thief · 25 Sep 1930
The Lone Ranger -LRanger Audition Paul Sutton
21 Feb 1951 · 12 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 21 February 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Lone Ranger 15th Anniversary
30 Jun 1948 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 30 June 1948. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Lone Ranger Doc Stubbs' Snake Oil
13 Jun 1938 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 13 June 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Lone Ranger The Clue of the Lazy Y
10 Jun 1938 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 10 June 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Lone Ranger The Ranger Impersonates
8 Jun 1938 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 8 June 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Lone Ranger The Silver Spur
6 Jun 1938 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 6 June 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Lone Ranger Barbara Bates & Hacksaw Hastings
3 Jun 1938 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 3 June 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Lone Ranger Oil Lease Swindle
1 Jun 1938 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 1 June 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
25 Apr 1938
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 25 Apr 1938.
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 25 April 1938. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on Mutual
Mutual in 1929–1951
Other series the network carried while The Lone Ranger was on the air.
Same seasons
western on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The adult western
Gunsmoke was sold as the first adult western: moral ambiguity, weather, silence. Serialised folk horror and long-form fiction inherited its patience.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Lone Ranger
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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