The West Old & New Vol. III Issue IV April 2014 | Page 5

The Lone Ranger is an American western drama television series that ran from
1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore (John Hart from 1952 to 1954) with Jay
Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the
episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series
from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story
narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program
on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".
Although George W. Trendle retained the title of producer, he recognized t