History Radio / TheLoneRanger

* {{Anticlimax}}: The Legion of the Black Arrow is an epic-length story arc that took months to tell. At the end of that, there are five top men still at large who were involved and have to be captured. The Lone Ranger and Tonto get four of them after four or five episodes each of struggling to find evidence on which to convict them of something. So audiences might have expected the final boss to be the biggest challenge of all. No, he's forgotten for a few weeks, and then finally captured in one episode in a very low-key way.

* WantedASonInstead: Bart Frazzenton loves his daughter, but wishes he had a son to take over the ranch after his death. During some trouble with a neighboring rancher who wants Frazzenton's spread, his daughter says she's going to visit a friend, but disguises herself as a young man and gets hired to work her dad's ranch in order to prove that she's every bit as capable as a son would have been.

* WantedASonInstead: Bart Frazzenton's loves his daughter, but wishes he had a son to take over the ranch after his death. During some trouble with a neighboring rancher who wants Frazzenton's spread, his daughter says she's going to visit a friend, but disguises herself as a young man and gets hired to work her dad's ranch in order to prove that she's every bit as capable as a son would have been.

* HiddenDepths: Loud, blustering, boisterous mule-driver Thunder Martin once studied law in the East before coming West. This leads to him becoming a judge for a while.

''The Lone Ranger'' is a radio series that first premiered on Detroit, Michigan's radio station WXYZ on January 30, 1933, and ran for over 3,000 episodes (the 20th-anniversary episode bills itself as the 3,128th adventure). The character was the brainchild of station owner George W. Trendle, program director and actor James Jewell, and scriptwriter Fran Striker. Trendle had ended the radio station's affiliation with the CBS network because it was losing money, and thus the station had to create its own programming and draw its own advertisers, and the Lone Ranger was one of the programs created by the independent radio station. According to actor/director Chuck Livingston, who began working on the show in August 1933, George Trendle wanted to create essentially a Robin Hood-type character in the old West. Other influences included Zorro and Tom Mix. The tales of his tragic origins, partnership with Tonto, and selfless heroism to defend the innocents of the American frontier led him to become an enduring icon of American culture.

* Brace Beemer (April 9, 1941, to the final episode on September 9, 1954) was given the role after Earle Graser died. For five episodes, the Lone Ranger, shot while trying to stop a range war, was unable to speak beyond a whisper, with Tonto carrying the action. This approach eased the transition from Graser to Beemer, who would go on to play the Lone Ranger from then until the series ended. He became one of the show's narrators for several years and can be heard as narrator in the last few years that Graser played the Ranger before he took over the lead role. Brace Beemer became as well known and successful as Graser had been, and like his predecessor, rarely missed an episode.

* Brace Beemer (April 9, 1941, to the final episode on May 17, 1956) was given the role after Earle Graser died. For five episodes, the Lone Ranger, shot while trying to stop a range war, was unable to speak beyond a whisper, with Tonto carrying the action. This approach eased the transition from Graser to Beemer, who would go on to play the Lone Ranger from then until the series ended. He became one of the show's narrators for several years and can be heard as narrator in the last few years that Graser played the Ranger before he took over the lead role. Brace Beemer became as well known and successful as Graser had been, and like his predecessor, rarely missed an episode.

* AntiquatedLinguistics: the characters within the show often employ Western slang. "Slap leather" means drawing a gun, "dry gulch" means ambushing someone, "nesters" for homesteaders, "owlhoots" are outlaws, etc.

While Tonto was voiced by Creator/FredMcCarthy, who went by the stage name John Todd, throughout the series (with isolated occasions when he was replaced by Creator/RaleighParker), the Lone Ranger himself was voiced by several actors before the producers found their star.