Title:

Lone Ranger, The

Type:

Western

Broadcast History

Jan 31, 1933 WXYZ, Detroit 30m three a week at 9:00. Silvercup Bread from Nov 29, 1933. Additional stations added from Jan 1934.

Feb 13, 1939-May 1, 1942 Mutual 30m, three a week at 7:30. Bond Bread until aug 9, 1940. General Mills for Cheerios as of May 1941.

May 4, 1942-Sep 3, 1954 Blue/ABC 30m, three a week at 7:30. General Mills for Cheerios. Merita Bread continuing sponsorship in the South. Repeats by General Mills unitl May 25, 1956.

Announcer/Narrator:

Brace Beemer, Harold Golder, Charles Woods, Bob Hite, Fred Foy

Sponsor:

Wheaties and Cheerios cereals

Cast:

John Reid George Seaton, Jack Deeds, Earl Graser, Brace Beemer, John Todd, Jim Jewell

Tonto John Todd

Dan Reid, Nephew Ernie Stanley, James Lipton, Dick Beals

Butch Cavendish Jay Michael

Thunder Martin Paul Hughes

The Lone Ranger and Tonto rode the plains of the 19th century striving to maintain law and order in a wild and lawless era. Basis for the television seires of the same title.

Source: Radio's Golden Years by Vincent Terrace

Source: On the Air - John Dunning