The BEST episodes of The Lone Ranger season 1
Every episode of The Lone Ranger season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Lone Ranger season 1!
A fiery horse with the speed of light. A cloud of dust and a hearty "Hi-Yo Silver!" The Lone Ranger! Who was that masked man? It was the Lone Ranger and his trusty Native American sidekick Tonto who fought outlaws and injustice in the old west.
#1 - The Tenderfeet
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1949
Claim jumping and murder are blamed on a pair of greenhorn brothers from the East who strike it rich.
#2 - Enter the Lone Ranger
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1949
John Reid, the sole surviving Texas Ranger of a murderous ambush, becomes the great masked hero with his companion, Tonto.
#3 - The Return of the Convict
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1949
After serving a prison term for a crime he didn't commit, a man returns home bitter and determined to learn the truth from the witnesses that testified falsely against him.
#4 - The Masked Rider
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/15/1949
The Lone Ranger pretends to be a notorious outlaw known as "The Masked Rider" so he can join a gang that is holding the sheriff's fiancée hostage and save her.
#5 - Six Gun's Legacy
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1949
Outlaws stop a stagecoach and shoot the passengers in order to impersonate a young Easterner.
#6 - Finders Keepers
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1949
Framed into robbing as bank by a pair of outlaws, a man goes after the buried loot, but his two ex-partners have other plans for him.
#7 - The Lone Ranger's Triumph
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1949
The conclusion of the Lone Ranger origin story. After rescuing sherrif "Two Gun" Taylor, and Doc Drummond from Butch Cavendish, the Ranger learns his arch enemy has been killing off important men in the town of Colby, and replacing them with members of his gang. Using the Doc as a decoy, The Lone Ranger, Tonto, and the sheriff round up the Cavendish gang one by one. Finally, the Ranger chases after Cavendish himself, and has one final showdown with his brother's killer. And true to his vow, he doesn't kill the outlaw, but just shoots the gun from his hand, and takes him to jail. Once Cavendish is locked up, the Lone Ranger and Tonto ride away before they can be thanked. And the outlaw himself becomes the first of 219 people to ask, "Who was that masked man?"
#8 - Legion of Old Timers
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1949
The Lone Ranger utilizes a group of old ranch hands to help out an Easterner who's being cheated out of his property by some scoundrels.
#9 - Old Joe's Sister
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/22/1949
Joe Peter's sister visits her brother for the first time in 30 years. Only now he's being impersonated by escaped jailbird Biff Baker.
#10 - Rustlers' Hideout
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1949
The Lone Ranger infiltrates a gang who are holding hostage the son of one of a group of ranchers who captured the gang's leader.
#11 - Cannonball McKay
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1949
The Ranger investigates why a series of Wells Fargo robberies throughout the territory seem to have spared Boone County.
#12 - War Horse
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1949
A greedy hunter plans to steal Chief Lame Bear's famous war horse, Red Cloud, but ends up taking the chief's son as well.
#13 - High Heels
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1949
A proud little man uses high-heeled boots to give him greater physical stature, but a troublemaker plays on his sensitivity.
#14 - Never Say Die
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/6/1950
Butch Cavendish breaks out of prison abducting the warden's son in the process. The Lone Ranger begins the task of trying to track Cavendish down in the knowledge that if he fails, the warden's son will be killed.
#15 - The Lone Ranger Fights On
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1949
Part 2 of the Lone Ranger origin reveals how the masked man finds his horse, Silver; and how he came to use silver bullets. Tonto is sent into town to "fetch the sheriff" for the first time. Skeptical at first, the local sheriff is later convinced the Lone Ranger is on the side of law and order. It seems an old family friend of the Ranger's, Jim Blane, is being blamed for the shooting of a local judge. The real killer, Butch Cavendish, has been wounded by Blaine, and has had his men kidnap the town doctor to heal the outlaw. The sheriff and The Ranger track down the gang, and a fight ensues. The sheriff has them rounded up and the Lone Ranger slips away (also for the first time). But just then, the rest of the Cavendish gang ride in, getting the drop on the sheriff and the doctor, and taking them away. The Lone Ranger sees this and chases after the villain with a hearty "Hi-Ho Silver Away!"
#16 - Pete and Pedro
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1949
The Lone Ranger tries to convince a couple of no-accounts to come to the aid of a young girl in danger of losing her land to a neighbor.
#17 - The Renegades
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1949
Some Army deserters and a crooked Indian Agent plan to kill Tonto and his Indian Chief friend Chief Swift Eagle.
#18 - Greed for Gold
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/19/1950
Lone Ranger and Tonto are going to see Sheriff Gilbert about stolen gold. They hear a gunshot and ride to a cabin where they find the Sheriff dead. Next to the Sheriff is a single spur. Enter Dusty, Jeff Barnes and another couple of men. The Lone Ranger lets everybody get away except Dusty who is missing a spur. Tonto overhears that the spur was planted. Lone Ranger, Tonto and Dusty go to Barnes' ranch and the Lone Ranger hears that Barnes has the missing gold in his cellar. The Lone Ranger and Barnes fight it out in the cellar. Any guess who wins?
#19 - The Man Who Came Back
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/5/1950
The Lone Ranger and Tonto go to visit Joe Crawford but two nasty men chase them off. Molly comes back from boarding school but Pinto Brown say Joe has sold the ranch to him. The Lone Ranger and Tonto find some gold diggings and the remains of a letter from Joe. The Lone Ranger disguises himself as an old prospector to deliver a phony letter from Joe. Pinto rides to Silver Gulch to see the Sheriff. The Lone Ranger uses another trick to make Pinto tell the truth.
#20 - Outlaw Town
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/12/1950
A woman is forced to stand by helplessly as her husband runs a sanctuary for criminals, from which they execute daring crimes.
#21 - Barnaby Boggs, Esq.
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/2/1950
A medicine man who is old friends with the Lone Ranger and Tonto finds himself under fire when he is able to identify an outlaw who is estalished a respected man in the commuity.
#22 - Jim Tyler's Past
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/16/1950
The Lone Ranger forces a man to prove that he is either an honest lawman or a dishonest murderer when he brings him face to face with his past.
#23 - Double Jeopardy
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 9/7/1950
Ma Hinshaw and her sons abduct the sheriff's daughter.
#24 - Man of the House
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/26/1950
A small, timid man who is dominated by his Amazonian wife despairs of ever becoming respected in a community of he-men.
#25 - Sheep Thieves
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/9/1950
Two young men switch clothes while on a stage coach so as to play a practical joke on the owner of one of the local sheep stations. Unbeknownst to both of them they set in action a chain of events that could have dire consequences for everyone.