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 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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?"
#16 - 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!"
#17 - Bullets for Ballots
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/11/1950
The Lone Ranger and Tonto arrive at a town in the midst of an election. They become concerned when threatened by two men about making sure they vote the correct way. The Lone Ranger decides to check out the two candidates and make sure the democratic process is followed for the good of the people.
#18 - Double Jeopardy
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 9/7/1950
Ma Hinshaw and her sons abduct the sheriff's daughter.
#19 - The Black Hat
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/18/1950
Bandits attack a refinery, kill two guards, and make off with two hundred pounds of gold, but the Lone Ranger and Tonto are mystified when they can find no trace of the outlaws' trail leaving the scene.
#20 - Devil's Pass
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/25/1950
The Lone Ranger and Tonto are heading for the town of Horseshoe when they come across two men shot dead. They realize a large sum of money has been stolen, but can't understand the relationship between the two victims.
#21 - Spanish Gold
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/1/1950
The Lone Ranger encounters a paroled prisoner on the trail. As he hears the man's story he becomes concerned an innocent man may have been found guilty of a crime he'd never committed. The Lone Ranger decides to find out if an injustice has occurred.
#22 - Damsels in Distress
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 6/8/1950
The Lone Ranger is on the trail of a foreign secret agent, Baron Von Baden when he discovers a gun designer knifed and on the verge of death. The Lone Ranger realizes the threat Von Baden represents and rushes to foil his plan.
#23 - Man Without a Gun
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 6/15/1950
The Lone Ranger and Tonto find a stagecoach that seems to have been attacked by Indians. Discovering a survivor the Lone Ranger becomes concerned about irregularities in the attack and becomes convinced someone is trying to spark an Indian war.
#24 - Pardon for Curley
Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 6/22/1950
The Lone Ranger captures Curley Bates only to discover the man has been pardoned and is no longer a wanted criminal.
#25 - Eye for an Eye
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 6/29/1950
Stark Durfee aims to snatch the governor's daughter.