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The Worst Episodes of The Lone Ranger

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The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 51 - Diamonds in the Rough
    7.0/10(56 votes)

    S3:E51

    While the Lone Ranger is visiting the Govenor of the Western Territory, he is asked to help cover a group of diplomats from another country on tour through the territory.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 13 - Treason at Dry Creek
    7.2/10(56 votes)

    S3:E13

    Tonto and the Lone Ranger set a trap for a crooked Pony Express agent who has been intercepting army dispatches and selling them to the Indians.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 31 - Black Gold
    7.2/10(54 votes)

    S3:E31

    The Lone Ranger encounters a geologist who while injured has mentioned the existence of oil in farmland around the town of Franklin. He becomes aware of a number of confidence men working the town trying to get the land very cheap.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Lone Ranger Season 5 Episode 16 - Ghost Canyon
    7.2/10(57 votes)

    S5:E16

    The Lone Ranger becomes involved after a number of Indians are killed while watching their cattle herd.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Lone Ranger Season 5 Episode 25 - Dead-Eye
    7.2/10(59 votes)

    S5:E25

    Jake Beaudry's reputation as an outlaw attract's the attention of a famous sheriff. The sheriff is not as good as he once was and reluctantly accepts the help of the Lone Ranger.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 6 - War Horse
    7.3/10(135 votes)

    S1:E6

    A promoter wants to purchase the famous war horse 'Black Cloud' owned by the Chief Lame Bear. Instead of purchasing the horse the people he employs steal the animal instead, taking Lame Bear's son as hostage in the process. After the capture of Tonto, the Lone Ranger needs to use all his diplomacy and cunning as a law enforcer to stop out right war between Lame Bear's tribe and the US cavalry.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Gibson Fox

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  7. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 8 - The Renegades
    7.3/10(127 votes)

    S1:E8

    While on the trail, Tonto gets an urgent message to meet Chief Swift Eagle. The Lone Ranger continues on to a local mission to discover there are reports of Indian raids on supply trains, and any Indians found off the reservation are to be arrested and sent to Florida. Slowly the truth about the raids becomes apparent and the Lone Ranger must do all he can to save his friend Tonto and avoid an Indian War.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writers:Harry Poppe Jr., Edmond Kelso

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  8. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 13 - Finder's Keepers
    7.3/10(115 votes)

    S1:E13

    Nat Parker has just gotten out of prison after serving 4 years for bank robbery, and is determined to kill his two outlaw partners whom he took the rap for, and recover the $75,000 in stolen money for himself. His loving girlfriend Beata, and Father Paul, ask the Lone Ranger to help before Nat makes a grave mistake and ends up back in prison.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 16 - Cannonball McKay
    7.3/10(140 votes)

    S1:E16

    The Ranger investigates why a series of Wells Fargo robberies throughout the territory seem to have spared Boone County.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 22 - The Devil's Bog
    7.3/10(51 votes)

    S3:E22

    Tonto comes down with a bad fever, after treatment he recovers and the Lone Ranger decides to investigate to source of the disease.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 15 - Old Joe's Sister
    7.4/10(134 votes)

    S1:E15

    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.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 1 - Outlaw's Son
    7.4/10(68 votes)

    S3:E1

    The Lone Ranger and Tonto are after an outlaw who is trying to leave the gang and go back to the wife and son he left years ago.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 14 - The Condemned Man
    7.4/10(55 votes)

    S3:E14

    Chief Lone Eagle's son is murdered by an Indian agent. Tonto and the Lone Ranger have to find the killer in time to prevent an Indian war.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 26 - Sinner by Proxy
    7.4/10(58 votes)

    S3:E26

    Lone Ranger is arrested for robbing a bank in Johnsville. It seems a man in jail for the robbery claims the Lone Ranger was his partner in the crime. The Lone Ranger works to clear his name.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 27 - Stage for Mademoiselle
    7.4/10(56 votes)

    S3:E27

    The Lone Ranger is on the trail of Marianne Mornay, a famous and talented singer. He has noticed a pattern that in every town she sings a series of home and bank robberies occur.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 34 - Embezzler's Harvest
    7.4/10(59 votes)

    S3:E34

    A watch chain is crucial to the Lone Ranger's clearing the name and catching the killers of a man who was framed for embezzlement and then murdered.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 48 - The Ghost of Coyote Canyon
    7.4/10(64 votes)

    S3:E48

    A gang of thieves has convinced the people of Crooked Fork that a nearby canyon, which they're using for a hideout, is haunted by ghosts. The Lone Ranger and Tonto must prove to the townspeople that they're wrong, and bring the gang to justice.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Lone Ranger Season 5 Episode 7 - The Return of Don Pedro O'Sullivan
    7.4/10(63 votes)

    S5:E7

    When Don Pedro O'Sullivan tries to return to Mexico to battle an army colonel who is ruling his district according to his own whims, the petty dictator sends his henchmen to intercept and eliminate the aging gentleman.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 4 - The Legion of Old Timers
    7.5/10(185 votes)

    S1:E4

    Bob Kittredge is being forced by Red Devers to sell the ranch he inherited from his father. The Lone Ranger and Tonto, aided by Banty Bishop and the old ranch hands rescue Kittredge, and the ranch (and jobs of the ranch hands) are restored.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Tom Seller

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  20. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 5 - Rustler's Hideout
    7.5/10(150 votes)

    S1:E5

    The Vance family settles right in the middle of a war between the Madden gang and local ranches. Despite the hostility to Fred Vance over his past, he decides he will not be run off this parcel of land. The Lone Ranger believes in Fred's innocence, and asks him to help stop the ranchers riding into an ambush and then set a counter trap for the gang after rescuing the son of one of the ranchers being held hostage

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 7 - Pete and Pedro
    7.5/10(151 votes)

    S1:E7

    Pete and Pedro don't like working, until the Lone Ranger persuades them to help an attractive young woman save her ranch.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Tom Seller

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  22. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 10 - High Heels
    7.5/10(119 votes)

    S1:E10

    The Lone Ranger and Tonto aid a short rancher who is so embarrassed by his lack of height he resorts to specially made platform shoes to add inches to his stature.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 14 - The Masked Rider
    7.5/10(132 votes)

    S1:E14

    The Lone Ranger, pretends to be a notorious outlaw known as "The Mask Rider" so he can join a gang that is holding the sheriff's fiancée hostage and save her.

    Director:George B. Seitz Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 51 - The Whimsical Bandit
    7.5/10(78 votes)

    S1:E51

    Dan, the Lone Ranger's nephew comes across a dead man. The Lone Ranger quickly identifies him as 'click' Philiips, the fastest Morse code operator in the area and known member of Juan Branco's gang. They believe 'click' was sending a message when he fell and died.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Lone Ranger Season 3 Episode 17 - Indian Charlie
    7.5/10(56 votes)

    S3:E17

    The Lone Ranger and Tonto hear a young educated boy Indian Charlie seems to be falling afoul of the law. They go to try and talk sense into the lad, but discover something far more dangerous.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Diamonds in the Rough" is the worst rated episode of "The Lone Ranger". It scored 7/10 based on 56 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/27/1953. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Treason at Dry Creek".