Can you listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger

September 15, 1949 –
The Lone Ranger, the masked hero rode onto the fledgling ABC network for the first time on this date

In the early 1950s, the show was so popular that ABC briefly repeated it late on Friday nights for those who missed the Thursday night broadcast.

Oh, Lenny Bruce had something to say on the subject

(As I mentioned last week, impress your friends with this piece of trivia : John Reid, the Lone Ranger is the grand-uncle ofBritt Reid, the Green Hornet. .