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KTLO FM Presents...The Lone Ranger

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KTLO FM Presents...The Lone Ranger

When: Thursday Night following the Huckabee Report 5:35pm

Who: This weeks Featured show is “The Lone Ranger”.

Plot: The Osage Bank Robbery.

Air date: December, 17 1937.

Notes: The first of 2,956 radio episodes of The Lone Ranger premiered on January 30, 1933 on WXYZ, a radio station serving Detroit, Michigan. The show was an immediate success. Though it was aimed at children, adults made up at least half the audience. It became so popular, it was picked up by the Mutual Broadcasting System radio network, and finally by NBC's "Blue Network," which in time became ABC.

The Lone Ranger was played by several actors:
· John L. Barrett, on test broadcasts on WEBR in January 1933
· George Seaton (January 31-May 9, 1933)
· Earle Graser (May 16, 1933-April 7, 1941). On April 8, Graser died in a car accident; and, for five episodes, the Lone
Ranger was unable to speak beyond a whisper, with Tonto carrying the action.