The Lone Ranger (1966 TV series)
Animated adventures of the masked lawman with sci-fi foes.
The Lone Ranger is an animated television series that aired on CBS Saturday mornings from September 10, 1966, to September 6, 1969. It was produced by Herb Klynn and Jules Engel of Format Films, with animation work done at Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Film studios in London and Artransa Park Film Studios in Australia. A later Lone Ranger cartoon series was produced by Filmation in 1980.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Western
- Runtime
- 30 minutes
- Creator
- George W. Trendle; Fran Striker
- Developer
- Format Films
- Executive producers
- Arthur A. Jacobs
- Producer
- Herbert Klynn
- Writer
- Tom Dagenais
- L.L. Goldman
- Ken Sobol
- Starring
- Michael Rye; Shepard Menken
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Overview
The series featured supervillain-style foes such as the Fly, the Frog People, the Black Widow, and the Queen Bee. Archenemies included the dwarf Tiny Tom and his giant henchman Goliath, similar to a pair from The Wild Wild West. Other antagonists were the Iron Giant, Mephisto, Mr. Happy, Mr. Midas, the Rainmaker, and Shandarr the Puppetmaster.
Production
Michael Rye voiced the Lone Ranger, Shepard Menken voiced Tonto, and Marvin Miller narrated the opening titles. Guest voices included Paul Winchell, Agnes Moorehead, and Hans Conried. The animation was limited, but the dark-style backgrounds used blocks of color elided from the line, setting the show apart visually. Vic Schoen composed the atmospheric music and arranged Gioachino Rossini's William Tell Overture for the opening sequence. Backgrounds were led by Tom Bailey, Ted Petengel, and designer Chris Miles; drawings were produced by chinagraph pencil on cell, with colored papers cut or torn under or against the background lines for a dramatic textural effect.
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