[78-L] Heigh-ho Silver!

[David Lennick]

How about this?

[edit] The Lone Ranger's first name

Although the Lone Ranger's last name is given as Reid, his first name is not 
definitely specified. According to the story told in the radio series, the 
group of six ambushed Rangers was headed by Reid's brother, Captain Dan Reid. 
Some later radio reference books, beginning with Radio's Golden Age in the 
1960s, claimed that the Lone Ranger's first name was John;[14] however, both 
the radio and television programs avoided mentioning his first name. Fran 
Striker's obituary (1962) and a Gold Key Comics (1964) retelling of the origin 
both stated that "Dan" was the Lone Ranger's first name, not his 
brother's.[citation needed]

It appears that the first use of the name "John Reid" was in a scene in the 
1981 big-screen film The Legend of the Lone Ranger in which the surviving Reid 
digs an extra grave for himself. This gave the use of the first name John a 
degree of official standing, although the name "Luke Hartman" was used in the 
2003 TV-movie/unsold series pilot. The name of Captain Reid's son, the Lone 
Ranger's nephew, a later character who became a sort of juvenile sidekick to 
the Masked Man, is also Dan Reid. (When Trendle and Striker later created The 
Green Hornet, they made this Dan Reid the father of Britt Reid, alias the Green 
Hornet, thereby making the Lone Ranger the Green Hornet's great-uncle.[citation 
needed])

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Ranger

dl

On 12/9/2011 11:03 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>
>> Did you check the 20th anniversary program from 1953? According to
>> John Dunning's "On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio,"
>> the legend of how John Reid became the Lone Ranger was concocted
>> for that episode.   Cary Ginell
>
> I just listened to it, January 30, 1953 Return of Cavendish, which
> several times mentioned that this is the 20th anniversary program.  But
> no, it does not give the first names of either The Lone Ranger or his
> brother Capt. Reid.  Even when he takes off his mask to show the dying
> Butch Cavendish who he is, all that is said is "YOU! Reid!"
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
>> I am good friends with Terry Salomonson who has the Wrather archive of
>> The Lone Ranger recordings and scripts, and has read thru all of the
>> scripts, as well as discussed it with his close friend Fran Striker,
>> Jr., the son of the man who invented and wrote The Lone Ranger. He
>> NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER indicated ANY first name for The Lone Ranger.
>> ANYBODY who says otherwise has not done their research in AUTHORITATIVE
>> sources. That includes Buxton and Owen -- Terry is also a friend of
>> both Buxton and Owen and they admit they had no sources for the name.
>>
>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Heigh-ho Silver!
>> From: Darrell Lehman<nickjay49 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, December 09, 2011 3:04 pm
>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>
>> If I recall my comic books, his nephew Dan Reid refers to him as John
>> initially. And does anyone recall their relationship to Bruce Lee?
>>
>> David Lennick wrote:
>>> Just the cast credits, listing The Lone Ranger (John Reid) and the actors who
>>> played him. No reference in the descriptive paragraphs.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 12/9/2011 2:46 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's the reference exactly and do they give any sources for how they got this information?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:26:47 -0500
>>>>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>>>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Heigh-ho Silver!
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the expanded version from 1972, The Big Broadcast..calls him John there
>>>>> as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> dl
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/9/2011 2:22 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone have a copy of the 1966 book "Radio's Golden Age: The Programs and the Personalities", by Frank Buxton and Bill Owen? Supposedly this book is the first to declare the Lone Ranger's first name as being John (it wasn't established in the radio shows nor the TV series). Just an off-the-wall question from a friend.      Cary Ginell
>
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