Review: The Lone Ranger on Radio
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2013
I've been a Lone Ranger fan for a very long time. But I'm not old enough to have listened to the original radio show. I knew that The Lone Ranger had been created as a radio drama; but that's all I knew.I've always been curious about how the radio show must have differed from the TV show that I remember with such fondness. I mean adaptations in different media usually change stories and characters almost out of recognition. Just think about how Johnny Depp treated the characters of the Masked Man and Tonto with such contempt in his recent fiasco of a movie.After reading this 6th volume in this entertaining series, I now know that the original radio characters were very faithfully adapted for television, because the same company created both. Yet there WERE differences between the two versions and those differences are clearly described in this book. I am now very interested in listening to the over 3,300 radio episodes and, thanks to this book, I know where I can find them inexpensively.I also enjoyed the two TV episodes that were reviewed and synopsized in this volume. This whole series is highly recommended for all Lone Ranger fans.