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Series · ABC · 1949

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The Lone Ranger

61Watch it awake.

A child can have the clean ending, and you still have to say what Tonto is.

The review

By 1950 a child could name the mask, the horse, and the silver bullet. A masked man and Tonto ride into a town that is being wronged and leave when it is finished. Justice is simple. The half hour ends clean. A child can watch it. The ending does what it promises, which is why the show sat in the top ten.

Tonto is a companion, and the role is also a limit of what the era would imagine. Say that while it is still on. The help to the town is real. The man beside the mask is drawn smaller than a neighbor. I'd watch it with a child. I wouldn't let the clean exit be the last word about him.

Journal

Keep The Lone Ranger in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Bonanza

68 instead of 61

Bonanza is still a western show, and it scores 68 instead of 61. What you gain is household: Three grown sons and a father are the premise, and the premise holds.

The eight

6
Industry
The work is a town being wronged, and he leaves when that job is done.
2
Household
No marriage and no child; Tonto is a companion, not a family.
7
Piety
He finishes the wrong and goes, instead of staying to be obeyed.
7
Courage
He rides into a town already being wronged and does not keep it.
8
Republic
He owes the wronged town justice, then leaves the place to itself.
7
Temperance
The half hour ends clean, and he does not stay to collect the town.
7
Truth
The simple justice holds: the trouble is finished before he leaves.
5
Stewardship
The town is left standing, and children also inherit a limited Tonto.

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Lanterns

61Watch it awake.

The power is not the point. The dead in the town are.

The review

Hal Jordan and John Stewart come to Rushville because a killing looks, to Hal, like it did not start on Earth. The season also looks back from a later year in which Hal himself is dead. The public frame is two men, one of them new, and a ring that makes force easy, set down in a town with a sheriff and a body. This measure does not name a killer the recaps do not agree on.

What is firm is the order of the goods. A weapon that can do anything is a temptation to skip the town. The season is worth the sitting if the town stays the point. If the ring becomes the point, the measure drops.

Journal

Keep Lanterns in the record.

The Primer house filed 61. The season is over. We watched one hour and named what it was asking us to trust.