“Who was that Masked Man?” That was the question that ended each episode of ABC’s The Lone Ranger, one of the best-liked television series of the 1950s. From 1949 to 1957, Clayton Moore portrayed the Lone Ranger, except for 1952 and 1953, when actor John Hart replaced Moore as the masked frontier lawman. Although Hart portrayed the Lone Ranger for only one season, he went on to make occasional appearances in that role in other TV shows. He enjoyed being known as the “other”


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