Shot in lively color, "The Wooden Rifle" gets high marks for allowing Clayton Moore to actually act.
John (?) Reid carries a seemingly endless supply of costumes and makeup, to disguise himself when he can't appear as The Lone Ranger. (Where he stashes them -- and why they're uncreased -- is anyone's guess.) In this episode, he's a quack selling a phony nostrum, with Tonto as his assistant (also wearing a different costume).
Moore gets a lot of laughs with his fake Southern accent and seeming inability to point a rifle in the right direction. Reid wears disguises in the two (excellent) theatrical films, but not very often in the TV series. Moore's the pity. (Sorry about that.)
It appears that by the fifth season, the writers were giving Tonto more-coherent and less-pidginy dialog, a welcome improvement.
John (?) Reid carries a seemingly endless supply of costumes and makeup, to disguise himself when he can't appear as The Lone Ranger. (Where he stashes them -- and why they're uncreased -- is anyone's guess.) In this episode, he's a quack selling a phony nostrum, with Tonto as his assistant (also wearing a different costume).
Moore gets a lot of laughs with his fake Southern accent and seeming inability to point a rifle in the right direction. Reid wears disguises in the two (excellent) theatrical films, but not very often in the TV series. Moore's the pity. (Sorry about that.)
It appears that by the fifth season, the writers were giving Tonto more-coherent and less-pidginy dialog, a welcome improvement.