‘The Lone Ranger’ debuts on WXYZ radio in Detroit 80 years ago today (1933)


Video: 'First Lone Ranger!' (parts 1-4)

(Monday, January 30, 1933) — The first episode of The Lone Ranger radio program, about a masked ex-Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West, was broadcast today on station WXYZ in Detroit.