Episode
The Lone Ranger: Letter of the Law
Overview
Jeff Niles, who is married under an alias to the daughter of a callous sheriff, is blackmailed by prison escapee Sam Slater for details of a bank in which Niles works because Niles as a boy unwittingly did a robbery with Slater.
Details
- Series
- The Lone Ranger
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1951-01-04
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Letter of the Law is Episode 17 in Season 2 of The Lone Ranger. It aired on 1951-01-04. The runtime is 30 min.
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto help a couple save their ranch from a crooked mortgage holder, who wants to repossess the property for its mineral deposits.
Episode 18: The Silent Voice
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The Lone Ranger becomes involved when a series of gold shipments are attacked. All the clues seem to point to the least likely group of people in the area. The Lone Ranger must find a way to establish guilt and convince those around him.
Episode 19: The Outcast
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Episode 14: One Jump Ahead
The Lone Ranger and Tonto are on the trail of Rick Sanders a well known outlaw. What puzzles the pair is how Sanders is getting money because it is so long since he pulled a job. While in town for supplies, Tonto overhears a conversation that might solved the puzzle.
Episode 20: Backtrail
The Lone Ranger and Tonto come across a railway gang thats been attacked. What appears on the surface to be an Indian raid quickly appears to be far more complex and dangerous.
Episode 13: Bad Medicine
The Lone Ranger learns the Bolton gang which he is pursuing has committed a bank robbery in which one of them has been wounded and finds them holding a town doctor hostage for treatment and uses an Italian immigrant disguise as a ruse.
Episode 21: Behind the Law
The Lone Ranger gets word that the Folsom gang has overrun the town of San Carlos, and the local sheriff refuses to act. The Lone Ranger goes to the town to find out the true situation.
Episode 12: Desert Adventure
After the Yuma Kid's gang robs a bank, destroys a water hole behind them and heads across inhospitable desert, the Lone Ranger dons an old timer's disguise and tells a tale of gold to get Yuma and Cheyenne to get to the rest of the gang.
Episode 22: Trouble at Black Rock
Ruthless McCarty and two fellow prisoners have escaped and are heading for Black Rock mine in which McCarty has hidden stolen gold coin but where old-timer Neeley is working a claim and has been injured in an accident that uncovered the loot.
Episode 11: Banker's Choice
A banker is being blackmailed to keep it quiet that his son is an embezzler but the blackmailer unknown to the banker is an employee and relative who is the actual embezzler.
Episode 23: Two Gold Lockets
A young man is released from prison fully intent on joining the "Carlos Marina" gang. The Lone Ranger encounters a man who had previously fought against the gang. They decide to join forces to combat this new threat to peace in the West.