To me, "The Lone Ranger" was a radio show, starring Brace Beemer. I had never really watched the TV version. In the early '70's, I was in grad school and someone rented L.R. videos for a campus party. They got the episode in which Reed becomes the Lone Ranger. I'm fairly sure that the old radio script was used for TV with no adaptation whatever for the change of media. It began with a rider arriving to tell the rangers that a rancher and his family had been brutally murdered. A "codger" stood there, absolutely wooden and expressionless, and drawled, "That's too bad"
Later a "bad guy" falls several hundred feet off a cliff unto solid rocks. Tonto looks down and tonelessly pronounces, "Him dead, Kemosabe".
For adult viewers, at least, so bad it was wonderful.