High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! List of the Lone Ranger television episodes identifies the series that ran from 1949 until 1957. It had five seasons of original episodes. Seasons One and Two ran for 78 consecutive weeks without a rerun, but some in between years were made up entirely of reruns. The series starred Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels as the Lone Ranger and Tonto, except for season three when John Hart played the role of the Lone Ranger. A total of 221 half-hour episodes were produced.