The Lone Ranger (TV Series) Bullets for Ballots (1950) User Reviews

McQueen vs. Knox For Mayor

[hogwrassler · 8/10 · 30 November 2020]

The Ranger and Tonto have business elsewhere, but they decide to stay in a small town and ensure an honest election for mayor. The incumbent Leander Knox is a corrupt politician who is in the pocket of crooked banker Jed Wesson. Wesson uses two paid thugs to get people to vote for Knox. His thugs also try to destroy the office of Scotty Dixon, the honest newspaper editor, but are thwarted by The Ranger and Tonto. Young lawyer Bob McQueen is Knox's opponent and will be the best choice. But it will be an uphill battle to win this election. Things really look bad when the thugs try to frame Bob for a bank robbery. Marjorie Lord plays Bob's wife Kitty. She would go on to replace Jean Hagen as Danny Thomas's wife in "Make Room For Daddy."

The Future Big Cool Gunn

[pensman · 7/10 · 15 June 2016]

Quite an episode, Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) and Kathy Williams (Make Room for Daddy's Marjorie Lord) and Superman's Professor Pepperwinkle (Phil Tead) all together for an episode of the Lone Ranger. Robert McQueen (Stevens) is running for mayor to oust a crooked politician but the bad guys make it appear McQueen's wife (Lord) has been kidnapped. He is forced to write a false confession that he robbed the local bank. But the Lone Ranger and Tonto step in to save the day. Tead is fine as the timid bank clerk who is held up but Stevens in particular is way too cool for his role. Bring on the noir, bring on Herschel Bernardi, bring on Lola Albright, and bring on the jazz —too cool man, too cool: Peter Gunn and that Mancini theme.

Dishonest Politics

[StrictlyConfidential · 6/10 · 15 July 2021]

"Bullets For Ballots" (episode 35) was first aired on television May 11, 1950.

Anyway - As the story goes - The Lone Ranger and Tonto arrive in Waynesville just in time to stop a man named Knox from rigging the mayoral election.