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One of the most popular genres of early television especially in the 40s and 50s.
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Typically portraying frontier life, cowboys, lawmen, and rangers.
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- 1949 Early western that takes place in lawless Texas with partnership between a Texas ranger and Native American. Has spawned 3 spinoffs The Lone Ranger (1956), The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, The Legend of the Lone Ranger, and 1 feature film staring Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp.
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- 1954 early western fictionalizing the famous titular character
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- 1955 popular western starting as a radio program then ran on tv for 20 seasons and spawned several tv movies Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge, Gunsmoke: The Last Apache, Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992), Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1993), and Gunsmoke: One Man’s Justice (1994).
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- 1957 based on pulp adventure magazine stories about a masked vigilante who protects and defends the indigenous people of Spanish California (1769–1821) and Mexican California (1821–1848).
- other live action tv versions include Zorro and Son, Zorro, in addition to animated series The New Adventures of Zorro, The New Adventures of Zorro, and Zorro: Generation Z as well as several international series and radio dramas
- The character has been adapted for over forty Films .
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