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Fran Striker

Cast, Announcer, Writer, Director

1,869 episodes in 4 shows · 1937–1956

Radio Hall of Fame inductee. (Wikipedia)

Fran Striker was an early radio writer who worked at stations in Buffalo and Cleveland before landing at WXYZ in Detroit. Late in 1932 he began work on The Lone Ranger, eventually turning out about 156 scripts a year plus several Lone Ranger novels. He also wrote The Green Hornet, contributed scripts to Challenge of the Yukon, and later worked on the TV versions of The Lone Ranger and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

Sources: Fran Striker, Wikipedia

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The Lone Ranger1535 · Cast, Announcer, Writer, Director

1937 1

1938 120

1939 143

1940 129

1941 148

1942 150

1943 140

1944 67

1945 57

1946 78

1947 43

1948 87

1949 108

1950 31

1951 44

1952 107

1953 15

1954 34

1955 27

1956 6

Challenge of the Yukon214 · Cast, Writer

1943 15

1944 10

1945 2

1948 24

1949 60

1950 44

1951 28

1952 29

1953 1

1955 1

The Green Hornet119 · Cast, Writer

1938 2

1939 28

1940 18

1941 9

1942 6

1943 1

1944 6

1945 15

1947 4

1948 13

1952 17

The Adventures of the Sea Hound1 · Writer

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