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Grant and his men are trying to chase Ellen Carter out of her house. The foreman is faithful, but nobody will work for him because Grant and his men run them off. The Lone Ranger calls two interesting men to work at the ranch while Tonto goes to work at Grant's ranch.

Soon, the reason they want the ranch is revealed, but then The Lone Ranger ant Tonto are caught and held captive by Grant's men. The issues become pretty hot as the climax comes.

The episode was interesting. The two workers were very surprising but also entertaining as they try to win over the woman rancher's affections. The action in this one was a lot better since there wasn't a lot of fake fighting. And there's a surprise at the ending that was nice, even though I did suspect it...

Evil rancher Jeff Grant knows there is gold on Ellen Carter's ranch and is determined to have it. He and his henchmen have run off all the cow hands except foreman Bill Morgan. The Ranger and Tonto enlist Pedro Martinez and Pete Lacey to work at Ellen's ranch. Pete and Pedro are two cowboys who are as good with their fists as they are with their guns. They beat off one attack by Grant's henchmen. But he will try again and is sure to make things plenty hot for the good guys. John Parrish plays Grant and he seems to be doing a bad impression of Cary Grant. I expected him to say "Judy Judy Judy!" at any time. Lovely Sheila Ryan plays Ellen Carter. A couple of years after this episode was filmed, she married Pat Buttram, Gene's Autry's long time sidekick and who will be forever remembered as Mr Haney on Green Acres. A good entertaining episode with plenty of comic relief.

An example of an early comedic episode of The Lone Ranger.

Ellen Carter a woman rancher is being run out by Jeff Grant. He knows there is gold in her land and he wants it.

The workers from her ranch have already been frightened off apart from the foreman.

The Lone Ranger enlists two workshy guys Pete and Pedro who like to fool around to be the ranch hands.

Pete and Pedro decide to woo Ellen Carter instead but soon things heat up. They are all in danger from Grant's henchmen.

A surprisingly entertaining episode.

A horrible comedy episode with two incredibly bad actors playing one dimensional stereotypes. Pete and Pedro are played by Rufe Davis (Pete) and Don Diamond (Pedro).

Pete and Pedro are constantly fighting with each other, and dueling each other. At one point they are trying to shoot at each other's ears by bending over and putting the guns between their legs. Apparently that was funny in 1949.

It seems like these two were being set-up for the own Western series, but then Don Diamond (Pedro) got hired to be Kit Carson's sidekick (El Toro) on The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951-1955). Don Diamond was Russian, but he spent his career playing Mexican characters, including Corporal Reyes on Zorro (1957-1959).

The non-stop comedy fighting between Pete and Pedro was tough to enjoy. The very pronounced Latin accent by Don Diamond was over the top. He has to be the most unfunny Hispanic character that I have ever seen on any TV series or movie.

When these two characters are not fighting against each other with their outrageous wisecracks, they are romanicing their boss, the owner of the ranch (Sheila Ryan). In the modern times, these two hombres would have a hard time finding a job working the night shift at a cemetery.