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A television western featuring the Lone Ranger. Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, John Morse; based on a radio play by Tom Dougall; teleplay, Charles Larson; editor, Everett Dodd. Cast: John Hart, Jay Silverheels, John Bryant. Appl. author: Jack Chertok Productions, inc., employer for hire

Registration LP2453 Renewed

Term began
1952-12-25
Claimant
The Lone Ranger, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE73155 filed 1980-12-01 by Lone Ranger Television, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6970631)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal RE73155 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Lone Ranger Television, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-12-01
Original cited
LP2453 / 1952-12-25
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6970631: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE73155, registered 1980-12-01, for original registration LP2453 published 1952-12-25.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 2170–2182.

Summary: A television western featuring 
the Lone Ranger. 

Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; direc- 
tor, John Morse; based on a radio play by 
Tom Dougall; teleplay, Charles Larson; 
editor, Everett Dodd. Cast: John Hart, Jay 
Silverheels, John Bryant. 

Appl. author: Jack Chertok Productions, 
inc., employer for hire. 

© The Lone Ranger, inc.; 25Dec52; LP2453. 

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