I know that this is more suited to a discussion thread, but it is a direct response to a previous comment (and the spoiler warning is a matter of paranoia).
Sorry, Chuck Miller, but the fact that three actors (Jack Clifford, Tristram Coffin and George J. Lewis) all have the attribute "credit only" is impossible to interpret any way but that this is an edited version of the original (and black and white) three-parter from 1949, even using the original's credits. Well, there is the possibility that this IMDb entry is screwed up REAL bad. The fact that Clifford is listed as playing a Cavendish henchman in all three of those episodes does work against the cut-down theory. However, Coffin appears strictly in Part 1, while Lewis' character is killed in the opening moments of Part 2, suggesting that the back-story of Collins (Lewis)'s betrayal of the Rangers, the ambush, Butch turning on Collins, and his surviving Cavendish's treachery to attack our heroes, meeting his actual death in the process, are reduced to being summarized by a narrator. Also note that George Seitz is the credited director of this AND the original three-parter. He is NOT credited with directing an episode of the series after 1951. Furthermore, original producer Jack Chertok gets that credit here, too; admittedly, he was around into '55, but the color remake has been attributed to Jack Wrather, who bought the property from George Trendle and did not retain Chertok. Again, if this is a newly-filmed version of the Lone Ranger's origin, how could three actors not involved be listed in the credits? Please note that I have conceded that a color version was filmed late in the original run, but if the attribute given to Clifford, Coffin and Lewis, and the credits given to Seitz and Chertok are all correct, this cannot be it.
Sorry, Chuck Miller, but the fact that three actors (Jack Clifford, Tristram Coffin and George J. Lewis) all have the attribute "credit only" is impossible to interpret any way but that this is an edited version of the original (and black and white) three-parter from 1949, even using the original's credits. Well, there is the possibility that this IMDb entry is screwed up REAL bad. The fact that Clifford is listed as playing a Cavendish henchman in all three of those episodes does work against the cut-down theory. However, Coffin appears strictly in Part 1, while Lewis' character is killed in the opening moments of Part 2, suggesting that the back-story of Collins (Lewis)'s betrayal of the Rangers, the ambush, Butch turning on Collins, and his surviving Cavendish's treachery to attack our heroes, meeting his actual death in the process, are reduced to being summarized by a narrator. Also note that George Seitz is the credited director of this AND the original three-parter. He is NOT credited with directing an episode of the series after 1951. Furthermore, original producer Jack Chertok gets that credit here, too; admittedly, he was around into '55, but the color remake has been attributed to Jack Wrather, who bought the property from George Trendle and did not retain Chertok. Again, if this is a newly-filmed version of the Lone Ranger's origin, how could three actors not involved be listed in the credits? Please note that I have conceded that a color version was filmed late in the original run, but if the attribute given to Clifford, Coffin and Lewis, and the credits given to Seitz and Chertok are all correct, this cannot be it.