For my childhood family, a combination of rural poverty and puritanical religion made pop culture itself into a form of forbidden fruit. Yet I did somehow see an occasional episode of the TV show that ran during the same decade. I definitely remember tiny black-and-white images of the Lone Ranger behind thick glass, like an aquarium. This would have been a sneaky and guilty pleasure, and Superman was equally sinful. I believed at the time that the same plump actor played both characters.
