You can know your lines, hit your marks, and have an indefinable charisma that draws in viewers and brings a character to life, but that's no guarantee you'll be able to hang onto your role in a TV series. Even a star can find themselves cast aside if the network so decides. Stardom can't even guarantee an explanation when things don't work out.
The Lone Ranger has appeared on radio, comics, serials, and film, but 1950s audiences knew him best through the work of actor Clayton Moore. Throughout the decade, Moore donned the mask, mounted his horse Silver, and rode alongside Jay Silverheel's Tonto to the William Tell Overture on "The Lone Ranger" TV series. Moore enjoyed the part; he liked working with Silverheel and earned extra money for doing his own horse stunts (per the Los Angeles Times). But for a brief period during the series' run, he was replaced by actor John Hart.
In its obituary for Hart, the Chicago Tribune said that Moore was replaced over money. But in his memoir "I Was That Masked Man," Moore denied that he'd had any dispute with producers over money, merchandising, or any other business consideration. "No one connected with 'The Lone Ranger' ever told me why I had been fired," he wrote, "and I never asked." Moore professed the same ignorance as to why he was eventually rehired.
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