Suspense
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Suspense_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1950–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 187
- Genre
- detective
, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952. Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal, to track them down.
1952 · 41951 · 41950 · 4
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Listenable · 4 of 45Rough but complete · 41 of 45
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: TalesOfTheTexasRangers
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
JFMAMJJASOND
1950
1951
1952
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. Tales of the Texas Rangers (000) 1950-04-13 · 13 Apr 1950
- 2. Tales of the Texas Rangers (008) 1950-08-26 · 26 Aug 1950
- 3. Tales of the Texas Rangers (017) 1950-10-29 · 29 Oct 1950
- 01
Tales of the Texas Rangers (000) 1950-04-13
13 Apr 1950 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 13 April 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Tales of the Texas Rangers (008) 1950-08-26
26 Aug 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 26 August 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Tales of the Texas Rangers (017) 1950-10-29
29 Oct 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 29 October 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Tales of the Texas Rangers (024) 1950-12-24
24 Dec 1950 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 December 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Tales of the Texas Rangers (032) 1951-02-18
18 Feb 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 18 February 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Canned Death
22 Apr 1951 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “TalesOfTheTexasRangers”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
Tales of the Texas Rangers (048) 1951-10-14
14 Oct 1951 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 14 October 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Death Plant
9 Dec 1951 · 58 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 9 December 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
13 Apr 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 13 Apr 1950.
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons (1286) 1950-04-13
13 Apr 1950 · 24 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Mr_Keen_Tracer_Of_Lost_Persons_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
The Adventures of Maisie
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1950–1952
Other series the network carried while Tales of the Texas Rangers was on the air.
Same seasons
detective on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The private eye at the microphone
First-person narration, a case that walks in the door, and a city that talks back. Marlowe, Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar turned detection into a listening form.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Tales of the Texas Rangers
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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