Originally broadcast on Mutual, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1950–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 92
- 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 · 361951 · 9
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
11 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
1951
1952
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1951, in original transmission order.
- 1. Helping Hand · 4 Nov 1951
- 2. Open And Shut · 11 Nov 1951
- 3. Wild Crop · 18 Nov 1951
Drive-In
14 Sep 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 14 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Alibi
7 Sep 1952 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Misplaced Person
31 Aug 1952 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 31 August 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Three Victims
24 Aug 1952 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 24 August 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Cover-Up
17 Aug 1952 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 17 August 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Last Stop
10 Aug 1952 · 25 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 10 August 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Double Edge
3 Aug 1952 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 3 August 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Stick-Up
27 Jul 1952 · 22 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 27 July 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
7 Sep 1952
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 7 Sep 1952.
Originally broadcast on NBC Blue, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 7 September 1952. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
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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