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Tales of the Texas Rangers is a 20th-century Western old-time radio and television police procedural drama that originally aired on NBC Radio from 1950 to 1952 and later on CBS Television from 1955 to 1958. Film star Joel McCrea voiced the radio version as the fictitious Texas Ranger Jace Pearson, who uses the latest scientific techniques to identify criminals. His faithful horse Charcoal (or "Charky") helps Pearson to track down the culprits.

It is 5:45 am, March 6, 1940, and Pete Salverson, owner of the roadside café in West Texas, is opening for business. As he sweeps up in the kitchen, he hears a sound outside the back door and discovers a beat up and hungry dog there with a strange kind of leash on it like a harness - the kind a blind man's dog might wear. When the sheriff turns up, he remembers that he had a missing persons bulletin on a blind man three days ago. The sheriff had a hunch that they needed to find the dog’s owner quickly.

It is January 16, 1950, the time 6:28 p.m. A freight train just outside of a west Texas town gains speed and rolls through the gathering dust. Inside a gondola car, a hobo crouches in the corner as the brakeman comes toward him. As the brakeman tries to throw him off, a scuffle ensues and the hobo jumps off. At 2:55 a.m. on the morning following the freight train incident, a rancher named Banker noticed a small coupe parked in the shoulder of the road with Okalahoma licence plates. Banker turned his spotlights on the car and saw a man slumped down on the driver's seat dead.

It is 11:30 a.m., a Monday morning in November 1939. Sheriff Ross Petsby turns his car in to a quiet residential street in Harpers Landing, Texas. Seated in the car with him is Mrs. Blackburn, a medical assistant. She becomes increasingly nervous as they approach a sign marking the home of Dr. Walter Hemet, who has not been seen over the past few days despite his car being in the garage. The sheriff breaks down his door and enters to discover that the doctor has been shot to death.

It is 9:45 p.m. on a Saturday night in September 1937. The business district of central city Texas is dark, except for the office of Harry Cashman’s used car lot. Cashman is pacing the small office in agitation as a man in a leather windbreaker crosses the lot slipping between the cars for sale and knocks at the door. He is the blood father that was presumed dead of the daughter that Cashman and his wife have adopted, and now he is threatening to take the child unless Cashman pays him more money. 

The two colleagues were delivering a cargo of car radios valued at $39,000 when their truck is sent on a detour to a dead end. The truck and its cargo is hijacked, and Rover and Simms are both needlessly killed.

It is 1:30 a.m., December 4, 1945. A single light glows in the living room of a farmhouse four miles to the town of Ashton in west Texas. Inside the house, a frantic young woman tries to place a telephone call to the sheriff....

It is 4:00 p.m., April 14, 1947. A prisoner in the jail at Pentland County, Texas, is being returned to his cell as the visiting hour comes to an end. His name is Paul Abbott, serving out a six-month sentence for petty larson. His cellmate, John Sagood, has not had a visit, for Sagood is being held without bail awaiting trial for murder....

It is shortly after 9 a.m. on the Tuesday after Labour Day, 1946. Two men in a late-model black sedan cruise slowly along the main street of the town of Live Oak in West Texas casing a bank.

Saturday night, June 5, 1948, time, 10 p.m. On a small ranch 10 miles south of Cranston, Irwin County, Texas, Milton Thomas was counting a large sum of money preparatory to locking it up for the night. As he was counting, his dog Rags appeared to be nervous. Thomas tried to quiet him.... 

Steve flies to Rotterdam to find ex-Nazi Rudolph Karpel...with the help of the Glutenschwitzen girls! 

Tales of the Texas Rangers, 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. The shows were reenactments of actual Texas Ranger cases.