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Original Airdate: November 5, 1950
Starring: Joel McCrea as Ranger Jace Pearson
Guest stars: Tony Barrett, Herb Ellis, and William Johnstone
Producer/director: Stacy Keach, Sr.
Announcer: Hal Gibney
Based on actual events, a convict escapes from a small jail, but the manhunt is aided by the prisoner's white jail clothes and the use of a small walkie-talkie. Joel McCrea reads "The Official Ranger's Prayer" in this episode. It is 6:00 am June 23, 1947 and there is only one prisoner in the county jail - John Elliott Bascomb - a notorious and dangerous gunman. In the anteroom connecting the jail with the sheriff’s office, Deputy George Keaton snores away at the end of a long and up-until-then uneventful night’s duty. Sheriff Grissel, however, soon discovers the bodies of his night deputy and the courthouse janitor when he comes in to his office at 8:00 am. He immediately telephones the Texas Rangers, and a short time later Ranger Jace Pearson arrives.
Tales of the Texas Rangers is a 20th century Western police procedural drama which 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. Some of the radio shows are reenactments of actual Texas Ranger cases.
Captain Manuel T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas, who was said to have killed thirty-one men during his 30-year career as a Texas Ranger, was the consultant for the series. Joel McCrea's Pearson often worked by request with a local sheriff's office or police department.
Original Airdate: November 5, 1950
Starring: Joel McCrea as Ranger Jace Pearson
Guest stars: Tony Barrett, Herb Ellis, and William Johnstone
Producer/director: Stacy Keach, Sr.
Announcer: Hal Gibney
Based on actual events, a convict escapes from a small jail, but the manhunt is aided by the prisoner's white jail clothes and the use of a small walkie-talkie. Joel McCrea reads "The Official Ranger's Prayer" in this episode. It is 6:00 am June 23, 1947 and there is only one prisoner in the county jail - John Elliott Bascomb - a notorious and dangerous gunman. In the anteroom connecting the jail with the sheriff’s office, Deputy George Keaton snores away at the end of a long and up-until-then uneventful night’s duty. Sheriff Grissel, however, soon discovers the bodies of his night deputy and the courthouse janitor when he comes in to his office at 8:00 am. He immediately telephones the Texas Rangers, and a short time later Ranger Jace Pearson arrives.
Tales of the Texas Rangers is a 20th century Western police procedural drama which 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. Some of the radio shows are reenactments of actual Texas Ranger cases.
Captain Manuel T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas, who was said to have killed thirty-one men during his 30-year career as a Texas Ranger, was the consultant for the series. Joel McCrea's Pearson often worked by request with a local sheriff's office or police department.
