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Movie star joel mccrea starred as texas ranger jace pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, charcoal to track them down. Film star joel mccrea voiced the radio version as the fictitious texas ranger jayce pearson, who uses the latest scientific techniques to identify. Jim is kidnapped and neighbor abe miller is killed. The program followed the same type of stepbystep case solving process as did dragnet. Tales of the texas rangers old time radio quoteaway. The rangers assume jim is the killer and go to investigate. Tales of the texas rangers, was originally a western adventure oldtime radio drama from 1950 to 1952. Film star joel mccrea voiced the radio version as the fictitious texas ranger jace pearson, who uses the latest scientific techniques to identify criminals. Willard parker harry lauter tale of the texas rangers 1957. Film star joel mccrea voiced the radio show as the fictitious texas ranger jayce pearson, who uses the latest scientific techniques to identify criminals. Watch tales of the texas rangers season 1, episode 4 west of sonora. It was a western adventure oldtime radio drama that premiered on july 8, 1950, on the us nbc radio network and remained on the air through september 14, 1952. Dec 06, 2017 tales of the texas rangers old time radio quoteaway. The two stars appeared as texas rangers but in a different scenario each program.
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