Ep.107 Tales of the Texas Rangers: Death Plant

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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 (or "Charky," as Jayce would sometimes refer to him), to track them down. The shows were reenactments of actual Texas Ranger cases. Death Plant: A home-mad...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio.
0:22.2	I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesterday year.
0:27.4	For this episode, I bring you Tales of the Texas Rangers, episode title Death Plant,
0:33.6	originally aired December 9th, 1951, where a homemade time bomb is used to kill Sylvia Peters and wound her husband, Tom.
0:42.8	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:48.7	Thank you for listening.
0:52.9	The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCray in Tales of the Texas Rangers.
1:02.8	From Hollywood, another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the files of the Texas Rangers.
1:17.4	The from the files of the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCray as Ranger Jace Pearson.
1:22.3	Texas more than 260,000 square miles.
1:25.7	And 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America.
1:47.7	Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on fact.
1:49.9	Only names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.
1:54.1	The events themselves are a matter of record.
2:03.4	Case for tonight, death plan.
2:14.0	It is 11 o'clock on the night of September 18th, 1946.
2:19.5	14 miles east of Pembroke, Texas on state route 70 stands the first community church.
2:23.6	Each Wednesday night, members of the congregation have been donating their services to the construction of a recreation hall.
2:25.7	The evening's work is just over.
2:27.4	And Tom Peters, a farmer, stands in the parking area, waiting for his wife to catch up to him.
2:32.1	Shelby!
2:33.2	All right!
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