Ep.117 Tales of the Texas Rangers: Soft Touch

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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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. Soft Touch: An el...

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio. I'm your host Stevie K. And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear. For this episode, I bring you Tales of the Texas Rangers. Episode titled Soft Touch, originally aired October 29th, 1950, where an elderly farm couple is found beaten to death by an
0:39.9	assailant who knew what he was doing. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this
0:46.4	nostalgic mystery radio. Thank you for listening. The National Broadcasting Company presents
0:58.6	Joel McCray in Tales of the Texas Rangers
1:02.1	Tonight transcribed from Hollywood
1:07.7	Another authentic reenactment of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.
1:20.2	Tales of the Texas Rangers
1:21.8	starring Joe McCray as Ranger
1:23.5	Jace Pearson.
1:25.5	Texas more than 260,000 square miles and 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America. Yeah. Now, from the piles of the Texas Rangers
1:52.0	come these stories based on facts.
1:54.2	Only names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.
1:58.2	The events themselves are a matter of record.
2:05.6	Yeah. for obvious reasons. The events themselves are a matter of record. Case for tonight, soft touch.
2:22.0	It is 11 a.m. on a.m. on a. Sunday in August, 1949.
2:28.6	A blue sedan comes to a stop in front of a ranch house 30 miles in the town of Salt Flats, Texas.
2:33.0	Come on, kids. This grandma's house.
2:33.5	Shh.
2:34.9	Bill, let me sleep.
2:36.4	We started so early, they're tired.
2:38.0	Well, we can't leave them in the car.
2:41.0	If we wake them up now, they'll never finish their naps.
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