Ep.328 Tales Of The Texas Rangers: Death Shaft

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 32 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 Shaft: A skeleton...

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostolic Mystery Radio.
0:21.5	I'm your host Stevie K.
0:23.4	And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yester.
0:26.8	For this episode, I bring you, Tales of the Texas Rangers, episode titled Death Shaft,
0:33.7	originally aired September 30th, 1951, where a skeleton is discovered in a closed-up mind.
0:42.2	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:48.2	Thank you for listening. The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCray in Tales of the Texas Rangers.
1:07.2	From Hollywood, another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the files of the Texas Rangers.
1:21.6	Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jake Pearson.
1:27.2	Texas wore than 260,000 square miles.
1:30.7	And 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America.
1:42.4	The No, and the other,
1:44.4	No.
1:46.4	No.
1:47.4	No. Now, from the files of the Texas Rangers,
1:53.7	come these stories based on facts.
1:55.8	Names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.
1:59.4	The events themselves are a matter of records.
2:07.1	Case for tonight, death shaft.
2:16.3	It is 9.30 a.m. November 18th, 1941 in the Big Ben country of West Texas.
2:23.5	J.C. Wilford of the Bureau of Mines and Fred Blaisdell are winding up a narrow dirt road
2:28.6	toward Blaisdell's abandoned mine in Black Hawk Canyon.
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