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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.343 Tales Of The Texas Rangers: Clip Job

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 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. Clip Job: Jace is calle...

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostolic Mystery Radio.

0:21.3

I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.

0:26.6

For this episode, I bring you Tales of the Texas Rangers, episode titled Clip Job, originally aired January 13th, 1952,

0:41.5

where Jason's called in with a con man swindles a widow out of her entire life savings.

0:44.4

So sit back and relax,

0:47.2

and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

0:50.8

Thank you for listening. Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCray as Ranger Jace Pearson.

1:14.5

Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the files of the Texas Rangers.

1:18.9

The United States. names, dates and places in the following story are fictitious for obvious reasons.

1:44.8

The events themselves are a matter of record.

1:51.3

You know, when Thursday rolls around, it'll bring more top radio entertainment to you over these NBC stations.

1:57.8

Thursday starts right off in high gear with Robert Young starring as heroic and

2:02.0

Harris Jim Anderson of Father Knows Best. The Andersons are just like your family, but funnier,

2:08.6

for the head of the household can get himself involved in situations that take the concerted

2:12.8

effort of wife and progeny to get unraveled. And usually Jim rises from the battle bloody but unbowed,

2:18.9

and still firmly convinced that father knows best.

2:22.5

For adventure fans, Thursday holds the promise of top mystery listening also,

2:26.7

as NBC presents Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons,

2:29.7

who matches his deductive reasoning against the violence and murder of crime.

2:34.2

Later join Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday of Dragnet,

2:38.2

the true story of your police force in action.

2:40.8

Father knows best, Mr. Keene Tracer of Lost Persons and Dragnet.

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