Ep.40 Tales of the Texas Rangers: The White Suit

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 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. The White Suit: A convi...

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio.
0:21.6	I'm your host Stevie K, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.
0:26.8	For today's episode, I bring you Tales of the Texas Rangers, episode titled The White Suit,
0:33.2	original air date November 5th 1950, where a convict
0:37.5	escapes from a small jail
0:39.2	and the manhunt is aided by the
0:41.2	prisoner's white jail clothes and a
0:43.4	small walkie-talkie.
0:45.4	So sit back and relax,
0:48.0	and I hope you enjoy
0:49.0	this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:51.4	Thank you for listening. The National Broadcasting Company presents Joe McCrae in Tales of the Texas Rangers.
1:11.9	Tonight transcribed from Hollywood
1:13.5	another authentic reenactment
1:15.0	of a case from the files
1:16.2	of the Texas Rangers.
1:25.9	Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCray as Ranger Jace Pearson. Texas Rangers come these stories based on fact.
1:59.2	Only names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons. The events themselves are a matter of record.
2:09.6	Case for tonight, the white suit.
2:26.7	It is 6 a.m., June 23rd, 1947.
2:30.2	There is only one prisoner in the Live Oak County Jail.
2:33.8	He is John Elliott Bascombe, a notorious and dangerous gunman.
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