Ep.430 Tales Of The Texas Rangers: Nighthawk

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 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. Nighthawk: A man kills...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio.
0:22.5	You're host Stevie K.
0:25.6	And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.
0:35.9	For this episode, I bring you Tales of the Texas Rangers, episode titled Nighthawk, originally aired March 30th, 1952,
0:40.4	where a man kills a girl's date in lover's lane, and she refuses to identify the killer. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:49.3	Thank you for listening. Listen.
0:57.0	Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCrae's Ranger Jace Pearson
1:12.7	Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the files of the Texas Rangers
1:17.8	The United States names, dates and places in the following story are fictitious for obvious reasons.
1:43.6	The events themselves are a matter of record.
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