Ep.442 Tales Of The Texas Rangers: The Blow Off

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 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. The Blow Off: Jace inve...

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostalgent Mystery Radio. I'm your host Stevie K.
0:22.6	And that's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yester.
0:25.6	For this episode, I bring you, Tales of the Texas Rangers, episode titled The Blow Off, originally aired November 25th, 1951, where Jason investigates the murder of a gas station owner.
0:41.1	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:47.3	Thank you for listening. The National Broadcasting Company
0:58.4	presents Joel McCray
0:59.9	in Tales of the Texas Rangers
1:02.6	From Hollywood, another authentic reenactment
1:08.5	of a case transcribed from the files of the Texas Rangers.
1:20.3	Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCrae's Ranger Jace Pearson.
1:25.1	Texas more than 260,000 square miles. And 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America.
1:50.3	Now, from the files of the Texas Rangers,
1:52.1	come these stories based on fact.
1:56.1	Only names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.
1:58.8	The events themselves are a matter of records.
2:04.6	Case for tonight?
2:06.0	The blow-off.
2:16.7	It is approximately 11 p.m. June 16th, 1947.
2:21.3	Aaron Cotwright is watering the gravel apron of his mobile gas station at the intersection of a farm road and Highway 75,
2:24.6	a few miles south of Glenwood, Texas.
2:27.4	A car drives up to the pump.
2:33.5	Yeah, howdy, folks.
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