Ep.54 Tales of the Texas Rangers: The Cactus Pear

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 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 Cactus Pear: A cowb...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio. I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesterday year. For today's episode, I bring you Tales of the Texas Rangers, episode titled The Cactus Pear, originally aired December 17, 1950, where a cowboy is gunned down with a shotgun. The clues are shotgun shells
0:40.9	and a cast of a horseshoe. So sit back and relax and I hope to enjoy this nostalgic mystery
0:48.2	radio. Thank you for listening. The National Broadcasting Company presents
0:59.8	Joe McCray in Tales of the Texas Rangers.
1:07.2	Tonight transcribed from Hollywood another authentic reenactment of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.
1:16.6	Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson.
1:26.6	Texas more than 260,000 square miles.
1:30.0	And 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America.
1:53.9	Thank you. Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on fact.
1:57.4	Only names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.
2:00.2	The events themselves are a matter of record.
2:06.6	Case for tonight, the cactus pear.
2:09.6	It is 4 p.m. the afternoon of March 28, 1947.
2:23.3	Robert Coults, a new hand on the Triangle Ranch's repairing a fence on the southeast range.
2:29.3	He starts as a righter of course.
2:32.3	Hold on. Hold on.
2:35.1	Howdy, Brake.
2:37.9	Howdy me, Coot.
2:41.5	Well, I see you finally got my job.
2:43.8	I got a job because there was one open.
2:46.9	If you left it open, that's your worry, I reckon, not mine.
2:49.2	You've been making up to the old man trying to get me fired ever since you came into this country.
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