Ep.62 Tales of the Texas Rangers: Quicksilver

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 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. Quicksilver: The...

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio.
0:20.7	I'm your host Stevie K, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesterday year.
0:25.8	For today's episode, I bring you Tales of the Texas Rangers, episode titled Quicksilver,
0:32.0	originally aired August 5, 1950, where the Rangers tracked down the killer of her ranch family, starting with
0:39.2	a clue and the hog feed.
0:41.6	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic history radio.
0:47.5	Thank you for listening.
0:53.1	It's National Wheaties Week. It's National Wheaties Week.
0:55.2	Yes, it's National Wheaties Week, and Wheaties present Joe McCray in Tales of the Texas Rangers.
1:21.6	On stage tonight, transcribed from Hollywood, another in the Wheaties big parade of exciting half-hour presentation.
1:36.3	Yeah. from Hollywood, another in the Wheatty's big parade of exciting half-hour presentation. Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Pearson.
1:41.3	Texas more than 260,000 square miles. and 50 men who make up the oldest and most
1:47.0	famous law enforcement body in North America. And now from the piles of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on facts.
2:10.1	Only Maine states and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.
2:13.8	The events themselves are a matter of records.
2:21.6	Yeah. The events themselves are a matter of records. Case for tonight, Quick Silver.
2:28.3	At 11.30 on the night, 22nd,, 1947, the Stockholm Ranch, located in the middle of Carson County, Texas, was darkened for the night.
2:41.6	When the occupants were awakened by the barking of a dog.
2:49.6	Jim? Jim, wake up
2:51.6	What's the matter, Phil?
2:54.2	You hear Jeep bark?
2:55.8	Well, kind of, I was half asleep.
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