Ep.69 Tales of the Texas Rangers: Dead or Alive

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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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. Dead or Alive: The Tex...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostalgic Mystery Radio.
0:21.3	I'm your host Stevie K.
0:23.0	And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.
0:26.4	For today's episode, I bring you Tales of the Texas Rangers, episode titled Dead or Alive.
0:33.0	Originally aired September 9th, 1950.
0:36.6	With the Texas City Galveston disaster is the backdrop for a plan to have a wanted man switch identities with a corpse.
0:45.1	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:50.7	Thank you for listening.
1:04.5	Presenting Joel McCray as Jace Pearson in Tales of the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers,
1:15.3	authentic stories from their official files.
1:18.4	Texas, more than 260,000 square miles,
1:21.9	and 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America.
1:42.3	No. most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America. Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on facts.
1:47.0	Only names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.
1:51.1	The events themselves are a matter of record.
1:58.5	Tonight's transcribed case, dead or alive.
2:09.0	At exactly 9.13 a.m. on Wednesday, April 16th, 1947, the French freight of Grand Camp,
2:15.9	carrying a highly explosive cargo of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, blew up in the harbor of Texas City, Texas.
2:23.2	It was the first in a chain of explosions as chemical plants, tin smelters, and oil refineries disappeared in blasts and flames.
2:31.7	Shortly after 1 a.m. the next morning, the major chain reaction was set off.
2:36.1	The explosions rocking the city of Galveston, 10 miles across the bay,
2:40.3	where excited crowds gathered in the streets watching the raging flame pierced sky.
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