Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Deller. Hello. Hello and welcome to Down these Mean Streets. This week we're headed west where

Joel McCray fought for law and order in the Lone Star State in

Tales of the Texas Rangers. A unique blend of cowboy action and 20th century

police procedural, the show was brought to the air by producer Stacy Keach, father of the Mike Hammer actor of the same name.

Keach and his writers dramatized cases from the files of the legendary Texas lawmen, cops who

were trained in the latest police techniques, but who still rode horses and knew the old school

methods of law enforcement.

Not only did he have a great premise,

one that combined two of the most popular on-air genres of the day,

Keach also had a great star in Joel McCray playing Ranger Jase Pearson.

Early in his career, McCray worked with Preston Sturgis and Alfred Hitchcock, but by the mid-1940s he switched his focus to almost exclusively

Westerns.

McCrae was a fantastic big screen cowboy, and he brought that authority and sagebrush style to his portrayal of Pearson,

creating a completely believable Texas lawman in the process.

Today we'll hear a pair of Texas Ranger tales beginning with

Quicksilver originally aired on NBC on August 12th 1950. In this one

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