Tales of the Texas Rangers | OTRWesterns.com

Original Air Date: April 19, 1950
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Star:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Writer:
• Russell Hughes

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Original Air Date: September 14, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)
Special Guest:
• Tony Barrett
• Paul Frees
Writer:
• Charles E. Israel
Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Original Air Date: September 07, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Paul Frees
• Herb Vigran
• Parley Baer
• Dan Riss
• Betty Lou Gerson

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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It is 4pm on the afternoon of December 25th 1940 in the small West Texas town of Rockfield. In his office Dr Hartley and his nurse are just clearing up after treating an emergency case, which has taken the doctor away from his family on this Christmas day. As they are preparing to leave the Doc sees a man in a car that the nurse tells him has been waiting for 2 hours. Dr Hartley knows who it is and why he has come. He tells his nurse to hide in the supply cupboard. The man comes in to the surgery...

Original Air Date: August 31, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)
Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Herb Ellis
• Henry Rowland
• Dan Riss
• Virginia Gregg
• Dick Beals
Writer:
• Charles E. Israel
Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Original Air Date: August 24, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Virginia Gregg
• Bert Holland
• Ken Christy
• Ernest Newton
• Roy Glenn

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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It is 2:00pm December 21st, four days before Christmas 1931. On a city Street corner in North Texas a man dressed as Santa Claus Suddenly leaves his post beside a large red pot labeled “Help the Poor”. Shivering with cold he enters the newly opened building of the Pamandle Equity Bank and approaches the bank guard…

Original Air Date: December 24, 1950
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Star:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Shepard Menken
• James Nusser
• Virginia Gregg

Original Air Date: August 17, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)
Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Paul Frees
• Betty Lou Gerson
• Lamont Johnson
• Leo Curley
• Lou Krugman
Writer:
• Charles E. Israel
Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Original Air Date: August 10, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Leo Curley
• Bert Holland
• Ken Christy
• Whitfield Connor
• Jeffery Silver

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Original Air Date: August 03, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Virginia Gregg
• Frank Gerstle
• Parley Baer
• Paul McVeigh
• Robert Bice

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Original Air Date: July 27, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Tom Tully
• Leroy Leonard
• Parley Baer
• Juney Ellis
• Lamont Johnson

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Original Air Date: July 20, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Original Air Date: July 13, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Hy Averback
• Bob Sweeney
• Paul Frees
• Parley Baer
• Bert Holland

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Original Air Date: July 06, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Elizabeth Slifer
• Ralph Moody
• Howard McNear
• Parley Baer
• D.J. Thompson

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Original Air Date: June 29, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Original Air Date: June 22, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Parley Baer
• Virginia Gregg
• Gerald Mohr
• Herb Ellis
• Jeanette Nolan

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Original Air Date: June 15, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Byron Kane
• Ken Christy
• Paul Frees
• Michael Ann Berret
• Jess Kirkpatrick
• Tony Barrett

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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A Mexican knifes a fellow countryman and kidnaps a girl. An escape on a train filled with sheep leads Jace and the Rangers on a cross-country race. Jose escapes from jail and the hunt begins once again.

Original Air Date: June 08, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Herb Ellis (Ranger Clay Morgan)
• Tony Barrett (Jose)
• Lillian Buyeff (Maria Sontos)
• Jeanette Nolan (Rosa Alverez)
• Hal March (Sheriff)
• Jan Arvan (station Master)

A clerk, who witness her boss get shot after a robbery gone bad, gives information to the Rangers that doesn't seem to match the evidence.

Original Air Date: June 01, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Jim Hackett serving a life term for armed robbery and murder escaped from a Texas state prison. He was assisted in his escape by a woman thought to be his wife

Original Air Date: May 25, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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A dead body found in a burning building leads Jace Pearson to a killer.

Original Air Date: May 18, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Parley Baer
• Virginia Gregg
• Barney Phillips
• Betty Lou Gerson
• Howard McNear

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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Charlie Brock, an escaped mental patient, is on the loose and cunningly evades recapture.

Original Air Date: May 11, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Herb Ellis (Clay Morgan)
• Harry Lang (Charlie Brock)
• Whitfield Connor (Ralph Lang)
• Hope Summers (Jenny Lang)
• Howard McNear (Mr. Dun)
• Kay Stewart (Laura Stanwig)

Writers:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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A girl returns home to get her little sister involved in a life of crime, starting with a hold-up at a movie theatre.

Original Air Date: May 04, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)
• Virginia Gregg (Billie Lou Simpson)
• Marianne Richmond (Buna Simpson)
• Herb Ellis (Clay Morgan)

Special Guests:
• Betty Lou Gerson
• Tony Barrett
• Howard McNear

Writers:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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A woman is murdered, leaving behind a little boy.

Original Air Date: April 27, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Lillian Buyeff
• Dick Beals
• Leo Curley
• Herb Ellis
• Don Diamond

Writers:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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A crazy woman and poison. But is she crazy? Is it poison?

Original Air Date: April 20, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Parley Baer
• Jeanette Nolan
• John Stephenson
• Byron Kane

Writers:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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When two men witness a shooting, they call the sheriff to report what they saw.

Original Air Date: April 13, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)
Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)
Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Harry Lang
• Howard McNear
• Ken Christy
• Ernest Newton
Writer:
• Charles E. Israel
Producer:
• Stacy Keach
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A soldier deserts from the Army, kills his fellow deserter, and finds himself accused of beating up an old rancher.

Original Air Date: April 06, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)
Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)
Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Peter Lee
• Sam Edwards
• Vivi Janiss
• Jeanette Nolan
• Herb Ellis
Writer:
• Bernard Etterer
• Robert A. White
Producer:
• Stacy Keach
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A man kills a girl's date in Lover's Lane, and she refuses to identify the killer!

Original Air Date: March 30, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Bert Holland
• Betty Moran
• Lou Krugman
• Parley Baer
• Michael Ann Berret

Writer:
• Charles E. Israel

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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A young girl steals her own father's cattle and frames a neighboring rancher for the crime.

Original Air Date: March 16, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Colleen Collins
• Ed Begley
• Miriam Kruschen
• Forrest Lewis
• Parley Baer
• Tony Barrett
• George Pirrone

Writer:
• Betty Mears

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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An Iowa farm family stops in Texas to help a stranger, who then kills the man and woman and wounds their twelve year old boy.

Original Air Date: March 09, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Dick Beals
• Barbara Luddy
• Tom Tully
• Tony Barrett
• Barney Phillips
• Ken Christy

Writer:
• Shelby Gordon

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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A strange burglar, who eats before he robs and who wields a mean ice pick, is finally tracked down by the Rangers.

Original Air Date: March 02, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Lillian Buyeff
• Whitfield Connor
• Parley Baer

Writer:
• Russell Hughes

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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The Rangers break up a stolen car ring and catch a boy who's too good with a knife.

Original Air Date: February 24, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Sam Edwards
• Whitfield Connor
• Paul McVeigh
• Herb Ellis

Writer:
• Russell Hughes

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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A poor field hand is accused of a murder and he only has a snake as his alibi.

Original Air Date: February 17, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Vivianne Baber
• Robert Davis
• Parley Baer
• Herb Ellis
• Bill Johnstone

Writer:
• Russell Hughes

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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An escaped convict hitch-hikes a ride on a country road in an attempt to bypass the road blocks.

Original Air Date: February 10, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Stars:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Tim Graham
• Lou Krugman
• Nestor Paiva
• Ed Begley
• Herb Ellis

Writer:
• Russell Hughes

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK

At 9:30pm on July 23rd, 1936, in a sweltering border-town arena, ex-cowpoke Johnny Buck preps for his fight. Moments into the bout, he’s cut above the eye—then collapses. Rushed to the hospital, doctors discover he’s been poisoned.

Original Air Date: February 03, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Star:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Herb Vigran
• Herb Ellis
• Nestor Paiva
• Parley Baer
• Peggy Webber

Writer:
• Russell Hughes

Producer:
• Stacy K...

At 9:20pm on May 5th, 1937, Jim and Susan Fuller return to their Texas ranch. Jim heads to the barn but spots flickering flashlights among his calves. Grabbing his shotgun, he ventures into the dark, unaware of the danger waiting in the fields.

Original Air Date: January 27, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Star:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Whitfield Connor
• Jeanette Nolan
• Herb Ellis
• Betty Lou Gerson

Writer:
• Russell Hughes

Producer:

On a sweltering July night in 1929, the town of Whitney bustles despite the heat. Sheriff Dave Fellows spots Dr. Thomas, usually sober, staggering down Main Street. As Fellows rushes to help, the doctor collapses and is struck by a speeding car, setting off a chain of events the town won’t forget.

Original Air Date: January 20, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Star:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Tim Graham
• Henry Rowland
• Parley Baer
• Barney Phillip...

On a frigid Texas night, an old woman asks for George Colly at a drugstore—then collapses, forcing a doctor’s call. What truth lies behind her visit?

Original Air Date: January 13, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Star:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Ken Christy
• Virginia Gregg
• Parley Baer
• Ernest Newton
• Herb Ellis
• Lillian Buyeff

Writer:
• Russell Hughes

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

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A gang plots to kidnap an oilman’s son. When Freddie backs out, he’s shot—but gasps a vital clue before dying. Can the boy be saved in time?

Original Air Date: January 06, 1952
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Star:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• William Conrad
• Ed Begley
• Ernest Newton
• Bill Johnstone

Writer:
• Russell Hughes

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny...

Original Air Date: December 30, 1951
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Tales of the Texas Rangers
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)

Star:
• Joel McCrea (Ranger Jayce Pearson)

Special Guests:
• Tony Barrett
• Virginia Gregg
• Herb Ellis
• Ken Christy
• Bill Johnstone
• Byron Kane

Writer:
• Russell Hughes

Producer:
• Stacy Keach

Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK