Tales of the Texas Rangers
Tales of the Texas Rangers is a 20th century Western old-time radio and television police procedural drama which originally aired on NBC Radio from 1950 to 1952 and later on CBS Television from 1955 to 1958. Film star Joel McCrea voiced the radio version as the fictitious Texas Ranger Jace Pearson, who uses the latest scientific techniques to identify criminals. His faithful horse, Charcoal, helps Pearson to track down the culprits. The radio shows, some of which are available on the Internet, are reenactments of actual Texas Ranger cases.
Willard Parker (left) and Harry Lauter in 1957.
Joel McRae in publicity still issued for radio series (but actually in costume for the 1950 film The Outriders).
Joel Albert McCrea was an American actor whose career spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he became best known.
McCrea in Four Faces West (1948)
Ad of Joel McCrea and Dolores del Rio from Bird of Paradise in The Film Daily, 1932
McCrea with Fay Wray in The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
McCrea in Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940)