As the title suggests, these were straightforward adventure stories concerning the exploits of one of America’s most famous law-enforcement agencies.
Although Rangers Pearson (Willard Parker) and Morgan (Harry Lauter) were regulars, they appeared in a different setting each week, ranging from the Old West of the 1830s to present-day (1950s) Texas, using crime-detection methods appropriate to each era.
The series was, in fact, a survey of the Rangers’ activities over its 120-year history.
Tales Of The Texas Rangers was seen on Saturday afternoons on CBS from September 1955 to May 1957. It then moved to ABC, where it ran at 5:00 pm on Sundays (September 1957 to June 1958) and later Thursdays (October 1958 to December 1958), just prior to its primetime run.
The series was also heard as a radio series in the early 1950s, with Joel McCrea in the lead role of Ranger Pearson.
Ranger Jace Pearson
Willard Parker Ranger Clay Morgan
Harry Lauter
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