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 a. 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 to track them down. With willard parker harry lauter william boyett stanley andrews typical western with a twist the two stars appeared as texas rangers but in a different scenario each program one week they might be rangers in the 1840s and the next week they would be current day rangers ie it was a history of the texas rangers. Tales of the texas rangers tales of the texas rangers there have never been many of them and they havent always behaved well but for more than a century now theyve been one of the most famous law enforcement out fits in the world