Category: NBC

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Address Unknown (EP4010)

Today’s Mystery:

A young mother sends her ten-year-old son to get water, but when he returns with a farmer, she’s gone.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 27, 1952

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Dangerous Assignment: The Football Play (EP4007)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to North Indo-China (modern-day Vietnam) to retrieve an American clerk who’d been framed as a spy and then captured by guerillas.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 25, 1950

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: Illusion (EP4004)

Today’s Mystery:

A homemaker claims someone is trying to kill her.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 20, 1952

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Dangerous Assignment: Memory Chain Equation (EP4001)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Munich to intercept a stolen formula that’s traveling by way of an inventive new route – the Memory Chain.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 18, 1950

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: Uncertain Death (EP3998)

Today’s Mystery:

Jace is called in when two fishing buddies hear shots and there’s evidence of foul play but no body.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 13, 1952

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Dangerous Assignment: Contact Marta Gelber and Smash Sabotage Ring (EP3995)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Tokyo to investigate a sabotage operation for which an old flame is the prime suspect.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 6, 1950

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: Troop Train (EP3992)

Today’s Mystery:

Jace looks for a soldier who deserted a troop train, beat up an elderly rancher, and stole his car.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 6, 1952

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Dangerous Assignment: Forged Identification Papers Racket (EP3989)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve has to put a stop to an organization that’s killing American tourists overseas and stealing their identities in order to smuggle their agents across the border.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 29, 1950

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: Nighthawk (EP3986)

Today’s Mystery:

Jace investigates the case of a robber who is assaulting young couples at night and who has already committed one murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 30, 1952

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Dangerous Assignment: Retrieve Slarga from Latin America (EP3983)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Latin America to retrieve a foreign agent who is willing to give the US vital secrets if they can protect him from the police and his former organization.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 27, 1950

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: Prelude to a Felony (EP3980)

Today’s Mystery:

Jace is called in to investigate the disappearance of four calves from a small farm.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 16, 1952

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Dangerous Assignment: Contact Lefty the Trained Seal (EP3977)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve goes to Istanbul where a seal and his trainer are at the center of a murder case involving an agent investigating a spy ring.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 20, 1950

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: Dream Farm (EP3974)

Today’s Mystery:

A couple moving to Texas from Iowa are killed, and their 12 year-old son is shot in a car-jacking gone wrong.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 9, 1952

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Dangerous Assignment: Chromite Mine Disaster (EP3971)


Today’s Mystery:

Steve is sent to the Balkans to find out what’s behind a series of murders at an allegedly cursed chromite mine.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 6, 1950

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Tales of the Texas Rangers: The Ice Man (EP3968)

Today’s Mystery:

Jace searches for an icepick-wielding burglar who steals food from his victims first.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 2, 1952

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