Tales of the Texas Rangers — 1950
26 episodes broadcast in 1950.
July 8, 1950
A hitchhiker murders a New Yorker for his car and clothes, and Pearson traces the stolen identity to its end.
A ranch family is wiped out, and the Rangers work back from an odd clue in the hog feed to the killer.
A dead man in a burned-out ranch house, a broken spur and a heavy man with small feet give Pearson his trail.
A gold tooth is the clue that lets Pearson trace a botched bank robbery and the killing it left behind.
Modern-day cattle rustlers murder the rancher who catches them in the act, and the Rangers close in.
Pearson runs down a crooked constable whose racket has cost a man his life.
The Texas City disaster forms the backdrop as Pearson pursues a killer amid the chaos.
An escaped convict unwittingly marks his route with discarded candy wrappers, and the Rangers follow.
September 23, 1950
Open and Shut
A murder in the oil fields proves to be only the surface of a much dirtier operation.
Narcotics smuggling and murder along the Tex-Mex border draw Pearson into a night-time chase.
October 22, 1950
An elderly farm couple is beaten to death by an assailant Pearson must identify from thin evidence.
A convict breaks out of a small jail, and a single distinctive clue turns the manhunt.
A young ex-convict returns to town threatening a relative's life, and Pearson races to stop a killing.
A death ruled suicide looks less certain the closer Pearson examines it.
A body in a motel room is tied back to a decades-old killing and the ranch owner behind it.
A shopkeeper is murdered by a robber who cut the power first, and Pearson works from the darkness back to the man.
A cowboy is shotgunned to death, and a spent shell plus a cast of a horseshoe print give Pearson his trail.
The "Santa Claus stickup" is a holiday crime story that ends, unusually, on a hopeful note.
A man's homecoming brother brings violence with him, and Pearson pieces together the night's killing.
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