Tales of the Texas Rangers — 1951
34 episodes broadcast in 1951.
A body stuffed in a duffel bag turns up in an empty freight car, and the Rangers ride the rails after the truth.
A double murder is pinned on a red-haired gambler, but Pearson doubts the easy answer.
Two thieves rustle stolen hay rather than cattle, and murder the farmer who catches them.
January 28, 1951
Two lumber-company loggers are marked for a scheme that turns to killing in the timber country.
The murder of a high-school teacher leads Pearson down an unexpected trail.
A sugar bowl is the small, telling clue that leads Pearson to a killer.
Hijackers kill the drivers of a truckload of car radios, and Pearson lays a trap of his own.
A seeing-eye dog puts Pearson onto a curious case of murder and deception.
A man posing as the father of a used-car dealer's adopted child turns out to be his killer.
Pearson and the Rangers close in on Rex Lang, a young killer they mean to take alive.
A man called "Lucifer" confesses to a murder, but Pearson isn't convinced he did it.
A brutal killing done with a frying pan sets Pearson on the trail of the true culprit.
A Ranger captain's decades-old case resurfaces as Pearson works a tangled conspiracy.
A family is poisoned by tainted sausage, and the trial that follows opens a darker story.
April 29, 1951
A doctor is murdered in his office and a cowboy turns up dead, with no witnesses to either.
A man is shot in the back with a shotgun, and Pearson works a killing rooted in an old score.
A man is knifed to death in the parking lot of a square dance, and Pearson sifts the crowd for a killer.
A skeleton with a bashed-in skull is found in an abandoned mine, and Pearson reopens a buried crime.
Pearson again runs down a crooked constable whose racket turned deadly (a restaging of the 1950 case).
A deserted motel hides stolen goods and the crime behind them.
A young Mexican looks like the obvious killer of an accountant in a lovers'-lane shooting -- but the case is less open-and-shut than it appears.
A cowboy is found beaten to death, and the scent of marijuana points Pearson toward the man responsible.
A gas-station attendant is murdered in a robbery, and one small clue cracks the case.
A woman and her infant are both murdered, and the grieving husband is the prime suspect.
A homemade time bomb kills a woman and wounds her husband, and Pearson hunts the bomber.
Two hoboes toss a body from a boxcar, and two bullet holes turn a nuisance into a murder case.
A doctor is shot dead in his office on Christmas Eve, and the killer's bandaged hand becomes the clue.
The murder of a narcotics user sends the Rangers south across the Mexican border after her killer.
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