Tales of the Texas Rangers — 1952
36 episodes broadcast in 1952.
A dying robber names his shooter, drawing Pearson into a kidnapping and a hunt.
A practiced swindler cheats a poor widow out of her savings, and Pearson works to make it right.
Cattle rustlers are caught in the act and one is killed, launching a night-long pursuit.
A prizefighter loses a bout and then dies of poisoning -- or so it seems -- with his manager in the frame.
A poor field hand is framed for murder and nearly lynched, saved only by an improbable break.
Breaking a stolen-car ring, the Rangers corner a youth whose skill with a knife makes him lethal.
A strange burglar who eats before robbing a house and wields a mean ice pick is finally run to ground by the Rangers.
A traveling farm family stops to help a stranger who repays them with murder.
A girl rustles her own father's herd and pins the theft on a neighboring rancher, until Pearson unwinds it.
An Army deserter kills his fellow runaway and then stands accused of beating a rancher, leaving Pearson to sort the guilt.
A death outside a small town proves anything but simple as Pearson works the night's events.
A woman thought mad and a poisoning that may be neither what they seem test Pearson's judgment.
After a woman is murdered and her small son orphaned, a reluctant witness named Pedro is drawn into helping the Rangers.
A young woman comes home to draw her kid sister into crime, beginning with a holdup at a movie theater.
Escaped mental patient Charlie Brock stays a cunning step ahead of the manhunt closing around him.
A body in a burning building leads Pearson to a killer who thought he'd been clever.
A lifer escapes a state prison, and Pearson tracks the fugitive's violent run.
A clerk who watched her boss robbed and shot feeds the Rangers a misleading account of the crime.
A knifing and a kidnapping send Pearson onto a livestock train after a fleeing killer.
A deputy falls under suspicion of tire theft in a case built from the record.
An ex-convict is hired to kill for a thousand dollars, and Pearson works to head off the murder.
A murder and a body in a lake lead the Rangers to a livestock auction -- and to a killer whose guilt isn't quite settled.
After a deputy dies in a prison break, the Rangers work the surviving convicts for the evidence to convict.
When a well-liked newspaper carrier is murdered, the Rangers run the killer's trail all the way to Brazil.
An ex-convict is suspected of a robbery-murder despite an alibi that looks airtight.
A man with a mole beside his eye is the thread that ties a bank robbery to a killing.
A train wreck caused by a tie laid across the rails proves to be no accident.
A man found scrubbing a pool of blood in a missing man's house draws Pearson into a cover-up.
A man is identified as the suspect in a robbery and double murder, but the identification may be wrong.
A dead woman is traced to a psychiatrist who falls under suspicion in a twisting case.
"The Deacon" is badly beaten and loses his memory, complicating a case that turns on his account.
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