Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Tales Of The Texas Rangers" - Illegal Entry (Aired June 8, 1952)


Ranger Clay Morgan (who had been an occasional character on the radio show), played by Harry Lauter. During the opening and closing credits of the TV show, the actors would march toward the camera and sing the theme song, "These Are Tales of Texas Rangers", to the tune of "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You", which is also the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad". The radio series used contemporary cases and modern detective methods to solve crimes; it was a procedural drama, in many ways Dragnet with a Western flavor. The TV show was aimed at kids (and aired on Saturday mornings) and was more of a traditional Western (with chases and shoot-outs). The TV series did both modern cases and cases set in the "Old West." With new cases using a car with horse float to get the rangers to their destinations it always made sure that the use of horses was only a step away. With older themes they would always ride into town on the horses to mete out their justice, they wore differing ranger attire for new and old scenes, also their weaponry was totally different.

THIS EPISODE:

June 8, 1952. NBC network. "Illegal Entry". Sustaining. A Mexican knifes a fellow countryman and kidnaps a girl. An escape on a train filled with sheep leads Jace and the Rangers on a cross-country race. Jose escapes from jail and the hunt begins once again. Joel McCrea, Stacy Keach (producer, director), M. T. Lone Wolf Gonzaullas (technical advisor), Herb Ellis, Tony Barrett, Lillian Buyeff, Hal March, Jay Arvan, Charles E. Israel (adaptor, transcriber), Hal Gibney (announcer), Jeanette Nolan. 23:51. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.