Radio broadcasting was the cheapest form of entertainment, and it provided the public with far better entertainment than most people were accustomed to. As a result, its popularity grew rapidly in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and by 1934, 60 percent of the nation's households had radios.

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Tales of the Texas Rangers

Broadcast History: 8 July 1950 to 14 September 1952
Theme Tune: The Eyes Of Texas Are Upon You

Joel McCrea stars as Texas Ranger Jace Pearson in this thirty-minute western adventure series. The shows are all re-enactments of incidents from Texas Ranger history. The Texas lawman and his trusty steed, Charcoal, would be tracking a criminal, often a killer, throughout the vast 260,000 square miles of Texas.