Saddle up and head west with Joel McCrea as Ranger Jayce Pearson in Tales of the Texas Rangers. This mix of Western adventure and police procedural presented dramatized versions of actual cases taken from the Rangers' files. The result was a frontier-style Dragnet that combined two of radio's most popular genres. We'll ride with Ranger Pearson in "Hanging by a Thread," originally aired on NBC on November 26, 1950.