RB196 Cotton and Candy

 RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, April 29,2023, is:

RB196 Cotton and Candy

Bill finds an injured bunny and asks Henry to nurse it back to health. Then Bill, Stumpy and Henry visit little Candy Faye who has been in and out of the hospital most of her life. Henry decides to share Cotton with sick little Candy. Cotton disappears. Can our rangers find the bunny? How will Candy react to the loss?

RB204 Chief of the Dakotas aka Chief Gray Wolf

  RANGER BILL for early Saturday, 4/29/23, is RB204

Chief of the Dakotas

 

Gray Wolf’s father Chief Black Wolf has died. The Dakotas want to make Gray Wolf their new chief, but he doesn’t want the job. Will he give in to the Dakotas’ demand? Will they take Gray Wolf by force? Will he run away and hide? And what can or will Bill and Henry do to help their friend and fellow ranger? 

https://archive.org/details/chief-of-the-dakotas

Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Green Ant

April 29,2023 

Uncle Bob Devine's Nature Corner/Storybook Room interviews Annabelle the Australian Green Tree Ant.

https://moodyaudio.com/products/annabelle-australian-green-tree-ant

RB207 The Town That Wouldn't Move

  We have another exciting RANGER BILL adventure for this Friday, 4/28/23:

RB207 The Town that Wouldn't Move

The small town of Big Rock must move to make way for the construction of a badly needed hydro-electric dam. Not one person in the town is willing to move. The townspeople prefer to fight rather than move. Bill is appointed to be the mediator in this dispute. Bill must decide whether Big Rock stays or goes. No matter who wins this fight, Bill loses.

https://archive.org/details/town-wouldnt-move

RB205 The Swinging tower of Eagles Rest

 Our Ranger Bill story for midweek, 4/26/2023, is:

RB205 The Swinging Tower of Eagles Rest

Fire tower 10 is one of the highest in the national forest with breathtaking views and a reputation for swaying in the high winds there. Folks from all around the Knotty Pine area like to visit tower 10 and its rangers, Tom and Joe, and to see Eagles' Rest. Young Ken Winthrop has just hiked out to Eagles' Rest when a severe snowstorm hits. Ranger Tom slips and breaks his leg, the phone line breaks, and their radio link to headquarters goes down when the antenna blows away. A severely injured ranger and no contact with the outside world - can anything else go wrong?

Enjoy this exciting adventure!!!

https://archive.org/details/the-swinging-tower-of-eagle-s-rest

RB195 Hearing God to Help the Missionaries

  Our RANGER BILL tale for late Saturday morning 4/22/23, is about a young boy who must make some tough choices:

RB195 Hearing God to Help the Missionaries aka The Diamond Ring

Young Ronnie Quiller wants to help the missionaries Barth and Jeannie Ludlow. He finds a diamond ring lost in the street. He wants to sell the ring and give the money to the Ludlow’s. Ronnie must wait 30 days for the ring’s owner to come forward and claim the ring.

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_61-06-02_ep125_Hearing_God_To_Help_The_Missionaries_aka_The_Diamond_Ring.mp3

RB194 Rattlesnake Sam aka 50 or 60 Snakes

 RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, 4/22/23, is 

RB194 Rattlesnake Sam aka 50 or 60 Snakes

Sam and Danny Smith hunt poisonous snakes for the Florida Reptile Institute. They take Henry’s friend Jack Harris on a snake hunt. Sam loses a bag of snakes, and Jack must protect a school of children from the deadly reptiles. 

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_xx-xx-xx_ep124_Rattlesnake_Same_aka_Fifty_Or_Sixty_Snakes.mp3

Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Piddock Clam

 Uncle Bob's Nature Corner/Storybook Room interviews Perry the Common Piddock today, 4/22/23.

Tim talks to the apostle John.

https://moodyaudio.com/products/perry-piddock-shellfish

RB197 Bill Gets Lost in a Cavern aka Transistor Walkie-Talkies

  RANGER BILL for

Friday afternoon April 21,2023:

Bill Gets Lost in a Cavern aka Transistor Walkie-Talkies

Bill asks Henry and his boys group to test out the rangers’ new walkie-talkies. The boys’ test takes them deep into the forest where they discover wreckage from a recent plane crash. But the plane’s occupants are missing. The search is on for the missing pilot and passengers.

rb193 (The Fire Bomber's) Pink Cloud

  RANGER BILL begins our work week with another great adventure for April 17, 2023, is:

(The Fire Bomber's) Pink Cloud

Abner Benson is Bill’s friend from the service. Abner is a pilot with a new way to fight fires by dropping pink clouds of calcium borate on grass. His plane crashes while demonstrating his idea and nearly kills him. Abner’s wife Marge wants him to quit flying. Can Abner stay out of the cockpit to please Marge and still lead Bill’s new fire bombers? 

RB224 - The Donner Party Treasure

  RANGER BILL for for late Saturday morning,

4/15/2023, is:

RB224 (my episode #) "The Donner Party Treasure".

Two men, Mr. Delong and the Carabou, cut down trees in the mountains outside Knotty Pine. Delong says he is a lumberman, but Bill found out he is an antique book seller. Delong has the Carabou cutting down more than a hundred trees.

Our rangers learn that Delong is looking for a treasure hidden in a tree. The treasure may be something left behind by the Donner Party on their ill-fated journey west in 1847.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIp5YvonxuU

Nature Corner/Storybook Room

 Uncle Bob Devine's Nature Corner/Storybook Room welcomes Claribelle the Chimpanzee 

for April 15,2023:

https://moodyaudio.com/products/claribelle-chimpanzee

RB192 Fire Bug aka The Fishermen and the Fire Bug

 RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, 4/15/2023, is:

RB192 Fire Bug aka The Fishermen and the Fire Bug

Several campfires are left unattended along the river. Rangers Bill and Ralph suspect two out-of-town fishermen are to blame. Mike Demory discovered a fire on the edge of his farm. He suspects that “Old” Buck Sawyer is a fire bug. Mike insists that Bill arrest Old Buck. Bill must find the fire bug before fire destroys the farms and woods.

I believe this is one of the last of the RANGER BILL episodes. Gray wolf and Henry are missing from this story. Also the opening is from the later half of Bill's adventures.

RB222 The Battle of the Lumberjacks

 RANGER BILL for today, Thursday, 4/13/23, is full of action and adventure:

RB222 The Battle of the Lumberjacks

Frenchy DeSalle's men can't get along with rival loggers, so Gray Wolf devises a logging contest to ease tensions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd8wimqH3e0

RB189 Trestle Ice Jam

  We get to enjoy our midweek, 4/12/23, with a real RANGER BILL thriller:

RB189 (Trestle) Ice Jam

Warming weather sends rising waters and huge ice flows toward a railroad trestle. The ice threatens to collapse the trestle. Dynamite won’t clear the flows, so Bill must come up with a novel idea to save the trestle. “Don’t lose your head or you might lose your life” is Stumpy’s theme for this story. And Stumpy gets to read from his crazy seed catalog!

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_62-04-18_ep119_Trestle_Ice_Jam.mp3

RB188 Forest Fire aka Hot fire and Sowing Seeds

   RB188 "Forest Fire" aka "Hot Fire and Sowing Seeds" is our

RANGER BILL for Tuesday, April 11, 2023.

Tom is the ranger at Fire Tower #3. He meets wealthy New Zeeland scientist Dr. Harris and his assistant Franklin. Dangerously dry conditions in the forest force Bill to close the forest to everyone. Dr. Harris and Franklin sneek into the forest and are then trapped in a fierce forest fire. Sudden rains help fight the fire, but also threaten to flood the valley. Fast and effective seeding is needed to save the forest.

What happened to Dr. Harris and Franklin? Did they perish in the fire?

RB186 Tounges of Fire

  RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, April 8, 2023, is

RB186 Tounges of Fire

Frenchy DeSalle’s lumberjacks like to go to Border Town to party every weekend. Frenchy goes to Bill for help controlling his men. Bill soon discovers that a church there has become The Good Times Social Club for Liquor. Then fire begins erupting out of the ground and heading toward Border Town.

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_62-02-01_ep116_Border_Town_aka_Tongues_Of_Fire.mp3

RB190 River Giant aka Run Away

  RANGER BILL for early morning,

Sat., 4/8/23, is

RB190 "Run Away" aka "The River Giant"

Tad Coates owns a barge service at Central City. His newest tow boat is called The River Giant, It weighs 350 tons; has five decks, 10 rudders, four screws, and four engines that produce 8,500 Horsepower.

Tad's other tow boat is pushing ten tanker barges that are holding one million gallons of gasoline a piece. Two of those barges catch fire and burn with intense heat. Pilot Mark is afraid and needs Bill, Stumpy and more to prevent an awful fire.

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_62-04-25_ep120_Run_Away_aka_The_River_Giant.mp3

RB184 Tom's Otter aka Bright Water the Otter

 Our RANGER BILL for Thursday afternoon, April 6,2023, is

RB184 Tom's Otter aka Brightwater the Otter

Tom is a lonely fire tower ranger. He adopts a small otter as his pet and names him Bright Water. An illegal trapper captures both Bright Water and Tom. Bill and Stumpy must search the national forest for their fellow ranger. Then our rangers must hunt down and capture the illegal trapper before he does any more poaching.

RB223 The Seeing Eye Dog

 Ranger Bill for this Wednesday, April 4, 2023, is quite a thriller :

RB223 The Seeing Eye Dog

Henry wants to volunteer as a ranger fire fighter, but Stumpy is against the idea. The fellas are invited to dinner at the Hansen's home. They meet Prince, young Susan Hansen's seeing eye dog. Fire breaks out in the Hansen's neighborhood. Their house catches fire, and Prince is killed in the blaze. Henry is accused of letting Prince die.

https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RBFC223-Seeing+Eye+Dog.mp3

Building Corry's Self-Reliance - RB182

 RANGER BILL for Tuesday, 4/4/23, is

RB182 Building Corry's Self-Reliance

Corry Windsor is one of the new rookie rangers under Bill’s command. Corry has no self-confidence. His first assignment with Stumpy makes matters worse, so he quits the ranger service. Then an emergency forces him to act to save lives duing a grizzly attack.

RB226 The Dog That Didn't Forget

RANGER BILL for Monday, 4/3/23, is RB226

The Dog That Didn't Forget

Bill, Stumpy, and Gray Wolf are many miles from Knotty Pine as they map fire lanes for repairs and plot new lanes where the forests have changed. Bill takes time out to nurse an injured dog back to health. Meanwhile back at ranger headquarters, Henry is hearing from angry ranchers who are losing their lambs, piglets, and calves to eagles. These ranchers need Bill to get rid of those pesky eagles. These eagles may be even more dangerous than our rangers can handle!

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_xx-xx-xx_ep215_The_Dog_That_Didnt_Forget.mp3

RB227 The Monkey Chase

  RB227 (my episode #) "The Monkey Chase" is our

RANGER BILL for

Monday, April 3rd.

Dr. Victor Powers has injected three medical test monkeys with a deadly strain of the flu to test a new flu vaccine. Two young boys accidentally let the moneys out. The boys and the monkeys head to the edge of town. Sherriff Cal and his troopers, as well as Bill and his rangers fan out all over Knotty Pine trying to find those monkeys.

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_xx-xx-xx_ep216_The_Monkey_Chase.mp3

RB229 - Moose Plague

 RANGER BILL for April 1, 2023, is

RB229 Moose Plague  

Back in July of 2020, our own Joel Harris made a delightful and unexpected discovery when he found the previously unknown RANGER BILL story "Moose Plague".

"Moose Plague" appears to be a fairly early episode in the production of RANGER BILL. It has the #1 opening used from 1950 to mid 1959.

There is four feet of snow on the ground in Bill's forest district with another foot scheduled to fall over the next few hours. Road crews with huge rotary plows are just beginning to open up the main roads in the area. Border Town is just now getting the first of those rotary plows working their streets. Just as it looks as if life will begin to return to normal, a new problem arises. Moose herds from the north country invade border town looking for anything to eat.

Some residents want to shoot the moose to drive them away. Bill tells them that shooting will only cause the situation to become even more dangerous than it already is. The town demands a solution from Bill and his rangers NOW!!!

Bill decides that the moose are extremely hungry and need to be fed. Bill calls on some cargo planes to bring in tons of hay to feed the hungry animals. Then he has the hay carefully placed to lead the moose out of town.

Recall that Border Town was the subject of another episode where Frechy DeSalle's loggers were coming there to drink and gamble every weekend.

Yhis recording is not the best, but I hope you will enjoy it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OZA-DBv0jk6piQZDxj3KfDGZHIvKdOwP/view?usp=share_link

Duck Call - RB185

  RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 4/1/23, is RB185 "The Duck Call".

Mr. Gillette is a traveling salesman selling a supersonic silent duck call. He gets Stumpy and several other duck hunters to buy his calls. Stumpy hopes for some great duck hunting, but Bill isn't convinced that this duck call is legitimate. He begins investigating Mr. Gillette.

Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Sally Crabeater Seal

 Uncle Bob Devine greets Sally the Crabeater Seal to Nature Corner. Her name is an incorrect ID. Actually Sally eats krill, not crabs.

https://moodyaudio.com/products/sally-crabeater-seal

Old Three Toes (a cougar) - RB228

   RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning and to begin April 1, 2023, is

RB228 (my episode #)

"Old 3 Toes (a cougar)"

Stumpy and his horse Blackie must face Old Three Toes for the second time in their lives. The old cougar goes crazy with hunger, so he heads toward Knotty Pine looking for sheep and other smaller animals to feed upon.

Chat about  the adventures of Bill, Stumpy, Henry and Gray Wolf on our Facebook page (click on the link in the right column). Email me at rangerbillclub@aol.com if you are looking for CDs. or mp3 files.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8vB7A2Pknc