Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning, Sept. 30, 2023, is RB038:
Set the Record Straight.Uncle Bob Devine's Nature Corner/Storybook Room welcomes Charlotte the Carpenter Bee for 9/30/23. Tim learns from the apostle Paul about the effects of bad companions.
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, 9/30/23, is an adventure in greed:
RB127 The Adventure of the Tarnished Gold
Ben Barkley is a mining engineer. He has been digging on an old gold mine that ran dry years ago. Ben says he has found a new vein of gold using modern mine engineering techniques. But Gray Wolf and Henry think something is funny about Mr. Barkley's find. They suspect that Ben Barkley is trying to swindle folks with a phony strike. Bill is gone and Gray Wolf and Henry must step in and learn the truth about the Barkley mine.
RANGER BILL for Friday, May 17, 2024, is:
RB0126 The Gospel Goes to Reform School
Warden Dawson rules the reform school with an iron hand. Bill wants to come in and offer the boys education, sports, and Bible study. The warden finally lets Bill come. Then a riot breaks out at the school. Will Bill or the warden be able to bring peace to the school?
Our RANGER BILL tale for this midweek is filled with great danger and even greater bravery:
RB124 Soup Truck
A truck carrying nitroglycerin blows up just outside the town of Landslide. The mayor closes Landslide to all dangerous truck traffic. Closing Landslide will put the explosives company out of business and hurt many other businesses. Bill must find a way to prove to the mayor that even nitro can be taken safely through Landslide.
Ranger Bill for Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 26, 2023, is:
RB123 - River of FireRANGER BILL for Monday 9/25/23 is RB122
A Prisoner on Ice Island
Knotty Pine's city council wastes time debating how to pay for a fence that is critically needed to keep kids off the ice flows on the Shady River. Two boys do get stuck on an ice flow, and that flow is heading for a drop into a deep gorge! Bill must find some way to safely reach and rescue the boys!
Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning:
RB036 – Sleeping Death for this Sept. 23, 2023.
– Sleeping Sickness infects the Central City area. Local manpower and equipment are not enough to control the mosquito population. The rangers are called in to help spray for mosquitoes, but one large landowner won’t allow the spraying on his land leaving many in danger of infection.
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_55-11-23_ep163_Sleeping_Death.mp3
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The early Saturday morning RANGER BILL for Sept. 23,2023, is RB117:
The Measure of a Man
Tough guy Muscles and his two friends terrorize Knotty Pine and beat up Henry and the school principal. Judge White sentences the three troublemakers to some hard time - on the trail with Bill and the rangers to experience what real tough men are like. Bill lets the boys "escape" into the mountains to learn that they aren't so tough roughing it in the wilderness.
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RANGER BILL for Friday, 9/22/23. is:
RB120 The Self-Made Man
Dutch Vanderhaven lost his son in the war and is very bitter over his loss. He doesn't want any one's help, and he won't help anyone, not orphans, not even the church. Then Dutch is gored by a huge bull. Now Dutch is the one who needs help, but his neighbors won't give him any. Can Bill and Stumpy find a way to get the work done at Dutch's ranch and change a town full of stubbornness?
Thursday's RANGER BILL for 9/21/23, is:
RB119 Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
Bill and the boys and Maggie Murphy take 50 boys from their church to camp for three weeks. Henry has some problems as lifeguard during swim times. Stumpy and Gray Wolf lead a snipe hunt. Bill deals with one boy's home sickness. But Maggie must deal with a filthy kitchen, feeding 50 hungry boys, and then a food thief. She threatens to leave if the thief isn't caught. Bill must find the guilty boy or lose the best cook west of the Mississippi! Find out what happens to Mrs. Murphy's famous chowder too!!!
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RANGER BILL for a Wednesday afternoon, 9/20/23, is RB118
The One-Wire Fence
Jeremiah Sykes is a rancher and preacher on Elk Mesa. Young Herb Bradshaw, son of powerful rancher Thunder Bradshaw, is starting up his own ranch using electric fences. Jeremiah is misusing the Bible to oppose electric fences. Thunder and Jeremiah may go to war over Herb and his ranch. Bill and our rangers must be strong and on constant alert to deal with this range war!
RANGER BILL for this Tuesday, 9/19/23:
RB116 The Deadly Laundry Basket
Bill gets a phone call from Sergeant Jim Donato of West Grove, IL. Jim's neighbor was bitten by a poisonous snake and is barely clinging to life. The snake was hiding in a laundry basket sitting in her garage. Bill thinks a rare plague of swamp rattlers has invaded the town. Bill and Henry fly to West Grove to try to deal with the threat. Then a child is bitten and the town begins to panic. What can the fellas do to protect West Grove from panic and this deadly menace? (A list of the RANGER BILL cast and crew is given at the end of this show.)
RANGER BILL tries to make peace between two competitors this Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023:
RB034 – Piggyback – Dangerous winter weather and complex delivery problems threaten the survival of both Canyon City Truck Lines and the railroad. Leonard Grant, owner of CCTL, and Spence Neihoff, superintendent of the Knotty Pine railroad district, do not get along and refuse to work with one another. Bill must teach these men how to work together instead of against each other.
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_55-11-19_ep161_Piggyback.mp3
First aired Nov. 19, 1955. This is OTRR #22.
Our Ranger Bill adventure for late Saturday morning, Sept. 16, 2023, is:
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for 9/16/23
Uncle Bob Devine's Nature Corner/Storybook Room chats with Sarah Mara (rabbit-like rodent found mostly in Argentina). Tim learns from the apostle Paul.
Our Ranger Bill hair-raising adventure for early Saturday morning, 9/15/23, is RB113
Thursday's RANGER BILL for 9/14/23, is:
RB112 The Mad Bats
Bats invade the attic of the Phipps' home, and one even bites Edna Phipps. Bill and Stumpy go to evict the bats and discover the bats are sick with rabies! The boys get help fighting off the bats from some feathered friends. One of the Phipps' neighbors causes Bill even more trouble than those pesky bats.
RANGER BILL for this Tuesday, 9/12/23, is one knock-down, drag-out fight
RB110 The Battle at Jenkins Manor
It's been many years since Stumpy's wife died; and he has finally decided that he doesn't have the time or energy to take care of himself and his house. Bill convinces him that he needs a housekeeper until Bill nominates Maggie Murphy for the job.
Maggie is a strong woman. She needs to be strong, a widow with four boys to care for. She acts much like a drill sergeant, which doesn't set well with Stumpy.
Stumpy is so desperate for a better home life that he hires Maggie, Stumpy's worst fears about allowing Maggie in his house are quickly realized and the battle begins!
RANGER BILL for midweek, Sept 13,2023, with:
RB111 The Prehistoric Monster
The circus has arrived at Junction City. A full-grown bull rhino is its main attraction. This particular rhino doesn't like being in the circus. The huge beast breaks his chains and charges off into the forest. Bill and the boys are called in to find and shoot the marauder before he hurts anyone or does any serious damage. Can our rangers safely corner this prehistoric monster? Will Stumpy's pride endanger the hunt and possibly endanger lives too?
Our RANGER BILL to begin the new work week, 9/11/23, is a strange, Old Testament style mystery:
RB109 The Man Who Lost God
Bill's rangers spot large campfires on the top of Razorback Ridge. Bill, Stumpy, and Gray Wolf go to investigate. They find what appear to be animal sacrifices like sacrifices in the Old Testament. No one is sure who is doing this and why. At the same time the wealthy Thompson family send out letters searching for their lost son. Bill has his hands full with two mysteries at once!
It appears as though RB108 The Wrong Valley and RB109 are both stories of men who have lost God, each in their own way.
Our RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, Sept. 9,2023,
RB028 – The River Monster –
The town of River's Bend builds some new dikes and levees to protect the city and its residents from the flood waters of the Shady River. But dikes can’t protect River's Bend from Zack Stephens and the huge log raft he is floating down the river.
Uncle's Bob Devine's Nature Corner gets a visit from Mickey the Praying Mantis this Saturday morning, 9/9/23:
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Our RANGER BILL for an early Saturday morning, 9/9/23, is a classic:
RB107 Petticoat Rangers
Bill doesn't have enough men for all the work around the national forest. He and his rangers have to work 18 hours a day. Bill has a solution to the problem - women volunteers in the fire towers. The rangers refuse to allow women rangers. Will the rangers work themselves to death or will they give Bill's PETTICOAT RANGERS a chance? Can female rangers do a ranger's work if they get that chance? In my opinion, this is one of the funniest Ranger Bill stories ever! You get to hear some of Stumpy's funniest and most famous lines! And you get to see a little of what life was like back in the 1950's.
RANGER BILL for Thursday, 9/7/23, is one scary mystery:
RB106 Terror on the Finger River
The Finger River flows out of the Rockies and into the Pacific. Much of the river is a mix of salt and fresh water. That mix makes hunting and fishing along the river excellent. Suddenly, fishing lines are being robbed and hunters are losing their kills to something in the river. The thief appears to be a baracuda, a killer with two rows of razor-sharp teeth and fins. Bill must find this thief and stop it - whatever it is. Can Bill locate our thief, or will terror continue on the Finger River?
Our Ranger Bill adventure
for Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023 is RB105
The Giant Pines are falling over without any explanation. Bill and the boys must find out what is happening before the forest is lost. What is causing this? Is it insects, a new disease, poor soil. or what? Millions of dollars of beautiful, majestic pines are in danger. The forest service and lumber companies want answers, and Bill is at a loss to provide those answers.
RANGER BILL for this Tuesday, 9/5/23, is:
RB104 The Fighting Parson
Silvertown is a rough, tough mining town. The miners there spend all their free time drinking and scaring the residents. They have driven five preachers out of the only church in town. The few members of the church ask Bill to find a parson willing to fight - with his fists. Bill gets Spence Fielding, a powerful young man from State U. Can Bill and Spence get Silvertown under control? Or will the drunken miners succeed in destroying the church?
Ranger Bill for this first Monday of Sept., 9/4/2023,
is an action-packed adventure about speed boat racing
RB103 Water Hot Rods
There's trouble on Beaver Lake. A group of young men, including Henry, are racing their power boats on the lake. Most of them are racing safely, but the boys with the fastest boat are endangering everyone else using the lake. Folks want Bill to stop the speed boating. Bill comes up with a plan to stop the dangerous boating. Then the troublemakers find a way to foil Bill's plan. Who will win this battle of wits? Will Bill be able to protect innocent vacationers on Beaver Lake?
A Labor Day extra RANGER BILL for 9/3/23, is
RB021 – Death on the Waterfront – Six healthy men fall ill suddenly and die. All these men had been in Knotty Pine’s warehouse district along the
#191 on the OTRR list:
RANGER BILL for Late Saturday morning 9/2/23, is RB024
Ice Pack
The vessel Sea Chaser is trapped in the huge, powerful ice flows near
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, 9/2/23, is
RB026 Henry's Miracle
This is the story of Henry at the age of ten when his world fell apart. First, he is crippled in a fall. Then his mother develops cancer and dies. Then to add insult to injury, his dad becomes gravely ill and may die, which would leave young Henry all alone in the world.
https://www.goldenclassics.uk/e/ranger-bill-58-11-19-153-henry-s-miracle-1675533044/
Uncle Bob Devine interviews Libby the Snow Lepard Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, on Nature Corner/Storybook Room.
Our Ranger Bill adventure to begin the Labor Day weekend,
