RB015 The Hunted

 RANGER BILL livens up our Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 30, 2024, with

RB015 The Hunted

                                        

While out on ski patrol, the rangers hear the cry of an unknown big cat. The cat turns out to be a jaguar. Our rangers have their work cut out for them when the cat threatens the cattle on nearby ranches of Blue Valley.

Go to our Facebook page to chat about this week's story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JRLdxe1ha8

RB016 Hidden Treasure aka Trouble at Flying Double Bar Ranch

 RANGER BILL for Wednesday afternoon, 1/31/24, is:

RB016 Hidden Treasure aka Trouble at the Flying Double Bar Ranch

Lester Winters inherited the family ranch when his dad died. The bank must take the ranch because of some unpaid loans. Les barricades himself in the house behind his rifle. The rangers find some of Les’ missing cattle, but they’re not enough to settle the estate’s debt. Then Bill hears a wild story about buried treasure on the Winters ranch.

Follow the links to Ranger Bill on Facebook

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_56-02-29_ep143_Hidden_Treasure_aka_Trouble_At_The_Double_Bar_Ranch.mp3

RB010 Hit and Run

 Our RANGER BILL tale for Saturday evening, Jan. 27,  2024, is

RB010 Hit and Run

The entire town of Big Pine is shaken and angry when a leading citizen dies in an apparent hit and run accident. Two young hot rodders involved in the accident, Rube and Smitty, fear the town’s wrath. So they run and hide and hope they are never found. Bill and Stumpy investigate the accident and intend to find both the driver and the truth behind this tragedy.

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_55-04-13_ep137_Hit_and_Run.mp3

OTRR #12

RB069 Earthquake

 Our Ranger Bill adventure

for late Saturday morning, Jan. 27, 2024, is RB069

Earthquake

Bill and Ralph enjoy watching the construction of a new office building. Then an earthquake strikes Knotty Pine causing fairly minor damage. More quakes are forecast. Bill thinks the town’s disaster teams need more training. 

Key Phrase - "Don't lose your head or you may lose your life."

Bernie Holcman - Civil Defense Coordinator

Mr. Hansen - Construction Foreman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZK4IBs-39o

RB068 Hot Fire

 Our Ranger Bill

for early Saturday morning, Jan 27, 2024, is 

RB068 Hot Fire

Stan Woods’ procrastination causes big problems for Bill. Stan won’t take the time to clear brush from in front of his company’s caves. The caves are used to store explosives. Wildfires threaten the caves as well as Bill’s firefighters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNg6XoYiPEw

Nature Corner/Storybook Room

 Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday, Jan. 27,2024

Uncle Bob Devine meets a Pronghorn Antelope who looks much like a deer.

https://moodyaudio.com/products/pronghorn-antelope

https://moodyaudio.com/products/sandy-saiga-antelope

RB012 The Eviction of Pa and Ma Skunk

 Ranger Bill to end the work week, 1/26/24, is:

RB012 The Eviction of Pa and Ma Skunk

 Texans Arnold Fleming and his family have just bought a house at Goose Lake. But there is a problem. Another family is already living in, or rather under, the Flemings’ house, a family of skunks. The Flemings don’t know what to do or who to ask for help. Luckily, neighbor Abner knows just what to do. He calls in Ranger Bill. But evicting these stinky pests may prove to be much harder than anyone could imagine.

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

RB011 Death's Half Mile

  RB011 is our RANGER BILL story for Thursday, January 25, 2024,

"Death's Half Mile".

One stretch of road outside of Knotty Pine generates at least three accidents a week. It's called Death's Half Mile. This road has a very sharp corner followed by a narrow bridge followed by a nearly blind railroad crossing. Bruno Allen and his son live on a ranch near the roadway. They must be ready at a moment's notice, day and night, to call police and offer first aid to the injured.

Ranger Bill and his men intend to end the nightmare at Death's Half Mile!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y62W_QSKoVA

RB006 The Fire Bug

     

Our exciting RANGER BILL tale for late Saturday morning, 1/20/24, is:

RB006 The Fire Bug or, in Bill's own words, The Iron Fire Bugs

The railroad engines in Randolph Thompson's Red Valley Freight Line are threatening to burn up all the trees in Giant Pine National Park. Many of Thompson's engines are old coal-fired steam engines. Randolph pushes the engines hard so that they belch out volumes of smoke and sparks, setting the nearby dry forest ablaze.
Ranger Bill tries to get Thompson to either stop using the old coal burners or put spark arresters on their stacks. Thompson will not cooperate. What can Bill do to protect the forest and save the giant pines?
How does Bill live the Christian life in this story? Is anyone affected by Bill's actions and how?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwnVatum8DQ

OTRR #52

RB066 The Blessings of Snow

 Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning Jan. 20,2024 is a wintry blast:

RB066 The Blessings of Snow

The Big Prairie region is suffering from a long, hard drought. The farmers there are ready give up and quit farming. The area hasn't seen a significant rain or a lasting snowfall in several years. No one can believe that a deep, lasting snowfall is coming let alone a dangerous one - with blessings. Bill gets Big Brute ready to plow in case of heavy snow.

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_57-05-01_ep008_The_Blessing_Of_Snow.mp3

Nature Corner/Storybook Room

 Nature Corner/Storybook Room  Jan. 20, 2024

Uncle Bob Devine welcomes Floyd the File Snake. Floyd is from Burma and lives in brackish water (a mix of fresh river water and salty sea water). He likes to eat fish that he catches while sitting at the bottom of an estuary.

https://moodyaudio.com/products/floyd-file-snake

RB005 Burning Sands

  Thursday's, 1/18/24, RANGER BILL adventure is

RB005 "Burning Sands".

Elderly prospector Joshua Webb is told by his doctor to stay in Knotty Pine for his health. The old desert rat can no longer take the 120 degree heat and the burning sunshine. But the lure of gold fever takes him back into the desert anyway. Bill, Stumpy, Gray Wolf, and Ralph must brave the scortching heat to rescue Joshua before it's too late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTbRDx6zqg

RB002 A Boy and a Bomb

  RANGER BILL begins our work week  (1/15/24) with

RB002 A Boy and a Bomb

 Bill gets secret orders to escort bomb expert Hal Dever to the Army proving grounds to test a bomb timing device. Hal is also a single father who pays little attention to his lonely son Jim. The boy takes Hal’s timer and manages to start it ticking.

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_xx-xx-xx_ep208_A_Boy_and_the_Bomb.mp3

OTRR #211

RB003 Getting with the Wrong Crowd

 RANGER BILL for Tuesday,  1/16/24, is

RB003 Getting with the Wrong Crowd

George Bruce returns to Knotty Pine after spending time in reform school. The citizens of Knotty Pine refuse to accept him or give him a hand. Bill gets George a delivery job with Frenchy DeSalle’s logging operation where he loses the payroll money.

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_56-03-28_ep131_Getting_Along_With_The_Wrong_Crowd.mp3

RB004 The Hermit

  RANGER BILL for Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, is

RB004 "The Hermit".

Ralph, chief ranger of the souther district, stops to tell Bill that there is a hermit living in the old line shack. That hermit has a secret. He is a famous surgeon, Dr. William Warburton. He operated on a friend, but the friend died. His grief drove him to live like a hermit. A mountain climber needs brain surgery or he will die. Only Dr. Warburton can perform the delicate work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwFx1KYNe8s

RB229 Moose Plague

  RANGER BILL for Jan. 13, 2024, 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.

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

https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RBFC229+Moose+Plague.mp3

RB213 and RB214 The Spirits and the Spirits

RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 1/13/2024, is

RB213/214  The Spirits and the Spirit, parts 1and 2

Bill and Stumpy and a map maker go on vacation in South America to visit an old abandoned Portuguese fort hidden deep in the jungle along the Amazon River. The local residents are afraid to go to the fort for fear of the spirits of the dead Portuguese soldiers there. Legend says the soldiers were killed by natives who were made slaves to dig gold for the soldiers. Now the spirits of the soldiers guard their ill-gotten gold.

https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB213-Spirits+and+the+Spirit+1.mp3

https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB214-Spirits+and+the+Spirit+2.mp3

RB064 Penny Wise and Pound Foolish

We begin this second weekend of the new year with a construction project on Ranger Bill

for early Saturday morning, 1/13/2024 - 

RB064 Penny Wise and Pound Foolish

It’s late winter in Knotty Pine. Winter is just beginning to loosen its grip, and the snow is starting to melt. Bill, Henry, Stumpy, and Gray Wolf take a trip upriver to see the construction of the new Silver River Dam. The construction foreman Brick Finch is as proud as a peacock of the money he saved on motors for the flood gates. But will there be other costs to these cheap motors?

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_57-03-06_ep190_Penny_Wise_and_Pound_Foolish.mp3

Nature Corner/Storybook Room

On Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Jan. 13, 2024, Uncle Bob Devine gets a visit from Penny the Green Tree Python. Penny is from New Guinea, near Australia:

https://moodyaudio.com/products/penny-python

RB211 and RB212 Muscle and Prayer (parts 1 and 2)

Ranger Bill for Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons (1/9 and 1/10/2024) is

RB211 Muscle and Prayer (part 1)

Frenchy DeSalle fears no one and nothing. But the huge, strapping French Canadian logging foreman, has gone out of his mind with fear. Frenchy and his loggers find a cougar and a bear, both crushed to death. Frenchy knows these are the calling cards of the one man he fears, "The Bear." Who is this Bear? Why does Frenchy fear this man so? And what has happened to Frenchy's faith? Frenchy's boss calls for the one man who may be able to help Frenchy - Chief Ranger Bill Jefferson.

https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB211Muscle+and+Prayer+1.mp3

RB212 Muscle and Prayer (part 2)

Frenchy DeSalle and Boris the Bear want to fight to the bitter end, so Bill jails both of them until they cool off. Boris finally cools down and agrees to leave town, and Frenchy returns to work. But both men still harbor much pain and anger. Frenchy prays for an end to their feud while Boris depends on whiskey for strength. How will the Lord answer Frenchy’s prayer?

https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB212-Muscle+and+Prayer+2.mp3

RB208 and RB209 The (haunted) Church at Bent Creek

  We begin our work week  with a 2-part RANGER BILL adventure:

RB208/209 The (Haunted) Church at Bent Creek parts 1 and 2

Much of Bent Creek is abandoned including the general store - and the church. The reason it's abandoned is because folks there believe that the Bent Creek Church is haunted. Weird things go on at night inside the church - lights go on and off, the bell rings by itself, strange noises come from the tower, and the organ plays all by itself. Young pastor Jeff and his wife Jean are even afraid to stay at the parsonage. Bill, Stumpy and Gray Wolf have no idea what to do about the strange things that go on at the church. How will the gospel ever be preached again in Bent Creek?

This is a 2-part Ranger Bill adventure. Don't miss a minute of the action and excitement!!!

https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB208-The+Church+at+Bent+Creek+1.mp3

https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB209-The+Church+at+Bent+Creek+2.mp3

RB063 The Big Headache

  Our Ranger Bill story

for Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, is
The Big Headache

Ranger Brad suffers from severe headaches. He won’t see a doctor, so Bill grounds him from flying. Brad wants to fly, headaches or no headaches. Another severe headache while in the air could cost him his job - or his life.

RB207 The Town that Wouldn't Move

   We have another exciting RANGER BILL adventure for late Saturday morning, 1/6/24:

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

Nature Corner/Storybook Room

 Uncle Bob Devine gets a visit from Alan Anaconda on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, for Nature Corner/Storybook Room.

https://moodyaudio.com/products/alan-anaconda

Anancondas are also know as boa constrictors. Aaln is 30 feet long, a foot wide, and he weighs 600 pounds!! What a big snake!

RB062 The Boy Who Wouldn't Quit

 Our Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning, Jan. 6, 2024, is RB062

The Boy Who Wouldn't Quit

Young Norman hurts his back when he falls on a rock while playing football. Surgery doesn't completely fix the damage to Norman's back. The lad is left unable walk. Norm's dad Al is afraid of anything that might make Norman's injury any worse.
Norm wants to join scouts and participate fully in all the activities. But he can't convince his dad. To advance in scouts, Norm will have to hike five miles, learn to swim, and more. Norm will need Bill's help. Will Bill be able to help Norm overcome his handicap and Al overcome his fears?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIl-pHX2dXo

RB206 The Hot Million

   RANGER BILL for Wednesday, 1/3/2024 is:

RB206 The Hot Million

It's hot and dry in the forest as Bill and Stumpy inspect the trees and fire lanes around Big Gap. The fellas also inspect the high-tension power lines that run through the gap. A million volts of electricity pass up and down those lines. The boys find a weak line that is about to break. The sparks from a broken power line could start a raging treetop fire. There is a power company repair crew working not too far away. The boys find the crew and ask the foreman Burt Engals to take his crew and fix the badly stressed line, but Burt refuses. What can the boys do now to protect the forest from this high-powered danger?

https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB206-Hot+Million.mp3

RB205 The Swinging Tower of Eagles Rest

 Our Ranger Bill story for Tuesday, 1/2/2024, 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

RB204 Chief of the Dakotas

  RANGER BILL for the first day of 2024, 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