As I have mentioned in the past, I have been running the RANGER BILL Club for over 18 years now. Too often I forget some important things that I don't use very often.
Today is one of those days. I was looking at a file stored on the RANGER BILL group on Facebook. The file is "old-Ranger-Bill-Episodes.xls". A kind member of the RB staff in Chicago assembled this spreadsheet with a great deal of important information about the episodes some years ago.
The file contains the episode numbers (RBxxx) followed by the titles, followed by most of the first airing dates. The next column contains the original episode numbers (Rxxx) apparently in their original airing order. As you can see RB001 Twenty Fathoms Under the Sea aired on 5/26/54 and its airing number is R164. R001 (column L and to the right) aired 10/2/50 and was titled Fire in Pendleton Valley 1. R004, 10/23/50, part 1 of 4, for Mystery of the Missing Buffalo, later to become VIPs Visit KP.
R380 may be the last RB episode "Ranger Bill on Educational TV". Most of those 15 minute episodes we've probably never heard.
Here are some other episodes lost to time:
R166 If Horses Could Talk
R188 The Twenty-third Hour
R109 Knotty Pine's Giant Eagle
R110 Big Ed the Grizzly Bear.
The list goes on. Check it out for yourself.
And a big THANK YOU to that unknown RB staff member!!!
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