RANGER BILL for Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, is
RB199 Raging Rapids
Henry helps Pete Flory at a Christian camp canoe trip. Two of the boys, Ed and Paul, constantly get into trouble. The boys decide to sneak away and ride the rapids. They get trapped on the rocks in the middle of the river. The river is rising and getting swifter. They can't escape and no one can get to them. Can Bill and Stumpy save the boys before they drown?
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 8/31/24, is:
Danger! Deer Crossing - RB128
Bill, Stumpy, and Gray Wolf are part of a huge team of soldiers, law enforcement officers and rangers. Their job - keep anything, man or animal, out of the blast zone of an atomic bomb test. Despite their best efforts, a family of deer (and two spies) manage to slip into the test. The deer are exposed to the blast and must be found! But will they and those spies be able to elude capture? Gray Wolf may hold the key to a safe and successful end to this test.
Our early Saturday morning RANGER BILL for Labor Day Weekend, Aug. 31, 2024, is RB023
Dead on Arrival
Henry is a ham radio operator. One evening, his radio picks up a distress call from a trapper and his son in
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Aug. 31, 2024
Uncle Bob Devine gets avisit from a small, shrimp-like creature who lives in the Antaectic Ocean, Krill.
Krill are food for many of the creatures of the Antarctic, and in turn their food is phyto-plankton.
RANGER BILL for this Thursday was probably one of the early episodes from the first season (1954) or possibly right after Pendleton Valley Fire (1950):
RB203 A Miss Is as Good as a Mile
Bill and the fellas are out patrolling the forest in their ranger snow car (with skies and a propeller). While our rangers are in the forest, Knotty Pine is being invaded – by the US Army! Yes it’s time for the army to hone its skills with some war games. The colonel in charge tries to let Bill know about the war games but Bill can’t be reached. Will 20 miles from Knotty Pine is far enough away to avoid problems? My guess is a big fat “NO.”
Note: This episode was one that was lost or damaged in storage and recently found or repaired. It is now part of the Ranger Bill audio files.
RANGER BILL for
Monday afternoon Aug. 26, 2024:
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.
RANGER BILL for
Saturday afternoon, Aug. 24, 2024 is
RB216 (my episode #) Pendleton Valley Fire'
aka First Ranger Bill Show aka First Snow (part 1 of 3) 15 min. long
Fire has broken out in Pendleton Valley. Colonel Ander and his rangers rush to the valley to extinguish the fire, but dry weather is making their fire fight very, very tough. The Colonel is afraid they won't be able to control the blaze, so he sends Ranger Bill and his ward Henry into the mountains to Pine Ridge Dam. Bill is also taking along two horses and a box of high explosives.
Parts 2 and 3 of this very first RANGER BILL adventure are available only as PDFs or in print as scripts.
In parts 2 and 3, Bill and Henry first travel by truck and then by horseback to Pine Ridge Dam. The boys set up camp at the dam and begin 4-hour shifts through the night watching for a signal to blow up the dam and flood Pendleton Valley below to put out the fire. The two have devotions using John 1:12.
Bill reminds Henry keep a good fire going all night to keep predators away, especially Uncle Joe, the biggest mountain lion around. A rattler sneaks up onto Bill's leg, Bill escapes the rattler but badly sprains his ankle. Now Henry will have to crawl out on top of the dam to set the dynamite!
The signal comes in the wee hours of the morning to blow Pineridge. But rain has also come and made the dam extremely slippery to cross. Henry crawls across the wet stone dam and slips. Bill must gather his strength and will to crawl out to Henry with an injured leg! Can our two heroes save themselves while destroying Pine Ridge?
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Aug. 24, 2024
Uncle Bob Devine welcomes two guests for this Saturday who have a special relationship with each other. The two are the Fig Tree and the Fig Wasp. Hear how this tree and insect rely on one another to produce figs and fig wasps.
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, Aug. 24, 2024, is:
Our RANGER BILL adventure for early Saturday morning, Aug. 24, 2024, is
RB022 Glacier Cave-In
A team of archeologists study an ancient cave that was exposed when the Big Slide Glacier moved. The glacier moves again and causes an earthquake and landslides. Bill and Henry are part of a rescue team sent to recover the scientists. One of the scientists, Dr. Swift, is trapped under a slide. Amputation of the doctor’s leg may be the only way to save his life.
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_58-02-05_ep149_Glacier_Cave-In.mp3
Our RANGER BILL tale for this Thursday, 8/22/24, 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
RANGER BILL for Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, 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.
Our Tuesday RANGER BILL adventure story for Aug. 20, 2024, is:
RANGER BILL begins our work week, Mondat, 8/19/2024, with:
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.
OTRR #143
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Aug. 17, 2024
Uncle Bob Devine gets a visit from a mighty big fellow, a Giant Sequoia Tree - with a name, General Sherman. The General was around when Moses crossed the Red Sea with the children of Israel.
https://moodyaudio.com/products/giant-sequoia-tree
When Ranger Bill mentions the giant pines, General Sherman and his relatives are it. They are certainly the biggest and some of the oldest plants on earth. Bristlecone Pines are older at about 5000 years old. And a Norway Spruce named Old Tjikko in Sweden is a tree that clones itself and is more than 9,500 years old.
Our Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning, Aug. 17, 2024, is:
RB189 Trestle Ice Jam
RANGER BILL for Aug. 17, 2024, 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 Thursday, 8/15/24, is:
RB188 "Forest Fire" aka "Hot Fire and Sowing Seeds" is our
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Aug. 10, 2024:
Uncle Bob Devine welcomes Wilma Wombat, one of the many marsupials of Australia. Wilma is related to the kangaroo but look like a small black bear.
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, August 10, 2024, is RB020
"If the Lord Is for Us, Who Can Be Against Us?".
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, Aug. 10, 2024, is
RB019 Sultan, King of Beasts
Sultan is a huge and powerful lion at Kittyland wild animal park. Sultan defies then scares his trainer Flick Martin. Can Bill help Flick find his courage to control Sultan? If not, Kittyland might close, and Sultan may be destroyed!
RANGER BILL for a Friday, Aug. 9. 2024, is
RB186 Tounges of Fire
Frenchy DeSalle’s lumberjacks like to go to
OTRR#138
RANGER BILL for Thursday, 8/8/24, is RB185 "The Duck Call".
Our RANGER BILL for Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 7, 2024, 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.
RANGER BILL and Stumpy are on vacation this Tuesday, 8/6/24:
RB183 - Mystery Island, Mystery Man
Bill and Stumpy take a long-needed vacation on a cruise ship. The ship makes an “unscheduled stop” at a “mystery island.” The stop gives passengers an opportunity to tour this “unexplored” island. But a real mystery develops when a reporter on the cruise winds up missing and a missing millionaire is found.
OTRR #187
RANGER BILL to begin the work week, Monday, 8/5/24, is
RB182 Building Corry's Self-Reliance aka The New Rangers
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.
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_xx-xx-xx_ep112_The_New_Rangers.mp3
OTRR #186
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Aug. 3, 2024
Uncle Bob Devine gets a visit from Waldo the Woodpacker Finch who lives on the Galapagos Islands. God has designed Waldo to use tools to get grubs to eat.
Tim hears the story of David and Goliath.
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, Aug, 3, 2024, is a real thriller:
RB177 He Broke Through the Ice aka They Killed Ranger Bill
It’s well below zero in Knotty Pine, but Henry and Freddy decide to go ice fishing anyway. Bill and Stumpy drive out to see how the boys are doing. Some other boys are playing nearby. Bill drives down the frozen river to check on those boys. His car falls into the river, and he doesn’t come out!!! Henry is bitter, and Stumpy is perplexed. Have we come to the end of Ranger Bill and these stories?
Our RANGER BILL for Saturday afternoon, 8/3/24, is:
RB215 Typhoid Fever at Storm Point
Several cases of Typhoid Fever appear at the same time at Storm Point. Bill and a young doctor must try to control the outbreak and find the carrier of the fever.
Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning, Aug. 3,2024, is:
RB018 Tony's Place aka Standing Firm for What Is Right
Ed Blake’s gang asks Tony to sponsor them so they can buy baseball uniforms. They vandalize Tony’s Market when he doesn’t give them the cash right away. One boy in the gang, Mike, is willing to stand up to the gang and tell the truth. Then Tony’s store is damaged even worse than the first time. Tony asks Bill for help to stop the violence.
RANGER BILL for Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, is
RB181 The Trouble with Gossip aka Tell Me a Story
Amelia Perdy starts a rumor that Bill is forcing Stumpy to retire. The rumor spread all over town. KP city council wants to honor Stumpy, so they throw him a retirement dinner. Bill and Stumpy decide go along and play “Tell Me a Story” at the dinner.
OTRR #118
RANGER BILL for Thursday, 8/1/24, is
RB 180 Roving Wolves
Gunter Neeves runs a rabbit farm outside Knotty Pine. He is losing those rabbits to a pack of hungry, roving wolves. He asks Bill and his men to deal with the wolves and stop the attacks on his rabbits. When Bill doesn’t get the desired results fast enough, Gunter decides to take matters into his own hands.
Harbour Light Radio is still off the air after nearly 4 weeks.
Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Carriacou, Grenada, home of Harbour Light, on the afternoon or evening of Monday, July 1, 2024, as a catagory 3 or 4 hurricane. Beryl toppled their AM antenna tower, damaged their electrical generator and AM transmitter, tore the roof off one building, and did other less serious damage.
Harbour Light was hoping to get FM transmissions back up in a week or two. So far they haven't been blessed with success getting back on the air.
Please continue to keep Harbour Light in your thoughts and especially in your prayers!
