Our exciting RANGER BILL adventure for late Saturday morning, Aug. 16, 2025:
RB027 Bobsled
The state championship bobsled races are going to be held at Culver’s Peak. Top speeds are expected to exceed 60 miles per hour! Our rangers will be racing against the Cole brothers and their faster sled. Our rangers have won these races for the last three years running, but the Cole brothers could end their winning streak.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - for Saturday Aug. 16, 2025
Uncle Bob Devine's guest for today is Phineas the Pinecone Fish. Phineas gets his name from his round body and large scales that make him look just like a real pine cone. Learn more about pine cone fish in this audio.
Our Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning,
RANGER BILL for Friday afternoon, 8/15/25, 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/
Ranger Bill for Thursday afternoon, Aug. 14, 2025, 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.
Our RANGER BILL for 8/13/25, takes our rangers to the dangerous ocean ice fields near Alaska - RB024:
Ice Pack
The vessel Sea Chaser is trapped in the huge, powerful ice flows near
Icebergs are an even bigger threat in 2024 than they were in the 1950s when Ice Pack first aired.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday Aug. 9, 2025
Kathy Kiwi bird drops in on Uncle Bob Devine. Kathy hales from the forests New Zeeland. She is the smallest bird that cannot fly. Kathy looks like a small brown chicken with even smaller wings. Learn more from Kahty and Uncle Bob.
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 8/9/25, is
RB025 Timid Tomothy
Tim Sullivan has a long history of getting into bad business deals. When his uncle offers him a good job as logging manager, he is afraid to fail once more. Tim’s dad, Officer Mike Sullivan, asks Bill to step in and try to make Tim into a successful businessman. Bill enlists several of his rangers to help Tim. Even Frenchy DeSalle and his lumberjacks get in the act.
Our Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning
RANGER BILL for Thursday afternoon, 8/7/25, is RB020
"If the Lord Is for Us, Who Can Be Against Us?".
RANGER BILL for Tuesday afternoon, 8/5/25, is a wet one:
RB017 Overflow
Two days of hard rains plus heavy spring snow melt have combined to threaten Big Ridge Dam. The operators at the dam must open its floodgates soon or the dam will burst. Bill and his rangers have just 3 hours to warn all the farmers and ranchers in the valley below Big Ridge before the gates are opened.
RANGER BILL for Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, 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 Monday afternoon, 8/4/25, is:
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday, Aug. 2,2025
Uncle Bob Devine gets a visit from Petunia Polar Bear.
Our early Saturday morning RANGER BILL for Aug. 2, 2025, 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
RANGER BILL livens up our Friday afternoon, Aug. 1, 2025, with
RB015 The Hunted
RANGER BILL for Thursday afternoon, July 31, 2025, is
RB014 Disaster Alert
A leak from a gas station storage tank dumps 500 gallons of gasoline into the Knotty Pine Bank. Bill and his rangers are called upon to keep the bank and most of Knotty Pine from being blown right off the map. And to make matters worse, state examiners are threatening to close the bank permanently if it can’t be kept open for business during the crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edgqM9dXwgU
OTRR #190
Our midweek RANGER BILL mystery for July 30, 2025,
RB013 The Man Who Couldn't Remember
A dazed and confused man stumbles into a hobo jungle. The hobos fear the man is wanted by the law so they dump him on a freight train. The rangers find the man outside of Knotty Pine in an abandoned shack singing hymns. The man appears to have amnesia and might be a minister. Bill, Stumpy and Gray Wolf begin a fast-paced search for the man’s identity.
Our RANGER BILL adventure for Saturday afternoon, July. 26, 2025, 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.
Our spine-tingling Ranger Bill adventure
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday, July 26, 2025
Uncle bob Devine welcomes Stephanie Sponge today. Stephanie is one of over 3000 kinds of sponge. Sponges are animals, not plants. Ancient soldiers used sponges to pad their armor. Sponges are not like other animals. They have no mouth or eyes or brain. They are a collection cells that work together to breathe and eat from sea water. Learn how Christ has designed Stephanie and her relatives.
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, July 26, 2025, 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:
RB011 is our RANGER BILL story for Friday evening, 7/25/25,
"Death's Half Mile".
Our RANGER BILL tale for Thursday afternoon, July 24, 2025, is
RB010 Hit and Run
The entire town of
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_55-04-13_ep137_Hit_and_Run.mp3
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RB008 is our RANGER BILL adventure for tuesday afternoon, 7/23/25:
They Called It the Jinx
A new bridge is being built over 1200-foot-deep Dead Man’s Gorge. Tom Farris has been called in to be the construction foreman. The construction crew doesn’t want Tom as their foreman. They call him a jinx. He has caused many needless accidents because he pushes his men too hard. Will Tom’s job end as quickly as it has started, or will an accident or accidents jinx the whole bridge project?
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for July 19, 2025
Uncle Bob Devine gets a visit from the largest seal in the world's oceans, Sebastian the Elephant Seal.
Sebastian weighs 8,000 pounds and measures 20 feet long. He dives 400 feet deep to search for food. his wife is smaller, but is still 2000 pounds. Even his wife's pups are large - 100 pounds at birth. Learn more from Bob and Sebastian.
Our Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning, July 19, 2025, is RB074
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, July 19, 2025, 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!
Our RANGER BILL adventure for Thursday , July 17, 2025, is
RANGER BILL for Wednesday afternoon, July 16, 2025, is
RANGER BILL for Tuesday, 7/15/25, is
Ranger Bill for Saturday afternoon, July 12,2025, 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.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for July 12, 2025 -
Uncle Bob Devine chats with Sid Squid. Sid is one of 350 types of squid. He is a loligo squid, one of the most common species of squid. Sid travels by jet power.
Our Ranger Bill adventure for late Saturday morning,
July 12, 2025, is RB073
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, 7/12/25, is a wet one:
RB017 Overflow
Two days of hard rains plus heavy spring snow melt have combined to threaten Big Ridge Dam. The operators at the dam must open its floodgates soon or the dam will burst. Bill and his rangers have just 3 hours to warn all the farmers and ranchers in the valley below Big Ridge before the gates are opened.
RANGER BILL ends the work week and begins a new cycle of his adventures on July 11, 2025:
RB001 Twenty Fathoms Under the Sea
Bill and the boys go deep sea fishing with old salvage man Ben Benson. Ben's son died in a diving accident during a salvage job, and Ben has never forgiven himself for it. An old navy sub gets stuck on the bottom not far from Ben's ship. Navy rescue ships can't arrive in time to save the crew. Ben can help but won't. Will 20 sailors die needlessly in 20 fathoms of the sea?
OTRR #5
Ranger Bill for Monday and Tuesday afternoons (7/7/25 and 7/8/25) 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
RANGER BILL for Wednesday and Thursday, 7/9&10/2025, 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
Our Ranger Bill adventures for late Saturday morning, 7/5/25.
are part of RB072
RANGER BILL livens up our early Saturday morning, July 5, 2025, with
RB015 The Hunted
We end our work week with a 2-part RANGER BILL adventure:
RB208/209 The (Haunted) Church at Bent Creek parts 1 and 2
We have another exciting RANGER BILL adventure for this Tuesday, July1, 2025:
RB207 The Town that Wouldn't Move
RANGER BILL for the last day of June, 6/30/2025 is:
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday, June 28, 2025
Uncle Bob Devine greets Tracy Trout. See how God has designed her to thrive in lakes and streams.
Our Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning, 6/28/25 is
RB071 A Dog's Worst Enemy
Our RANGER BILL mystery for early Saturday morning, June 28, 2025,
RB013 The Man Who Couldn't Remember
A dazed and confused man stumbles into a hobo jungle. The hobos fear the man is wanted by the law so they dump him on a freight train. The rangers find the man outside of Knotty Pine in an abandoned shack singing hymns. The man appears to have amnesia and might be a minister. Bill, Stumpy and Gray Wolf begin a fast-paced search for the man’s identity.
Our Ranger Bill story for Friday, 6/27/25, is:
RANGER BILL for Thursday, 6/26/25, is
RB204 Chief of the Dakotas aka Chief Gray Wolf
Gray Wolf’s father Chief Black Wolf has died. The
RANGER BILL for this Wednesday, 6/25/25, 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 late Saturday morning, 6/21/25, 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.
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Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, June 21,2025:
Uncle Bob Devine gets a visit from Olivia "Liv" Liver. Olivia performs over 500 different functions to protect your body.
RANGER BILL for
the first day of summer, June 20, 2025: RB197
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.
OTRR #126
RB011 is our RANGER BILL story for early Saturday morning, 6/21/25,
"Death's Half Mile".
RANGER BILL for aThursday afternoon, June 19, 2025, is:
RANGER BILL for Tuesday afternoon, June 17, 2025, 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.
OTRR #189
Our RANGER BILL adventure story for Monday afternoon, June 16, 2025, is:
Our Ranger Bill adventure
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - June 14,2025
Uncle Bob Devine has two visitors today, both parts of your mouth and throat,Uvula and Epiglottis.
This pair of valves in your throat allow you to breathe and eat safely. See how they work today.
Saturday's early morning RANGER BILL for 6/14/25 is:
RB009 Bim
RB226 The Dog that Didn't Forget
RB156 The No Good Dog
RB071 A Dog's worst Enemy
RB223 The Seeing Eye Dog.
RANGER BILL ends the work week Friday, 6/13/2025, 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
RANGER BILL for Wednesday, 6/11/25, is:
Our late Saturday morning Ranger Bill is a massive, out of control fire
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for June 7, 2025 is:
Uncle Bob Devine welcomes Ruby the Humming Bird. Humming birds are unique birds. They beat their wings so fast that they fly like a helicopter. They can move and dart in any direction, even backwards. Learn how Ruby compares to other birds and animals too.
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