RANGER BILL for Saturday afternoon, March 29, 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 for late Saturday, March 29, 2025, is
RB058 Skiers in the Sky
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday, March 29, 2025
Frances the Flashlight Fish is Uncle bob Devine's guest for this morning. Frances lives in the Red Sea, the saltiest body of water that can support life. Frances has real live flashlights, one under each eye. Those flshlights are alive. Learn more amazing facts about flashlight fish and the Red Sea.
Our RANGER BILL adventure story for early Saturday morning, March 29, 2025, is:
RANGER BILL for Friday, March 28, 2025, is:
RB137 Broken Bootstraps
Bob Benfelt is a struggling, young rancher and an incurable pessimist. Satan has broken his bootstraps. Ranger Bill takes Bob to see the Double Box M Ranch and its owners Myron and Hazel. Myron tells the story of his struggles as a young rancher and of his search for the courage to go on.
You may not hear this Ranger Bill story aired any time soon, but I thought you might want to listen this dark tale anyway. I'd advise that kids only listen with parents' permission.
RB135 Elizabeth and the Stranger
Rumors are flying around Knotty Pine that a man has been seen around town tempting children with candy to go with him. Adults fear this stranger is a child molester.
8-year-old Elizabeth Johnson sneeks out of the house to go camping on the edge of the woods with her babysitter Carol Peterson. Carol fals into a gulley and is hurt. Elizabeth must go for help all alone. Elizabeth's parents call neighbors, police, and the rangers for help to find Elizabeth and Carol before something bad happens.
Ranger Bill for Thursday, March 27.2025, is
RB136 The Crisis aka (Stumpy’s Sight)
– Stumpy gets hurt while riding trail. Bill suspects that Stumpy can’t see very well. Bill makes the Old Timer go to the eye doctor. The news isn’t good – cataracts. Stumpy needs surgery before he goes blind. But fear is keeping the Old Timer from getting the operation he needs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzHT2KUbmjQ&list=PLlUoyloCGlWxz_1Q5-ziI8gPVY8-RQiFQ&index=93&t=47s
Happy 16th Anniversary on Facebook, Ranger Bill!!!
We began on Geocities then moved on to Blogger when Geocities closed down. But I could.resist the opportunity to try starting a Facebook group. Now here we are 16 years later and still going strong, all thanks to each of you group members and your interest and activity on this Ranger Bill group!!!
I must also thank the entire Ranger Bill cast, crew, and office staff for creating these unforgettable weekly adventures with such a great Christ honoring flavor:
Here are some of the wonderful folks who brought Ranger Bill and Knotty Pine to life for us:
ACTORS
Miron Canaday as Ranger Bill Jefferson and Stumpy Jenkins
Ed Ronne, Sr. as Gray Wolf
Dr. Roger Compton as Henry Scott
Rex Brenner as Houseboat Charlie, Frenchy DeSalle, a pioneer, an archeologist, and many, many more
Bill Pearce as ranger Ralph Carpenter and other characters, also the announcer
Flo Schmid as various women and children
Walter Carlson (WMBI news director at that time) as announcer and various rangers
MUSIC
Dick Anthony (including the RB theme)
ORGANIST
Ralph Colburn
WRITERS
Charles Erkhart
John Rowan
DIRECTORS
Jim Grant
Charles Christensen
SOUND EFFECTS
John McComb
NOTE: Please check our photo page for some pics of Miron, Ed, and more.
Our RANGER BILL for Wednesday, March 26,2025, is:
RB134 The Cattle Rustlers of Cocanino
The Joe and Jack Jackson, identical twins, own the Big J Ranch. They mysteriously lose part of their cattle herd. The Jacksons suspect rustlers, but modern communications stopped rustling years ago. The boys keep losing cattle a few at a time. They finally ask Ranger Bill to check into their mystery. A mystery man, Mr. Dark, may be the key to this mystery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6gGDqkPZqY
RANGER BILL to begin a new work week, 3/24/25, will leave you shivering:
RB132 Avalanche Rescue
Bill and Henry are busy knocking down avalanches on the Big Six Mountains. Novice skier Jenny Bender aims to tackle those steep hills regardless of the risk. Bill closes the Big Six to any skiers until he and Henry clear all the dangerous drifts. Jenny sneaks out to go skiing before Bill opens the slopes. A huge avalanche threatens the ski lodge and the headstrong young lady.
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_xx-xx-xx_ep064_Avalanche.mp3
OTRR #173
RANGER BILL begins a new week on Sunday, 3/23/2025, 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
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for March 22, 2025
Uncle Bob Devine welcomes Lambert the Horned Lizard. Lambert looks much like a frog, but he is really is a lizard, because of his 1-inch tail. Horned lizards can be found in 20 U.S. states, parts of Canada, and into Central America. Learn what Lambert eats and how he keeps from being eaten himself.
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning March 22, 2025, is
RANGER BILL for
Wednesday, March 19, 20225 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 Pine Ridge. 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?
Our Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning, March 15, 2025, is RB056
I don't say this often enough. Thank you for participating in these Ranger Bill posts. Thank you so much for your comments and emoticons. Thanks too for the links to web pages and photos and other related news. Thank you's to all for ignoring and forgiving my frequent typos and mispellings as well.
Thanks especially to Jenny, Joel, Cordelia, Larry, Jim, Tim, Frank, Rod, Joyce, and Kaylee for your participation.
Please feel free to mention things you would like to see. I will do my best to add or include them.
Our RANGER BILL for Friday, 3/14/25, is:
RB131 One Mile Down
Bill and Gray Wolf try to find Lt. Garnet Greentree, missing for 40 years in the Andes Mountains in Peru. The only clue to the missing man's whereabouts is a gold medallion that Bill was given while working for the Peruvian government, stamped with the letters "GG". Bill and Gray Wolf passed the medallion on to the Greentree family who desperately hope to find Garnet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWR0oRUkPUM
This is one of those stories that could have had a second episode. Garnet, now 76 years old, leaves Peru and reunites with his family. He could share his story of faith lost then found. He might then return to Peru to his faithful servant and friend Sacre-topel (unsure how to spell this) and the Aztec tribes to witness Christ to them.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday, March 15,2025
Pete Pyrogen the Protein visits Uncle Bob Devine this morning.
You may not like what Pete does inside of your body, but he is vital in helping you get over an illness. When you get sick with a cold or flu or other illness, your white blood cells get to work eating up those germs. Those white cells die, and split open. That releases the pyrogen inside them. The pyrogen tells your brain to raise your body temperature to help kill those nasty germs. See more of what Pete Pyrogen does for you.
Our Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning, March 15, 2025, is:
RB189 Trestle Ice Jam
RANGER BILL for Thursday, 3/13/25, is truly one of their biggest adventures yet:
RB130 The Mountain that Moved
Stumpy and Henry go fishing on Old Thunderhead. Strange sounds start coming from the mountain. Then a seismologist, Mr. Chenowith, arrives to investigate strange readings coming from the mountain. Earthquakes trap Henry and Stumpy and threaten their lives. Then Old Thunderhead actually begins to move, leaving huge chasms and blocking all the mountain's roads. Bill must find a way to rescue his friends before it's too late.
OTRRv#171
Our midweek RANGER BILL for March 12, 2025, is one long search for a heartless poacher:
RB129 The Secret of Seal Island
Bill and his rangers have a poacher in the national forest. This man has been able to hunt illegally at will and still avoid even being seen. Gray Wolf names this man lupe garu, Wolverine (the glutton). Wolverine disappears then shows up in Alaska poaching fur seals. Washington asks Bill and Gray Wolf to travel to the Arctic Circle to find and capture this criminal. Can the fellas even locate Wolverine in the Arctic, let alone capture him?
OTRR#170
RANGER BILL for a Tuesday afternoon, 3/11/25, 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.
OTRR #169
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday, 3/8/25
Today Uncle Bob Devine gets to talk with a very important part of your body, Theresa Trachea. Your trachea is your wind pipe, the 4-inch long, 1-inch wide pipe that sends air from your mouth to your lungs. Learn what clever design God put into the trachea.
Our RANGER BILL for late Saturday mroning, March 8, 2025, 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.
Our Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning, March 8, 2025, is a very touching one:
RB055 A Lesson in Love
RANGER BILL for Friday, March7, 2025, 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?
RANGER BILL for Tuesday 3/4/25 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 Wednesday afternoon, March 5, 2025, is:
RB123 - River of FireRANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 3/1/25, 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7oMLptuwLI&list=PLlUoyloCGlWxz_1Q5-ziI8gPVY8-RQiFQ&index=185
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 Saturday, March 1, 2025
Uncle Bob Devine's guest for this Saturday is Bonnie the Rosy-Lipped Batfish. Bonnie has no scales and prefers to walk rather than swim. Find more of her unusual traits:
https://moodyaudio.com/products/bonnie-batfish-0
We have quite a big Ranger Bill adventure
for early Saturday morning, 3/1/25, RB054
