RB005 Burning Sands

 Thursday's 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.

RB004 The Hermit

 RANGER BILL for April 28th 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.

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.

RB019 Sultan, King of Beasts

Let's call this RANGER BILL #2 for April 24th!

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!

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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.

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.

This episode should air at 9:00 am eastern time on Good News Radio Homepage - GNN Radio

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