Ranger Bill begins the work week , 7/6/2026, with a family dealing with anger and jealousy,
RB041 The Jealous Stepfather
Ranger Headquarters
Big Pine National Forest, Knotty Pine
Monday, July 6, 2026
RB041 The Jealous Stepfather
Saturday, July 4, 2026
RB227 The Monkey Chase
RB227 (my episode #) "The Monkey Chase" is our
RANGER BILL for
late Saturday morning, July 4, 2026,
Dr. Victor Powers has injected three medical test monkeys with a deadly strain of the flu to test a new flu vaccine. Two young boys accidentally let the moneys out. The boys and the monkeys head to the edge of town. Sherriff Cal and his troopers, as well as Bill and his rangers fan out all over Knotty Pine trying to find those monkeys.
RB125 Lover Boy
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning JULY 4, 2026, is
RB125 Lover Boy
Henry gets a big crush on the new lady doctor in Knotty Pine. Henry's girlfriend Mary Lu is angry with Henry and the doctor. To make matters worse, the rangers, especially Stumpy, don't want a lady doctor in Knotty Pine. Doctor Madge needs all the help she can get from Ranger Bill to stay in Knotty Pine.
Friday, July 3, 2026
RB040 Stumpy Gets 30 Days
Our Ranger Bill for Friday afternoon, 7/3/2026, is a fan favorite:
Stumpy Gets 30 DaysNo, Stumpy wasn't arrested for speeding or for robbery, but he was crushed and gored by a buffalo bull. Now the Old Timer struggles for life. After weeks of rest and recouperation, the old fella is left weak and tired and in pain. Then later he struggles for the courage to get healthy and return to work. Bill gives the Old Timer 30 days to get back to work or lose his ranger job.
Thursday, July 2, 2026
RB039 Mrs. Kane Wins a War
Our Ranger Bill for this Thursday, July 2, 2026, is full of excitement
RB039:Mrs. Kane Wins a War
The Hill Gang and the River Gang are rivals. These young hoodlums like battling one another on the back of Mrs. Kane’s property just outside of Knotty Pine. She called the police on their latest fight. The gangs plan to resume their interrupted fight the very next night. Then they intend to get revenge on Mrs. Kane herself!
RB038 Set the Record Straight
Ranger Bill for Wednesday, July 1, 2026, is RB038:
Set the Record Straight.Two misbehaving boys, Justin and Peter, must stay after school as punishment for working on sports plays instead of paying attention in class. The boys tell their parents that their teacher Miss Anderson is prejudiced against sports because she is crippled. Both of the boys’ fathers want Miss Anderson punished or worse.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
RB037 The Shortage
Our RANGER BILL tension-filled adventure
for Tuesday, 6/30/2026 is RB037 The Shortage
John Patterson is the Forest Service accountant for the Northwest District and one of Bill’s rangers. John is a fine Christian and works hard to do a good job. But recently John has been worrying himself sick over an accounting error of thousands of dollars that he can’t find to correct. He won’t tell anyone or ask for help and a federal audit is only days away.
Monday, June 29, 2026
RB036 Sleeping Death
Ranger Bill and the doctors in Central City have their hands full with
RB036 – Sleeping Death
this Monday afternoon, 6/29/2026.
– Sleeping Sickness infects the Central City area. Local manpower and equipment are not enough to control the mosquito population. The rangers are called in to help spray for mosquitoes, but one large landowner won’t allow the spraying on his land leaving many in danger of infection.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Whip-poor-will
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, June 27, 2026
This Saturday Uncle Bob Devine chats with one member of a family of birds, the Whip-poor-will family also known a the Nightjar family. Bob chats with the bird he calls the Poor Willow Bird.
You will find that Poor Willow Bird is more commonly refered to as the Eastern Wippoorwill. The eastern wippoorwill is found along southern Canada and down the easten United States. The eastern whippoorwill has a more southern cousin, The Mexican Whippoorwill who lives in the southwestern US and along eastern Mexico.
Both of these birds are known by their distinct calls. The Mexican calls out "whip-poor-will". The Eastern simply calls out "poor-will". Let's let Bob and Poor Will tell you more.
RB207 The Town that Wouldn't Move
We have another exciting RANGER BILL adventure for late Saturday, June 27, 2026:
RB207 The Town that Wouldn't Move
RB124 Soup Truck
Our RANGER BILL tale for early Saturday morning, June 27, 2026, is filled with great danger and even greater bravery:
RB124 Soup Truck
A truck carrying nitroglycerin blows up just outside the town of Landslide. The mayor closes Landslide to all dangerous truck traffic. Closing Landslide will put the explosives company out of business and hurt many other businesses. Bill must find a way to prove to the mayor that even nitro can be taken safely through Landslide.
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_xx-xx-xx_ep056_Soup_Truck.mp3
OTRR #165
Thursday, June 25, 2026
RB034 Piggyback
RANGER BILL tries to make peace between two competitors, Thursday, June 25, 2026:
RB034 – Piggyback – Dangerous winter weather and complex delivery problems threaten the survival of both Canyon City Truck Lines and the railroad. Leonard Grant, owner of CCTL, and Spence Neihoff, superintendent of the Knotty Pine railroad district, do not get along and refuse to work with one another. Bill must teach these men how to work together instead of against each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQL2qpm90sw
First aired Nov. 19, 1955. This is OTRR #22.
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
RB033 Chinook
Ranger Bill is hoping for winter weather for Wednesday afternoon, 6/24/2026, with RB033:
Chinook
It's winter in the Shady Mountains. At least it's supposed to be. The dreaded Chinook winds are blowing. The winds make it 50 degrees in the mountains when it ought to be 15 degrees below zero. The snow in the Shadies is melting and filling up Mid-Mountain Dam and cracking off huge chunks of glacier ice. The rising waters and the moving ice are threatening Mid-Mountain and Knotty Pine Dams. The threat to Mid-Mountain Dam grows with each passing hour of thaw. The dam operators ask Bill and the boys to do something to stop the ice. Bill calls on the one person he thinks can stop the ice boulders - Frenchy DeSalle. How can logger Frenchy help Bill stop tons and tons of speeding ice flows?
Maybe the title needs an exclamation point!
RB032 The Floating Death Trap
RANGER BILL for Tuesday, June 23, 2026 , RB032
The Floating Death Trap
Riverboats carry freight and passengers between Knotty Pine and Mirror Lake and Kings Islands. Andy Coogan and Jim Gunderson are fierce competitors for the tourists visiting the Mirror Lake region. Bill will not give Andy a passengers license because his boat is dangerous. His stacks leak. Deck planks need to be replaced. The boiler is a threat to human life.Andy says Bill is hurting him to help Gunderson. Andy asks several of Knotty Pine's influential citizens to pressure Bill to change his decision.
Will Andy do the right thing and fix his riverboat or will Bill give in to pressure and let Andy stay on the river? Will Andy continue to run his boat or will it break down and end the debate?
OTRR #193
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Queen Bee
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, June 20, 2026
Uncle Bob Devine gets a royal visitor this morning, a Queen Bee!!! As you may know, a queen bee runs the hive and lays eggs for new generations of the bee colony. You might not know that she runs the colony and provides order for it just by being there. She is the only member of the colony that is able to lay eggs.
To learn more about the queen bee and her hive listen to her talk:
RB087 The White Fields
Our Ranger Bill story for late Saturday morning, June 20, 2026, is
RB087 The White Fields
It is harvest time in the wheat fields around Central City. But a bad flu epidemic has kept many of the farmers out of the fields at this critical time. Ranger Bill sends 3 of his rangers to help with the harvest. One of those rangers considers a career change as he does the harvesting work.
RB123 River of Fire
Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning, June 20, 2026, is:
RB123 - River of FireOfficers O'Roark and Ryan are walking the night beat along the docks on the Shady River. The smell of fuel oil stops them in their tracks. The pipeline over the Shady has sprung a huge leak! The river is covered with a solid layer of the fuel oil. The slightest spark could set the river on fire or even cause an explosion. Things go from bad to worse when a bad lightning storm strikes. Bill, the safety forces, and the pipeline company may not be able to handle this disaster.
Friday, June 19, 2026
RB030 The Flaming Grass
Our Ranger Bill adventure for Friday, June 19, 2026, is:
RB030 – Flaming Grass – Bill issues prairie warnings for Knotty Pine County during a summer with no rain, but farmers and ranchers refuse to adopt fire control measures, so Bill calls in Big Brute for help. This is Big Brute's first RB episode, but certainly not his last!!!
RB029 Fossil Canyon
Ranger Bill has a very dangerous search and rescue adventure for Thursday, 6/18/2026 :
RB029 – Fossil Canyon –
Two college students go hunting for dinosaur bones in Fossil Canyon. They are overcome by the heat of the canyon and are unable to get out. Bill and his rangers must brave the 115 degree heat of the canyon to find the boys before it’s too late.
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
RB027 Bobsled
Our exciting RANGER BILL adventure for Tuesday, June 16, 2026 is:
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 the rangers' winning streak.
RB028 The River Monster
Our RANGER BILL for Wednesday afternoon, June 17, 2026,
RB028 – The River Monster –
The town of River's Bend builds some new dikes and levees to protect the city and its residents from the flood waters of the Shady River. But dikes can’t protect River's Bend from Zack Stephens and the huge log raft he is floating down the river.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
RB016 Hidden Treasure aka Trouble at the Flying Double Bar Ranch
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 6/13/2026, is:
RB016 Hidden Treasure aka Trouble at the Flying Double Bar Ranch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=2qN0E86-Nwc
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Saiga
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, June 13, 2026
Sergei Saiga stops in for a visit with Uncle Bob Devine. Saigas live in the vast, dry grasslands of Kazakhstan (a country in Asia between Russia and China). Saigas a members of the antelope family.
Those grasslands, called steppes, are often cold as well a dry. Saiga noses help protect them from breathing the cold into their lungs. Saigas must migrate to southern parts of Kazakhstan to avoid the worst of the winter weather, but then migrate north in Spring to enjoy northern grazing.
Let's hear from Serei and Bob now:
RB122 A Prisoner on Ice Island
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, 6/13/26 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!
RB024 Ice Pack
Our RANGER BILL for 6/11/2026, 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 were an even bigger threat in 2024 than they were in the 1950s when Ice Pack first aired.
RB022 Glacier Cave-In
Our RANGER BILL adventure for Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 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.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Mountain Gorilla
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, June 6, 2026
Gregory the Mountain Gorilla chats with Uncle Bob Devine. Gregory lives in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda and surrounding countries. Gorillas are gentle giants and plant eaters. They love to play in their family groups of 20 or so. Little ones are eager to play and even get a little rough with the 400 pound adults.
Now let's let Greg tell us all about life high in those Virunga Mountains:
Saturday, June 6, 2026
RB0120 The Self-Made Man
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, June 6, 2026. is:
RB120 The Self-Made Man
Dutch Vanderhaven lost his son in the war and is very bitter over his loss. He doesn't want any one's help, and he won't help anyone, not orphans, not even the church. Then Dutch is gored by a huge bull. Now Dutch is the one who needs help, but his neighbors won't give him any. Can Bill and Stumpy find a way to get the work done at Dutch's ranch and change a town full of stubbornness?
RB121 The Locked Bag
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, 6/6/2026, is one scary adventure:
RB121 The Locked Bag
Miles runs the snake farm. He milks poisonous snakes for their venom. Miles shows up at ranger headquarters as white as a sheet. Somehow Miles lost a locked bag containing a deadly king cobra. The bag could be broken into, and the snake could then get out. Bill, Miles and the boys must find the bag and the snake before someone gets hurt or killed!!!
RB017 Overflow
RANGER BILL for Wednesday afternoon, 6/3/2026, 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.
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Meerkat
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, May 30, 2026
Marvin Meerkat stops for a visit with Uncle Bob Devine. Meerkats are small members of the mongoose family that live in southern Africa. Meerkats are wild animals that don.t ever become tame around people. They can be adjusted to zoo life and can live roughly 12 to 14 years. Meerkats live in underground tunnels in family groups of 20 or so.
Now let Marvin tell the rest of his story:
RB115 The Three-legged Deer
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, May 30, 2026 :
RB115 - Three-Legged Deer
Two hunters can't find any deer. So, they decide to shoot little Jerry White's injured pet deer, Torpedo. One of the men even punches Jerry in the face! Jerry's parents ask Ranger Bill to find the men and bring them to justice. People in town are in a rage over the hunters' actions. The hunt is on for the hunters. Will Bill be able to find the men and bring justice and order back to the town of Three Forks?
(The folks who made Ranger Bill each week are credited at the end of this show.)
OTRR #90
RB014 Disaster Alert aka Danger! Gasoline Leak
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, May 30, 2026, 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
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
RB010 Hit and Run
Our RANGER BILL tale for Monday afternoon, May 25, 2026, 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
OTRR #12
RB012 The Eviction of Pa and Ma Skunk
Ranger Bill for this Wednesday, 5/27/26, 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.
OTRR #18
Saturday, May 23, 2026
RB083 Ten Fathoms Deep
Our Saturday afternoon Ranger Bill
for May 23, 2026, is RB083
10 Fathoms Deep
It's time for the Winter Ice Festival in Knotty Pine!!! There will be toboggan runs and downhill skiing for the speed merchants, ice skating and ice carving, and for the very patient - ice fishing. Bill and his rangers have managed to keep the Ice Festival accident free for better than ten years now. But fast drivers and careless folks on the frozen Shady River try hard to break Bill's good record.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Trapdoor Spider
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, May 23, 2026
Shawn, the Trapdoor Spider, chats with Uncle Bob Devine. Shawn isn't the first critter from Namibia to visit Nature Corner. A golden mole and a snake eagle have also talked with Bob recently. But our friend Shawn lives where it may rain only once in five years. Listen to this little fellow's story of life in the Namib Desert.
https://moodyaudio.com/products/trap-door-spider-shawn
RB113 Charlie's Nightmare
Our Ranger Bill hair-raising adventure for late Saturday morning, May 23, 2026, is
RB113 Charlie's Nightmare
An out-of-control missile is flying over Knotty Pine. It could fall from the sky at any moment and explode! Bill could choose to have the missile shot down, but that would cause millions of dollars of damage to the national forest.
RB009 Bim, the Dog
Friday's RANGER BILL for May 22, 2026 is:
RB009 "Bim, the Dog".
A brave dog protects his family then saves lives as he serves his country during wartime.
- Bim seemed an appropriate story when Cleveland celebrated the life of BALTO, lead sled dog on the final leg of the 600-mile trip to deliver diptheria vaccine from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska in 1925.
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.
RB119 Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, May 23, 2026, is:
RB119 Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
Bill and the boys and Maggie Murphy take 50 boys from their church to camp for three weeks. Henry has some problems as lifeguard during swim times. Stumpy and Gray Wolf lead a snipe hunt. Bill deals with one boy's home sickness. But Maggie must deal with a filthy kitchen, feeding 50 hungry boys, and then a food thief. She threatens to leave if the thief isn't caught. Bill must find the guilty boy or lose the best cook west of the Mississippi! Find out what happens to Mrs. Murphy's famous chowder too!!!
OTRR #161
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
RB007 Miracles aka Pray for a Miracle
RANGER BILL for a Wednesday, May 20, 2026, is
RB007 Miracles aka Pray for a Miracle aka Miracle Mystery
Henry and Freddy go on a hike. Freddy is not a Christian. Freddy wrestles with faith and miracles. The boys need a miracle when Freddy falls into Half-Mile Gulley and breaks his leg. Flood waters from a broken dam threaten to drown both boys. It will take a miracle to save them.
RB006 The Fire Bug
Our exciting RANGER BILL tale for Tuesday afternoon, May 19, 2026, is:
RB006 The Fire Bug or, in Bill's own words, The Iron Fire Bugs
The railroad engines in Randolph Thompson's Red Valley Freight Line are threatening to burn up all the trees in Giant Pine National Park. Many of Thompson's engines are old coal-fired steam engines. Randolph pushes the engines hard so that they belch out volumes of smoke and sparks, setting the nearby dry forest ablaze.Ranger Bill tries to get Thompson to either stop using the old coal burners or put spark arresters on their stacks. Thompson will not cooperate. What can Bill do to protect the forest and save the giant pines?
How does Bill live the Christian life in this story? Is anyone affected by Bill's actions and how?
OTRR #52
Saturday, May 16, 2026
RB111 The Prehistoric Monster
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, May 16, 2026:
RB111 The Prehistoric Monster
The circus has arrived at Junction City. A full-grown bull rhino is its main attraction. This particular rhino doesn't like being in the circus. The huge beast breaks his chains and charges off into the forest. Bill and the boys are called in to find and shoot the marauder before he hurts anyone or does any serious damage. Can our rangers safely corner this prehistoric monster? Will Stumpy's pride endanger the hunt and possibly endanger lives too?
OTRR #157
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Whistling Swan
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, May 16, 2026
Shawn the Whistling Swan comes to visit with Uncle Bob Devine this morning.
Shawn calls the Chesapeake Bay home most of the year, but he and his relatives fly near the Arctic Circle during the summer months to hatch and raise their young. That is a several thousand mile trip.
Whistling Swans are also called Tundra Swans (Wikipedia) and Bewick's Swans. let's let Shawn give you more details about whistling swans.
RB117 The Measure of a Man
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, 5/16/26, is RB117:
The Measure of a Man
Tough guy Muscles and his two friends terrorize Knotty Pine and beat up Henry and the school principal. Judge White sentences the three troublemakers to some hard time - on the trail with Bill and the rangers to experience what real tough men are like. Bill lets the boys "escape" into the mountains to learn that they aren't so tough roughing it in the wilderness.
OTRR #159
RB001 20 Fathoms Under the Sea
RANGER BILL begins a new cycle of his adventures on May 12, 2026:
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
Thursday, May 14, 2026
RB003 Getting with the Wrong Crowd
RANGER BILL for Thursday, May 14, 2026, is
RB003 Getting with the Wrong Crowd
OTRR #29
RB213/214 The Spirits and THE Spirit
RANGER BILL for to begin the work week, May 11, 2026 , 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
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Catkin Caterpillar
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 5/9/26
Uncle Bob Devine gets a little visit from Clarabel the catkin caterpillar. Catkins are the long, stringy bundles of tiny blossoms that grow on birch, oak and willow trees in the spring. Clarabel and other catkin caterpillars disguise themselves like those tree blossoms to hide from preditors. These caterpillars and other animals eat catkin blossoms for food, but the blossoms help Clarabel change to look more like the catkin blossoms. In summer, Clarabel will turn brown like the branches she lives on.
Now let Clarabel finish her delightful story of God's design for catkin caterpillars.
RB109 The Man Who Lost God
Our RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, May 9, 2026, is a strange, Old Testament style mystery:
RB109 The Man Who Lost God
Bill's rangers spot large campfires on the top of Razorback Ridge. Bill, Stumpy, and Gray Wolf go to investigate. They find what appear to be animal sacrifices like sacrifices in the Old Testament. No one is sure who is doing this and why. At the same time the wealthy Thompson family send out letters searching for their lost son. Bill has his hands full with two mysteries at once!
It appears as though RB108 The Wrong Valley and RB109 are both stories of men who have lost God, each in their own way.
RB116 The Deadly Laundry Basket
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning , May 9, 2026:
RB116 The Deadly Laundry Basket
Bill gets a phone call from Sergeant Jim Donato of West Grove, IL. Jim's neighbor was bitten by a poisonous snake and is barely clinging to life. The snake was hiding in a laundry basket sitting in her garage. Bill thinks a rare plague of swamp rattlers has invaded the town. Bill and Henry fly to West Grove to try to deal with the threat. Then a child is bitten and the town begins to panic. What can the fellas do to protect West Grove from panic and this deadly menace? (A list of the RANGER BILL cast and crew is given at the end of this show.)
https://oldtime.radio/episode/ranger_bill-the_deadly_laundry_basket
Thursday, May 7, 2026
RB211/212 Muscle and Prayer parts 1/2
Ranger Bill for Thursday and Friday afternoons (5/7/26 and 5/8/26) 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
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
RB210 One Million Years Ago
RANGER BILL for Wednesday, 5/6/2026, should leave you guessing and scratching your head:
RB210 One Million Years Ago
This is another "new" Ranger Bill story that hasn't been aired in recent years. Enjoy!
RB208/209 The (Haunted) Church at Bent Creek
We begin our work week with a 2-part RANGER BILL adventure:
RB208/209 The (Haunted) Church at Bent Creek parts 1 and 2
This is a 2-part Ranger Bill adventure. Don't miss a minute of the action and excitement!!!
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Sea Cucumber
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 5/2/26
Cliff the sea cucumber visits with Uncle Bob Devine this morning. Cliff is an animal, not a vegetable. Many sea cucumbers are long and sausage-shaped. Others are round and look like apples. They vary in size from 3 inches long to over a foot long. There are even a few that are only an eighth of an inch long. Over fifteen hundred kinds of sea cucumbers have been discovered.
Sea cucumbers serve a very needed function. They eat all of the plant and animal matter that settles to the ocean bottom. Bacteria eat what is left from the cucumbers' meals. That keeps the ocean bottom clean and safe from diseases.
Now let Cliff and Uncle Bob tell you more about sea cucumbers!
RB107 Petticoat Rangers
Our RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 5/2/2026, is a classic:
RB107 Petticoat Rangers
Bill doesn't have enough men for all the work around the national forest. He and his rangers have to work 18 hours a day. Bill has a solution to the problem - women volunteers in the fire towers. The rangers refuse to allow women rangers. Will the rangers work themselves to death or will they give Bill's PETTICOAT RANGERS a chance? Can female rangers do a ranger's work if they get that chance? In my opinion, this is one of the funniest Ranger Bill stories ever! You get to hear some of Stumpy's funniest and most famous lines! And you get to see a little of what life was like back in the 1950's.
OTRR #83
RB115 The Three-Legged Deer
RANGER BILL to begin this weekend, for May 2, 2026 :
RB115 - Three-Legged Deer
Two hunters can't find any deer. So, they decide to shoot little Jerry White's injured pet deer, Torpedo. One of the men even punches Jerry in the face! Jerry's parents ask Ranger Bill to find the men and bring them to justice. People in town are in a rage over the hunters' actions. The hunt is on for the hunters. Will Bill be able to find the men and bring justice and order back to the town of Three Forks?
(The folks who made Ranger Bill each week are credited at the end of this show.)
OTRR #90
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
RB205 The Swinging Tower of Eagles Rest
Our Ranger Bill story for Tuesday, 2/28/2026, is:
RB205 The Swinging Tower of Eagles Rest
Fire tower 10 is one of the highest in the national forest with breathtaking views and a reputation for swaying in the high winds there. Folks from all around the Knotty Pine area like to visit tower 10 and its rangers, Tom and Joe, and to see Eagles' Rest. Young Ken Winthrop has just hiked out to Eagles' Rest when a severe snowstorm hits. Ranger Tom slips and breaks his leg, the phone line breaks, and their radio link to headquarters goes down when the antenna blows away. A severely injured ranger and no contact with the outside world - can anything else go wrong?
Enjoy this exciting adventure!!!
RB206 The Hot Million
RANGER BILL for Arpil 29, 2026, is:
RB206 The Hot Million
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Antelope Squirrel
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 4/25/26
Simon the Antelope Squirrel stops for a visit with Uncle Bob Devine.
Simon is from Sonoran Desert of Arizona. That desert covers a much larger area that just Arizona, but the portion that is in Arizona is milder and somewhat cooler than other sections. God has engineered Simon to live comfortably there in the desert. Let Simon share his tale of life under a cactus:
RB105 The Falling Giants
Our Ranger Bill adventure
for late Saturday morning, April 25, 2026, is RB105
The Falling Giants
The Giant Pines are falling over without any explanation. Bill and the boys must find out what is happening before the forest is lost. What is causing this? Is it insects, a new disease, poor soil. or what? Millions of dollars of beautiful, majestic pines are in danger. The forest service and lumber companies want answers, and Bill is at a loss to provide those answers.
This story first aired on October 8. 1958.
OTRR #82
RB114 The Hardhead
RANGER BILL has his hands full for early Saturday morning, 4/25/2026, with:
RB114 The Hardhead
Colonel Anders must take a couple of months off for surgery. A man from Washington, George Benton, comes to Knotty Pine to fill in for the colonel. Mr. Benton is rude and expects ALL the rules to be followed to the letter without deviation or exception!!! Bill refuses to follow Mr. Benton's rule book. Benton suspends Bill, and the rangers revolt.
Thursday, April 23, 2026
RB200 Mr. Hunt's Estate
Our RANGER BILL for Thursday afternoon, 4/23/2026, is
RB200 Hunt's Place
Mr. Hunt won’t let Bill use any of his property for overnight camp outs with the Knotty Pine Boys Club. Soon Mr. Hunt has several problems with his house. He suspects that Bill’s boys club is responsible. Who is causing all the trouble at Hunt’s place and why?
This story is also known as "Mr. Hunt's Estate".
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
RB197 Bill Gets Lost in a Cavern aka Transistor Walkie-Talkies
RANGER BILL for
Tuesday afternoon, April 21, 2026: 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
RB199 The Raging Rapids
RANGER BILL for Wednesday, 4/22/2026, 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?
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Goatfish
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 4/18/26
Gifford the Goatfish stops by Nature Corner to visit with Uncle Bob Devine and with you.
Gifford and other goatfish live in the Mediterranean Sea. European countries such as Spain and Italy border the Mediterranean to the north.
Now listen to Gifford tell you about his life.
RB103 Water Hot Rods
Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning, 4/18/2026,
is an action-packed adventure about speed boat racing
RB103 Water Hot Rods
There's trouble on Beaver Lake. A group of young men, including Henry, are racing their power boats on the lake. Most of them are racing safely, but the boys with the fastest boat are endangering everyone else using the lake. Folks want Bill to stop the speed boating. Bill comes up with a plan to stop the dangerous boating. Then the troublemakers find a way to foil Bill's plan. Who will win this battle of wits? Will Bill be able to protect innocent vacationers on Beaver Lake?
RB113 Charlie's Nightmare
Our Ranger Bill hair-raising adventure for early Saturday morning, April 18,2026, is
RB113 Charlie's Nightmare
An out-of-control missile is flying over Knotty Pine. It could fall from the sky at any moment and explode! Bill could choose to have the missile shot down, but that would cause millions of dollars of damage to the national forest.
RB195 Hearing God to Help the Missionaries
Our RANGER BILL tale for this Friday afternoon, 4/17/26, 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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXE1q9SeTzY
Friday, April 17, 2026
RB194 Rattlesnake Sam aka 50 or 60 Snakes
RANGER BILL for Thursday afternoon, April 16, 2026, 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.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
RB193 The Fire Bomber's Pink cloud
Our RANGER BILL adventure story for Monday afternoon, June 16, 2025, is:
(The Fire Bomber's) Pink Cloud
Abner Benson is Bill’s friend from the service. Abner is a pilot with a new way to fight fires by dropping pink clouds of calcium borate on grass. His plane crashes while demonstrating his idea and nearly kills him. Abner’s wife Marge wants him to quit flying. Can Abner stay out of the cockpit to please Marge and still lead Bill’s new fire bombers?
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
RB192 The Fishermen and the Fire Bug
RANGER BILL for this Tuesday, 4/14/2026, 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
Saturday, April 11, 2026
RB077 Henry's Bus Trip
Our Ranger Bill for Saturday afternoon
April 11, 2026, is RB077
Henry's Bus Trip
Henry is taking a long-distance bus trip home to Knotty Pine. He meets the Cavanaugh family and several other of the bus passengers. It’s getting dark and the mountain roads are getting rough, winding, and narrow. Rains have caused landslides, damaging the road and trapping the bus.
RB112 The Mad Bats
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning 4/11/2026, is:
RB112 The Mad Bats
Bats invade the attic of the Phipps' home, and one even bites Edna Phipps. Bill and Stumpy go to evict the bats and discover the bats are sick with rabies! The boys get help fighting off the bats from some feathered friends. One of the Phipps' neighbors causes Bill even more trouble than those pesky bats.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Golden Mole
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 4/11/26
Holly the Golden Mole visits with Uncle Bob Devine today. Namibia in southern Africa is home to Holly. She lives under the sands of the Namibian Desert. She "swims" through and under those sands almost like swimming through water. Many other small creatures live in those sands and are food for Holly.
Holly's fur is the golden color for her 3-inch body. Listen to Holly tell you about life under the desert sands:
RB085 The Deep Country
Our Ranger Bill exciting adventure for early Saturday morning , 4/11/2026, is
RB085 The Deep Country
Col. Anders and his wife get lost in the deep country while they are on vacation. The colonel’s assistant tells the Anders’ daughter that her parents are missing. Those two plus the slow-motion folks who live in the deep country make Bill’s job of finding the Anders nearly impossible.
This is one of Ranger Bill's very first adventures. It was probably first broadcast in 1950 when the show was several 15-minute adventures aired on Monday afternoons in the greater Chicago area only. Our cast may have also performed this show live to Sunday Schools and church groups to help advertise the broadcasts.
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_58-03-05_ep206_The_Deep_Country.mp3
OTRR #69
RB190 Runaway aka The River Giant
RANGER BILL for Friday, 4/10/26, is:
RB190 "Run Away" aka "The River Giant"
Tad Coates owns a barge service at Central City. His newest tow boat is called The River Giant, It weighs 350 tons; has five decks, 10 rudders, four screws, and four engines that produce 8,500 Horsepower.
Tad's other tow boat is pushing ten tanker barges that are holding one million gallons of gasoline a piece. Two of those barges catch fire and burn with intense heat. Pilot Mark is afraid and needs Bill, Stumpy and more to prevent an awful fire.
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