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.

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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJjoyKQxVaA

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?

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_xx-xx-xx_ep159_The_Floating_Death_Trap.mp3

OTRR #193

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:

https://moodyaudio.com/products/queen-bee-0

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-mnjz99gKw

RB123 River of Fire

 Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning, June 20, 2026, is:

RB123 - River of Fire 

Officers 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRJZAKveGvw

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!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVzKQTUvtI8

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DEq33tfz0Nc6qa84sDLt9KYTHQnVoTV7/view?usp=sharing

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW3kLlxAW4c

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTfDUUn2shU&t=26s

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IHLGGa2Apc

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

Lester Winters inherited the family ranch when his dad died. The bank must take the ranch because of some unpaid loans. Les barricades himself in the house behind his rifle. The rangers find some of Les’ missing cattle, but they’re not enough to settle the estate’s debt. Then Bill hears a wild story about buried treasure on the Winters 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:

https://moodyaudio.com/products/sergei-saiga-mammal 

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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK4Dbc0tED8

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 Alaska. When they are unable to contact anyone by radio, the passengers and crew plan a mutiny. Bill and his rangers are called in to find Sea Chaser and bring everyone safely home.

Icebergs were an even bigger threat in 2024 than they were in the 1950s when Ice Pack first aired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9izK3l10UY&t=1s

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz8pMcvFv0Q&t=3s

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:

https://moodyaudio.com/products/gerg-mountain-gorilla

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Fy09DlkDY

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!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05G3r1EdrF4

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53UVrL_N9Vs