RANGER BILL for Satufday afternoon, 10/31/2026, is:
RB144 Mystery Island
Bill, Stumpy, Henry and Mary Lu go camping on Lake Arthur Island. They meet fellow campers kindly Mr. Overby and grumpy Mr. Meany. Both men appear to be keeping secrets about themselves. On their very first evening there, Henry and Mary Lu hear some very strange sounds. The kids get scared and want to go home. What are Bill and Stumpy going to do to salvage their camping trip and get rid of the strange noises?
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 10/31/2026, is:
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, Oct. 31, 2026, is RB163
The Lost Pig aka Tangerine the Pig
Young Jody and Jill’s family has little money. They hope their pig Tangerine will win the cash prize at the fair. But Tangerine has other ideas. She escapes from the fair and hides in a herd of pigs stranded when their delivery truck crashes. The pigs are headed for the butcher. Will Tangerine end up on some family’s dinner table instead of the winners’ circle at the fair?
Ranger Bill for Friday afternoon, Oct. 30, 2026, is:
RB123 - River of FireRANGER BILL for Thursday, 10/29/26 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!
RANGER BILL for Tuesday evening, Oct. 27, 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?
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, October 24, 2026
Sarah scorpionfish stops in for a visit with Uncle Bob Devine. Sarah is one of 300 species of scorpionfish. Sarah is a Merat scorpionfish. She has four colors and lives in the warm and shallower waters of the ocean. Her cousins who live in deep water have only one or two colors on their skins.
Now it's Sarah's time to chat about herself:
RANGER BILL for Monday afternoon, Oct. 26, 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
Our RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 10/24/2026, 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
RB161 "A Little Spark"
is our RB adventure for early Saturday morning, Oct. 24, 2026.
RANGER BILL for Thursday afternoon, 10/22/26:
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.)
OTRR #158
RANGER BILL for Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 21, 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
RANGER BILL has his hands full for Tuesday, 10/20/2026, 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.
Our Ranger Bill hair-raising adventure for Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, is
RB113 Charlie's Nightmare
There are lots of chuckles in our RANGER BILL adventure for late Saturday morning, 10/17/2026:
RB159 Gray Wolf and the Tamed Cougar aka One-Man Mountain Lion
A young cougar wanders into the Knotty Pine Supermarket and chases out all the customers. The boys are called in to remove this “vicious” beast from the store. Bill soon realizes this is a tame cougar. The cougar quickly becomes attached to Gray Wolf. Laugh along with the fellas as Gray Wolf tries to deal with the affectionate cat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL5oxqTiJrQ
Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning, Oct. 17, 2026, is
RB142 Camera Crew in Knotty Pine
aka Stumpy in the Movies
A film crew comes to Knotty Pine to shoot wildlife. Stumpy wants to be the star of the show. The director, Stewart Long, gets lost, has a bad fall, and gets amnesia.
RANGER BILL for Monday and Tuesday, 10/12 & 13/2026, 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
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, October 10, 2026
Our friend Dale the killer whale is back with more to say about himself.
Let's see what Dale has to tell us today:
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, Oct. 10, 2026, was:
RB157 The Mad Bison
It’s springtime in the
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_xx-xx-xx_ep087_The_Mad_Bison.mp3
OTRR #183
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 10/10/2026, is:
RB141 Setting Sail aka The Man at the Door
Bill and JoJo (filling in for Henry) take an ocean cruise to Puerto Combello so Bill can teach new forestry and conservation practices there. Their cruise is soon interrupted when Bill catches a man listening to their conversation through the cabin door. The man escapes, so Bill and the ship's detective must hunt the man down. There is also a wealthy man from the Middle East onboard, and Bill is concerned for this gentleman's safety.
RANGER BILL for Friday afternoon, Oct. 9, 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.
RANGER BILL for midweek, Oct. 7, 2026, is one knock-down, drag-out fight
RB110 The Battle at Jenkins Manor
It's been many years since Stumpy's wife died; and he has finally decided that he doesn't have the time or energy to take care of himself and his house. Bill convinces him that he needs a housekeeper. Bill nominates Maggie Murphy for the job.
Maggie is a strong woman. She needs to be strong, a widow with four boys to care for. She acts much like a drill sergeant, which doesn't set well with Stumpy.
Stumpy is so desperate for a better home life that he hires Maggie, Stumpy's worst fears about allowing Maggie in his house are quickly realized and the battle begins!
Our RANGER BILL for Tuesday evening, Oct. 6, 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.
RANGER BILL for Monday afternoon, Oct. 5, 2026, is one of faith in the midst of pain and suffering
RB108 The Wrong Valley
Jacq McIntosh is Knotty Pine's blacksmith and one very powerful man. He is usually quite happy and full of joy. He likes to sing worship songs as he works. Trouble visits the McIntosh home suddenly one day with terrible force. His wife Annie is blinded in an explosion, and his son Ernie is badly injured in an auto accident. Jacq is angry with God and feels like Job. Can anything more go wrong for Jacq? Will anger and despair keep Josh in the terrible valley of depression? Can Bill do anything to bring Jacq out of that wrong valley?
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, October 3, 2026
Dale the killer whale swims in to talk with Uncle Bob Devine. Dale weighs in at 7 tons which makes him one of Bob's biggest guests. He lives in a family group called a pod. He communicates by making pops, clicks, and whistles.
Let's see what Dale and Bob have to say about life in the ocean:
RANGER BILL
for early Saturday morning, Oct. 3, 2026, is
RB155 Henry's History Lesson aka Henry's Wagon Train Dream
Henry is having trouble memorizing dates and places for history class. Stumpy tells Henry to put himself into the history he is studying. Henry dreams he is part of a wagon train on the
OTRR #106
RANGER BILL for Thursday afternoon, 10/1/26, is one scary mystery:
RB106 Terror on the Finger River
The Finger River flows out of the Rockies and into the Pacific. Much of the river is a mix of salt and fresh water. That mix makes hunting and fishing along the river excellent. Suddenly, fishing lines are being robbed and hunters are losing their kills to something in the river. The thief appears to be a barracuda, a killer with two rows of razor-sharp teeth and fins. Bill must find this thief and stop it - whatever it is. Can Bill locate our thief, or will terror continue on the Finger River?
