The run
- Network
- Moody Broadcasting
- Years active
- 1950–1962
- Surviving broadcasts
- 221
- Genre
- kids
""Ranger Bill, Warrior of the Woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, fighting the many enemies of nature. This is the job of the guardian of the forest, Ranger Bill. Pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snows, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 13 years on the air, with 6 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. epxxx First Snow · 2 Oct 1950
- 2. Next In Line · 11 May 1955
- 3. The Hermit · 21 Dec 1955
- 01
epxxx First Snow
2 Oct 1950 · 13 min
Broadcast 2 October 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 02
Next In Line
11 May 1955 · 30 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
The Hermit
21 Dec 1955 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 04
An Old Horse Learns New Tricks
3 Oct 1956 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
6 Mar 1957 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 06
Ice Pack
25 Sep 1957 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
ep021 The Whispering Cave
7 May 1958 · 29 min
Broadcast 7 May 1958. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
- 08
Bobsled
29 Nov 1958 · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Same seasons
kids on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Ranger Bill
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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