Ranger Bill — 1955
16 episodes broadcast in 1955.
The rangers race to keep spilled aviation fuel out of the Shady River.
A courageous dog guards his family and later serves his country.
Two boys go into hiding after their car strikes an elderly pedestrian.
Ralph is stung when he is passed over for a promotion.
Snakes are loosed at the Logan City zoo, and when an escaped king cobra turns deadly Bill and his own snake expert investigate, with the head keeper's son suspected.
A young boy's life hangs on urgently needed heart surgery.
In an abandoned shack the rangers find an amnesiac singing hymns, a man who seems to be a minister.
Bill hunts for a way to make a deadly stretch of highway safe for motorists.
A skunk family moves into a newly purchased house before its owners can arrive.
Two college students are pinned by the canyon's brutal heat, and Bill and the boys must reach them before it kills them.
With no rain all summer, Bill's prairie-fire warnings go unheeded by Knotty Pine's farmers and ranchers, forcing him to call in Big Brute.
Foreman Tom Farris takes charge of a bridge over 1,200-foot Dead Man's Gorge, but his crew fears the 'jinx' of accidents that trails his hard-driving ways.
Savage weather and snarled deliveries pit the Canyon City Truck Lines against the railroad, until Bill makes the two rivals work together.
As sleeping sickness spreads through Central City, the boys move to spray the mosquitoes, but one big landowner blocks them.
Ranger bookkeeper John Peterson makes himself ill over a missing few thousand dollars he can neither trace nor bring himself to ask help fixing.
A newcomer who holes up in a cabin on Bill's patch proves to be a badly needed brain surgeon.
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