Ranger Bill — 1957
21 episodes broadcast in 1957.
When a cable car stalls and its line begins to snap, Bill must reach the stranded skiers and get them safely down.
Church board members move to oust a colleague who spends his time in prayer, just as a mysterious limping stranger sets the town talking.
Eight climbers plunge into a crevasse on the Savage Mountains, and the rescuing rangers may have to abandon two who have fallen beyond reach.
Trappers Abe and Jeff lose their catch to a thief that proves to be a wolverine, its grinning face striking terror at Trappers Landing.
Handing out Eagle Scout badges, Bill recounts the courage of one disabled scout, Norman Fitzgerald.
Grounded for hiding crippling migraines from the doctor, Ranger Brad takes a plane up anyway and is struck by another savage headache aloft.
A dam foreman's obsession with cutting costs breeds one dangerous problem after another.
Long haunted by a string of failed ventures, Tim Sullivan is offered a good logging-manager post but is terrified of falling short again.
Convinced Stumpy is stealing her cat Blackie and hiding it inside his walls, neighbor Beula Lindstrom will stop at nothing to get it back.
Ferocious blizzards seal off the roads across the Big Prairie region.
A son returns from college to work the family land, but his father spurns his book learning.
Stan Woods keeps putting off clearing brush from his explosives caves, and when fire nears, both the caches and Bill's firefighters are in peril.
Henry's ham radio catches a distress call from a father and son trapped in Cougar Canyon, and though the boy seems to die before help comes, Bill will not give up on him.
An earthquake rattles Knotty Pine.
A ferry is imperiled by rising flood waters.
A mailman stands accused of killing dogs.
A mysterious creature preys on tourists at Blue Lake.
Bill takes temporary command of the Ranger School.
The Sea Chaser is locked in Alaskan ice and out of radio contact, its passengers murmuring mutiny, when the rangers are sent to find the lost ship.
A lonely boy called Skinny tries to befriend a band of vandals who are slaughtering birds by the dozen.
A young man chases notoriety through troublemaking.
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