Ranger Bill — 1961
25 episodes broadcast in 1961.
Henry's college friend insists that God does not exist.
Alec and Henry go snooping around the town's newly built water tower.
A skeptical father tells his boy that if God is real, a prayed-for horse will appear.
Henry and Stumpy must cope after a prank by some boys sends Bill through the ice.
A running debate about sincerity in prayer is cut short by a cave-in.
Losing his rabbits to wolves and impatient with Bill, Gunter Neeves hunts the pack alone and becomes the prey himself.
A false rumor that Bill means to push Stumpy into retirement leads the town council to plan a farewell dinner -- which the two friends upend with a game of tall tales.
To earn money for his parents, Freddie Burns chases a cub-reporter job at the Knotty Pine Sun and, on Bill's tip, trails Old Ben, a prospector who never struck gold.
A remote snowfield becomes a crash site when Bill's airliner is forced down.
Ralph's replacement is ready for everything but death.
JoJo and his mother take a puzzling newcomer to be Bill himself.
Eager to aid missionaries Barth and Jeanie Ludlow, young Ronnie Quiller finds a lost diamond ring to sell for them, but must wait thirty days for its owner to appear.
When neighbor Conrad shoots her dog Mr. Prince, little Julie is heartbroken.
Henry nurses an injured rabbit named Cotton back to health, then shares him with an ailing girl, Candy Faye.
Testing the ranger district's new walkie-talkies, Henry's boys' club stumbles on a plane crash and searches for its missing occupants.
Helping on a camp canoe trip, Henry must save two boys, Ed and Paul, caught in midriver rapids.
A retired man is thwarted at every turn in his bid to build a museum for his Civil War relics.
A feud between rival lumberyard bosses Tim O'Malley and Carl Walterson sends tempers flaring.
When Hunt bars Bill from using part of his estate for boys' campouts, vandalism strikes the property he is trying to sell, and he blames the boys.
Lloyd Adams builds tourist cabins near a rare buffalo herd led by an even rarer white buffalo, having put profit ahead of God.
Working as a grocery bagger, Henry grows close to his coworkers -- above all Amy, a cashier who rejects the Bible and Jesus as savior.
Rabid animals begin attacking people around Knotty Pine.
Lonely fire-tower ranger Tom adopts an otter, Brightwater, until a poacher snares them both and Bill and Stumpy race to the rescue.
A traveling salesman talks Stumpy into a silent supersonic duck call, but a skeptical Bill investigates.
On a hike, doubting Freddy breaks his leg falling into Half-Mile Gulley just as floodwaters from a burst dam close in, leaving only a miracle to save him and Henry.
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