ep086 No Good Dog: Ranger Bill

“ep086 No Good Dog” is an episode of Ranger Bill, the old-time radio show. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Horatio Skinny, a poor boy who works after school for the bloodhound breeder Jarvis Angle, receives a runt puppy that Jarvis has given him, and names it Peanut. Ed Angle, Jarvis's son, scorns the puppy and the boy, and a rivalry grows between them as each trains his dog. The boys' club leader and Ranger Bill take an interest in the two boys and their dogs. The story is part of the Ranger Bill radio series.

The town of Nautic Pine, including the wrong side of the tracks, the Angle kennels, and the surrounding woods and mountains.

Characters: Skinny, Jarvis Angle, Ed Angle, Peanut, Ranger Bill

Listen for: Jarvis's advice to Skinny about raising Peanut, and the sense that a dog raised with love may outdo one raised with harshness.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.