ep203 One Million Years Ago: Ranger Bill

Ranger Bill, old-time radio on Stupid Potato

“ep203 One Million Years Ago” is an episode of Ranger Bill, the old-time radio show that aired from 1950 to 1962. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Ranger Bill and his companions Stumpy, Henry and Gray Wolf investigate reports of living dinosaurs in a remote valley in the Utah Badlands. Two men, Mr. Blandingham and Morgan, are digging there and claim to be scientists, but Stumpy notices their soft hands and vague knowledge. Witnesses describe the creatures seen by moonlight, and photographs show tracks and damaged bushes. Ranger Bill warns the men of an approaching sandstorm, and the rangers set out to search the valley as the sky turns yellow and dark. The storm arrives in the broadcast, and the rangers must find Henry and Stumpy in the blowing sand.

The Badlands of Utah, a dry, windswept valley beneath a high rocky cliff, with a sandstorm approaching.

Characters: Ranger Bill, Stumpy, Henry, Gray Wolf, Mr. Blandingham, Morgan

Listen for: Stumpy's observation about the men's smooth hands and the tracks and bushes the rangers photograph in the sand.

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.