ep216 The Monkey Chase: Ranger Bill

“ep216 The Monkey Chase” is an episode of Ranger Bill, the old-time radio show. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Ranger Bill and his men hunt for three laboratory monkeys that have escaped from the lab of Dr. Victor Powers, a bacteriologist, and are carrying a deadly strain of influenza. Dr. Powers and his assistant Herb Longfield discover the open window and call the sheriff, who brings Bill and the Rangers in. Bill works out from clues in the alley that boys were likely responsible, and the men spread out across the town to search for the animals. Their hunt is kept quiet so that no panic breaks out among the townspeople of Naughty Pine. The episode is part of the Ranger Bill series.

The town of Naughty Pine, including Dr. Powers' laboratory and the surrounding streets

Characters: Ranger Bill, Dr. Victor Powers, Herb Longfield, Cal, Henry Grey Wolf, Stumpy, Mark, Jody

Listen for: Bill's reasoning from the clues in the alley about who opened the window

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.