What happens
Ranger Bill Jefferson helps George Bruce, a young man just released from reform school, find work and make a fresh start in Naughty Pine. Bill vouches for George to the lumber camp foreman Frenchie, but Sheriff Cal remains suspicious of the boy. When George is driving a truck carrying a $2,500 payroll and it crashes on a mountain grade, the money goes missing, and the sheriff arrests George for robbery. Bill refuses to believe the boy is guilty and sets out to find the money. This Ranger Bill episode first aired on March 28, 1956.
Naughty Pine and the surrounding forest and lumber camp
Characters: Ranger Bill Jefferson, George Bruce, Sheriff Cal, Frenchie, Tom, Stumpy, Wayne Bruce, Ed
Listen for: The truck crash on the mountain grade and the search for the missing payroll envelope
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.