Hunts Place aka Mr Hunts Estate: Ranger Bill (October 18, 1961)

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“Hunts Place aka Mr Hunts Estate” is an episode of Ranger Bill, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 18, 1961. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Ranger Bill Jefferson and the boys of the Naughty Pine boys club want to use a corner of Mr. Hunt's wooded estate for overnight camping, but Hunt refuses. After a series of mishaps at the house, Hunt blames the club, and Bill sets out to find out what is really happening. The episode is from the Ranger Bill radio series, first broadcast on October 18, 1961, and its cast is not named in the transcript.

Naughty Pine, a small town with a wooded estate belonging to the Hunt family

Characters: Ranger Bill Jefferson, Mr. Hunt, Lanny, Henry, Stumpy, Christopher Morton

Listen for: Mr. Hunt's refusal to let the boys camp on his estate, and the mishaps that follow at his house

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.