What happens
Ranger Bill, the boss ranger of a forest service crew, faces a shortage of men to staff fire watch towers during the dry season. Stumpy, Sam, Tom and the other rangers are worn out by their heavy workload, and Bill proposes hiring women as fire watchers. The men resist the idea, but Bill persuades them to give it a try. Jane Reeves, a recent college graduate, arrives to train for the post and is assigned to Stumpy, who is skeptical of her. This Ranger Bill episode from the series first aired on October 22, 1958.
A national forest ranger station and its fire watch towers, during the dry season.
Characters: Ranger Bill, Stumpy, Jane Reeves, Sam, Tom, Ned, Graywolf
Listen for: Bill's proposal to hire women as fire watchers, and the rangers' reaction when Jane arrives for training.
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.