Roving Wolves aka Wolf Attack: Ranger Bill (March 5, 1961)

“Roving Wolves aka Wolf Attack” is an episode of Ranger Bill, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 5, 1961. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Ranger Bill Jefferson and his partners at the ranger station in Nadi Pine respond when rancher Gondu Neeves reports that wolves are killing his rabbits. Miss Castler also reports wolves near the school yard, and the rangers plan to lure the pack north with food drops and drive them off by air and on horseback. Neeves, angry and determined, heads into the woods alone against their advice. The story follows the rangers' search for the missing man as the wolves close in around him.

Nadi Pine, a small town in the woods during a cold snap, with the ranger station, Neeves' rabbit farm, the school yard and the surrounding snowy hills

Characters: Ranger Bill Jefferson, Henry Scott, Stumpy, Gondu Neeves, Miss Castler

Listen for: The rangers' air search for the wolves, the telephone reports of attacks, and Neeves' decision to go hunting alone

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.