What happens
Ranger Bill, Henry, Stumpy and Grey Wolf are skiing on a mountain slope near Piney Pine when they hear a strange, unfamiliar scream at night. The next day, ranch cattle are found spooked and restless, and fresh tracks in the snow suggest a large cat. Bill organizes a plan to track the animal, and the rangers work to find and confront the creature in the rugged canyon country. The series is Ranger Bill, and this episode first aired on October 10, 1956.
A snowy mountain area near Naughty Pine, with a town, a ranch, a post office and drugstore, and rugged canyon country beyond the ranch.
Characters: Ranger Bill, Henry, Stumpy, Grey Wolf, Tom, Jake, Inky, Sid
Listen for: The strange scream in the night, the cattle spooking, and Grey Wolf's remark about tracks resembling those seen in Mexico.
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.