What happens
Ranger Bill Jefferson takes command of the Ranger School while Monty Westfield is away on vacation. Jefferson is a firm but fair instructor who assigns the recruits hard training, including a fire-fighting parachute drill. Three students, Eric Sloan, Frank Brownie Kurtzlo and Nick Anzio, struggle with their fears of parachuting, snakes and water, and Jefferson works with each of them. The story centers on how the three men face their fears during a forest fire and in training. This episode of Ranger Bill was first broadcast on September 11, 1957.
The Ranger School, about a hundred miles northwest of Naughty Pine, and the surrounding forest and airfield
Characters: Ranger Bill Jefferson, Monty Westfield, Colonel Anders, Jonathan Morgan, Eric Sloan, Frank Brownie Kurtzlo, Nick Anzio, Cynthia
Listen for: Jefferson's lessons to Eric, Brownie and Nick about facing their fears, and the fire-fighting drill in the forest
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.