Our Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, finds the school's classrooms and facilities far too cold after the holidays. Over a single Friday she tries to persuade the principal, Mr. Conklin, to approve new spending. Along the way she is pressed by Walter Denton, the basketball team manager, and by Harriet Conklin, the principal's daughter, each with their own complaint about the heating. Miss Brooks also visits biology teacher Mr. Boynton, whose laboratory animals are suffering in the chill. The episode is a 1949 CBS Radio broadcast from the Our Miss Brooks series, with Eve Arden in the title role, and Gale Gordon and Jeff Chandler among the cast.
Characters: Miss Brooks, Mrs. Davis, Walter Denton, Mr. Conklin, Harriet Conklin, Mr. Boynton
The transcript of “The Heating System”, an episode of Our Miss Brooks first broadcast January 9, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Our Miss Brooks plays Our Miss Brooks free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Pama Leipsoff, your beauty hope and lustre cream shampoo for soft glamorous dream girl hair bring you our Miss Brooke starring Eve Arden. Our Miss Brooke, who teaches English at Madison High School, enjoyed her vacation during the holidays just as much as any other teacher. But as it drew to a close, she had a peculiar reaction. Although I felt that my vacation had done me a lot of good, now that it was over,
I was keyed up and enthusiastic, simply raring to go. Raring to go on another two weeks vacation. Meanwhile, I went about the business of getting used to working again, and spent the past week noticing conditions which hadn't seemed so deplorable during the hustle and bustle of holiday time at the school.
I was telling my landlady Mrs. Davis about them while we were having breakfast Friday morning. Let me pour you a cup of this coffee, Connie. It's real, DJ Gen Narrow style. I just got the recipe.
Rio de Janeiro style? Yes. I mashed up a few Brazil nuts and mixed them with the coffee grounds. Aww. That's one reason why the blonde hair of a Brazilian is so outstanding. But Mrs. Dave is very few Brazilians have blonde hair.
That's another reason it's so outstanding. But I'm afraid I've interrupted something you started to say to me, Connie. Oh, it wasn't very important. I had just said that I- I really shouldn't do that. It's a habit I picked up for my brother Victor.
He's terribly absent-minded. I thought your sister Angela was the absent-minded one in the family. Angela? Yes, that's what you told me. What did I tell you? That she was very absent-minded. Who? Your brother Victor.
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Mr. Boynton is played by Jeff Chandler, Mr. Conklin by Gail Gordon. Others in tonight's cast were Jane Morgan, Dick Crenna, and Gloria McMillan. Men, here as actual factual proof of more comfortable, actually smoother shaves by using palmile of lather shaving cream.
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