April Fool's Day: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (April 3, 1949)

“April Fool's Day” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 3, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Connie Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, finds a newspaper advice column letter signed with her initials, CB, that mentions a fellow teacher whose initials are PB. Her colleagues Walter Denton and Harriet Conklin decide she needs a new personality, and they arrange for her to attend a party where everyone must perform. Brooks tries a ukulele number and a recitation at the party. The story is part of the Our Miss Brooks series, with Eve Arden as Brooks, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna in the cast. The episode first aired on CBS Radio on April 3, 1949.

Madison High School and the surrounding town, including Mrs. Davis's boarding house and the Conklin home

Characters: Connie Brooks, Walter Denton, Harriet Conklin, Mrs. Davis, Philip Boynton, Mr. Conklin, Mr. Pringle, Miss Enright

Listen for: The April Fool's Day schemes of Walter and Harriet, and the ukulele performance at the party

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.