Arguments, Arguments: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (May 29, 1949)

“Arguments, Arguments” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 29, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Connie Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, wants to spark some emotion in her quiet, reserved boyfriend, biology teacher Philip Boynton. Her landlady Mrs. Davis suggests she pick a quarrel with him, and Connie takes the idea to heart. Meanwhile, the Madison principal Mr. Conklin and his wife Martha are also tangled in a dispute, and Walter Denton is delighted by a fight with his sweetheart Harriet Conklin. This is an episode of the radio series Our Miss Brooks, first broadcast by CBS Radio on May 29, 1949, starring Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna.

Madison High School and the town around it, including Connie's boarding house and a city park

Characters: Connie Brooks, Philip Boynton, Mrs. Davis, Walter Denton, Harriet Conklin, Mr. Conklin, Mrs. Conklin, Minerva

Listen for: Connie's plan to pick a fight with Mr. Boynton and the mix-ups that follow between the Conklins and Walter

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.