What happens
Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, returns to class on the first school day of January 1950 to find Principal Osgood Conklin preparing for Board of Education Day. Conklin has asked Walter Denton to write an editorial for the school paper and has tasked Miss Brooks with proofreading it, but the editorial goes missing as the day's ceremonies are planned. Stretch Snodgrass worries about an upcoming biology test, while Miss Brooks tries to help him and keep order at the school. This episode from the Our Miss Brooks series was broadcast on CBS Radio on January 8, 1950, with Eve Arden in the title role, and Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna also appearing.
Madison High School, and the nearby streets and campus, on the first school day after the New Year holidays in January 1950.
Characters: Miss Brooks, Mr. Conklin, Walter Denton, Stretch Snodgrass, Mrs. Davis, Harriet Conklin, Mr. Boynton, Mr. Stone
Listen for: Listen for Miss Brooks's wry remarks as she reads Walter's editorial and Stretch's confused biology worries, and for Conklin's bluster when the day's plans begin to go wrong.
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.