Borrowing Money for Air Fare: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (December 5, 1954)

“Borrowing Money for Air Fare” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 5, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, wants to travel to Cedarville for the thirty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. Boynton's parents, but she is ten dollars short of the fare. She tries several people, including her landlady Mrs. Davis, and each one asks for money in return. She then comes up with a scheme to get a free flight with the airline's family plan. The episode is from the series Our Miss Brooks, first aired on CBS Radio on December 5, 1954, with Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna among the lead actors.

Madison High School, Mrs. Davis's boarding house, and an airport on the way to Cedarville

Characters: Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton, Mrs. Davis, Mr. Conklin, Walter Denton, Mr. Barnum

Listen for: Miss Brooks's attempts to borrow ten dollars from different people, and her plan to pose as a child to avoid paying the fare

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.