What happens
Our Miss Brooks follows English teacher Connie Brooks at Madison High School, where Principal Mr. Conklin has launched an economy drive just as a state examiner is due to visit. Connie and her colleagues Mr. Boynton and Miss Davis learn that William Dobson, a man Conklin once convicted of armed robbery and who has just been released from prison, is loose and reportedly angry with him. Eve Arden stars as Connie Brooks, with Gale Gordon as Mr. Conklin, in this November 8, 1953 episode of the CBS Radio series. The story follows the school staff's worries and the economy measures that keep the faculty busy and anxious.
Madison High School and the nearby boarding house where Connie Brooks lives, during a week of school economy measures before a state examiner's visit.
Characters: Connie Brooks, Mr. Conklin, Mr. Boynton, Mrs. Davis, William Dobson, Harriet, Mr. Johnson, Walter
Listen for: Listen for the tension around the escaped convict William Dobson, who has come to the school, and for Mr. Conklin's economy drive that keeps the faculty worried.
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.