Couch Potato: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (August 28, 1955)

“Couch Potato” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 28, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks and her friend Walter Denton, along with his partner Stretch Snodgrass, use Walter's moving van for a new business, and the van ends up parked in Mrs. Davis's driveway. Mr. Conklin and Mr. Boynton, each trying to avoid a meeting of the Ladies Aid Club, arrange to hide overnight in the van. Miss Brooks helps them, while Walter and Stretch accept an order to move clubhouse furniture for Mrs. Conklin's group. Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden with Gale Gordon, was broadcast by CBS Radio on August 28, 1955. The episode covers the first part of the story, in which the hiding men and the moving van collide with the club's plans.

Madison High School and the surrounding town, including Mrs. Davis's house and a moving van.

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

Listen for: Mr. Conklin and Mr. Boynton hiding in the moving van, and the van unexpectedly being driven to the Ladies Aid Club.

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.