Cure that Habit!: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (January 15, 1950)

“Cure that Habit!” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 15, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, helps her landlady Mrs. Davis find homes for two stray kittens and gives Principal Conklin a homemade hiccup remedy. Walter Denton secretly mails a card to Cure That Habit Incorporated in Conklin's name, and the card reaches the company's head, Mr. Chalmers, just as the school superintendent Mr. Michaels arrives to visit. Meanwhile, Stretch and Mr. Boynton's biology lab animals begin escaping into the building. The episode is an American radio comedy from the series Our Miss Brooks, broadcast on CBS Radio on January 15, 1950, starring Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna.

Madison High School, and the boarding house of Mrs. Davis, on a Friday the 13th.

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

Listen for: Conklin's hiccups and the escaped animals in the office, and Walter's Friday the 13th prank.

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.