Dress Code: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (April 24, 1949)

“Dress Code” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 24, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, faces a week of student dress-up stunts that enrage principal Mr. Conklin. Her landlady Mrs. Davis reports a missed phone call, and Brooks is driven to school by Stretch Snodgrass, who arrives with a bandana wrapped around a cut head. Walter Denton stages a protest against the ban on girls wearing slacks, appearing in a dress borrowed from Brooks. The story turns on mismatched clothing, borrowed garments and a confusing morning as Mr. Conklin grows angrier and a visit from the president of the Board of Education is announced. The episode is from the Our Miss Brooks series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on April 24, 1949, starring Eve Arden.

Madison High School and Miss Brooks' boarding house

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

Listen for: Mr. Conklin's escalating frustration over the students' dress-up week and Walter's protest in a borrowed dress

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.