Easter Egg Dye: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (April 9, 1950)

“Easter Egg Dye” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 9, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

On Easter weekend, Connie Brooks, a high school English teacher, prepares an Easter breakfast at her landlady Mrs. Davis's house, planning to share it with her students and fellow faculty. Her student Walter Denton brings over a dye he has invented, which he calls Tint Tomorrow, and asks her to use it on her eggs. Connie's routine is complicated by a series of mishaps involving the dye, a freckle-removal cream and a dispenser of soap powder. The episode is from the Our Miss Brooks series, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on April 9, 1950, with Eve Arden in the title role, and features Gale Gordon and Jeff Chandler among the cast.

Mrs. Davis's house in the town of Madison, on Easter weekend

Characters: Connie Brooks, Mrs. Davis, Harriet Conklin, Walter Denton, Mr. Conklin, Philip Boynton, Stretch Snodgrass

Listen for: Walter Denton's description of his delayed-action dye, Tint Tomorrow, and the escalating trouble it causes

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.