Male Superiority: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (January 16, 1955)

“Male Superiority” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 16, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High, joins Mr. Conklin, Mrs. Davis and Mr. Boynton in buying a steer to store in a frozen food locker. When a mouse and a praying mantis set off a quarrel about whether men or women handle emergencies better, Mr. Boynton and Mr. Conklin each ask Miss Brooks to help them get meat from the locker, which is locked until the rent is paid. The series is Our Miss Brooks, first broadcast on CBS Radio on January 16, 1955, and starring Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna.

Madison High School and the boarding house of Mrs. Davis, with a frozen food locker at the refrigeration plant

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

Listen for: The argument over male superiority in emergencies, and the plan to sneak meat out of the locker

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.