Missing Electric Heater: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (February 6, 1949)

“Missing Electric Heater” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 6, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, is pulled from sleep by her principal, Mr. Conklin, who wants strict discipline and orderly conduct from the staff this new semester. The episode follows her morning, a ride with Walter Denton, and a scheme to borrow an electric heater from the school stockroom for the biology laboratory. Eve Arden stars in this Our Miss Brooks installment, first broadcast on CBS Radio on February 6, 1949, in the OTRR singles collection.

Madison High School and the surrounding town, early in a new school term

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

Listen for: Mr. Conklin's shouted orders about discipline, and Miss Brooks's exchanges with Walter Denton about the stockroom

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.