Mr. Boynton's Parents: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (May 14, 1950)

“Mr. Boynton's Parents” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 14, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, prepares for a visit from Mr. Boynton's parents, who arrive unexpectedly early. Mr. Conklin, the principal, has left a Mother's Day gift with her to keep hidden from his wife, and Walter Denton and Harriet Conklin are planning a surprise of their own. Miss Brooks and her landlady, Mrs. Davis, scramble to make the house presentable while the chairs are away being recovered. The episode is a comedy of errors and mistaken identities, with Eve Arden in the title role, from the Our Miss Brooks series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on May 14, 1950.

Madison High School and Mrs. Davis's house in Madison

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

Listen for: The mix-up over the package Mr. Conklin left with Miss Brooks, and the arrival of Mr. Boynton's parents ahead of schedule.

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.