Mr. Lathrop Returns to School: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (September 26, 1954)

“Mr. Lathrop Returns to School” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 26, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High, finds her new student, Mr. Lathrop, a wealthy 62-year-old businessman who has returned to finish high school. He insists on running his classes and school matters like a corporation, and he takes an interest in her. Miss Brooks and her colleagues, including Mr. Conklin and Mr. Boynton, plot to get rid of him. Eve Arden stars in this Our Miss Brooks episode, first broadcast on CBS Radio on September 26, 1954, with Gale Gordon also in the cast.

Madison High School, and the boarding house of Mrs. Davis, in a small town

Characters: Miss Brooks, Mr. Lathrop, Mr. Conklin, Mr. Boynton, Walter, Mrs. Davis, Mr. Stone, Mrs. Henderson

Listen for: Mr. Lathrop's corporate ideas for running the school, and the plot to force him out

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.