Mr. Travis' Three Acre Lot: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (January 30, 1955)

“Mr. Travis' Three Acre Lot” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 30, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, learns that her landlady Mrs. Davis may lose her house after missing a mortgage payment, a situation complicated by the Broadview Realty Company's new manager. Meanwhile, Principal Mr. Conklin wants to acquire neighboring land owned by the miserly Mr. Travis for a larger athletic field. Conklin and Mr. Boynton devise a scheme to pressure Travis into selling by staging an injury to Miss Brooks. This is an episode of the Our Miss Brooks series, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on January 30, 1955, starring Eve Arden and Gale Gordon, with Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna.

Madison High School and the surrounding neighborhood, including Mrs. Davis's home and the lot owned by Mr. Travis

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

Listen for: Mr. Conklin's plan to force Mr. Travis into selling the neighboring property through a staged injury and threatened lawsuit

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.