Pensacola Popovers: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (July 24, 1949)

“Pensacola Popovers” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 24, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Connie Brooks, a high school English teacher at Madison High summer school, is advised by her landlady, Mrs. Davis, to play the nurse for Mr. Boynton, the biology teacher she is dating, by feigning concern for his health. Walter Denton and Harriet Conklin join the household and the school, where a series of Pensacola Popovers, Mrs. Davis's experimental cookies, passes around. Mr. Boynton's appetite and Connie's attentions get ever more tangled as the morning goes on. The episode is the 1949 CBS Radio installment of the Our Miss Brooks series, starring Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna, first broadcast on July 24, 1949.

Madison High School summer school and Mrs. Davis's boarding house

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

Listen for: Connie's attempts to nurse Mr. Boynton and the effects of Mrs. Davis's Pensacola Popovers

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.