Spring Cleaning: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (May 1, 1955)

“Spring Cleaning” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 1, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High, is put in charge of the school garden for a spring contest that Principal Conklin hopes to win. When she goes to check on it one morning, she finds the garden bare, and her fellow teachers Mr. Boynton and Miss Enright are drawn into the trouble. Our Miss Brooks is a radio comedy in the CBS Radio series, first broadcast on May 1, 1955, starring Eve Arden and Gale Gordon. This recording presents the story from its opening through the first part of the garden mystery.

Madison High School and its garden, with Miss Brooks's boarding house nearby, in a small American town in spring.

Characters: Miss Brooks, Mr. Conklin, Walter Denton, Mrs. Davis, Mr. Boynton, Miss Enright, Catherine, Mr. Stone

Listen for: Miss Brooks discovers the school garden has been stripped bare, and Walter Denton and Mr. Boynton become involved as the blame begins to fall on Catherine the goat.

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.