Stretch Is in Love: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (February 26, 1950)

“Stretch Is in Love” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 26, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, is asked by principal Osgoode Conklin to keep star baseball player Stretch Snodgrass eligible by improving his grades. Stretch seems troubled and distracted, and his biology teacher, Mr. Boynton, suspects he is in love. Brooks learns that the girl is Susie Prentiss, a new student, and she tries to help the two of them attend the school board banquet together. Eve Arden stars in this comedy from the Our Miss Brooks series, broadcast on CBS Radio on February 26, 1950.

Madison High School and the surrounding town, during a single school day before the school board banquet

Characters: Miss Brooks, Osgoode Conklin, Stretch Snodgrass, Mr. Boynton, Susie Prentiss, Walter Denham, Mrs. Davis

Listen for: Mr. Boynton's theory about how to tell when someone is in love, and Miss Brooks's efforts to find evening clothes for Stretch and Susie

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.