Summer Vacation: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (September 4, 1955)

“Summer Vacation” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 4, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Connie Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, begins a long-awaited summer vacation and heads for Crystal Lake, where she hopes to see Mr. Boynton, the biology teacher she admires. Her landlady Mrs. Davis, her student Walter Denton and his friend Stretch Snodgrass help her get ready, and Connie phones Mr. Boynton at the Beaver Lodge to check that he is still there. Her plans become complicated when the car needs repairs and her principal, Mr. Conklin, asks for a ride to the lake. This episode of Our Miss Brooks, first broadcast by CBS Radio on September 4, 1955, stars Eve Arden.

Madison High School and Connie Brooks's boarding house in the city, then the road to Crystal Lake and the Beaver Lodge

Characters: Connie Brooks, Mrs. Davis, Walter Denton, Stretch Snodgrass, Mr. Boynton, Mr. Conklin, Mr. Turner, Harriet Conklin

Listen for: Connie's phone call to Mr. Boynton at the Beaver Lodge, and the sudden change of travel plans when Mr. Conklin asks for a ride to the lake

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.