Taxidermist: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (June 19, 1949)

“Taxidermist” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 19, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Connie Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, is short of money for her summer vacation and looks for a spare-time job. Her friend Walter Denton, with partners Stretch Snodgrass and Harriet Conklin, offers her a place in their new taxidermy business. Their first customer is Harriet's father, Mr. Conklin, who wants his prize-winning fish stuffed before his club's contest. This is an episode of the radio series Our Miss Brooks, first broadcast on CBS Radio on June 19, 1949, starring Eve Arden.

Mrs. Davis's home and Madison High School in the early summer, after the last day of the school term.

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

Listen for: Connie's attempts to earn vacation money and the mix-up with Mr. Conklin's fish.

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.