The Bird Rescue and the Sunken Garden: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (May 20, 1951)

“The Bird Rescue and the Sunken Garden” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 20, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks and the faculty at Madison High School are called to an early meeting by Mr. Conklin, the principal, after a small bird is found stranded on the school chimney. The meeting turns into a series of mishaps as the staff try to rescue the bird, with Walter Denton, Mr. Boynton and Miss Brooks each offering their own plans. The episode is from the OTRR Our Miss Brooks singles, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on May 20, 1951, with Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna among the lead actors.

Madison High School, its principal's office, the school roof and chimney, the greenhouse and the wood shop

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

Listen for: Mr. Conklin's attempts to climb the ladder to rescue the bird, and the chain of accidents that follows

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.