What happens
Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High, faces trouble when a school phone bill she handed off goes unpaid and the school phone number is mistakenly shared with a bookmaker. Mr. Conklin, the principal, is worried about an upcoming visit from Mr. Stone of the Board of Education, who is cooperating with the district attorney's gambling crackdown. As repairmen arrive and phone calls with odd requests keep coming in, Miss Brooks and her colleagues scramble to fix the bill and avoid embarrassment. This is an episode of the radio series Our Miss Brooks, first broadcast on CBS Radio on October 15, 1950, starring Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna.
Madison High School and the nearby boarding house, in an unnamed town during an anti-gambling campaign.
Characters: Miss Brooks, Mr. Conklin, Mr. Stone, Walter Denton, Stretch Snodgrass, Mr. Boynton, Mrs. Davis, Harriet
Listen for: The running confusion over the phone bill and the mistaken phone number, and Miss Brooks's attempts to explain the situation to Mr. Conklin and Mr. Stone.
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.