The Butcher (Home Recording): OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (November 22, 1953)

“The Butcher (Home Recording)” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 22, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, grows worried when her landlady, Mrs. Davis, announces she plans to marry Henry Pringle, a butcher she has known only a few weeks. Brooks learns from Mr. Conklin, whose sister-in-law was involved with Henry, that Henry is a confidence man with a criminal past. Mrs. Davis dismisses the warnings, so Brooks and Mr. Boynton devise a plan to make her reconsider. The Our Miss Brooks series aired on CBS Radio, and this episode's original air date is November 22, 1953, with Eve Arden in the lead role.

Madison High School and Mrs. Davis's boarding house in a small town

Characters: Miss Brooks, Mrs. Davis, Henry Pringle, Mr. Boynton, Walter Denton, Mr. Conklin, Harriet, Freddie Stewart

Listen for: Brooks's plan to make Mrs. Davis reconsider and the dinner scene at the house with Henry

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.