The Switchboard Operator: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (November 7, 1954)

“The Switchboard Operator” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 7, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, is rivals with fellow teacher Daisy Enright, and both want to spend a weekend at Eagle Springs with Mr. Boynton. Enright proposes a poker game to decide who will step back from the romance. Meanwhile Walter Denton pleads with Miss Brooks to help Mr. Himmelstoss, an older German teacher who is ill and at risk of losing his job. Enright has taken charge of the school's new switchboard, and when Brooks covers it for her, the calls quickly become tangled. The episode is an Our Miss Brooks radio comedy from November 7, 1954, on CBS Radio, starring Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna.

Madison High School and the surrounding town, with a visit to the railroad station and Eagle Springs.

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

Listen for: The poker game between Miss Brooks and Daisy Enright, and the switchboard mix-up when Brooks takes over the phones.

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.