Twin Orphans: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (May 8, 1955)

“Twin Orphans” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 8, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High, is short of chairs for her overcrowded class when twin boys, Mike and Danny, turn up in her classroom saying they want to skip grammar school and become policemen. They refuse to give their last name and tell a story about escaping from an orphanage. Sergeant Gillis is called in to investigate, and Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton become drawn into the boys' tale. Eve Arden plays Miss Brooks and Gale Gordon plays Mr. Conklin, with the episode broadcast on CBS Radio on May 8, 1955.

Madison High School, a crowded English classroom and the principal's office, later Miss Brooks's house

Characters: Miss Brooks, Walter Denton, Mike, Danny, Sergeant Gillis, Mr. Boynton, Mr. Conklin, Mrs. Davis

Listen for: Danny's tearful stories about the orphanage and the boys' attempts to avoid being sent back there

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.