Visiting Basketball Coach: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (February 27, 1955)

“Visiting Basketball Coach” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 27, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Connie Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, wants her colleague Mr. Boynton to notice her, so her landlady Mrs. Davis suggests making him jealous with another suitor. Connie invents an old sweetheart named Billy Shaw, the coach of a visiting basketball team from Oakmont. When Principal Conklin arranges for the coach to stay at Connie's home, the story grows more complicated. This is an episode of the Our Miss Brooks series, first broadcast on CBS Radio on February 27, 1955, with Eve Arden in the lead role and Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna also appearing.

Madison High School and the boarding house of Mrs. Davis, a small town in winter

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

Listen for: Connie's invented romance with Billy Shaw and the surprise when the visiting coach turns out to be a woman

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.