Weekend at Crystal Lake: OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles (August 21, 1949)

“Weekend at Crystal Lake” is an episode of OTRR Our Miss Brooks Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 21, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Miss Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, accepts a weekend invitation from Mrs. Conklin to visit the Conklins' summer cottage at Crystal Lake, bringing along biology teacher Mr. Boynton. Mrs. Conklin hopes the trip will push Mr. Boynton toward marriage, while Miss Brooks is quietly hoping to be considered for head of the English department. The weekend becomes crowded with mishaps, awkward meetings and a growing tangle of misunderstandings among the guests and their hosts. This is an episode of the radio comedy Our Miss Brooks, first broadcast on CBS Radio on August 21, 1949, with Eve Arden in the title role and Gale Gordon as Mr. Conklin.

Madison High School and the surrounding town, then the Conklins' summer cottage at Crystal Lake

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

Listen for: Mrs. Conklin's plan to throw Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton together, and the mishaps at the lake

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.