Our Miss Brooks

Miss Brooks babysits, which gives everyone the idea that she's sharing a love nest with Mr. Boynton! Although our Miss Brooks teaches English at Madison High School, her problems like those of any other teacher aren't always confined to purely scholastics ones. There's Mr. Philip Boynton for instance, the biology teacher for whom Miss Brooks is extremely fond. "And who in return lavishes his affection on his frogs and guinea pigs.

There's going to be a grudge fight between Walter Denton and Stretch Snodgrass over the hand of fair Harriet Conklin. Walter and Stretch were the best of friends until one night when Walter found out that his best friend had been to the movies with his girlfriend Harriet Conklin.

Mrs. Davis uses $25 intended to be deposited in the school savings account to buy Miss Brooks a new dress. Miss Brooks, the English teacher at Madison High School, has been busy, but not busy enough for the warden. She ends up taking responsibility for the students money with disastrous consequences.

Who's been sending romantic poetry to Harriet Conklin? Our Miss Brooks manages to keep pretty busy teaching English at Madison High School but in spite of her preoccupation with her own subject she's managed to find quite a bit of time lately to pursue the study of biology.

Mrs. Davis leaves with the key to Madison High, and no one can get into school! Not many people like to get up early in the morning but our Miss Brooks, who teaches English at Madison High School doesn't seem to mind at all. In fact, she gets quite a kick

For many people Friday the 13th brings a feeling of pending misfortune. But our Miss Brooks, who teaches English at Madison High School, doesn't believe in such superstition.

It is the start of the first semester and after a hard day in a faculty meeting Miss Brooks has just retired to bed and dozed off when there is a knock at the door. It is the principle on a drive for more discipline, less horseplay, towing-of-the-line, and running of the school in an orderly manner.

Miss Brooks becomes a taxidermist. Her first job is Mr. Conklin's prize bass! For many teachers June 17th marks the last day of regular school term and this also applies to our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School but unlike many other teachers however, she had volunteered for summer school duty.

Miss Brooks has been named Mother Away From Mother. To most people a warm day in May suggests a drive in the country or a leisurely picnic but to our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School it has a far different significance...

There's going to be a Wishing Well Dance at Madison High, and everyone wants a lock of Miss Brooks' hair. To most of us a school dance isn't the most exciting thing in the world but to our Miss Brooks, the one planned for last Friday night was a most welcome diversion.

Our Miss Brooks was a situation comedy show heard on radio and seen on television and films starring Oscar winner Eve Arden. Her skill with the wicked one-liner and acid aside had begun to lead to typecasting so, to find a new image, Arden signed on for the lead in radio's Our Miss Brooks. The series centered on Connie Brooks, a smart, sharp-witted, lovable English teacher at fictional Madison High School. Between gentle wisecracks, Miss Brooks doted on nerdish student Walter Denton and frequently locked horns with crusty, cranky Principal Osgood Conklin. Many plot lines revolved around Miss Brooks' longing for Philip Boynton, the school's bashful biology teacher. Our Miss Brooks made a successful jump to TV in 1952 while the radio series lasted until 1957.Episodes included are: "Old Clothing," "Poor Heat," "Student Government Day," "Head of the English Department," "The Frog," "Stretch Has a Crush," "Faculty Dance, New Hairdo," "Cafeteria Boycott," "Clay City High Wants Brooks," "April Fool's Party," "Wake Up Plan," and "Working for Easter Outfit."

Featuring a witty professional woman as the central character of this old-time radio show, Our Miss Brooks was a groundbreaking concept. Audiences could (and continue to) relate to Connie Brooks as a clever, sarcastic, kindhearted teacher. A year before the radio series ended, it had a television, stage play, and film adaptations of the same title.