Our miss brooks radio show

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What a great show. Carlton D Borders. Home comedy our miss brooks. Please enjoy these old time radio episodes: Show 25 shows on page Show 50 shows on page Show shows on page Show shows on page Show shows on page Show shows on page Show All shows on page Air Date Title Synopsis Rating Spoiler : This was my first comedy series I listened to when I got my vintage radio app.

Spoiler : OMG really?! Boynton asks her to marry him? What is it called? Spoiler : Ehh it was alright. I enjoyed it. Spoiler : I like the radio program. I sort of gravitate toward the comedies, though. Spoiler : The movie is a bit rushed, but she does wind up with Mr. Boynton, when the best ending would for her to wake up and realize Mr. Boyton is gay.

Spoiler : What is that movie episode? I guess that would be a cool ending even though I'm glad they didn't because I really want them to be together. Spoiler : Yeah, sort of. In the movie, but never in the radio show, or the short lived tv show. But Gildersleeve movies didn't seem to be quite in the same universe as the radio show, so maybe Connie was the same?

Spoiler : I did chuckle a lot at the episode where they're collecting clothes for the needy and Connie gets to say to Mr Boynton "Go into my room and take off your clothes! I wonder what sort of look she gave him when they had the rehearsal for that episode. Spoiler : well i am glad her rival teacher didnt get him. Spoiler : I think 'boink Mr. Harry Ackerman, at the time CBS's West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.

With a slightly rewritten audition scriptOsgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principalArden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.

Our miss brooks radio show

According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very "feline" in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the castblustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enrightalso received positive reviews.

Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of , receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. Boynton," she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.

For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until , a year after its television life ended. Reviewer: jwf - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 29, Subject: Don't listen to these every night, just every third night!!!

I listen to this collection or to one of two other radio show collections every night when going to sleep - I rotate on a 3-night basis. I've built an application that stops the playback after 30 miniutes, and I'm always asleep by then. I've come to feel that these radio characters are emotional family, not embodied, but present ever night.

Our Miss Brooks delights again and again, night after every-third-night, year after year. I also listen in the car when I'm on long travels. Very grateful to have access to these delights. It also changed the title character's romantic focus; Gene Barry was cast as physical education teacher Gene Talbot, and Connie was now the pursued instead of the pursuer, although Mr.

Boynton reappeared in several episodes before the season ended. Our Miss Brooks finished in Nielsen ratings that season at number 15 overall after previously ranking at number 23 in — and number 14 in — To rectify their mistake, the producers brought back Rockwell as Boynton in midseason, but it did not help. The show was cancelled in the spring of Boynton were finally engaged to be married.

The film disregarded the format change of the final television season, concluded Miss Brooks' story at Madison High School. Both the radio and television shows drew as much attention from professional educators as from radio and television fans, viewers, and critics. In addition to the —49 poll of Radio Mirror listeners and the poll of Motion Picture Daily critics, Arden's notices soon expanded beyond her media.

According to the Museum of Broadcast Communications , she was made an honorary member of the National Education Association and received a award from the Teachers College of Connecticut's Alumni Association "for humanizing the American teacher". Our Miss Brooks was considered groundbreaking for showing a woman who was neither a scatterbrained klutz nor a homebody, but rather a working woman who transcended the actual or assumed limits to women's working lives of the time.

Connie Brooks was considered a realistic character in an unglamorized profession she often joked, for example, about being underpaid, as many teachers are , and who showed women could be competent and self-sufficient outside their home lives without losing their femininity or their humanity. Our Miss Brooks remained Eve Arden's most identifiable and popular role, with numerous surviving recordings of both the radio and television versions continuing to entertain listeners and viewers.

The surviving radio recordings include both its audition shows. A quarter century after the show ended, Arden told radio historian John Dunning in an on-air interview just what the show and the role came to mean to her:. I originally loved the theater. I still do. And I had always wanted to have a hit on Broadway that was created by me.

You know, kind of like Judy Holliday and Born Yesterday. I griped about it a little, and someone said to me, "Do you realize that if you had a hit on Broadway, probably or , people might have seen you in it, if you'd stayed in it long enough. And this way, you've been in Miss Brooks , everybody loves you, and you've been seen by millions.

The episodes are not the original minute broadcasts, but rather shortened syndicated versions of approximately 21 minutes each. In addition, the original opening and closing credits have been replaced by a single standardized version, eliminating all guest cast and additional crew member information. In the s, various independent television stations would air episodes during afternoons and late nights.

Episodes from the series aired on MeTV.