11/26/05-Eligible for replacement if purchased within last 90 days- Otter shows several undated shows which appear in the broadcast history elsewhere. However, I have left them because they don't take up extra room and may also be rebroadcasts.

Eve Arden was an established character actress before taking on the part of Connie Brooks on "Our Miss Brooks". She played the part with her usual wisecracking and slightly sarcastic tone, but she still managed to come across good hearted. Miss Brooks speaks to the listener and makes them feel as if she is speaking one on one with them, a technique unusual for the time. Connie lived in a small house with her landlady Mrs. Davis, played by Jane Morgan, who had a voice that has to be heard to be believed. You can almost see a kindly older grandmother type and indeed Mrs. Davis seemed to be very concerned about Connie and enjoyed being a part of the younger people's lives.

The teacher's pet was Walter Denton, played to perfection by Richard Crenna and to hear him coming over to give Miss Brooks a lift to school and saying in his high pitched voice "Your chariot awaits, fair one" is priceless in itself. Other characters were Connie's heartthrob, biology teacher Philip Boynton, first played by Jeff Chandler and later replaced by Robert Rockwell who Miss Brooks makes no bones about wanting to snag as a husband and spends quite a bit of time trying to get him to come around to her way of thinking. Her Nemesis is the surly and pompous principal, Osgood Conklin, played by the amazing Gale Gordon. In his eyes, Miss Brooks could do little right and was in his school to prove to him we are not put on this earth for pleasure alone and these things are sent to try us. The show lasted from 1948 to 1957 on CBS radio before moving with most of it's cast intact to television. A true comedy classic.

C.M.