Our Miss Brooks

S01E16: The Hurricane

While listening to Walter's homemade shortwave radio, Harriet and Miss Brooks hear a weather warning of an impending hurricane. As acting principal, Connie shuts down the school and the gang takes refuge at the Conklin home.

Overview

Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast on CBS from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television, it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.

Episodes

S01E01 Trying to Pick a Fight

October 3, 1952 25 min
Walter tells Miss Brooks how arguments with his girlfriend improve their relationship. Hoping it will light a fire under her beau, Connie picks a fight with Mr. Boynton.

S01E02 The Loaded Custodian

October 10, 1952 25 min
Miss Brooks wants to replace the school janitor's broken window, but cheapskate Conklin won't budge.

S01E03 The Embezzled Dress

October 17, 1952 25 min
Mrs. Davis uses money meant for the school to buy Miss Brooks a new dress.

S01E04 The Birthday Bag

October 24, 1952 25 min
Connie has her heart set on a green alligator purse she saw at the department store. Her friends what to give her the purse as a birthday gift, and hatch a scheme to prevent her...

S01E05 Miss Brooks Play-Acts (a.k.a. Mrs. Boynton / The Wrong Mrs. Boynton)

October 31, 1952 25 min
Mr. Boynton is on a job hunt and asks Connie to play Mrs. Boynton—his mother, not his wife.

S01E06 Living Statues

November 7, 1952 25 min
Conklin orders Miss Brooks to fix the cracks and scratches on his office walls. Joined by Walter and Mr. Boynton, the three redo his office using a clear paint concocted by Walter in the school...

S01E07 Madison Country Club

November 14, 1952 25 min
Mr. Conklin intends to squeeze money out of a rich dowager so he can redecorate his office. When she arrives, he plans on staging quite a show of poverty, complete with the staff dressed like...

S01E08 Mister Whipple

November 21, 1952 25 min
Mrs. Davis gets Connie and the gang whipped into a frenzy with her incorrect story of Mr. Whipple, who they believe to be an impoverished man who hasn't eaten in 10 days.

S01E09 The Big Game

November 28, 1952 25 min
Madison High is looking forward to the big football game against arch-rival Clay. It's discovered that former Madison football star/present day coach "Snake Hips" Geary never graduated. He failed English, so Mr. Conklin wants Miss...

S01E10 Blue Goldfish

December 5, 1952 25 min
Penny-pinching Conklin has the thermostat cranked so low the goldfish in the biology lab have turned blue. The only way the gang can get him to spend a little money on heat is to make...

S01E11 The Stolen Aerial

December 12, 1952 25 min
When word gets around school that Miss Brooks is having her TV antenna repaired for free, everyone dumps their broken aerials on Connie to take to the shop. Mr. Conklin becomes suspicious and is convinced...

S01E12 The Hobby Show

December 19, 1952 25 min
The students and faculty of Madison High propose a hobby show as a diversion for overworked Miss Brooks, but she ends up even more exhausted.

S01E13 Christmas Show 1952

December 27, 1952 25 min
Connie is too broke to afford Christmas presents for her friends, so she plans to exchange all their gifts to her for store credit so she can buy something for them. Unfortunately, everyone has the...

S01E14 Aunt Hattie Boynton

January 2, 1953 25 min
Connie will not sit quietly while Conklin gives Miss Enright a promotion. Wanting to show off her business skills, she gets a great deal on fuel oil for Conklin's furnace, not knowing that he's just...

S01E15 The Pet Shop

January 9, 1953 25 min
Connie is in the dumps because she believes she was stood up on a date by Mr. Boynton. Love guru Walter suggests she give Boynton a taste of his own medicine: make a date with...

S01E16 The Hurricane

January 16, 1953 25 min
While listening to Walter's homemade shortwave radio, Harriet and Miss Brooks hear a weather warning of an impending hurricane. As acting principal, Connie shuts down the school and the gang takes refuge at the Conklin...

S01E17 Monsieur LaBlanche

January 30, 1953 25 min
Miss Brooks receives a note written in French from new teacher Maurice LeBlanche. Failing French student Walter interprets it as a love note asking for a date. In reality, LeBlanche is asking for a $50...

S01E18 Old Marblehead

February 6, 1953 25 min
Conklin lives up to his unflattering nickname, Old Marblehead, when he commissions a bust of himself for Madison High's library. He finances it with Conklin's Carelessness Code, a scam in which he fines students and...

S01E19 The Model Teacher

February 13, 1953 25 min
A female photographer who arrives to take pictures of a model teacher catches the eye of Mr. Boynton. This infuriates Miss Brooks who forces herself between the two.

S01E20 Wake-Up Plan

February 20, 1953 25 min
Miss Brooks oversleeps for class thanks to some sleeping pills Mrs. Davis had stored in an aspirin bottle. She brings them in to explain to Conklin what happened, but he'll hear none of it. The...

S01E21 The Cafeteria Strike

February 27, 1953 25 min
The students go on strike for better food.

S01E22 Mister Casey's Will

March 6, 1953 25 min
Conklin, Boynton and Miss Brooks attend the reading of the will of Mr. Casey; the late Mr. Casey is a cat.

S01E23 Conklin's Love Nest

March 13, 1953 25 min
Mr. Conklin has a room to rent. Via the French teacher, Miss Brooks sends a message to Mr. Boynton that two can live as cheaply as one.

S01E24 The Honest Burglar

March 20, 1953 25 min
Miss Brooks gets a hungry burglar a job in the school cafeteria.

S01E25 Fisher's Pawn Shop

March 27, 1953 25 min
Thanks to Conklin's lousy management of the athletic budget, the baseball team's season opener might be canceled because of no uniforms. Miss Brooks and other faculty members start hocking school valuables at the pawn shop...

S01E26 Lulu, the Pin-Up Boat

April 3, 1953 25 min
Conklin demands the students dress more conservatively. He should have known better than that!

S01E27 The Yodar Kritch Award

April 10, 1953 25 min
Miss Brooks must present an award to a dim-witted student, or his father will cancel the big barbecue that she and Mr. Boynton are invited to.

S01E28 Madame Brooks DuBarry

April 17, 1953 25 min
Mr. Conklin is convinced Harriet is modeling her behavior on that of noted hussy Miss Brooks. Harriet talks her father into spying on Miss Brooks and cold fish Mr. Boynton one evening to prove that...

S01E29 Marinated Hearing

April 24, 1953 25 min
Principal Conklin proclaims "Board of Education Day."

S01E30 The Festival

May 1, 1953 25 min
Miss Brooks plays matchmaker between a reluctant janitor and a cleaning lady. To help the woman out, Connie switches clothes with the shabbily attired lady. Mr. Boynton wants the janitor to look good, too, so...

S01E31 Suzy Prentiss

May 8, 1953 25 min
Miss Brooks is ordered to find out what's wrong with star baseball player Bones Snodgrass. It turns out he's in love with Suzy Prentisss, the only student stupider than he is. Connie acquires formals so...

S01E32 Conklin Plays Detective

May 15, 1953 25 min
Someone has broken into Principal Conklin's office, stolen his typewriter and made a long distance call. Evidence points to Mr. Boynton as the guilty party, so Conklin stakes out his office by hiding in a...

S01E33 Public Property on Parade

May 22, 1953 25 min
Mr. Conklin is to give a speech about respecting city property and he asks Connie to write it for him. Walter and Bones choose that day to bring various municipal items to Connie's home just...

S01E34 Mrs. Davis Reads Tea Leaves

May 29, 1953 25 min
At breakfast Mrs. Davis predicts a wedding for Connie and Philip. For summer Boynton and Conklin plan on running a children's camp but need Connie's help. She misunderstands a conversation and expects a marriage proposal.

S01E35 The Stolen Wardrobe

June 5, 1953 25 min
Connie Brooks is named best dressed teacher followed by a department store robbery. The loot is stashed at the school and Mr. Conklin assumes Connie is the thief. He, Philip, and Walter go to great...

S01E36 Cure That Habit

June 12, 1953 25 min
Mr. Conklin has the hiccups, finds kittens in his desk and breaks his glasses the same day so he needs Connie' s help. Walter plays a bad practical joke about a drinking problem just as...

S01E37 Capistrano's Revenge

June 19, 1953 25 min
When Mrs. Davis brings home a sparrow with an injured wing, Miss Brooks comes to the rescue to save it.

S01E38 June Bride

June 26, 1953 25 min
Connie is asked by Mr. La Blanche to stand in as proxy for his bride but Walter overhears just part of the conversation. He and Harriet urge Mr. Conklin to stop the wedding as they...

Cast

Eve Arden
Eve Arden
Connie Brooks
Gloria McMillan
Harriet Conklin
Jane Morgan
Jane Morgan
Mrs. Margaret Davis
Robert Rockwell
Robert Rockwell
Philip Boynton
Gale Gordon
Gale Gordon
Osgood Conklin
Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna
Walter Denton

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