Situation comedy · CBS
Our Miss Brooks
July 19, 1948 – July 7, 1957 · 375 broadcasts
Eve Arden made the wisecracking schoolteacher an American archetype as Connie Brooks, the sardonic English teacher of fictional Madison High in this half-hour CBS sitcom. A blend of workplace and domestic comedy, it had Brooks sparring with gruff principal Osgood Conklin, pining chastely for the bashful biology teacher Philip Boynton, and getting chauffeured around by squeaky-voiced student Walter Denton. It began on CBS in 1948 and ran through 1957. The casting tells its own story. Gale Gordon settled into Conklin only after a quick early shuffle -- Will Wright played him in the audition, Joseph Forte in the first episode. Boynton went from Jeff Chandler to Robert Rockwell, while a young Richard Crenna turned Walter Denton's adolescent voice into a career launchpad, supported by Jane Morgan as landlady Mrs. Davis and Gloria McMillan as Harriet Conklin. Arden herself was already an established film comedienne, Oscar-nominated for Mildred Pierce in 1945. Our Miss Brooks became a signature radio-into-television success, adapted for TV (1952-1956) as one of the medium's earliest hits and even running concurrently with the later radio seasons before a 1956 feature film. That rare radio-plus-TV-plus-film simultaneity marks the great medium transition -- and the role gave Arden a warm, enduring place in the American imagination as the schoolteacher everyone wished they'd had.
Collection status:
190 of 375 held (51% complete)
184 of 375 broadcasts available to stream
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Episode Spine
Grouped by year. Jump to the full list below, or open a season on its own page.
- 1948 (23 episodes)
- 1949 (51 episodes)
- 1950 (40 episodes)
- 1951 (39 episodes)
- 1952 (39 episodes)
- 1953 (39 episodes)
- 1954 (40 episodes)
- 1955 (52 episodes)
- 1956 (25 episodes)
- 1957 (27 episodes)
1948
The original 1948 audition -- with Shirley Booth, not Eve Arden, as Connie Brooks.
Principal Conklin Comes To Madison High.
July 26, 1948
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August 2, 1948
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August 9, 1948
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August 16, 1948
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August 23, 1948
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Principal and Mrs. Conklin head to Crystal Lake to mark their wedding anniversary -- an early-season trip distinct from a similarly premised 1949 episode, which recast the role of Mrs. Conklin.
September 26, 1948
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October 3, 1948
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October 10, 1948
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A surprise party doubles as an excuse for someone to hit Connie up for a favor.
The Clay City Football Team.
Overworked and run ragged, Connie is prescribed a hobby to unwind.
A magazine spotlight -- Snap's search for the model American teacher -- puts Connie in an unwanted glare.
December 12, 1948
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December 26, 1948
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1949
The Old Clothes New Year's Eve Party.
A shortfall in Madison High's coal budget leaves the school's heating on shaky ground.
Student Government Day takes an unruly turn, playing out more like a mock trial of convicts than a civics lesson.
The Student Banking System.
Basketball star Stretch Snodgrass's eligibility comes down to whether he can pass an English exam.
Monsieur Le Frog.
Stretch's problem turns out to be girl trouble, not schoolwork.
Miss Brooks Gets 'The Works'.
A cafeteria boycott at Madison High, with William Conrad in the cast.
The Rostand Poetry Mix-Up.
A rival school, Clay City High, tries to lure Connie away from Madison with a job offer.
The catch at this party is that everyone who shows up has to perform.
Conklin's scheme for waking the school up on time backfires on him.
Someone at Madison High picks up extra work on the side to cover the cost of new Easter clothes.
A dress-code dispute at Madison boils down to a fight over who gets to wear the pants.
Stretch and Walter's Grudge Match.
Philip Boynton's parents come to town, and a nervous Connie is introduced to them for the first time.
The Key To Madison High.
The Wishing Well Dance doubles as a pageant, crowning Madison's own Miss Wishing Well of 1949.
Stuffing Stuff, Incorporated.
June 26, 1949
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A telegram mix-up somehow leaves Madison High celebrating Christmas in the middle of summer.
Conklin's Carelessness Code Fund.
Mrs. Davis' Pensacola Popovers.
Connie weighs walking away from Madison High for a teaching job out in Connecticut.
Madison High's Heat Wave.
An oddly named trophy, the Yodar Kritch Cup, rides on the outcome of an English test.
August 28, 1949
Madison Summer Athletic Festival
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The Head Of The State Board Of Ed.
A sweater somehow lands Connie in the role of faculty cheerleader.
Stretch threatens to transfer schools over the football rivalry with Clay City.
A visiting French teacher, Mr. LaBlanche, tries to put the touch on Connie.
Madison High's Safety Inspection.
Mr. Boynton's Homecoming Presents.
A Halloween party at the school pushes principal Conklin past his limit, and he comes unglued in front of the staff.
November 6, 1949
Arapaho Burial Ground
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A New Mascot For Madison High.
The Party Line.
Money troubles shrink this Thanksgiving to a decidedly humble holiday dinner.
Connie is roped into chaperoning students to the Cereal Bowl football game at Clay City.
Connie's Letter To Sandy Clawss.
1950
Babysitting For New Year's Eve.
The Board Of Education Day Address.
Cure That Habit, Incorporated.
Saturday Classes.
What's billed as Mrs. Enright's dinner turns into Connie cooking a meal for Mr. Boynton instead.
February 12, 1950
Walter's Editorial
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A letter from the education board saddles Madison High with a clean-up-paint-up-fix-up campaign.
A hard-luck sob story turns a break-in into a hiring decision: Joe Philips is caught raiding the refrigerator by Connie and Mrs. Davis, wins Connie's sympathy instead of the police, and lands a job as the school custodian -- after which small items start going missing around Madison High.
The Auction Mix-Up.
A shortage of baseball uniforms threatens to sideline Madison's team.
An April Fools' prank targets Conklin's new television set.
A sponsor tie-in with a soap-powder brand turns Easter egg-dyeing at Madison High into an advertising bit.
April 16, 1950
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The Echo Tape Recorder.
A dealer named Daffy Delaney tries to sell Madison High a set of band instruments, roping Connie into the pitch.
Mr. Boynton's Barbecue.
A later episode brings the Boyntons back to Madison, giving Connie a second chance to win over Philip's family.
The rare black orchid turns out to be tangled up with Mrs. Conklin's birthday presents.
Connie's Day In Traffic Court.
September 3, 1950
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Rumors About Mr. Conklin.
Despite the elopement in the title, the plot actually tangles Walter Denton up with the town's volunteer fire company.
Madison Loses Bronco Dawson.
Miss Brooks Has The Measles.
For all its exotic title, the episode turns on a hurricane warning rather than anything overseas.
The Big Boy.
The Balloon Dancer.
The Conklin Burial Ground.
The Teacher's Convention.
This Thanksgiving outing centers less on the bird than on a character named Bernice.
Madison High's new driving class puts women drivers -- and the jokes about them -- front and center.
Conklin's amateur tuba playing gets swept up into the doings of the Oakhurst Music Festival.
December 10, 1950
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Madison's Christmas Clothing Drive.
Exchanging Christmas Presents.
1951
January 7, 1951
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January 14, 1951
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January 21, 1951
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Landlady Mrs. Davis becomes the object of a small romantic triangle involving a Mr. Barlow.
The Business Administration Course.
February 18, 1951
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A ski trip goes sideways over a gadget called the Denton ski claw.
Connie's French counterpart fields a job offer that could take him away from Madison.
This episode introduces Tex Barton, a new basketball-playing student at Madison High.
A land deal sends Connie and Mr. Boynton off to see a justice of the peace together.
The Madame Amelia Knock-Off.
April 8, 1951
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Also known as 'The Colter Collection Agency' -- the school's new TV set comes with unexpected strings attached.
April 29, 1951
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Mrs. Davis' Mother's Day Millinery.
June 10, 1951
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1952
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1953
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The Cosmo Article.
June 7, 1953
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Walter Denton and Bones Snodgrass go into business together as movers.
December 6, 1953
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1954
January 3, 1954
The School Play
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Conklin's new hobby turns out to be sculpting wax effigies.
The Foreign Exchange Teachers.
February 21, 1954
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The photo feud centers on a pin-up picture that stirs up trouble at Madison High.
October 31, 1954
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1955
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Connie takes up ghost-writing romance stories for a magazine called True Family Romances.
The real dispute turns out to be over a school rule banning pets, not a romance.
The Mystery Of The Twin Orphans.
May 15, 1955
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June 12, 1955
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Cab Fare Complications.
A character billed as Deacon Jones, the Hillbilly Heifetz, figures in the episode's plot.
Connie makes a deliberate effort to put Philip Boynton out of her mind.
The compliment contest is really a pretext for hawking trips through the Hawkins Travel Agency.
Conklin's Non-Fraternization Rule.
Mrs. Davis acquires a suitor, and the prospect of marriage sends the household into a tizzy.
What starts out as a cat-burglar scare turns into an impromptu babysitting brigade.
The Sneaky Peekers.
Travel plans for the teachers' convention get shuffled and reshuffled among the Madison staff.
Denton and Snodgrass's moving-company sideline resurfaces in this episode, in a plot that closely echoes their 1953 venture.
Summer vacation plans point the cast back to Crystal Lake, the setting of earlier episodes.
Rumors About Mr. Conklin.
Behind the nonsense title lies a plot about an invention: an aluminum mousetrap.
September 25, 1955
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C'est Au La Femme De Debourse Day.
November 6, 1955
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Madison's Christmas Clothing Drive.
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The Story
Eve Arden made the wisecracking schoolteacher an American archetype as Connie Brooks, the sardonic English teacher of fictional Madison High in this half-hour CBS sitcom. A blend of workplace and domestic comedy, it had Brooks sparring with gruff principal Osgood Conklin, pining chastely for the bashful biology teacher Philip Boynton, and getting chauffeured around by squeaky-voiced student Walter Denton. It began on CBS in 1948 and ran through 1957. The casting tells its own story. Gale Gordon settled into Conklin only after a quick early shuffle -- Will Wright played him in the audition, Joseph Forte in the first episode. Boynton went from Jeff Chandler to Robert Rockwell, while a young Richard Crenna turned Walter Denton's adolescent voice into a career launchpad, supported by Jane Morgan as landlady Mrs. Davis and Gloria McMillan as Harriet Conklin. Arden herself was already an established film comedienne, Oscar-nominated for Mildred Pierce in 1945. Our Miss Brooks became a signature radio-into-television success, adapted for TV (1952-1956) as one of the medium's earliest hits and even running concurrently with the later radio seasons before a 1956 feature film. That rare radio-plus-TV-plus-film simultaneity marks the great medium transition -- and the role gave Arden a warm, enduring place in the American imagination as the schoolteacher everyone wished they'd had.
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