Originally broadcast on NBC, 18 March 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1946–1957
- Surviving broadcasts
- 185
- Genre
- comedy
was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role.
1957 · 21956 · 71955 · 31
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 27 of 40Listenable · 2 of 40Rough but complete · 11 of 40
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: Our_Miss_Brooks_190_Episodes
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
17 dated broadcasts across 12 years on the air, with 9 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1955, in original transmission order.
- 1. The School Board s Psycholoogist · 13 Mar 1955
- 2. Mr Boynton s Moustache · 27 Mar 1955
- 3. An American Tragedy · 3 Apr 1955
30 Stretch Has a Problem
24 Feb 1957 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 24 February 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
25 Head of the English Dept
13 Jan 1957 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 13 January 1957. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Dinner Party
3 Jun 1956 · 19 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 3 June 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
New Girl in Town
6 May 1956 · 19 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 6 May 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Mash Notes to Harriet
18 Mar 1956 · 18 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 March 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Mr Conklin s Statue
12 Feb 1956 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 12 February 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Auction
5 Feb 1956 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 5 February 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
School on Saturday
8 Jan 1956 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 8 January 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
18 Mar 1956
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 18 Mar 1956.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 March 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1946–1957
Other series the network carried while Our Miss Brooks was on the air.
Same seasons
comedy on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Our Miss Brooks
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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