Our Miss Brooks 1952-56
Miss Brooks teaches English at Madison High, rents a room from Mrs. Davis, gets rides to school with student Walter, fights with Principal Conklin, and tries to snag shy biology teacher Boynton. In the last year she switches to Mrs. Nestor's private school.
Episodes
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Mister Casey's Will
Angela's cat Mr. Casey has met an untimely demise and she informs Connie over breakfast he left a will. Mr. Conklin, Walter and Mr. Boynton are told they are left something, all believing Casey is a person instead of an animal.
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Old Age Plan
Connie is encouraged by Angela to sell insurance to earn some extra money. But when describing reasons for needing a policy, Boynton, Conklin and even Miss Brooks begin to feel a variety of ailments.
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Bobsey's Twins in Stir
Mrs. Davis is arrested for selling charity tickets that are actually fraudulent. She visits her sister without telling Connie about the tickets who prints more, then gets everyone thrown in jail when they try to sell them.
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Oh, Dem Golden Slippers
Connie needs new slippers for the masquerade ball and she buys them from a mysterious salesman. Then a perfect gown arrives along with a ride to the dance. And no one claims to know the shoe clerk.
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Life Can Be Bones
Connie is jealous of Mr. Boynton's new colleague, biology teacher Miss Sanders and their common interests. She concocts a scheme with Walter to bury butcher bones in her backyard but Walter substitutes dinosaur bones creating havoc.
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The Honest Burglar
Miss Brooks encounters Joe Phillips, a vagrant, raiding the refrigerator late at night. After hearing his story she gets him the custodian job at school but then items start disappearing. She sets a trap but snares an unlikely person.
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Just Remember the Red River Valley
Connie and Philip are applying as tutors for a hillbilly show for extra summer cash. They must double as entertainers so they enlist Walter and Mr. Conklin as awful stereotypes, then accidentally audition for the state education official.
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The Bicycle Thief
Mr. Conklin's bicycle is taken from the grocery story and he wants the thief punished. But Miss Brooks learns a poor lad only borrowed it for his birthday and has returned it. Connie goes to elaborate lengths to protect the boy.
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The Hawkins Travel Agency
As summer approaches Connie learns she can get a free European vacation if she can enlist three others to be paying customers. But everyone she approaches secretly has the same idea but to other exotic locales.
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The English Test
Miss Brooks is ordered by Mr. Conklin to tutor a few struggling students so they won't bring down the school's average. But the time coincides with what Connie hopes is a special date with Mr. Boynton.
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Second Hand-First Aid
When Osgood wants Connie to assume the first aid duties of her nemesis Enright so Enright can work part-time, Walter proposes she fake incompetence to avoid the task but the plan goes awry when Boynton appears.
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A Dry Scalp Is Better Than None
When hypochondriac Angela lies that her doctor's given her a month to live, Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton and Mr. Conklin throw her a last Christmas party, all dressed in Santa Claus costumes.
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Hello, Mr. Chips
Connie is assigned by Mr. Conklin to show an attractive Mr. Philpott, a visiting British teacher, around. Connie uses the opportunity, with Walter and Angela's help, to advance her romance with Philip.
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The Hobo Jungle
Miss Brooks learns that Harvey Brent has given a false address and goes to investigate. She meets his father plus two friends who are raising the excellent student in a makeshift home and tries her best to keep him in school.
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Brook's New Car
Miss Brooks buys a used car leading to a series of improbable mishaps involving a fruit stand, a little red wagon, and various automobiles. The damaged vehicles always belong to Mr. Conklin and Connie's debt increases.
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Hospital Capers
Mr. Boynton injures himself on Mr. Conklin's property and Miss Brooks devotes herself to his hospital recovery. Conklin is concerned about being sued and needs Connie's assurance that she mailed his insurance check in.
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Postage Due
Connie Brooks owes $.20 to a recently retired postal clerk Mr. Bagley. He seems to have disappeared so the intrepid teacher turns herself, Mr. Conklin and Mr. Boynton into detectives to find him but gets a big surprise.
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The Birthday Bag
Connie Brooks has her eye on an expensive handbag and decides to give it to herself as a birthday gift. But her friends are planning a party with the bag as a present so they all borrow money from her so that's she is broke.
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Mr. Whipple
Over breakfast Miss Brooks listens as Mrs. Davis relates about poor Mr. Whipple having malnutrition and holes in his clothes. Connie organizes a charity drive for a man who in reality is a millionaire.
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Suzy Prentiss
Connie discovers when told to mend Bones' mood that Snodgrass is taken with a girl, arranges for the two to go to a banquet and asks Mrs. Davis for the loan of formal wear while Mrs. Conklin has her family's outfits sent to Mrs. Davis.
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The Festival
There's a charity festival at the park which is also a costume event. Connie is excited about her date with Mr. Boynton and even has the ticket money until she hears Katie's hardluck story while Gus has the same tale for Philip.
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The Cafeteria Strike
The food at the school is getting worse and Miss Brooks plans a boycott. But she talks unknowingly to newspaperman Mr. Dunbar about it and Mr. Conklin wants to fire her. Mr. Boynton tries to help with a specially prepared meal.
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Monsieur La Blanche
Mr. Boynton is at a convention and Miss Brooks gets attention from French teacher La Blanche. Encouraged by Walter who garbles a translation, Connie finds herself mixed up in a car deal between the Frenchman and Mr. Conklin.
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Old Marblehead
Mr. Conklin wants to memoralize himself with a bust in anticipation of an important visit. He pays for it by fining the staff for infractions and Miss Brooks soon goes broke. But Walter and Connie's help in it's delivery spells disaster.
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The Big Game
Mr. Conklin has great hopes for Madison High winning against their archival but learns the coach never graduated. He assigns Miss Brooks to make sure he gets his diploma but Connie expects the man to learn the material.
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The Embezzled Dress
Miss Brooks is in charge of a $25 student fund but her landlady Mrs. Davis uses it to purchase a dress. Connie must come up with a way to replace the money before Principal Conklin balances the books and involves Boynton in her scheme.
About this show
Miss Brooks teaches English at Madison High, rents a room from Mrs. Davis, gets rides to school with student Walter, fights with Principal Conklin, and tries to snag shy biology teacher Boynton. In the last year she switches to Mrs. Nestor's private school.