You know, about those wrong dates on the first shows here.

I hate to be so blunt, but sometimes the truth isn't pretty. I have unfortunately found that, among all my interests that I investigate on the Internet, some of the people interested in Old Time Radio, who were the first to digitize and upload and organize Old Time Radio -- well, let's say they're not the brightest bulbs in the box.

There are so many reference books and websites which clearly and accurately state that OUR MISS BROOKS premiered in the Summer of 1948, that there's just no excuse to date shows as 1946. This wouldn't even be *common* sense. It's the lowest fundamental use of the intelligence we are so lucky to possess. A mind is a terrible thing to not use.

As ridiculous as some of the premises of the show are, as well as her relationships to her students, I thoroughly enjoy every episode. The show is entertaining. Eve Arden is captivating.

Another great Comedy besides Jack Benny It's hilarious!

There is a very good set at http://archive.org/details/OurMissBrooks If anyone is interested in correct dates for these shows, use this page http://www.otrr.org/Series_Helps/Our%20Miss%20Brooks%20Opening%20Lines.pdf

Someone out of the goodness of their heart put these shows up for the enjoyment of others. People are human and sometime make errors or typos. Just enjoy the shows and try not to be so pissy.

I need not say anything about how fantastic Eve Arden is, if someone would just listen to these shows, and watch a movie she was in such as "One Touch Of Venus," or Our Miss Brooks on television. I knew at the time that my buddies would laugh, so I kept it to myself, I had a crush on Eve Arden, and got as much of her as I could. My parents thought I was just enjoying a program with them, but no, I was hanging on her every word, and laughing a lot. By the time I had graduated college, Eve Arden had lost someone with a crush, and gained someone who has a lot of respect for her talent. If you don't enjoy Our Miss Brooks, please go see your physician.

Hello, I would like to use a clip from Our Miss Brooks ("Lack of Coal at Madison, Jan 9, 1949) in a film, and I'm trying to certify a creative commons license to insure that the shows are in the public domain. Could anyone help me with contacts or advice for this?

Thank you!

Courtney

If you look at a more complete list, such as the list at OTRCAT.COM, you'll find the "audition shows" in the spring of '48, followed by the first show in July of '48. The rest of the shows are pretty much continuous after that.

http://www.otrcat.com/miss-brooks-p-1701.html

First three items in that list:

Our Miss Brooks 480409 000 Audition Shirley Booth
Our Miss Brooks 480623 000 Audition Eve Arden
Our Miss Brooks 480719 001 First Day

And later on in that list:
Our Miss Brooks 531108 222 Convict
Our Miss Brooks 550403 283 An American Tragedy

Those are the same titles as the "1946" items listed here.

The background info listed says the show began in 1948 on radio. However, the first two shows listed here are in 1946. Did the show really start in '46 or '48? Are some others from '47 available, too? Thanks.

This can trip you p because there is one IMPORTANT difference in the Radio and the Television casts. And that is tha actopr playing Mr. Boyington, Connie's dream man. On television the role was aptly handled by Robert Rockwell who had played the part of Jor-El in the series premiere of the classic SUPERMAN television series which starred George Reeves as Superman. On RADIO, however, Mr. Boynton, is played by noted film star Jeff Chandler---whose best known films include the 1950 production of BROKEN ARROW in which he played the Apache Leader Cochise oppsoite James Stewart as Tom Jeffords---when the film came to television (yeah, they even did that back then) as a series the roles were assumed (respectively) by Michael Ansara and John Lupton.

OTHER than that, though, the casts were the same.

ps: Eve Arden did some of her wsecracking in some pretty classic movies, too. Among them ANATOMY OF A MURDER (which also starred James Stewart and George C. Scott) and ONE TOUCH OF VENUS (1948) which also featured Ava Gardner and
Robert Walker (father of theb actor who played Charles Evans ("Charlie X") on the original STAR TREK. Eve was Principal McGee in GREASE (of course) but my favorite of her roles was as schholteacher/detective Hildegard Withers in 1972's A VERY MISSING PERSON. The first actress to pay Stuart Palmer's lady detective was my great-aunt Edna May Oliver and Zasu Pitts (Gale Storm's sidekick for many years on televison) also played the part a couple of times with one performance by Helen Broderick between the two.

From Wikipedia. "Our Miss Brooks"

"Our Miss Brooks has remained Eve Arden's most identifiable and popular role, with numerous surviving recordings of both the radio and television versions continuing to entertain listeners and viewers. (The surviving radio recordings include both its audition shows.) A quarter century after the show ended, Arden told radio historian John Dunning in an on-air interview just what the show and the role came to mean to her:

I originally loved the theater. I still do. And I had always wanted to have a hit on Broadway that was created by me. You know, kind of like Judy Holliday and Born Yesterday. And I griped about it a little. And someone said to me, 'Do you realise that, if you had a hit on Broadway, probably a hundred or two hundred thousand people might have seen you in it, if you'd stayed in it long enough. And this way, you've been in Miss Brooks, everybody loves you, and you've been seen by millions.’ So, I figured I'd better shut up while I was ahead."

Eve Arden is awsome, and can deliver dry wit like few others. I'm glad she didn't do Broadway, or we would not have these wonderful shows to enjoy today.

Sixty-eight percent of Our Miss Brooks' episodes were unknown or missing; that is, until "Jeff Chandler - Film, Record, Radio, Television and Theater Performances" by Jeff Wells (McFarland, 2005). The biography has titles and dates aired for the years that Chandler was contracted by CBS Radio (1947 to 1953); it's the most complete list known to exist of the cast and crew for the first five years of this radio series.

What a pleasure to find Our Miss Brooks on-line; Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler... and what a supporting cast! The show is worth listening to - again and again and again.

It doesn't work at all in IE(Internet Explorer). Sigh. I love Our Miss Brooks. Always listen to this and everytime new things comes up.

Miss Brooks taught all of us a very important lesson in her English class. Situation comedy can be hysterically funny without having to be dirty. Now quiet down class and enjoy today's lesson!

While my first exposure to Miss. Brooks was the television program I have grown very fond of the radio show, yet, I must admit that being able to mentally visualize the regular actors has assisted in my great enjoyment.