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Our Miss Brooks is an American sitcom 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 (1952–56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits.

Our Miss Brooks 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. Harry Ackerman, at the time CBS's West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role. Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was committed to My Favorite Husband and did not audition. CBS then-chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script—Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president, but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal—Arden agreed to give the newly revamped show a try.

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Episode numbers do not correlate with the podcast episode number but rather is a way for us to organize the episodes and give us a better sense of what episodes we are missing.
* - Original air dates are accurate to the best of our ability and rely on external sources (including but not limited to) RadioGOLDINdex, OTRRpedia, On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning and Old-Time Radio Researchers. Episode numbers is for organizational purposes only since they were made up by hobbyists and not actually from the networks.