BONUS - Summer School (Our Miss Brooks)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
School is back in session with the faculty and students of Madison High School in Our Miss Brooks. In this week's midweek bonus comedy show, Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, and Jeff Chandler star in two episodes of one of the funniest shows from the golden age of radio. We'll hear Connie Brooks' attempts to become head of the Madison English department (originally aired on CBS on January 23, 1949) and the school's efforts to close down on the hottest day of the year (originally aired on CBS on August 7, 1949).
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| 0:00.0 | Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave. |
| 0:07.0 | The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.0 | The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective. |
| 0:22.0 | The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize |
| 0:25.4 | Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account |
| 0:30.6 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. |
| 0:33.0 | Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to another midweek bonus quarantine comedy episode of down these mean |
| 1:01.5 | streets and in this week's show we're of down these mean streets. |
| 1:03.0 | And in this week's show, we're heading back to school for two episodes of one of the radio era's best comedies, Our Miss Brooks. Brooks. |
| 1:13.0 | The long-running series boasted one of the best casts on the air, |
| 1:17.0 | consistently funny writing, |
| 1:19.0 | and character and situation-driven humor that still holds up today, unlike many of its then topical comedy |
| 1:26.8 | contemporaries. |
| 1:28.9 | Its success on radio led to a TV series and a big screen adaptation with much of the cast appearing in all three versions. |
| 1:37.0 | And what a cast! |
| 1:40.0 | Eve Arden was the titular teacher Connie Brooks. |
| 1:44.0 | Gail Gordon, who we just heard as Gregory Hood, |
| 1:47.4 | played Principal Osgood Conclin, |
| 1:50.1 | a man whose blood pressure could always |
| 1:52.0 | be effortlessly raised by Miss Brooks. |
| 1:55.7 | Jane Morgan played Mrs Davis, Connie's absent-minded landlady, |
| 2:00.8 | Richard Crenna, years before he played Rambo's commanding officer Colonel Troutman, was |
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