Sunday, February 13, 2022

Our Miss Brooks - "Welcome Mr. Conklin" (06-23-48)

Welcome Mr. Conklin (Aired June 23, 1948)

Our Miss Brooks, an American situation comedy, began as a radio hit in 1948 and migrated to television in 1952, becoming one of the earlier hits of the so-called Golden Age of Television, and making a star out of Eve Arden (1908-1990) as comely, wisecracking, but humane high school English teacher Connie Brooks. The show hooked around Connie's daily relationships with Madison High School students, colleagues, and pompous principal Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), not to mention favourite student Walter Denton (future television and Rambo co-star Richard Crenna, who fashioned a higher-pitched voice to play the role) and biology teacher Philip Boynton ( Jeff Chandler), the latter Connie's all-but-unrequited love interest, who saw science everywhere and little else anywhere.

 

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June 23, 1948. "Welcome Mr. Conklin"  - CBS network. Audition program. Osgood Conklin becomes the new principal of Madison High, after a traffic accident involving Miss Brooks! Eve Arden, Jeff Chandler, Richard Crenna, Al Lewis (writer), Joe Forte. 31:03. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.

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