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Our Miss Brooks Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
38 Episodes 1952 - 1953
Episode 1
Trying to Pick a Fight
Fri, Oct 3, 195230 mins
Walter explains to his teacher Miss Brooks that fights with his girlfriend help the relationship. Connie decides to try it with Mr. Boynton to mixed results but Principal Conklin effort at arguing with his wife ends disastrously.
Episode 2
The Loaded Custodian
Fri, Oct 10, 195230 mins
Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton need supplies but Principal Conklin is refusing to order any. A rumor that janitor Mr. Burwell has stashed inherited money at the school starting a frantic search for the cash to buy the needed items.
Episode 3
The Embezzled Dress
Fri, Oct 17, 195230 mins
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.
Episode 4
The Birthday Bag
Fri, Oct 24, 195230 mins
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.
Episode 5
The Wrong Mrs. Boynton
Fri, Oct 31, 195230 mins
Mr. Boynton is being visited by Dean Faraday who expects a family man so Miss Brooks agrees to pretend to be his wife. Principal Conklin misunderstands and believes his two teachers are now married.
Episode 6
Living Statues
Fri, Nov 7, 195230 mins
Walter's plan for making money involves painting rooms with a new formula he's invented. When Mr. Conklin makes Miss Brooks responsible for painting his office she enlists Walter and Mr. Boynton. Unfortunately the paint is glue like.
Episode 7
Madison Country Club
Fri, Nov 14, 195230 mins
Mr. Conklin is angling for a donation from wealthy Mrs. Graybar and intends Miss Brooks to dress down for effect. But Connie misconstrues his intent leading to her, Mr. Boynton and Walter to show up dressed outrageously.
Episode 8
Mr. Whipple
Fri, Nov 21, 195230 mins
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.
Episode 9
The Big Game
Fri, Nov 28, 195230 mins
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.
Episode 10
Blue Goldfish
Fri, Dec 5, 195230 mins
A cold spell is causing distress at Madison High as Mr. Conklin is refusing to repair the heating system. Miss Brooks is selected to talk with him but after he declines Connie decides everyone should pretend to be sick too shame him.
Episode 11
The Stolen Aerial
Fri, Dec 12, 195230 mins
Miss Brooks brags about her relationship with TV repairman Mr. Seymour which results in everyone bringing her their TV antennas, hoping to get them fixed. Next up are TVs which are stored in Conklin's office, to his aggravation.
Episode 12
The Hobby Show
Fri, Dec 19, 195230 mins
Miss Brooks is acting listless and anxious which concerns her friends. They decide she needs a hobby so Walter brings his trains, Margaret her paints and Boynton his chess set. But Connie needs to prepare questions for an English test.
Episode 13
Christmas Show
Sat, Dec 27, 195230 mins
Connie Brooks wants to be generous at Christmas but finds herself broke. She starts receiving her own gifts so she takes them to exchange at the department store. She isn't aware Mr. Conklin and Mr. Boynton are doing the same.
Episode 14
Aunt Mattie Boynton
Fri, Jan 2, 195330 mins
Miss Brooks wants the business administration position but Miss Enright has the inside track. Walter convinces Connie that if she can get cheaper fuel the job is hers. But Mr. Conklin's furnace uses a different type of energy creating a disaster.
Episode 15
The Pet Shop
Fri, Jan 9, 195330 mins
Connie Brooks is to meet Mr. Boynton in front of the pet store but is stood up. She feels hurt and decides to get back at him with Walter's help but learns later just who the innocent party is.
Episode 16
The Hurricane
Fri, Jan 16, 195330 mins
A severe storm is on the way but Mr. Conklin has someting to attend to and leaves Miss Brooks in charge. After hearing the dire weather forecast Connie closes the school to the principal's displeasure.
Episode 17
Monsieur La Blanche
Fri, Jan 30, 195330 mins
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.
Episode 18
Old Marblehead
Fri, Feb 6, 195330 mins
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.
Episode 19
The Model Teacher
Fri, Feb 13, 195330 mins
Connie Brooks learns she's Snap magazine's ideal teacher but she and photographer Stephanie Forest don't get along. A series of unflattering pictures are taken plus the men at Madison fawn over the attractive shutterbug.
Episode 20
Wake-Up Plan
Fri, Feb 20, 195330 mins
Mr. Conklin has a new plan where the teachers arrive early to exercise but Miss Brooks can't seem to get there on time. Then sleeping pills get mixed up with aspirin just when a school board member visits.
Episode 21
The Cafeteria Strike
Fri, Feb 27, 195330 mins
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.
Episode 22
Mister Casey's Will
Fri, Mar 6, 195330 mins
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.
Episode 23
Conklin's Love Nest
Fri, Mar 13, 195330 mins
Miss Brooks is expecting a marriage proposal from Mr. Boynton but he just wants to rent Mr. Conklin's spare room. Walter gets involved and accidentally encourages Monseuir La Marche to ask Connie to marry him.
Episode 24
The Honest Burglar
Fri, Mar 20, 195330 mins
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.
Episode 25
Fisher's Pawn Shop
Fri, Mar 27, 195330 mins
Miss Brooks is excited to attend baseball's opening day with Mr. Boynton and even bought a new outfit. But the game is canceled because Mr. Conklin overspent the budget. Everyone heads to the pawn shop to help out.
Episode 26
Lulu, the Pin-Up Boat
Fri, Apr 3, 195330 mins
Walter has Hollywood pinup photos in his locker but they're found by Mr. Conklin. He puts them in a drawer with a pic of his boat Lulu. Board member Mitchell visits, finds them and a confusing talk with Miss Brooks occurs about the photos.
Episode 27
The Yodar Kritch Award
Fri, Apr 10, 195330 mins
Miss Brooks was tasked with creating an English Test. Principal Conklin stops by Miss Brooks' rooming house on his way to the engraver's to tell Miss Brooks to add an essay question to the test, and that he's having "The Yodar Kritch Award for Unique Achievement in English" engraved on the cup. As Mr. Conklin is in the kitchen bringing out the tray of coffee for Mrs. Davis, Walter Denton arrives to invite Miss Brooks to a party after school. He begins to tell her about his call to Harriet Conklin earlier, who said her father is on the warpath. Conklin walks in while Walter is making disparaging remarks about him. Conklin loses his appetite and leaves. Denton explains that Mr. Boynton has also been invited, and Walter describes a set-up to have Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton walk through a garden to find a pair of love birds rubbing beaks in a birdbath, implying that it should make Mr. Boynton romantic. At lunch, Winston "Bones" Snodgrass is feeling punk because his father has banned all parties for the semester, including that afternoon's barbecue being held at his house, unless he wins the Yodar Kritch Cup. Miss Brooks enlists Harriet and Walter to tutor Bones. Bones gets confused, and Miss Brooks attempts to give him a short course in English before he takes the test. There is a scene where Miss Brooks reads a long, complicated rule on the prepositional phrase written on the blackboard, and presents another long, complicated discourse on the subjunctive. All the students take the test, and Harriet, Walter, and Bones join Miss Brooks in Mr. Conklin's office to award the Cup to the winner.
Episode 28
Madame Brooks DuBarry
Fri, Apr 17, 195330 mins
Connie and Philip attend a dance but run out of gas in the way home. They are out all night leading Mr. Conklin to threaten to punish them so Miss Brooks, with Harriet's help, needs to prove how innocent the relationship is.
Episode 29
Marinated Hearing
Fri, Apr 24, 195330 mins
Miss Brooks is helping Bones with a paper on baboons while also proofreading Mr. Conklin's speech. Walter's involvement lead to both items getting torn. The repair job leads to an unfortunate welcome speech to board member Mr. Stone.
Episode 30
The Festival
Fri, May 1, 195330 mins
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.
Episode 31
Suzy Prentiss
Fri, May 8, 195330 mins
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.
Episode 32
Conklin Plays Detective
Fri, May 15, 195330 mins
Mr. Conklin's typewriter disappears and he suspects Mr. Boynton. He sets a trap and hides in a suit of armor. Miss Brooks and Walter decide to trash the office when Boynton has an alibi, a plan that backfires on Connie.
Episode 33
Public Property on Parade
Fri, May 22, 195330 mins
Mr. Conklin is to give a speech about respecting city property and he asks Connie to write it for him. Walter and Bones choose that day to bring various municipal items to Connie's home just as Conklin arrives with the mayor.
Episode 34
Mrs Davis Reads Tea Leaves
Fri, May 29, 195330 mins
At breakfast Mrs. Davis predicts a wedding for Connie and Philip. For summer Boynton and Conklin plan on running a children's camp but need Connie's help. She misunderstands a conversation and expects a marriage proposal.
Episode 35
The Stolen Wardrobe
Fri, Jun 5, 195330 mins
Connie Brooks is named best dressed teacher followed by a department store robbery. The loot is stashed at the school and Mr. Conklin assumes Connie is the thief. He, Philip, and Walter go to great lengths to protect Miss Brooks.
Episode 36
Cure That Habit
Fri, Jun 12, 195330 mins
Mr. Conklin has the hiccups, finds kittens in his desk and breaks his glasses the same day so he needs Connie' s help. Walter plays a bad practical joke about a drinking problem just as a school official Mr. Chambers arrives at the school.
Episode 37
Capistrano's Revenge
Fri, Jun 19, 195330 mins
When Mrs. Davis brings home a sparrow with an injured wing, Miss Brooks comes to the rescue to save it.
Episode 38
June Bride
Fri, Jun 26, 195330 mins
Connie is asked by Mr. La Blanche to stand in as proxy for his bride but Walter overhears just part of the conversation. He and Harriet urge Mr. Conklin to stop the wedding as they think she should marry Mr. Boynton.