Listening to the radio show

[Jude The Obscure]

This is my first exposure to the show, after years of just reading about it in reference books. There are a few running gags established early on--Connie's dreams about Mr. Boynton, her landlady always making weird food for breakfast, Connie's car always being in the repair shop and she has to carpool with Walter.
I'm enjoying it a lot.

[dakert]

I remember my first "Our Miss Brooks" radio show on a Radiola tape over 30 years ago. Miss Brooks wanted to show an educational film to her students and it turned out to be a film about Las Vegas and gambling

[Jude The Obscure]

Haven't heard that one yet, but I'm sure I'll get around to it! The dialogue was kind of risque' for an old radio show

[Leslie Eckhardt]

My memories of Our Miss Brooks go back to 1966-68, when we got a UHF converter box (anyone remember those?) and Miss Brooks was run Mon-Fri at 5:00pm here in Chicago on WCIU-Channel 26, which was the station which would ultimately spawn ME-TV. I loved the show then and I love it to this day. The best DVD I found has three public domain episodes and is from Echo Bridge. It also contains four Love That Bob episodes. I also have been listening to the many radio shows available for on-line download. Many of these scripts were actually remade as TV episodes. I have seen some complete series DVDs listed in various places, and some of these episodes are available for viewing on YouTube. The quality however is what you'd expect from sources like these. These are taken for the most part from VHS tapes of Chicago's channel 50, WPWR-TV from 1980s telecasts. (You can hear the channel 50 voice-overs on the end credits). I believe that CBS/Paramount owns the DVD rights to this series, and, like so many other properties they own, they have zero interest in remastering or releasing any form of this show on an official DVD. The series is listed in their syndication bible as being available, but only in the old 16mm format, not on tape masters. For now, I am happy to have the three eps on DVD (in reasonably good quality) and the radio shows. The feature film is available from Warner Archive and is also downloadable on Vudu. This has excellent quality and gives you the entire TV cast plus Don Porter and Nick Adams.

[Jude The Obscure]

I may get that DVD as I wouldn't mind seeing Love That Bob either.

[missy's pop pop]

Originally Posted by Jude The Obscure

This is my first exposure to the show, after years of just reading about it in reference books. There are a few running gags established early on--Connie's dreams about Mr. Boynton, her landlady always making weird food for breakfast, Connie's car always being in the repair shop and she has to carpool with Walter.
I'm enjoying it a lot.

The radio version of "Our Miss Brooks" was sponsored by Colgate Dental Cream, Lustre-Creme shampoo and Palmolive soap...and some of the radio cassettes of her shows contained the actual commercials. The commercials are almost as fascinating as the stories themselves, such as this Lustre-Creme jingle sung to the tune of "Toyland":

"Dream girl, dream girl, beautiful Lustre-Creme girl
You owe your crowning glory TO.....
a Lustre-Creme Shampoo..."

followed by announcer Vern Smith encouraging you: "Tonight...yes, tonight...try Lustre-CREME shampoo for soft, caressable 'Dream Girl' hair..." I guess they emphasized the "CREME" in "Lustre-Creme" to distinguish it from its other popular brand, Halo as in "Halo everybody Halo, Halo is the shampoo that glorifies your hair..."

[John Smith XXI]

I find it great listening to the radio show while driving in the car.

The great advantage of the radio program is more episodes with Miss Enright and Stretch Snodgrass. There's also a number of funny radio episodes that weren't adapted into television.