Thursday, December 13, 2018

OTR Holiday Month Day 13: Our Miss Brooks

So far as radio sitcoms go, Our Miss Brooks was one of the most formulaic - just about every episode's misunderstanding which leads to increased complications followed the same flow - but it didn't matter because it was done well by a great cast of comic actors, particularly Eve Arden, Jeff Chandler and Gale Gordon.

There are few nice Christmas episodes of Our Miss Brooks, but my favourite is "The Magic Christmas Tree" from December 25, 1949, in which Miss Brooks purchases a Christmas tree which transforms people's personalities after they touch it. It's mostly an excuse for the cast to behave out-of-character, and that's reason enough. You can hear it on archive.org here.

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