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.