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1* ConclusionInAnotherMedium: The GrandFinale appeared on neither radio nor television, but instead took the form of a [[TheMovie feature film]].
2* EditedForSyndication: Sadly, as was common in the era, cuts for syndication were made to the original negatives and the footage discarded. Therefore, with the exception of three episodes not sold into syndication, all of the TV episodes only survive in their edited state (those it’s possible some of the cut footage may still exist on unreleased backup or broadcast prints).
3* FakeAmerican: Three, all born in UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire.
4** Gale Gordon played Osgood Conklin. He was born in England, only moving to the United States as a teenager.
5** Jane Morgan, who played Mrs. Davis, was born in London to Welsh parents. She moved to Boston before her first birthday.
6** Jesselyn Fax, the actress who portrayed Mrs. Davis' sister Angela, was Canadian.
7* FridayNightDeathSlot:
8** ''Our Miss Brooks'' was an early subversion, a popular television show airing on Fridays at 9:30 pm.
9** Averted on radio, where ''Our Miss Brooks'' aired Sunday nights.
10* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Our Miss Brooks'' was a winner in the Neilsen ratings during its 1952-1956 television run, but for years, only the episodes "Home Cooked Meal" and "The Big Jump" were available on ''legitimate'' DVD. CBS officially released the first season (in two volumes) on October 16, 2019, but it's currently unknown if future seasons will be issued on DVD.
11** Happily averted with the surviving radio episodes (1948-1956), which have lapsed into the public domain and are available online. Also averted with TheMovie, which is available from the Warner Brothers Archive Collection and occasionally airs on Turner Classic Movies.
12* TheOtherDarrin:
13** Jeff Chandler played Mr. Boynton in the first few radio seasons, then was replaced by Robert Rockwell on both radio and TV.
14** Different actors portrayed board of education superintendent Mr. Stone on the radio and on television (including once by Silent Film Star Francis X. Bushman). Ultimately, Joseph Kearns was cast in later episodes of the TV series and TheMovie.
15** [[ExecutiveMeddling CBS tried to do this]] with Walter Denton, feeling Richard Crenna was too old to reprise the role on television. Crenna actually agreed with this assessment and didn't want to carry over to TV anyway. Eve Arden protested this, feeling he looked and sounded younger than his years and insisted that nobody else could play the role as well. CBS then had her do screentests with several other candidates, which Arden agreed to on the proviso that Crenna be tested as well. The network ultimately relented after realising Arden was right. (Crenna's appearance as a lovesick high-schooler on ''Series/ILoveLucy'' also influenced his decision to join the cast, and provided CBS with further proof he was still capable of passing as a teenager.)
16* ThePeteBest: Joe Forte played Mr. Conklin in the first few radio episodes of the series, before being replaced by the legendary Gale Gordon.
17* RecycledScript: Many radio scripts were [[SoundtoScreenAdaptation reworked and adapted for television]]:
18** i.e. "The Auction", "Aunt Mattie Boynton", "The Birthday Bag", "Blue Goldfish", "Bones, Son of Cyrano", "Business Course", "The Cafeteria Strike", "Clay City Chaperone", "Cure That Habit", "The Embezzled Dress", "Fisher's Pawn Shop", "The Hawkins Travel Agency", "The Hobby Show", "The Honest Burglar", "The Hurricane", "June Bride", "Madison Mascot", "The Magic Christmas Tree", "Marinated Hearing", "Monsieur [=LeBlanc=]", "The Model Teacher", "Old Marblehead", "Red River Valley", "Secondhand First Aid", "Spare That Rod", "Suzy Prentiss", "Thanksgiving Show", "Trial by Jury", "Trying to Pick A Fight", "Two-Way Stretch Snodgrass", "Wild Goose", "The Wrong Mrs. Boynton", and "The Yodar Kritch Award".
19* TechnologyMarchesOn: A particularly glaring example in the episode "The Tape Recorder". Walter Denton causes trouble by purchasing an outrageously expensive tape recorder ($385 in 1950 funds!) for Madison High School - in the grips of Mr. Conklin's latest economy drive. A circa 1950 tape recorder, incidentally, isn't a small device, but [[http://www.prestohistory.com/Presto5.html one of the huge reel-to-reel affairs seen here]]. HilarityEnsues as Miss Brooks and Mr. Conklin are forced to explain the purchase to school board head Mr. Stone. Even more HilarityEnsues when the records Walter Denton made are played back in a mixed-up state.
20* ThrowItIn: In “The Tape Recorder”, Eve Arden stumbled trying to pronounce the word “opinion”. The audience reaction to this and her recovery (“As I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself…”) was more substantial than to the scripted punchline.
21* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
22** Shirley Booth and Creator/LucilleBall were considered for the role of Miss Brooks before it was given to Eve Arden. Booth actually recorded an audition show, but ultimately took the plight of working-class teachers too seriously to have fun with it and turned the part down. Ball also turned it down, having already committed to ''My Favorite Husband'', and some sources claim she actually suggested Arden for the role.
23** The fourth television season did garner high enough ratings to warrant a fifth season, which CBS was willing to produce, but Arden was so dissatisfied with the drastic format change that she refused to continue, thus ending the show.
24** On the format change. Had this not happened, the fourth season would have continued at Madison High School as usual. Walter Denton, Harriet Conklin and Mr. Boynton would have remained major characters. As it was, in the 1955-56 broadcast year, the radio show was still producing new episodes set at Madison High School under the program's old format. TheMovie GrandFinale had also been released resolving the show's storylines in line with the previous continuity. So, really, ''What Might Have Been?'' '''was''', at least on the radio and in the movies, just not on television.
25* YouLookFamiliar:
26** Character actor Frank Nelson appears in several different roles over the course of the series:
27*** He plays a crooked lawyer in "Hospital Follies"
28*** He plays Mr. Fischer in "Fischer's Pawnshop"
29*** His voice is heard in "Vitamin E-4" as a fraudulent professor
30*** On at least one occasion on the radio, "The Tape Recorder," Nelson is the voice of the head of the school board, Mr. Stone.
31*** On multiple radio episodes, Nelson provides the voice of Jason Brill, principal of rival Clay City High School.
32*** Nelson voices a hairdresser on the radio episode "The Hair-Do"
33*** Nelson voices a photographer in the radio episode "Photo Feud."
34** Mary Jane Croft voices the reporter in "The Model School Teacher" before taking the role of rival English teacher Daisy Enright on radio and television.
35** Joseph Kearns plays a conservative school board official in "Lulu the Pinup Boat" before assuming the role of Mr. Stone in subsequent episodes and the [[TheMovie cinematic]] [[GrandFinale series finale]].

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