Al Lewis has 9 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Our Miss Brooks: The Ultimate Collection - Over 180 Shows.
Our Miss Brooks: The Ultimate Collection - Over 180 Shows
Summary
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, at the time CBS's West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role. Lucille Ball was believed to be the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on CBS on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very "feline" in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast - blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright - also received positive reviews. Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. "I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this [award] two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton," she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne. For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo, and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
Public Domain (P)2015 BN Publishing
Our Miss Brooks
Summary
Featuring a witty professional woman as the central character of this old-time radio show, Our Miss Brooks was a groundbreaking concept. Audiences could (and continue to) relate to Connie Brooks as a clever, sarcastic, kindhearted teacher. A year before the radio series ended, it had television, stage play, and film adaptations of the same title.
Public Domain (P)2019 CBS Enterprises
Our Miss Brooks: Babysitting for Three
Summary
Miss Brooks babysits, which gives everyone the idea that she's sharing a love nest with Mr. Boynton! Although our Miss Brooks teaches English at Madison High School, her problems, like those of any other teacher, aren’t always confined to purely scholastic ones. There’s Mr. Philip Boynton for instance, the biology teacher for whom Miss Brooks is extremely fond. And who in return lavishes his affection on his frogs and guinea pigs.
Public Domain (P)2019 CBS Enterprises
Our Miss Brooks: Key to School
Summary
Mrs. Davis leaves with the key to Madison High, and no one can get into school! Not many people like to get up early in the morning but our Miss Brooks, who teaches English at Madison High School, doesn’t seem to mind at all. In fact, she gets quite a kick from getting up in the morning, because it offers proof positive that she managed to live through the day before!
Public Domain (P)2019 CBS Enterprises
Our Miss Brooks: Poetry Mix-Up
Summary
Who's been sending romantic poetry to Harriet Conklin? Our Miss Brooks manages to keep pretty busy teaching English at Madison High School but in spite of her preoccupation with her own subject, she’s managed to find quite a bit of time lately to pursue the study of biology.
Public Domain (P)2019 CBS Enterprises
Our Miss Brooks: Grudge Match
Summary
There's going to be a grudge fight between Walter Denton and Stretch Snodgrass over the hand of fair Harriet Conklin. Walter and Stretch were the best of friends until one night when Walter found out that his best friend had been to the movies with his girlfriend Harriet.
Public Domain (P)2019 CBS Enterprises
Our Miss Brooks: Photo Mix Up
Summary
For many people, Friday the 13th brings a feeling of pending misfortune. But our Miss Brooks, who teaches English at Madison High School, doesn’t believe in such superstition.
Public Domain (P)2019 CBS Enterprises
Our Miss Brooks: Student Banking
Summary
Mrs. Davis uses $25 intended to be deposited in the school savings account to buy Miss Brooks a new dress. Miss Brooks, the English teacher at Madison High School, has been busy, but not busy enough for the warden. She ends up taking responsibility for the students' money with disastrous consequences.
Public Domain (P)2019 CBS Enterprises
Our Miss Brooks: Working in the Stockroom
Summary
It is the start of the first semester and after a hard day in a faculty meeting, Miss Brooks has just retired to bed and dozed off when there is a knock at the door. It is the principal on a drive for more discipline, less horse-play, towing-of-the-line, and running of the school in an orderly manner.
Public Domain (P)2019 CBS Enterprises