Complete series cast summary: | |||
Eve Arden | ... | Connie Brooks 130 episodes, 1952-1956 | |
Gale Gordon | ... | Osgood Conklin 130 episodes, 1952-1956 | |
Jane Morgan | ... | Mrs Margaret Davis / ... 115 episodes, 1952-1956 | |
Robert Rockwell | ... | Philip Boynton 107 episodes, 1952-1956 | |
Richard Crenna | ... | Walter Denton 94 episodes, 1952-1955 | |
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Gloria McMillan | ... | Harriet Conklin 92 episodes, 1952-1955 |
Miss Brooks teaches English at Madison High, rents a room from Mrs. Davis, gets rides to school with student Walter, fights with Principal Conklin, and tries to snag shy biology teacher Boynton. In the last year she switches to Mrs. Nestor's private school. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
To me this is the funniest TV sitcom ever made. Its type of humor is absolutely unique and can't be found anywhere else, a refined type of camp that produces a ticklish bitter-sweet inner chuckle. One wonders how much Eve Arden had to do with it. The show is unthinkable without her. In other roles she exhibits the same trademark worldweariness. Half the time she seems to be talking to herself, surrounded as she is, by a mass of clueless, shallow, though likable humanity. Miss Brooks inhabits a kind of solipsistic universe in which she seems to be the only one really alive. Yet the deadness of others seems to drag her down to a point where she is just going through the motions of living. Depression was never funnier. All other characters are adorable, particularly the landlady.