Our Miss Brooks - Season 1 (1952)

Connie Brooks has her eye on an expensive handbag and decides to give it to herself as a birthday gift. But her friends are planning a party with the bag as a present so they all borrow money from her so that's she is broke.

Mr. Boynton is being visited by Dean Faraday who expects a family man so Miss Brooks agrees to pretend to be his wife. Principal Conklin misunderstands and believes his two teachers are now married.

Walter's plan for making money involves painting rooms with a new formula he's invented. When Mr. Conklin makes Miss Brooks responsible for painting his office she enlists Walter and Mr. Boynton. Unfortunately the paint is glue like.

Mr. Conklin is angling for a donation from wealthy Mrs. Graybar and intends Miss Brooks to dress down for effect. But Connie misconstrues his intent leading to her, Mr. Boynton and Walter to show up dressed outrageously.

Over breakfast Miss Brooks listens as Mrs. Davis relates about poor Mr. Whipple having malnutrition and holes in his clothes. Connie organizes a charity drive for a man who in reality is a millionaire.

Mr. Conklin has great hopes for Madison High winning against their archival but learns the coach never graduated. He assigns Miss Brooks to make sure he gets his diploma but Connie expects the man to learn the material.

A cold spell is causing distress at Madison High as Mr. Conklin is refusing to repair the heating system. Miss Brooks is selected to talk with him but after he declines Connie decides everyone should pretend to be sick too shame him.

Miss Brooks brags about her relationship with TV repairman Mr. Seymour which results in everyone bringing her their TV antennas, hoping to get them fixed. Next up are TVs which are stored in Conklin's office, to his aggravation.

Miss Brooks is acting listless and anxious which concerns her friends. They decide she needs a hobby so Walter brings his trains, Margaret her paints and Boynton his chess set. But Connie needs to prepare questions for an English test.

Connie Brooks wants to be generous at Christmas but finds herself broke. She starts receiving her own gifts so she takes them to exchange at the department store. She isn't aware Mr. Conklin and Mr. Boynton are doing the same.

Miss Brooks wants the business administration position but Miss Enright has the inside track. Walter convinces Connie that if she can get cheaper fuel the job is hers. But Mr. Conklin's furnace uses a different type of energy creating a disaster.

Connie Brooks is to meet Mr. Boynton in front of the pet store but is stood up. She feels hurt and decides to get back at him with Walter's help but learns later just who the innocent party is.

A severe storm is on the way but Mr. Conklin has someting to attend to and leaves Miss Brooks in charge. After hearing the dire weather forecast Connie closes the school to the principal's displeasure.

Mr. Boynton is at a convention and Miss Brooks gets attention from French teacher La Blanche. Encouraged by Walter who garbles a translation, Connie finds herself mixed up in a car deal between the Frenchman and Mr. Conklin.

Mr. Conklin wants to memoralize himself with a bust in anticipation of an important visit. He pays for it by fining the staff for infractions and Miss Brooks soon goes broke. But Walter and Connie's help in it's delivery spells disaster.

Connie Brooks learns she's Snap magazine's ideal teacher but she and photographer Stephanie Forest don't get along. A series of unflattering pictures are taken plus the men at Madison fawn over the attractive shutterbug.

Mr. Conklin has a new plan where the teachers arrive early to exercise but Miss Brooks can't seem to get there on time. Then sleeping pills get mixed up with aspirin just when a school board member visits.

The food at the school is getting worse and Miss Brooks plans a boycott. But she talks unknowingly to newspaperman Mr. Dunbar about it and Mr. Conklin wants to fire her. Mr. Boynton tries to help with a specially prepared meal.

Angela's cat Mr. Casey has met an untimely demise and she informs Connie over breakfast he left a will. Mr. Conklin, Walter and Mr. Boynton are told they are left something, all believing Casey is a person instead of an animal.

Miss Brooks is expecting a marriage proposal from Mr. Boynton but he just wants to rent Mr. Conklin's spare room. Walter gets involved and accidentally encourages Monseuir La Marche to ask Connie to marry him.

Miss Brooks encounters Joe Phillips, a vagrant, raiding the refrigerator late at night. After hearing his story she gets him the custodian job at school but then items start disappearing. She sets a trap but snares an unlikely person.

Miss Brooks is excited to attend baseball's opening day with Mr. Boynton and even bought a new outfit. But the game is canceled because Mr. Conklin overspent the budget. Everyone heads to the pawn shop to help out.

Walter has Hollywood pinup photos in his locker but they're found by Mr. Conklin. He puts them in a drawer with a pic of his boat Lulu. Board member Mitchell visits, finds them and a confusing talk with Miss Brooks occurs about the photos.

Miss Brooks creates a test to determine the winner of the Yodar Kritch Award for Unique Achievement in English. Walter Denton invites Miss Brooks to a party after school but the party will be canceled unless Bones Snodgrass wins the award.

Connie and Philip attend a dance but run out of gas in the way home. They are out all night leading Mr. Conklin to threaten to punish them so Miss Brooks, with Harriet's help, needs to prove how innocent the relationship is.

Miss Brooks is helping Bones with a paper on baboons while also proofreading Mr. Conklin's speech. Walter's involvement lead to both items getting torn. The repair job leads to an unfortunate welcome speech to board member Mr. Stone.

There's a charity festival at the park which is also a costume event. Connie is excited about her date with Mr. Boynton and even has the ticket money until she hears Katie's hardluck story while Gus has the same tale for Philip.

Connie discovers when told to mend Bones' mood that Snodgrass is taken with a girl, arranges for the two to go to a banquet and asks Mrs. Davis for the loan of formal wear while Mrs. Conklin has her family's outfits sent to Mrs. Davis.

Mr. Conklin's typewriter disappears and he suspects Mr. Boynton. He sets a trap and hides in a suit of armor. Miss Brooks and Walter decide to trash the office when Boynton has an alibi, a plan that backfires on Connie.

Mr. Conklin is to give a speech about respecting city property and he asks Connie to write it for him. Walter and Bones choose that day to bring various municipal items to Connie's home just as Conklin arrives with the mayor.

At breakfast Mrs. Davis predicts a wedding for Connie and Philip. For summer Boynton and Conklin plan on running a children's camp but need Connie's help. She misunderstands a conversation and expects a marriage proposal.

Connie Brooks is named best dressed teacher followed by a department store robbery. The loot is stashed at the school and Mr. Conklin assumes Connie is the thief. He, Philip, and Walter go to great lengths to protect Miss Brooks.

Mr. Conklin has the hiccups, finds kittens in his desk and breaks his glasses the same day so he needs Connie' s help. Walter plays a bad practical joke about a drinking problem just as a school official Mr. Chambers arrives at the school.

When Mrs. Davis brings home a sparrow with an injured wing, Miss Brooks comes to the rescue to save it.

Connie is asked by Mr. La Blanche to stand in as proxy for his bride but Walter overhears just part of the conversation. He and Harriet urge Mr. Conklin to stop the wedding as they think she should marry Mr. Boynton.