Our Miss Brooks
Trying to Pick a Fight
TV Flash files “Trying to Pick a Fight” as a desk essential hour — Our Miss Brooks (1952–1956) on CBS, season 1, episode 1, aired 1952-10-03, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 130 in the Our Miss Brooks guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1952-10-03 (30 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “The Loaded Custodian” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Trying to Pick a Fight”. Trying to Pick a Fight: Arden's working-woman lead opens with a titled snarl, faculty lounge already a comedy club.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Trying to Pick a Fight sit in the Our Miss Brooks guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 130 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Our Miss Brooks S01E01 air?
Trying to Pick a Fight aired 1952-10-03 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with Arden versus Gale Gordon's Conklin — the dry teacher and the blustery principal are the engine. Boynton is the slow-burn sideline.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Our Miss Brooks is the faculty lounge as comedy club, with Eve Arden's dry teacher as a working-woman lead who actually bites. Radio-to-TV success that still teaches how sarcasm can carry a sitcom. In 2026 she is the template for every sarcastic mentor — and more fun than most of them.
Flash: a faculty lounge that thinks it's a comedy club, a dry teacher with bite, and a radio hit that walked onto CBS television without sanding off the snarl. *Our Miss Brooks* (1952–1956), 130 episodes across four seasons: Eve Arden as high-school English teacher Connie Brooks, Gale Gordon as blustery principal Osgood Conklin, Robert Rockwell as shy biology teacher Mr. Boynton, Richard Crenna as student Walter Denton before *The Real McCoys*. Al Lewis on the creation card. **A working-woman lead who actually…
Filed against
- Eve Arden as Connie Brooks
Eve Arden dry-roasted the faculty lounge as Connie Brooks on Our Miss Brooks — a working-woman lead who actually bites, radio-to-TV success, sarcasm as a sitcom engine. The template for every later sarcastic mentor, and more fun than most…
- Gale Gordon as Osgood Conklin
Gale Gordon’s Osgood Conklin detonated Our Miss Brooks as faculty-lounge volcano — 1950s catalog sarcastic-mentor sitcom, then The Lucy Show recasting the apoplexy as Mr. Mooney’s bank. TV Flash files him as the boss who could blow a…
- Robert Rockwell as Philip Boynton
Robert Rockwell's Philip Boynton played hard-to-get on Our Miss Brooks — Eve Arden's dry teacher as a working-woman lead who actually bites, faculty lounge as comedy club, radio-to-TV success. TV Flash files him as 1950s sitcom foil: the…
- Richard Crenna as Walter Denton
Richard Crenna’s Luke McCoy farmed California as the young blood of The Real McCoys — Walter Brennan’s grandpa act, rustic sitcom muscle years before the punchline — after Our Miss Brooks’s faculty-lounge sarcasm. Country-family comedy as…