Our Miss Brooks
Faculty Band
TV Flash files “Faculty Band” as hour 42 of 130 in the TV Flash guide — Our Miss Brooks (1952–1956) on CBS, season 2, episode 4, aired 1953-10-23, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E04: listed hour 42 of 130 in the Our Miss Brooks guide, hour 4 of 31 in season 2. It aired 1953-10-23 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Spare the Rod” (S02E03). Next is “The Little Visitor” (S02E05).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Faculty Band sit in the Our Miss Brooks guide?
S02E04 is listed hour 42 of 130 — hour 4 of 31 in season 2, season 2 episode 4.
When did Our Miss Brooks S02E04 air?
Faculty Band aired 1953-10-23 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…