Our Miss Brooks
Home Cooked Meal
TV Flash files “Home Cooked Meal” as the last listed hour of season 3 — Our Miss Brooks (1952–1956) on CBS, season 3, episode 30, aired 1955-06-03, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E30: listed hour 99 of 130 in the Our Miss Brooks guide, last listed hour of season 3. It aired 1955-06-03 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Big Jump” (S03E29). Next is “The Blind Date” (S04E01).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Home Cooked Meal sit in the Our Miss Brooks guide?
S03E30 is listed hour 99 of 130 — last listed hour of season 3, season 3 episode 30.
When did Our Miss Brooks S03E30 air?
Home Cooked Meal aired 1955-06-03 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…