Our Miss Brooks began life in 1948 as a popular radio program. On October 3, 1952 it aired its first of 130 television episodes and went on to become one of TV's biggest shows in the early days. Unlike Lucy, Margie and Joan, Our Miss Brooks had a rather large cast of characters. The title character was Connie Brooks, a single high school teacher who rented a room from Mrs. Davis. At school she had the hots for the nerdy science teacher, Mr. Boynton, and was always under the thumb of Principal Conklin and at the clutches of her students. Eve Arden played Miss Brooks and something else that set this show apart was that Miss Brooks was an attractive, strong and intelligent woman. She wasn't a scatter-brained ditz. A lot of the comedy came from her having to cope with the schemes of those around her that always somehow seemed to implicate her.
Also starring Gale Gordon, one of the great character actors of the first generation of TV. Richard Crenna, who went on to star in The Real McCoys and then had a tremendous long and successful career, played one of the high school students despite being a WWII veteran. When the show ended in 1956 they made an Our Miss Brooks movie which sort of summarized the TV show and also allowed Miss Brooks to live happily ever after.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Miss_Brooks
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