... mainly because this is such a highly rated episode.
The 1950s comedy TV series Our Miss Brooks was about a 30 something schoolteacher played by Eve Arden who is constantly trying to get 30 something biology teacher Philip Boynton to propose. They go out on lots of low key dates, but nothing ever seems to develop. So this dream sequence episode is a way of letting the audience see what they want to see - a romance actually developing between Brooks and Boynton that leads to marriage - without then weighing the show down with that being the reality of the situation.
Miss Brooks has read a novel entitled "Maternity Ward" the night before. Staying up very late to finish the book, she naps the following day and dreams about a future in which a maternity ward figures heavily into everyone's story.
When watching this series you have to remember that in 1950s America never getting married was about the worst fate that could befall a woman, at least by society's reckoning. That is probably why Miss Brooks held on so tightly to the hope of marrying Mr. Boynton when it was obvious early on he was a completely cold fish.
The 1950s comedy TV series Our Miss Brooks was about a 30 something schoolteacher played by Eve Arden who is constantly trying to get 30 something biology teacher Philip Boynton to propose. They go out on lots of low key dates, but nothing ever seems to develop. So this dream sequence episode is a way of letting the audience see what they want to see - a romance actually developing between Brooks and Boynton that leads to marriage - without then weighing the show down with that being the reality of the situation.
Miss Brooks has read a novel entitled "Maternity Ward" the night before. Staying up very late to finish the book, she naps the following day and dreams about a future in which a maternity ward figures heavily into everyone's story.
When watching this series you have to remember that in 1950s America never getting married was about the worst fate that could befall a woman, at least by society's reckoning. That is probably why Miss Brooks held on so tightly to the hope of marrying Mr. Boynton when it was obvious early on he was a completely cold fish.