Batman Gambits in Radio.
- In The Men from the Ministry, whenever the General Assistance Department have accidentally created the impression that Britain has a new super-ship or a space rocket, the plan to hide their non-existence hinges on the assumption that the everyone working in the government are so lazy and incompetent that they'll never admit that they've never heard about them out of fear of accidentally missing the information of their development.Lamb: There are hundreds of people who'd know if a rocket had been fired, and as soon as they know they'll know they don't know.
Hamilton-Jones: Ah, but will they dare admit it? You didn't, I didn't, the First Lord of the Admiralty didn't. We were all afraid it was in some dispatch that we hadn't read. So we pretended we did know. - Our Miss Brooks: Occasionally used by Miss Brooks to have Mr. Conklin or Mr. Stone go along with her ideas - or to help someone get out of trouble.
- In "New School TV Set" (a radio episode), Miss Brooks has everyone talk like a cowboy to demonstrate the deleterious effect the television had on the students and faculties alike (in the 1950s, with certain exceptions, Westerns dominated television schedules). Mr. Stone, in exasperation, demands the television set be disposed of.
- In "Turnabout Day" (a television episode), when students act as teachers and teachers as students, Miss Brooks protects Walter Denton from being expelled for forging a letter from Mr. Stone approving the event. Miss Brooks uses gossip she heard about Mr. Stone's recent absent-mindedness to convince him he forgot approving the letter and should go on vacation immediately. Miss Brooks also gets Mr. Stone to give her and Mr. Boynton a free trip to the (well-chaperoned) vacation lodge in Eagle Springs.
