In this old time radio series, Norris Goff was Abner Peabody, and Chester Lauck was Lum Edwards… the owners and operators of Pine Ridge's own "Jot 'em Down Store." The Lum and Abner show was fifteen minutes that took us to back to the feeling of a rural America before music, radio and such made peace and quiet seem downright odd. For a general store, the "Jot 'em Down" was rarely bustling, so the silence was taken up with the events of the moment.
Intro music sets the stage, and we might be sitting by the cracker barrel, ready to "ketch up" on what Lum or Abner are up to…A quick scan of the show titles tells you this show was filled with funny episodes. It was, and some developed over days or even weeks
Amos and Andy, as played by Gosden and Correll were the direct predecessors of Lum and Abner, as Goff and Lauck did "blackface" comedy at first. But that comedy market, hard to believe today, was glutted with 'wannabe's," so they switched to the Lum and Abner "idee." An essential part of both shows is the no-audience first-person approach to story telling.
While Amos and Andy moved to Harlem, for years Lum and Abner changed "nary a thing"…until in '48, the show went to a half-hour, got a live audience and visiting star, an orchestra, and flopped. The boys did seven movies, too…even did one called "Lum and Abner Abroad." But it was in the "Jot 'em Down" with Lum and Abner just talking that the listening public really wanted to be. In its own way, Lum and Abner presented a perfect, and perfectly funny, little world of its own. It is pure storytelling, with plots that are always mischievous, and often bordered on the tall tale.
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Please enjoy these 1801 old time radio episodes:
| Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
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| 09.17.1942 | lum and abner (0272) new teacher named sloane |
+ Blue Network. Lum is not too thrilled with the new school teacher and plans to resign from the sc... | |
| 09.21.1942 | lum and abner (0273) penny weighing machine |
+ Blue Network. While at the county seat railroad station, Abner and Cedric discover the pleasures ... | |
| 09.22.1942 | lum and abner (0274) is sloane a he or a she |
+ Blue Network. Lum has purchased a bottle of perfume for the new school teacher, whom he hasn't ye... | |
| 09.23.1942 | lum and abner (0275) date with professor sloane |
+ Blue Network. Abner needles Lum about his date with the new (male!) school teacher. The program c... | |
| 09.24.1942 | lum and abner (0276) v for victory homes |
+ Blue Network. Cedric gets a painless lesson in credit and patriotism. "V Stands For Victory!" The... | |
| 09.28.1942 | lum and abner (0277) doing things lum's way |
+ Blue Network. Lum plots ways to get rid of the new school teacher, he's a terrible bore! The prog... | |
| 09.29.1942 | lum and abner (0278) lum the matchmaker |
+ Blue Network. Lum gets an idea to interest Professor Sloan and the widow Abernathy in each other.... | |
| 09.30.1942 | lum and abner (0279) love letter from widder |
+ Blue Network. Lum and Abner write a love letter to the widow Abernathy, and signs Professor Sloan... | |
| 10.01.1942 | lum and abner (0280) no one can read letter |
+ Blue Network. Cedric has failed his intelligence test, the incriminating letter turns out to be t... | |
| 10.05.1942 | lum and abner (0281) new observatory named |
+ Blue Network. Abner plans to buy a Mexican jumping bean farm. Lum is going to buy land atop a mou... | |
| 10.06.1942 | lum and abner (0282) location for observatory |
+ Blue Network. Lum and Professor Sloan are planning to climb Piney Mountain. Abner plans to traini... | |
| 10.07.1942 | lum and abner (0283) investing in observatory |
+Blue Network. Lum tries to talk Abner into investing in the Professor's observatory. The program c... | |
| 10.08.1942 | lum and abner (0284) cedric to join the army |
+ Blue Network. While Lum tries to teach Abner about astronomy, Cedric tries once again to join the... | |
| 10.12.1942 | lum and abner (0285) cedric to get telescope |
+ Blue Network. Cedric has gone to pick up the professor's telescope. Lum is thinking of naming a p... | |
| 10.13.1942 | lum and abner (0286) number of invention |
+ Blue Network. Lum tries to explain the workings of an observatory to Abner. "Necessity is the mot... | |
| 10.14.1942 | lum and abner (0287) cheering up prof sloane |
+ Blue Network. Lum and Abner try to cheer up Professor Sloan, but don't do a very good job of it. ... | |
| 10.15.1942 | lum and abner (0288) lum, substitute teacher |
+ Blue Network. Lum discovers that being a teacher isn't as easy as he thought. The program closing... | |
| 10.19.1942 | lum and abner (0289) buying observatory property |
+ Blue Network. All of a sudden, Squire Skimp has three buyers for the old Beauford place! The prog... | |
| 10.20.1942 | lum and abner (0290) squire up to tricks again |
+ Blue Network. Lum buys the Beauford place for an observatory at Squire Skimp's inflated place. Th... | |
| 10.21.1942 | lum and abner (0291) trying to move heavy box |
+ Blue Network. Lum, Abner and Cedric try to remove a large box from the future home of the Edwards... | |
| 10.22.1942 | lum and abner (0292) meteorologist supplies |
+ Blue Network. Asked to get meteorological supplies, Lum and Abner order thirty pounds of meat...w... | |
| 10.26.1942 | lum and abner (0293) abner's rocket ship to mars |
+ Blue Network. Abner gets the idea to build a rocket ship and fly to Mars! | |
| 10.27.1942 | lum and abner (0294) mousey wants to go to mars |
+ Blue Network. Mousey is having problems with his wife Gussie and wants to travel to Mars in Abner... | |
| 10.28.1942 | lum and abner (0295) how to build a rocket ship |
+ Blue Network. Construction of the rocket ship begins. | |
| 10.29.1942 | lum and abner (0296) squire wants to manage trip |
+ Blue Network. Squire Skimp promotes himself as the manager for the boys' endorsements when they r... |
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