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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| 08.23.1935 | lum and abner (0180) store travels to communities |
+ Sponsored by: Horlick's Malted Milk. The name-the-store-on-wheels contest is soon to end. The syst... | |
| 08.26.1935 | lum and abner (0181) stockholders dissatisfied |
+ Sponsored by: Horlick's Malted Milk. Squire Skimp has returned from Arizona without selling the st... | |
| 08.27.1935 | lum and abner (0182) lum proud owner of mine |
+ Sponsored by: Horlick's Malted Milk. The Squire has withdrawn from the company, leaving Lum fully ... | |
| 08.28.1935 | lum and abner (0183) lum decides to buy a trailer |
+ Sponsored by: Horlick's Malted Milk. Lum gets an idea. Why not put a trailer behind the rolling st... | |
| 08.29.1935 | lum and abner (0184) decide to sell silver mine |
+ Sponsored by: Horlick's Malted Milk. Dick Huddleston has discovered that Mr. Worthington is wanted... | |
| 08.30.1935 | lum and abner (0185) stockholders meet again |
+ Sponsored by: Horlick's Malted Milk. When the shareholders of the sterling silver mine hold a meet... | |
| 09.02.1935 | lum and abner (0186) hiding in abner's barn loft |
+ Sponsored by: Horlick's Malted Milk. Lum has been hiding in the hay loft of Abner's barn for the l... | |
| 09.03.1935 | lum and abner (0187) stockholders want money back |
+ You know Lum has become involved in the promotion of a fake silver mine and Squire Skimp the promo... | |
| 09.04.1935 | lum and abner (0188) abner's fake kidnapping |
+ Since the Great Western Sterling Silver Company of which Lum is president has turned out to be a f... | |
| 09.05.1935 | lum and abner (0189) blunder kidnapping |
+ Well tonight is the night that Lum plans to kidnap Abner with Abner’s permission of course. You ... | |
| 09.06.1935 | lum and abner (0190) kidnapping has town in uproar |
+ In order to make a hero of himself and regain the confidence of his fellow townsmen Lum arranged t... | |
| 09.09.1935 | lum and abner (0191) townspeople set trap |
+ When Lum planned to kidnap Abner so that he might make a fake rescue in order to become a hero in ... | |
| 09.10.1935 | lum and abner (0192) lum to admit everything |
+ Lum is finding that his idea of kidnapping Abner so that he might make a fake rescue in order to b... | |
| 09.11.1935 | lum and abner (0193) lum's story gets bigger |
+ Yesterday just as Lum was about to confess that he instigated the whole affair of Abner’s kidnap... | |
| 09.12.1935 | lum and abner (0194) newspaper article on rescue |
+ When Lum planned the fake kidnapping of his old friend Abner so that he could pretend to have resc... | |
| 09.13.1935 | lum and abner (0195) operate mine on royalty |
+ As a result of Lum’s renewed popularity over rescuing Abner from his supposed kidnappers the sto... | |
| 09.16.1935 | lum and abner (0196) first day of school |
+ Since Eveline Schultz the school maam returned to Pine Ridge to resume her teaching duties the sto... | |
| 09.17.1935 | lum and abner (0197) speech on honesty at school | ||
| 09.18.1935 | lum and abner (0198) raising 5000 dollars bail money |
+ It seems that Mr. Donahue who purchased three shares of stock in the Great Western Sterling Silver... | |
| 09.19.1935 | lum and abner (0199) lum sells his possessions |
+ Lum sold his half interest in the Jot ‘Em Down Store for $1000 to Squire Skimp in order to lay t... | |
| 09.20.1935 | lum and abner (0200) dick confers with judge |
+ Lum is out on bond facing charges of violation of the Blue Sky law in connection with the sale of ... | |
| 09.23.1935 | lum and abner (0201) discussing detective methods |
+ After Lum sold off all his personal property and mortgaged his farm and home for enough to pay off... | |
| 09.24.1935 | lum and abner (0202) abner helps lum pack for trip |
+ Lum’s only chances of acquittal on the charges of violating the Blue Sky Law is to produce Squir... | |
| 09.25.1935 | lum and abner (0203) will lum will skip out on his bail |
+ Yesterday they learned that the missing Squire was in Tulsa Oklahoma and Lum is planning a trip to... | |
| 09.26.1935 | lum and abner (0204) tulsa police arrest squire |
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