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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| 04.10.1944 | lum and abner (0597) spend night in motel room |
+ Blue Network. In an Arkansas hotel room! A funny show. | |
| 04.11.1944 | lum and abner (0598) car breaks down |
+ Blue Network. When the boys develop car troubles in Mississippi, Cedric works while Lum and Abner... | |
| 04.12.1944 | lum and abner (0599) lecture the evils of wealth |
+ Blue Network. As the treasure hunt continues, Cedric learns the bad points about being rich. Cedr... | |
| 04.13.1944 | lum and abner (0600) digging for treasure |
+ Blue Network. A helpful farmer tells the boys where to dig. | |
| 04.17.1944 | lum and abner (0601) treasure hunters broke |
+ Blue Network. The boys are broke in Little Rock. They send Grandpappy Spears a telegram asking fo... | |
| 04.18.1944 | lum and abner (0602) pawn pinball machine |
+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Alka Seltzer, One-A-Day Vitamins. Cedric has a "broke heart" from his ... | |
| 04.19.1944 | lum and abner (0603) no questions from grandpap |
+ Blue Network. The boys have returned to the store, trying to decide how to face the ridicule expe... | |
| 04.20.1944 | lum and abner (0604) lum will give speech |
+ Blue Network. Cedric and Lum discuss the advantages and uses of V-Mail to write to soldiers overs... | |
| 04.24.1944 | lum and abner (0605) mysterious package arrives |
+ Blue Network. That farmer in Tennessee has sent the boys a box, obviously the buried treasure! | |
| 04.25.1944 | lum and abner (0606) can't open package |
+ Blue Network. The boys try to open the locked box of treasure from Tennessee. Both Chester Lauck ... | |
| 04.26.1944 | lum and abner (0607) using worthless old coins |
+ Blue Network. Planning on spending their buried treasure, Abner and Cedric look through a mail or... | |
| 04.27.1944 | lum and abner (0608) squire wants treasure co |
+ Blue Network. Everyone in town thinks the boys are rich, even though "the treasure" is a bunch of... | |
| 05.01.1944 | lum and abner (0609) lum decides to open museum |
+ Blue Network. The boys try to decide what to do with "the treasure." Why not open a museum? | |
| 05.02.1944 | lum and abner (0610) label items in the museum |
+ Blue Network. The boys are preparing their museum displays...including the stuffed owl. Chester L... | |
| 05.03.1944 | lum and abner (0611) cedric latest date |
+ Blue Network. Cedric has a heavy date tonight with Clarabelle. | |
| 05.04.1944 | lum and abner (0612) lum wants to hire a woman |
+ Blue Network. Lum decides to hire a woman to work in the museum. How about Miss Millbank? | |
| 05.08.1944 | lum and abner (0613) lum's boring museum lecture |
+ Blue Network. Lum rehearses his museum lecture tour. | |
| 05.09.1944 | lum and abner (0614) stuffed owl disappears |
+ Blue Network. Abner proposes Grandpappy Spears as a museum exhibit: a living fossil! What happene... | |
| 05.10.1944 | lum and abner (0615) mystery of the stuffed owl |
+ Blue Network. The case of the moving stuffed owl. | |
| 05.11.1944 | lum and abner (0616) is the owl alive or not |
+ Blue Network. The stuffed owl flies out the window! | |
| 05.15.1944 | lum and abner (0617) visit to convalescent lum |
+ Blue Network. Lum is recovering from being his on the head by a baseball bat...by Abner! | |
| 05.16.1944 | lum and abner (0618) abner was once a king |
+ Blue Network. A suitcase arrives at the Jot 'Em Down Store with a photograph inside showing Abner... | |
| 05.17.1944 | lum and abner (0619) phinus peabody to visit |
+ Blue Network. It's opening day at the museum, and King Abner almost opens the door for business. ... | |
| 05.18.1944 | lum and abner (0620) phinus's eccentricities |
+ Blue Network. Abner's papa is coming, the Jot 'Em Down Store is in for an interesting time! | |
| 05.22.1944 | lum and abner (0621) tell elizabeth about phinus |
+ Blue Network. Abner ponders how to break the news to Elizabeth about the pending visit from Papa ... |
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