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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.14.1944 | lum and abner (0722) stranded at johnson farm |
+ Blue Network. Abner calls Lum from Texas, but they're really out at the Johnson farm! He became s... | |
| 11.15.1944 | lum and abner (0723) call supposedly from texas |
+ Blue Network. Abner is calling everyone in Pine Ridge from the Johnson farm, telling them that he... | |
| 11.16.1944 | lum and abner (0724) mr dennison visits |
+Blue Network. A school official has arrived in Pine Ridge to inspect the school. After chatting wi... | |
| 11.20.1944 | lum and abner (0725) checkers over the phone |
+ Blue Network. Abner and Grandpappy Spears play checkers by telephone. Phinus Peabody isn't of muc... | |
| 11.21.1944 | lum and abner (0726) psychologist arrives |
+Blue Network. Mr. Fulton is writing a book on abnormal psychology. He'd like to interview Cedric W... | |
| 11.22.1944 | lum and abner (0727) taking psychologist's test |
+Blue Network. The program begins with an appeal for funds for the Kenny Institute For Infantile Pa... | |
| 11.23.1944 | lum and abner (0728) lum and thanksgiving dinner |
+ Lum finds himself all alone for Thanksgiving dinner. He tries to wrangle an invition...from someo... | |
| 11.27.1944 | lum and abner (0729) abner trouble at home |
+lue Network. "Trouble In The Home." Abner's having problems with Elizabeth. She thinks he's ruined... | |
| 11.28.1944 | lum and abner (0730) newspaper love advice |
+Blue Network. Abner and Grandpappy Spears write a letter to Miss Lovelace who writes an advice col... | |
| 11.29.1944 | lum and abner (0731) cedric reads abner's letter |
+Blue Network. Cedric has read Abner's letter to Miss Lovelace in his fourth grade class. Abner get... | |
| 11.30.1944 | lum and abner (0732) barbara stanwyck, war bonds |
+ Blue Network. Lum suggests that Abner try to make Elizabeth jealous, but changes his mind when Ab... | |
| 12.04.1944 | lum and abner (0733) abner and hunger strike |
+Blue Network. Lum gives Abner some advice to win back the affections of Elizabeth. It must be pret... | |
| 12.05.1944 | lum and abner (0734) discouraged with strike |
+Blue Network. Abner is having trouble keeping up his hunger strike. | |
| 12.06.1944 | lum and abner (0735) third day of hunger strike |
+ Blue Network. It's the third day of Abner's hunger strike, and he's losing weight! | |
| 12.07.1944 | lum and abner (0736) abner to become a bum |
+Blue Network. The hunger strike has ended in failure. Squire Skimp expounds on his theories of fem... | |
| 12.11.1944 | lum and abner (0737) abner enjoys a bum's life |
+Blue Network. Abner continues to pretend that he's a bum...and he's enjoying it! | |
| 12.12.1944 | lum and abner (0738) elizabeth wants abner back |
+ Blue Network. Abner's wife Elizabeth calls to ask him to come home, but Abner's having too much f... | |
| 12.13.1944 | lum and abner (0739) lum may become a bum also |
+Blue Network. Abner continues to extol his life as a "Knight Of The Road." Lum starts to think tha... | |
| 12.14.1944 | lum and abner (0740) letter from pearl |
+Blue Network. Abner has gottn a letter from little Pearl in rance and has decided not to become a ... | |
| 12.18.1944 | lum and abner (0741) abner and marriage advice |
+ Blue Network. Abner starts to give advice to his friends about marital relations. "Old Doc Peaboy... | |
| 12.19.1944 | lum and abner (0742) doc peabody advice bureau |
+ Blue Network. Old Doc Pebody gets his first patient...and it's Cedric! | |
| 12.20.1944 | lum and abner (0743) wanting to hear town gossip |
+Blue Network. Grandpappy Spears try to get gossip about Earl Pomery out of "Old Doc Peabody." | |
| 12.21.1944 | lum and abner (0744) christmas leather desk set |
+Blue Network. Lum would like a leather desk set for Christmas and drops several not-too-hint to Ab... | |
| 12.25.1944 | lum and abner (0745) christmas story |
+ Blue Network. A walk through the snowy woods for a Pine Ridge version of the Nativity story. Well... | |
| 12.26.1944 | lum and abner (0746) lum's appointment with doc |
+lue Network. "Old Doc Peabody" knows lots of the gossip of Pine Ridge, and Lum would like to know ... |
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