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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| 10.03.1941 | lum and abner (0072) getting rid of sales book |
+Blue net origination, KARK, Little Rock syndication. The salesmanship book has been burned and th... | |
| 10.02.1941 | lum and abner (0071) the various sales methods |
+Blue net origination, KARK, Little Rock syndication. Plans to hire Squire Skimp to drum up new bu... | |
| 09.30.1941 | lum and abner (0070) salesmanship book arrives |
+Blue net origination, KARK, Little Rock syndication. The boys continue to study their book on sal... | |
| 09.29.1941 | lum and abner (0069) book on modern salesmanship |
+Blue net origination, KARK, Little Rock syndication. The boys have gotten a book on the secrets o... | |
| 09.19.1941 | lum and abner (0068) lum wants to open a nursery |
+ Lum and Abner’s bank is now a thing of the past. Only the wire enclosure partitioned off for the... | |
| 09.18.1941 | lum and abner (0067) mohammed to the mountain | ||
| 09.16.1941 | lum and abner (0066) bank has no charter |
+ Yesterday Lum received a call from the bank down at County seat asking him to appear at a meeting ... | |
| 09.15.1941 | lum and abner (0065) lum and board of directors | ||
| 09.12.1941 | lum and abner (0064) everything squared away |
+ Lum still believes that the diamonds they discovered within a mysterious box left with them a few ... | |
| 09.11.1941 | lum and abner (0063) jewels missing from box | ||
| 09.09.1941 | lum and abner (0062) mrs. barrington's letter |
+ Little did Lum and Abner realize how complicated things would become when a stranger by the name o... | |
| 09.08.1941 | lum and abner (0061) practicing jujitsu holds |
+ Lum and Abner are convinced in their own minds that the diamonds they had in their safekeeping are... | |
| 09.05.1941 | lum and abner (0060) lum to marry rich widow | ||
| 09.04.1941 | lum and abner (0059) anxiously waiting for reply |
+ Lum and Abner are convinced in their own minds that the diamonds they had in their safekeeping are... | |
| 09.02.1941 | lum and abner (0058) dealing with stolen jewels |
+ Lum and Abner have reason to believe that the diamonds they discovered in a secret compartment of ... | |
| 09.01.1941 | lum and abner (0057) box contains diamonds |
+ Lum and Abner made an important discovery when Abner dropped the mysterious box that was left with... | |
| 08.29.1941 | lum and abner (0056) speculating box contents |
+ Yesterday Lum and Abner had an unusual experience in their new bank; a stranger left a tin box wit... | |
| 08.28.1941 | lum and abner (0055) strange box left at bank |
+ The bank Lum and Abner recently opened in Pine Ridge seems to be getting off to a good start and t... | |
| 08.26.1941 | lum and abner (0054) lum buys bank guard uniform |
+ Lum and Abner have so much confidence in their new bank they’re even putting their own money in ... | |
| 08.25.1941 | lum and abner (0053) lum and abner operate bank |
+ Lum and Abner’s new bank which they are now operating in connection with the Jot ‘Em Down stor... | |
| 08.19.1941 | lum and abner special routine for alka seltzer |
+ Their Jot ‘Em Down store was temporarily closed over a year ago and now it has been announced th... | |
| 06.25.1941 | lum and abner formula for synthetic gasoline | ||
| 06.24.1941 | lum and abner inventing a way to make things fall sideways | ||
| 06.23.1941 | lum and abner discovery of prof's old chemicals | ||
| 06.20.1941 | lum and abner (0016) cedric buys the property |
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