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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.13.1943 | lum and abner (0529) squire will drop charges |
+ Blue Network. Squire Skimp has agreed to drop the charges against Abner...but there's a catch! | |
| 12.14.1943 | lum and abner (0530) squire's lawyer visits |
+ Blue Network. Abner has gotten the boys into even more trouble with Squire Skimp. Lum does someth... | |
| 12.15.1943 | lum and abner (0531) wanting squire's x rays |
+ Blue Network. Lum plans to demand X-Ray pictures of Squire Skimp's back at the trial. The Squire ... | |
| 12.16.1943 | lum and abner (0532) squire's back in bad shape |
+ Blue Network. The boys are worried about the coming trial against Squire Skimp. His X-Rays show a... | |
| 12.20.1943 | lum and abner (0533) lum leaves during trial |
+ Blue Network. Lum gets up and leaves right in the middle of the trial! | |
| 12.21.1943 | lum and abner (0534) trying to find lum |
+ Blue Network. Abner and Grandpappy Spears try to find Lum...in a canine hospital! | |
| 12.22.1943 | lum and abner (0535) raising money to eat |
+ Blue Network. Abner and Grandpappy Spears have been thrown out of their hotel and are wandering t... | |
| 12.23.1943 | lum and abner (0536) lum returns to save the day |
+ Blue Network. Grandpappy Spears is cross-examined at the trial and things look bleak until Lum re... | |
| 12.27.1943 | lum and abner (0537) lum will become a lawyer |
+ Blue Network. Lum reveals how he discovered Squire Skimp's phoney X-Rays. Lum now plans to be a l... | |
| 12.28.1943 | lum and abner (0538) lawyer lum to retire |
+ Blue Network. Counselor Lum decides he'd better get out of the lawyer business when his first cli... | |
| 12.29.1943 | lum and abner (0539) abner sole owner of store |
+ Blue Network. Lum wants to sell the Jot 'Em Down Store to enlarge the movie theatre. Abner buys L... | |
| 12.30.1943 | lum and abner (0540) neither lum nor abner happy |
+ Blue Network. The long-standing partnership of Edwards and Peabody has ended. Abner tries to get ... | |
| 01.03.1944 | lum and abner (0541) everyone against abner |
+ Blue Network. Abner tries to hire Cedric to work in the store...or buy the store! | |
| 01.04.1944 | lum and abner (0542) lum's theater burns down |
+ Blue Network. Lum seems to have gone "Hollywood," until the motion picture theatre catches on fir... | |
| 01.05.1944 | lum and abner (0543) fire, lum loses everything |
+ Blue Network. Lum's theatre was a total loss...and he had no insurance! +Lum signed a paper givi... | |
| 01.06.1944 | lum and abner (0544) abner hires lum to work |
+ Blue Network. It sounds like Lum would very much like to have his old job back at the Jot 'Em Dow... | |
| 01.10.1944 | lum and abner (0545) lum becomes delivery boy |
+ Blue Network. Abner has hired Lum back...as the store's delivery boy! Lum gets even. | |
| 01.11.1944 | lum and abner (0546) chamber of commerce meeting |
+ Blue Network. Lum manages to get himself appointed as the host of the "Pine Ridge Business Leader... | |
| 01.12.1944 | lum and abner (0547) relationship strained more |
+ Blue Network. Abner asks Lum to help with the books, but Lum refuses. Abner tells Lum to deliver ... | |
| 01.13.1944 | lum and abner (0548) lum asks for a raise |
+ Blue Network. Lum has started a Delivery Boys Union and demands a raise. It must have been a pret... | |
| 01.17.1944 | lum and abner (0549) lum is diamond jim edwards |
+ Blue Network. Abner offers Lum back a partnership in the Jot 'Em Down Store, but Lum refuses! | |
| 01.18.1944 | lum and abner (0550) diamond business |
+ Blue Network. "Diamond Jim Edwards" is going into the diamond business! Lum hires Abner to be his... | |
| 01.19.1944 | lum and abner (0551) everyone to sell diamonds |
+Blue Network. The boys are now firmly in the "syntho-diamond" business, but so is just about every... | |
| 01.20.1944 | lum and abner (0552) lum trades bogus diamonds |
+ Blue Network. Lum is out of the diamond business and becomes the proud owner of a barber chair. O... | |
| 01.24.1944 | lum and abner (0553) cedric to get barber chair |
+ Blue Network. Cedric delivers the barber chair. |
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