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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07.17.1945 | lum and abner (0862) lum and abner arrested |
+ Lum and Abner break into Ulysses' house...and are arrested by Mousey Grey! | |
| 07.18.1945 | lum and abner (0863) locked in jail cell |
+ Lum and Abner are in jail. Ulysses returns the stock certificate...out of gratitude! | |
| 07.19.1945 | lum and abner (0864) store closed for vacation | ||
| 09.03.1945 | lum and abner (0887) lum has great new idea | ||
| 09.04.1945 | lum and abner (0888) new postwar world |
+ Lum explains to Abner what the post-war world will be like, and almost tells him what his new pl... | |
| 09.05.1945 | lum and abner (0889) the eddards and peabody split atom company |
+ Meet "The Edwards and Peabody Split Atom Corporation." The boys plan to sell split atoms, which ... | |
| 09.06.1945 | lum and abner (0890) digging for uranium |
+ The boys crack up on the air and have trouble reading their lines for the next five minutes! The... | |
| 09.10.1945 | lum and abner (0891) lum and abner find uranium |
+ The boys have discovered dynamite, not uranium! Cedric is so wealthy, that he rips up a dollar b... | |
| 09.11.1945 | lum and abner (0892) bottle of nitroglycerine |
+ Lum and Abner toss around a bottle of nitroglycerine, without knowing how destructive it is. Aft... | |
| 09.12.1945 | lum and abner (0893) cedric drinks uranium |
+ Credric drinks the uranium...and turns into a dog! | |
| 09.13.1945 | lum and abner (0894) cedric the st bernard |
+ Taking care of Cedric, the Saint Bernard! | |
| 09.17.1945 | lum and abner (0895) dog gone, cedric returns |
+ Cedric the dog turns back into Cedric Weehunt! | |
| 09.18.1945 | lum and abner (0896) dog runs off with nitro |
+ Abner tells Cedric the story of Dr. Jekyl and Mr Hyde. The Saint Bernard and Cedric appear at th... | |
| 09.19.1945 | lum and abner (0897) trapped with nitroglycerine |
+ The search for the Saint Bernard with the nitroglycerine continues. | |
| 09.20.1945 | lum and abner (0898) big blowout in mena |
+ The boys try to send a telegram warning of the bottle of nitroglycerine on a soda pop truck. | |
| 09.24.1945 | lum and abner (0899) lum pretends to be sick |
+ Lum is pretending to be sick, even though Miss Emmaline wants a date with him. | |
| 09.25.1945 | lum and abner (0900) lum brags to miss emaline |
+ It's the morning after the big dance. It turns out that Lum knows the president of a railroad. | |
| 09.26.1945 | lum and abner (0901) lum to use his influence |
+ Lum has to deliver on his boast about knowing the president of a railroad. Miss Emmaline wants h... | |
| 09.27.1945 | lum and abner (0902) lum admits everything |
+ Lum admits that he was just boasting, and that he cannot get Miss Emmaline a ticket to Seattle. ... | |
| 10.01.1945 | lum and abner (0903) abner will help lum |
+ Lum plans to fake an accident to gain sympathy from Miss Emmaline. | |
| 10.02.1945 | lum and abner (0904) running over lum in car |
+BC net. Cedric and Abner are going to hit Lum with a car. Things don't go exactly as planned. | |
| 10.03.1945 | lum and abner (0905) miss emaline and injunction |
+ Lum has been unsuccessful courting Miss Emmaline. She is planning to get an injunction against ... | |
| 10.04.1945 | lum and abner (0906) miss emaline to resign |
+ Miss Emmaline learned about Lum's plan to be run over. Squire Skimp asks Lum to try to change M... | |
| 10.08.1945 | lum and abner (0907) excuses to school board |
+ Lum has been trying to avoid the school board. Not answering the phone proves to be a bad idea. | |
| 10.09.1945 | lum and abner (0908) everything okay |
+ Mousey wants to go to the lodge meeting tonight, but his wife won't let him. It seems like Abner... |
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