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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| 09.15.1943 | lum and abner (0479) caleb elected president |
+Program #481. Blue Network. The election's over, and Lum planned out the results too carefully...h... | |
| 09.14.1943 | lum and abner (0478) caleb deciding vote |
+Program #480. Blue Network. Abner has elected himself campaign manager to help Lum become presiden... | |
| 09.13.1943 | lum and abner (0477) president of school board |
+ Program #479. Blue Network. Lum is planning to again run for the post of president of the school ... | |
| 09.09.1943 | lum and abner (0476) discuss modern conveniences |
+ Program #478. Blue Network. Abner and Grandpappy Spears discuss fantastic inventions of the futur... | |
| 09.08.1943 | lum and abner (0475) mary is lum and abner's |
+ Program #477. Blue Network. A picnic celebration starts to snowball. Lum gets his first lesson in... | |
| 09.07.1943 | lum and abner (0474) lum change henry's mind |
+ Program #476. Blue Network. Lum has plan to get Uncle Henry change his mind...a recall petition. | |
| 09.06.1943 | lum and abner (0473) impersonating conscience |
+Program #475. Blue Network. Does Uncle Henry have a conscience? Abner is sure he has one. | |
| 09.02.1943 | lum and abner (0472) report on the reformatory |
+ Program #474. Blue Network. How to stop Uncle Henry from making a bad report to the reformatory. | |
| 09.01.1943 | lum and abner (0471) getting rid of uncle henry |
+ Program #473. Blue Network. While Mousey gets instructions on the construction of an ice cream so... | |
| 08.31.1943 | lum and abner (0470) story of snorter the pig |
+ Program #472. Blue Network. Abner reads the story of "Snorter The Pig." It's a good story, but it... | |
| 08.30.1943 | lum and abner (0469) nurse lunsford and the sick |
+ Program #471. Blue Network. Miss Lunceford organizes fun and games to wait out Cedric's case of m... | |
| 08.26.1943 | lum and abner (0468) cedric infects everyone |
+ Program #470. Blue Network. Lum and Abner are suffering with the vicious Miss Lunceford through t... | |
| 08.25.1943 | lum and abner (0467) measles and quarantined |
+ Program #469. Blue Network. Does Cedric have measles? You can bet your quarantine he does. | |
| 08.24.1943 | lum and abner (0466) trouble for stealing kettle |
+ Blue Network. Uncle Henry accuses Mary of stealing a kettle. Town Marshall, Uncle Henry Lunsford ... | |
| 08.23.1943 | lum and abner (0465) uncle henry in wheelchair |
+ Blue Network. Uncle Henry is now confined to a wheelchair, and life for Lum and Abner is difficul... | |
| 08.19.1943 | lum and abner (0464) lum and abner mind the jail |
+ Program #446. Blue Network. While minding the jail, the case of Cedric Wehunt comes up before Jus... | |
| 08.18.1943 | lum and abner (0463) on uncle henry's good side |
+ Blue Network. Uncle Henry's snooping has gotten himself a case of poison oak, so Lum tries to get... | |
| 08.17.1943 | lum and abner (0462) trailing mary around town |
+ Blue Network. Uncle Henry Lunceford has been following Mary all over town...wearing a false beard... | |
| 08.16.1943 | lum and abner (0461) mary will be on probation |
+ Blue Network. Lum returns to Pine Ridge. Mary will be the guardian of Lum and Abner, supervised b... | |
| 08.12.1943 | lum and abner (0460) mary's romantic problems |
+ Blue Network. Kenny Pomery is very interested in little Mary. Squire Skimp is suspicious of the s... | |
| 08.11.1943 | lum and abner (0459) squire suspicious of mary |
+ Blue Network. Squire Skimp asks some embarrassing questions about Mary's past. | |
| 08.10.1943 | lum and abner (0458) curing cedric's insomnia |
+ Blue Network. Mary suspects what Lum is up to. Cedric has insomnia but Abner has the cure. | |
| 08.09.1943 | lum and abner (0457) a scientific discussion |
+ Blue Network. Mary and Abner discuss atmospheric pressure and the boiling point of water. | |
| 08.05.1943 | lum and abner (0456) gaining custody of mary |
+ Blue Network. Lum starts for the Reformatory to get custody of Ellie, who is now known as Mary. | |
| 08.04.1943 | lum and abner (0455) who's mary's guardian |
+ Blue Network. The boys try to find out why Ellie Connors was sent to reform school. Who will be h... |
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