1935

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Broadcast History:

From On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio by John Dunning:

• April 2, 1934-Aug. 30, 1935, Mutual. 15m, various days at 6:15. Horlick’s Malted Milk.
• Sept. 2, 1935-Feb. 25, 1938. Blue Network. 15m, weekdays at 7:30 through Nov. 1937; then Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays. Horlick’s.

Dates with no listings are missing episodes.

January 1935

• 350101. 
• 350102. 
• 350103. 
• 350104. Listen: Lum and Abner sell oil well to Mr. Carter.
• 350107. Listen: Squire Skimp is president of Southwest Oil.
• 350108. Listen: Squire receives a visit from Southern Pipeline.
• 350109. Listen: Pine Ridge oil boom is over.
• 350110. 
• 350111. 
• 350114.
• 350115.
• 350116. 
• 350117. 
• 310118: Listen: Operating the Pine Ridge Matrimonial Bureau.
• 350121. Listen: The Matrimonial Bureau is swamped by mail from all over the country.
• 350122. Listen: Lum and Abner read Matrimonial Bureau mail.
• 350123. Listen: The Matrimonial Bureau will move into store.
• 350124. Listen: Abner receives a telegram from Hortense Kelly.
• 350125. Listen: Abner goes to the railroad depot to meet Hortense.
• 350128.
• 350129. 
• 350130. Listen: Lizabeth thinks Abner is having an affair with Hortense.
• 350131. Listen: Abner is in bed with two fake broken arms

February 1935

• 350201. Listen: Financing the re-opening of store.
• 350204. Listen: William Horlick agrees to distribute flashlights.
• 350205. Listen: More mail for Matrimonial Bureau.
• 350206. Listen: Election for president of Jot ‘Em Down Store.
• 350207. Listen: Lum tells listeners that Abner’s arms aren’t broken.
• 350208. Listen: Insurance company pays Abner $200.
• 350211. Listen: Lum is very nervous.
• 350212. Listen: Lum is arrested and thrown in jail.
• 350213. Listen: Dick Huddleston gets Lum out of jail.
• 350214. Listen: Lum has lead in election for store president.
• 350215. Listen: Abner hires Cedric to carry campaign poster.
• 350218. Listen: Restocking of Jot ‘Em Down Store begins.
• 350219. Listen: Abner asks Squire to cash insurance check.
• 350220. Listen: Mena newspaper reports Abner’s donation.
• 350221. Listen: Squire donated Abner’s insurance money.
• 350222. Listen: Abner asks listeners to vote for Lum.
• 350225. Listen: Lum wins election by 17 votes.
• 350226. Listen: Jot ‘Em Down Store reopens to public.
• 350227. Listen: Lum and Cedric don’t like having Abner for a boss.
• 350228. Listen: Abner buys 10 cases of soap.

March 1935

• 350301. Listen: Squire pays Abner $100 for rights to soap.
• 350304. Listen: Abner wants to start trading merchandise.
• 350305. Listen: Lum and Abner divide all the merchandise in the store.
• 350306. Listen: Abner is operating his half of the store on swap basis.
• 350307. Listen: Abner swaps with Snake Hogan for decrepit horse.
• 350308. Listen: Broken-down circus comes to Pine Ridge.
• 350311. Listen: Almost all of Abner’s merchandise is gone.
• 350312. Listen: Abner forecloses on circus.
• 350313. Listen: Lum and Abner are back in partnership again.
• 350314. Listen: Using feed to pay admission to circus.
• 350315. Listen: Lum and Abner hire Squire.
• 350318. Listen: Squire assembles freak sideshow.
• 350319. Listen: Circus will open Saturday.
• 350320. Listen: Lum gives up trapeze act.
• 350321. Listen: Lum thinks all circus jobs are too dangerous.
• 350322. Listen: Grand opening of circus is tomorrow.
• 350325. Listen: Lum and Abner lose money on circus opening.
• 350326. Listen: Abner buys a cheap pair of glasses.
• 350327. Listen: Walt Bates will move the circus to Mena.
• 350328. Listen: Squire reports circus doing big business. 
• 350329. Listen: Storm blows down circus tent. 

April 1935

• 350401. Listen: Circus moves on to Belleville.
• 350402. Listen: Lum borrows $200 from Union Bank.
• 350403. Listen: Dick Huddleston solves one problem.
• 350404. Listen: Lum falls in love with Zenora.
• 350405. Listen: Lum is reluctant to tell Evalena that he is leaving. 
• 350408. Listen: Circus is appearing in Mount Ida.
• 350409. Listen: Squire is the main suspect in robbery.
• 350410. Listen: Lum will hide money 
• 350411. Listen: Money disappears again.
• 350412. 
• 350415. 
• 350416. 
• 350417. 
• 350418. 
• 350419. 
• 350422. Listen: Lum and Abner have sold their circus.
• 350423. Listen: Lum and Abner reconcile all their differences.
• 350424.
• 350425. 
• 350426. Listen: Evalena and Frank Foster to be married.
• 350429. Listen: Lum needs an engagement ring for Evalena.
• 350430. 

May 1935

• 350501. 
• 350502. 
• 350503. 
• 350506. Listen: Squire buys Evalena’s engagement ring from Lum.
• 350507. Listen: Lum gets a chain letter from Denver.
• 350508. Listen: Lum will send his own chain letter.
• 350509. Listen: A place to keep hogs becomes a problem.
• 350510. Listen: Dick tells Lum and Abner that chain letters are illegal.
• 350513. Listen: Lum wants to start an “unchain” letter. 
• 350514. Listen: Dick says Lum and Abner’s chain letter may be okay.
• 350515. Listen: Squire Skimp will take hogs to Chicago.
• 350516. Listen: Lum thinks Pine Ridge should erect a statue in his honor.
• 350517. Listen: Lum and Abner discuss the statue
• 350520. Listen: Lum receives a catalog from a monument company.
• 350521. Listen: Lum orders a statue of himself
• 350522. Listen: Squire returns from Chicago
• 350523. Listen: Lum and Abner discuss the story of King Midas
• 350524. Listen: Disaster strikes
• 350527. Listen: No one has seen Lum all weekend
• 350528. Listen: Lum returns
• 350529. Listen: Lum and Abner discuss operating a picture show
• 350530. Listen: Lum decides to remodel old cotton warehouse 
• 350531. Listen: Lum and Abner hire Grandpap to play player piano

June 1935

• 350603. Listen: Lum and Abner argue over a name for their theater
• 350604. Listen: Picture show begins to run into money
• 350605. Listen: Squire decides he wants to be a third partner
• 350606. Listen: Lum and Abner worry about Squire starting rival theater
• 350607. Listen: Squire’s plans for a competing theater 
• 350610. Listen: Lum and Abner lose workers to Squire
• 350611. Listen: Dick Huddleston learns of Squire’s tactics
• 350612. Listen: Lum and Abner advertise free matinee 
• 350613. Listen: Squire spreads rumors
• 350614. Listen: Ladies’ Uplift League will boycott show
• 350617. Listen: Squire is breaking the law 
• 350618. Listen: Lum won’t arrest Squire 
• 350619. Listen: Grandpap and Dick demand that Squire be arrested
• 350620. Listen: Squire is furious
• 350621. Listen: Squire tried in Lum’s Justice of the Peace court
• 350624. Listen: Lum and Abner’s theater is attracting large crowds — (The Follies of 1934)
• 350625. Listen: Lum and Abner write a letter of apology to Squire
• 350626. Listen: Squire goes to see a lawyer
• 350627. Listen: Squire is suing for damages
• 350628. Listen: Letter of apology 

July 1935

• 350701. Listen: Breaking into Squire’s house
• 350702. Listen: Abner arrested
• 350703. Listen: Lawyer visits Lum
• 350704. Listen: Lum, Abner, and Squire are off to court
• 350705. Listen: The trial
• 350708. Listen: Lum decides to become a lawyer
• 350709. Listen: Lawyer Lum resigns 
• 350710. Listen: Lum and Abner get into argument
• 350711. Listen: Abner hires Cedric 
• 350712. Listen: Abner believes Lum gypped him 
• 350715. Listen: Lum’s theater burns to the ground
• 350716. Listen: Lum forgot to buy fire insurance
• 350717. Listen: Boss Abner makes Lum’s life miserable
• 350718. Listen: Lum leaves Abner to go into new business 
• 350719. Listen: Lum has teamed up with Squire
• 350722. Listen: Lum and Squire will sell shares in Arizona silver mine
• 350723. Listen: Pine Ridge high society
• 350724. Listen: Lum and Abner discuss rules of proper etiquette
• 350725. Listen: First Families of Pine Ridge
• 350726. Listen: They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree
• 350729. Listen: Abner hates being in high society
• 350730. Listen: Squire and Snake plot to control store
• 350731. Listen: Abner sells Jot ‘Em Down Store to Snake Hogan

August 1935

• 350801. Listen: Abner has not been seen
• 350802. Listen: The real reason why Abner disappeared
• 350805. Listen: Abner becomes the biggest society man of all
• 350806. Listen: Dick Huddleston is still skeptical
• 350807. Listen: Who are Dixie Belle and Mary Jane?
• 350808. Listen: Lum and Abner tired of being in high society
• 350809. Listen: Snake won’t sell Jot ‘Em Down Store back 
• 350812. Listen: Lum and Abner prepare to build a rolling grocery store 
• 350813. Listen: Caleb Weehunt is building rolling grocery
• 350814. Listen: Squire wants a third interest in the store
• 350815. Listen: Lum and Abner inspect their rolling store
• 350816. Listen: Abner gets rolling grocery store out
• 350819. Listen: Cedric loads merchandise into rolling store
• 350820. Listen: Squire goes to Arizona to sell silver mine
• 350821. Listen: Store’s first day on the road
• 350822. Listen: Dick Huddleston is losing his customers
• 350823. Listen: Store will begin traveling to other communities
• 350826. Listen: Stockholders dissatisfied 
• 350827. Listen: Lum is proud of being owner of silver mine
• 350828. Listen: Lum decides to buy a trailer for an office
• 350829. Listen: Lum and Abner decide to sell silver mine
• 350830. Listen: Stockholders meet again

September 1935

• 350902. Listen: Lum hiding in Abner’s barn loft
• 350903. Listen: Stockholders demanding money back
• 350904. Listen: Lum and Abner will fake Abner’s kidnapping
• 350905. Listen: Lum and Abner blunder way through kidnapping
• 350906. Listen: Kidnapping has the town in an uproar
• 350909. Listen: Townspeople will set a trap
• 350910. Listen: Lum decides to admit everything
• 350911. Listen: Lum’s story about Abner’s rescue
• 350912. Listen: Newspaper wants an article about the rescue
• 350913. Listen: Operating the silver mine on a royalty basis.
• 350916. Listen: A stranger buys shares in mine
• 350917. Listen: Lum is to give speech 
• 350918. Listen: Abner tries to raise Lum’s bail 
• 350919. Listen: Lum sells all of his possessions 
• 350920. Listen: Dick Huddleston confers with judge 
• 350923. Listen: Lum and Abner discuss detective methods
• 350924. Listen: Abner helps Lum pack for trip to Tulsa
• 350925. Listen: Townspeople afraid Lum will skip bail
• 350926. Listen: Tulsa police arrest Squire
• 350927. Listen: Squire returns for trial
• 350930. 

October 1935

• 351001. 
• 351002. 
• 351003.
• 351004. 
• 351007. 
• 351008. 
• 351009.
• 351010. 
• 351011. 
• 351014. 
• 351015. 
• 351016. 
• 351017. 
• 351018. 
• 351021.
• 351022. 
• 351023. 
• 351024. 
• 351025. 
• 351028. 
• 351029. 
• 351030. No recording: Lum and Abner get Jot Em Down store back.
• 351031. 

November 1935

• 351101. 
• 351104. No recording: Lum explains the stock market to Abner.
• 351105. 
• 351106. 
• 351107. 
• 351108. 
• 351111. 
• 351112. 
• 351113. No recording: Plans are being made to incorporate Pine Ridge.
• 351114.
• 351115. 
• 351118. 
• 351119. No recording: Lum vs. Squire for mayor.
• 351120. 
• 351121. No recording: Mailing out copies of Lum and Abner’s 1936 Family Almanac and Helpful Hints.
• 351122. 
• 351125. 
• 351126. 
• 351127. 
• 351128. 
• 351129. 

December 1935

• 351202. 
• 351203. 
• 351204. 
• 351205. 
• 351206. 
• 351209. 
• 351210. 
• 351211. 
• 351212. 
• 351213. 
• 351216. 
• 351217. 
• 351218. 
• 351219. 
• 351220. 
• 351223. 
• 351224. 
• 351225. No recording: Annual Christmas Story.
• 351226. 
• 351227. 
• 351230.
• 351231. No recording: Lum tries to explain newspaper comic strips to Abner.

1934 < > 1936