1937

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Broadcast History:

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

  • Sept. 2, 1935-Feb. 25, 1938. Blue Network. 15m, weekdays at 7:30 through Nov. 1937; then Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays. Horlick’s.

Book: Lum and Abner’s 1937 Family Almanac

January 1937

NLAS Scripts: Where There’s a Will (Similar storyline in August 1948)

  • 370101.
  • 370104.
  • 370105. Abner inherits $100,000
  • 370106. Abner can’t believe his good fortune
  • 370107. Abner and Elizabeth can’t locate their marriage license
  • 370108.
  • 370111. Abner returns from his honeymoon
  • 370112.
  • 370113. Abner tries to trade off his belongings
  • 370114. Abner trades property with Squire
  • 370115. Everyone is suspicious of trading with Abner
  • 370118.
  • 370119. Listen: Abner Must Dispose of Everything (fragment)
  • 370120. Squire wants to buy swamp land
  • 370121. Squire sells shares in the Skimp Oil Company
  • 370122. An Old Peabody Sayin’
  • 370125. Lum helps Abner make a few trades
  • 370126.
  • 370127. Appeal for listeners to donate to Red Cross to help flood victims in Ohio and Kentucky (Wikipedia: Ohio River Flood of 1937)
  • 370128. Grandpap is suspicious of Lum and Abner’s secrecy
  • 370129. Lum and Abner are in jail and make a false confession

February 1937

NLAS Scripts: Early to Bid

  • 370201. Grandpap arrests a horse thief
  • 370202. Abner gets a $250 reward
  • 370203. Abner sells his half of the store to Squire
  • 370204. Something’s wrong with Abner’s back
  • 370205. Squire has new ideas for running the store
  • 370208. Lum and Abner play with Squire’s rubber stamps
  • 370209. Abner can’t get his face clean
  • 370210. Squire and Lum work on a budget for the store
  • 370211. Squire is cheating customers
  • 370212. Auction at Abner’s house
  • 370215. Abner’s family is staying with Lum
  • 370216. Complicated deals
  • 370217. Another letter from the lawyers
  • 370218. Lizabeth is a good cook
  • 370219. Pine Ridge needs a Poor House
  • 370222.
  • 370223. Filling grab bags
  • 370224. Lum and Abner have a grab bag sale
  • 370225. How much is $100,000?
  • 370226.

March 1937

NLAS Scripts: Money to Burn

  • 370301. A pounding for Abner
  • 370302. Meeting Abner’s train
  • 370303. Abner got the inheritance
  • 370304. Lizabeth is putting on airs
  • 370305. Count Moscavitz is a guest of the Peabodys
  • 370308. Abner has to go to school
  • 370309. Abner practices his lessons with Lum
  • 370310. Dick is suspicious of the count
  • 370311. Lizabeth wants to move to the county seat
  • 370312. Abner and Lizabeth are separated
  • 370315. New ordinance requiring business licenses
  • 370316. Squire agitates the feud between Lum and Abner
  • 370317. Squire’s crooked scheme to buy the Jot ‘Em Down Store
  • 370318. The feud is getting serious
  • 370321. Dick helps Lum and Abner reconcile
  • 370322. Lum is impressed with high society
  • 370323. Abner bought a private train car
  • 370324. Abner plans a trip
  • 370325. Lum and Abner brainstorm a Pine Ridge railroad
  • 370328. Lum and Abner will start a dining car lunch room
  • 370329. What to name the lunch room?
  • 370330. A contest to name the lunchroom
  • 370331.

April 1937

NLAS Scripts: Someone’s in the Kitchen with Lum

  • 370401. Abner trades Lum a half interest in the diner for a half interest in the store
  • 370402. Hotcake Lum, the count skips out
  • 370405.
  • 370406.
  • 370407. Squire proposes a nightclub
  • 370408. Pearl could make a recitation for entertainment at the nightclub
  • 370409. Friends on the party line will vote to decide between nightclub and lunchroom
  • 370412. Lum and Abner are concerned that folks will vote for a nightclub
  • 370413. The votes are in. Planning a grand opening
  • 370414.
  • 370415. Lum and Cedric make soup for the grand opening
  • 370416. Grand opening party
  • 370419. Lunchroom menu
  • 370420. Edards Special Ham Sandwich
  • 370421. Cedric’s dog won’t eat Lum’s puddin’
  • 370422. Abner needs to hire a new cook
  • 370423. Chef Edwardi
  • 370426. New cook Ben Hardy is not any better than Lum
  • 370427. Four cooks and a dog
  • 370428. Who to fire?
  • 370429. Spud in charge
  • 370430. Lum clears things up with Spud

May 1937

NLAS scripts: One Spud to Go

  • 370503. Spud is a good cook
  • 370504. Spud won’t let Lum and Abner borrow money from Squire
  • 370505. Money problems
  • 370506.
  • 370507. Where did the $200 come from?
  • 370510. What to do with the $200
  • 370511. Listen: $200 Stolen from Cherry Hill (fragment)
  • 370512. Burying the money
  • 370513.
  • 370514. Squire is trying to blackmail Lum and Abner
  • 370517.
  • 370518. Lum and Abner in jail
  • 370519. A spy in the jail
  • 370520. Lum’s love lyrics
  • 370521. Lum and Abner still in jail
  • 370524. Grandpap visits Lum and Abner in jail
  • 370525. Lum and Abner are out of jail on bond
  • 370526. The town shuns Lum and Abner
  • 370527. Lum and Abner need an alibi
  • 370528. Abner’s alibi
  • 370531. Lum and Abner’s lawyer

June 1937

NLAS scripts: Courtin Disaster

  • 370601.
  • 370602. Picking the jury
  • 370603. Lum and Abner on trial
  • 370604. Third day of trial
  • 370607. Abner confesses
  • 370608. Fifth day of trial
  • 370609. Lum confesses
  • 370610. Lum and Abner’s lawyer withdraws from the case
  • 370611. Spud is back
  • 370614. Money was a gift from Spud
  • 370615. Spud charged with robbery
  • 370616. Did Spud steal money?
  • 370617. Lum and Abner were framed
  • 370618. Hidden money
  • 370621. Lum does a little detective work
  • 370622. Post office was not robbed after all
  • 370623.
  • 370624. Spud goes back to work
  • 370628. Lum and Abner make Spud third partner in lunchroom
  • 370629. Lum arranges a date for Spud with Beulah Lunsford
  • 370630. Spud is interested in Beulah

July 1937

NLAS scripts: The Courtship of Spud Gandel

  • 370701
  • 370702
  • 370705
  • 370706
  • 370707
  • 370708
  • 370709
  • 370712
  • 370713
  • 370714
  • 370715
  • 370719
  • 370720
  • 370721
  • 370723
  • 370726
  • 370727
  • 370728
  • 370729
  • 370730

August 1937

NLAS script: Wedding Bell Blues

September 1937

  • 370901.
  • 370902.
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  • 370909.
  • 370910.
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October 1937

  • 371001.
  • 371004.
  • 371005.
  • 371006.
  • 371007.
  • 371008.
  • 371011.
  • 371012.
  • 371013.
  • 371014.
  • 371015.
  • 371018.
  • 371019.
  • 371020.
  • 371021.
  • 371022.
  • 371025.
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  • 371027.
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  • 371029.

November 1937

  • 371101.
  • 371102.
  • 371103.
  • 371104.
  • 371105.
  • 371108.
  • 371109.
  • 371110.
  • 371111.
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  • 371115.
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  • 371119.
  • 371122.
  • 371123.
  • 371124.
  • 371125.
  • 371126.
  • 371129.
  • 371130.

December 1937

  • 371201.
  • 371203.
  • 371206.
  • 371208.
  • 371210.
  • 371213.
  • 371215.
  • 371217.
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