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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
- 370802
- 370803
- 370804
- 370806. Listen: Spud Gandel to marry Evalena (fragment)
- 370809
- 370810
- 370811
- 370812
- 370813. Listen: The Wedding of Evalena Schultz and Spud Gandel
- 370816
- 370817
- 370818
- 370819
- 370820
- 370823
- 370824
- 370825
- 370826
- 370827
- 370830
- 370831
September 1937
- 370901.
- 370902.
- 370903.
- 370906.
- 370907.
- 370908.
- 370909.
- 370910.
- 370913.
- 370914.
- 370915.
- 370916.
- 370917.
- 370920.
- 370921.
- 370922.
- 370923.
- 370924.
- 370927.
- 370928.
- 370929.
- 370930.
October 1937
- 371001.
- 371004.
- 371005.
- 371006.
- 371007.
- 371008.
- 371011.
- 371012.
- 371013.
- 371014.
- 371015.
- 371018.
- 371019.
- 371020.
- 371021.
- 371022.
- 371025.
- 371026.
- 371027.
- 371028.
- 371029.
November 1937
- 371101.
- 371102.
- 371103.
- 371104.
- 371105.
- 371108.
- 371109.
- 371110.
- 371111.
- 371112.
- 371115.
- 371116.
- 371117.
- 371118.
- 371119.
- 371122.
- 371123.
- 371124.
- 371125.
- 371126.
- 371129.
- 371130.
December 1937
- 371201.
- 371203.
- 371206.
- 371208.
- 371210.
- 371213.
- 371215.
- 371217.
- 371220.
- 371222.
- 371224.
- 371227.
- 371229.
- 371231.