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Broadcast History:
From On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio by John Dunning:
- May 26, 1941-Sept. 19, 1941, NBC Pacific Network. 15m, Mondays-Tuesdays-Thursdays-Fridays at 7:15 Pacific time. Alka-Seltzer.
- Sept. 29, 1941-Oct. 2, 1947, Blue Network/ABC. 15m, Mondays-Tuesdays-Thursdays-Fridays at 6:30, 1941-42, then Mondays through Thursday at 8:15, 1942-45; at 8, 1945-1947. Miles Laboratories and Alka Seltzer.
Dates with no listings are missing episodes.
Audition Disc. 410228. Listen: Abner runs for school board president
May 1941
- 410526. Listen: Lum and Abner reopen the Jot Em Down Store. First show for Alka-Seltzer.
- 410527. Listen: Lum and Abner borrow $23 from Cedric
- 410529. Listen: Abner obtains clothes dummy, rabbits, and mule
- 410530. Listen: Memorial Day ceremonies
June 1941
- 410602. Listen: Grandpap wants to buy mule
- 410603. Listen: Lum appoints Cedric as marketing director
- 410605. Listen: Marketing scheme backfires
- 410609. Listen: Abner dresses clothes dummy like a woman
- 410610. Listen: Abner’s rabbits may be worth a lot of money
- 410612. Listen: Abner should have a showdown with Lizabeth
- 410613. Listen: Abner thinks he is a tough guy
- 410616. Listen: Lum brags to Squire about the value of their rabbits
- 410617. Listen: Lum and Abner owe a lot of taxes
- 410619. Listen: Lum wants to buy Hinkeldorf property
- 410620. Listen: Cedric buys Hinkledorf property
- 410623. Listen: Lum and Abner discover old chemicals
- 410624. Listen: Lum wants to invent a way to make things fall sideways
- 410626.
- 410627.
- 410630. Listen: Synthetic gasoline (Date approximate)
July 1941
On vacation?
August 1941
- 410819. Listen: Special Routine for Alka-Seltzer
- 410821.
- 410822.
- 410825. Listen: Lum and Abner operate bank
- 410826. Listen: Lum buys bank guard uniform for Abner
- 410828. Listen: Stranger leaves box in bank
- 410829. Listen: Lum and Abner speculate on contents of box
September 1941
- 410901. Listen: Box contains diamonds
- 410902. Listen: Dealing with stolen jewels
- 410904. Listen: Lum anxiously waits for reply from Mrs. Barrington
- 410905. Listen: Lum makes plans to marry rich widow
- 410908. Listen: Lum and Abner practice jujitsu holds
- 410909. Listen: Mrs. Barrington’s letter complicates matters further
- 410911. Listen: Jewels are missing from box
- 410912. Listen: Everything squared away
- 410915. Listen: Lum is called before the board of directors of Union Bank in Mena
- 410916. Listen: Bank is illegal without a charter
- 410918. Listen: How to take Mohammed to the mountain
- 410919. Listen: Lum wants to open a nursery in the store
- 410929. Listen: Lum orders book on modern salesmanship
- 410930. Listen: Modern salesmanship book arrives
October 1941
- 411002. Listen: Various sales methods
- 411003. Listen: Lum decides to get rid of salesmanship book
- 411006. Listen: Lum finds offer for correspondence course
- 411007. Listen: New adding machine
- 411009. Listen: Lum becomes infatuated with new school teacher, Miss Fredericks
- 411010. Listen: Abner tells Sister Simpson that Lum has a broken leg
- 411013. Listen: Squire Skimp wants Lum to collect on his accident insurance
- 411014. Listen: Lum has trouble maintaining his deception
- 411016. Listen: Miss Fredericks begins dating Frank Foster while Lum is crippled
- 411017. Listen: Abner accidentally bandages the wrong leg for Lum
- 411020. Listen: Lum gets an answer from his correspondence course
- 411021. Listen: Squire discovers Lum’s fake broken leg
- 411023. Listen: Squire’s plan to “help” Lum
- 411024. Listen: Squire suggests Hindu miracle man to “heal” Lum’s leg
- 411027. Listen: Hindu Prince Ali Kush arrives
- 411028. Listen: Plans are made for big show at schoolhouse
- 411030. Listen: At big show, Prince pretends to heal Lum’s leg.
- 411031. Listen: Squire wants Lum to get others to pay Ali Kush to heal them
November 1941
- 411103. Listen: Prince finds out Squire has been cheating him
- 411104. Listen: Prince beats Squire up and leaves town
- 411106. Listen: Lum makes a date with Miss Fredericks
- 411107. Listen: Abner wrecks Lum’s date with Miss Fredericks
- 411110. Listen: Lum decides to put a library in Jot ‘Em Down Store
- 411111. Listen: Cedric delivers books for library
- 411113. Listen: Lum tells Abner about New York library and lions
- 411114. Listen: Abner arranges to buy a lion from Squire Skimp
- 411117. Listen: Ervin the lion is loose
- 411118. Listen: Cedric the lion tamer
- 411120. Listen: The basics of lion taming
- 411121. Listen: Ervin escapes and terrorizes the town
- 411124. Listen: Lum and Abner set a trap for Ervin
- 411125. Listen: Lum, the big game hunter
- 411127. Listen: Cedric captures mountain lion
- 411128. Listen: Ervin is located and adopted
December 1941
- 411201. Listen: The Story of Pinky Winky
- 411202. Listen: Lum decides to open a bakery
- 411204. Listen: Cedric brings stove to use in bakery
- 411205. Listen: Lum and Abner put up stove pipe
- 411208. Listen: Lum invents prune bread
- 411209. Listen: Lum goes to Mena to get orders for bread
- 411211. Listen: Abner buys delivery truck for Lum
- 411212. Listen: Bread loaf containing locket gets lost
- 411215. Listen: Locket found by Gussie Hogan
- 411216. Listen: Snake may force Lum to marry Gussie
- 411218. Listen: Mousey Gray (in his debut on the show) is mad at Lum
- 411219. Listen: Snake Hogan forces Lum to have dinner with Gussie
- 411222. Listen: Mousey knocks Lum out
- 411223. Listen: Mousey beats up Snake Hogan and marries Gussie
- 411225. Listen: Lum and Abner’s Christmas Story
- 411226. Listen: Lum decides Mousey should become a prizefighter
- 411229. Listen: Mousey refuses to fight carnival performer Iron Ike
- 411230. Listen: Squire becomes Mousey’s manager
