1944

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Broadcast History:

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

• 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.

January 1944

• 440103. Listen: Abner shouldn’t have traded movie theater for store
• 440103. Listen: Lum’s theater burns down
• 440105. Listen: Lum lost everything in fire; no insurance
• 440106. Listen: Abner hires Lum to work in store
• 440110. Listen: Lum becomes Jot ‘Em Down Store delivery boy
• 440111. Listen: Abner sends Lum to Chamber of Commerce meeting
• 440112. Listen: Relationship between Lum and Abner becomes more strained
• 440113. Listen: Lum asks for a raise
• 440117. Listen: Lum will become Diamond Jim Edwards
• 440118. Listen: Abner wants into million dollar diamond business
• 440119. Listen: Everyone in town has been authorized to sell diamonds
• 440120. Listen: Lum trades bogus diamonds for barber chair
• 440124. Listen: Cedric goes to get barber chair
• 440125. Listen: Abner doesn’t believe Lum can be a successful barber
• 440126. Listen: Lum practices barbering on an unwilling Abner
• 440127. Listen: Rehearsing play to sell war bonds
• 440131. Listen: Lum installs personalized barber mugs

February 1944

• 440201. Listen: Lum hires hillbillies to pose as customers
• 440202. Listen: Mrs. Barton wants Lum to cut her hair
• 440203. Listen: Lum accidentally shaves off Grandpap’s beard
• 440207. Listen: Grandpap on the prowl for Lum
• 440208. Listen: Lum disguises himself
• 440209. Listen: Grandpap has something to tell Lum
• 440210. Listen: Lum and Abner discuss recruiting book for WAVES
• 440214. Listen: Lum invents quick-grow hair tonic
• 440215. Listen: Grandpap is mad because tonic didn’t work
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• 440207
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• 440209
• 440210
• 440214
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March 1944

• 440301
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• 440309
• 440313. Listen: Mousey Gray, Detective
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April 1944

• 440403. Listen: Cedric is elected president of Lost Treasure Expedition Company
• 440404. Listen: Abner hired as Cedric’s stenographer
• 440405. Listen: Lum, Abner and Cedric will leave for expedition to Tennessee tomorrow morning
• 440406. Listen: Trip to Tennessee gets underway, with tire difficulties and a pinball machine
• 440410. Listen: Spending the night in a motel room
• 440411. Listen: Car breaks down
• 440412. Listen: The evils of wealth
• 440413. Listen: Digging for treasure on farmer’s property
• 440417. Listen: Treasure hunters broke and stranded in Little Rock
• 440418. Listen: Lum and Abner have pawned Cedric’s pinball machine “Maiden Ohio”
• 440419. Listen: Grandpap doesn’t ask about treasure expedition
• 440420. Listen: Lum will give speech about expedition to lodge meeting
• 440424. Listen: Mysterious package arrives from Tennessee
• 440425. Listen: Lum and Abner can’t open package
• 440426. Listen: Abner and Cedric order merchandise with worthless old coins
• 440427. Listen: Squire thinks Lum and Abner are rich; wants into treasure company

May 1944

• 440501. Listen: Lum decides to open museum with artifacts
• 440502. Listen: Lum and Abner label items in museum
• 440503. Listen: Cedric describes his latest date with Clarabelle
• 440504. Listen: Lum wants to hire a woman to work in museum
• 440508. Listen: Lum practices boring museum lecture
• 440509. Listen: Stuffed owl disappears from museum
• 440510. Listen: The mystery of the stuffed owl
• 440511. Listen: Is the owl alive or not?
• 440515. Listen: Abner and Grandpap visit convalescent Lum
• 440516. Listen: Photo among artifacts makes Abner decide he was once a king
• 440517. Listen: Abner’s papa, Phinus Peabody, coming for a visit
• 440518. Listen: Lum and Abner discuss Phinus’s eccentricities
• 440522. Listen: Abner can’t bring himself to tell Elizabeth that Phinus is coming
• 440523. Listen: Elizabeth figures out about Phinus from Abner’s weird behavior
• 440524. Listen: Phinus calls from Mena jail
• 440525. Listen: Phinus Peabody arrives
• 440529. Listen: Phinus takes WAVES prisoners
• 440530. Listen: Grandma & Grandpa Masters celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary
• 440531. Listen: History of the Peabody family

June 1944

• 440601. Listen: Cedric and Phinus must make important trip to Ft. Smith
• 440605. Listen: Phinus is driving Elizabeth nuts
• 440606. Listen: Abner tells Lum about Phinus’s odd collecting habit
• 440607. Listen: Grandpap can’t stand Phinus reading aloud from the almanac.
• 440608. Listen: The man who came to dinner.
• 440612. Listen: Phinus Peabody meets Sister Simpson.
• 440613. Listen: Lum and Abner try to find a job to occupy Phinus’s time
• 440614. Listen: Phinus will get a job at defense plant.
• 440615. Listen: Will Phinus go to work on tire rationing board?
• 440619. Listen: A rich stranger arrives in town.
• 440620. Listen: Phinus is acting as guide for stranger, B.J. Webster
• 440621. Listen: Abner and Grandpap discuss Lum’s business meeting with B.J.
• 440622. Listen: Lum tells Abner the story of Ponce de Leon and the fountain of youth
• 440626. Listen: Lum wants to attend B.J.’s business meeting
• 440627. Listen: Webster wants to build health resort on Grandpap’s farm
• 440628. Listen: Grandpap doesn’t want his property developed
• 440629. Listen: Lum and Abner try to take Cedric’s picture

July 1944

• 440703. Listen: Grandpap agrees to resort idea
• 440704. Listen: Lum will hire architect for a song
• 440705. Listen: People getting suspicious of B.J.
• 440706. Listen: Lum will have Grandpap’s spring water analyzed
• 440710. Listen: Abner teaches Cedric how to dance
• 440711. Listen: Results of spring water analysis frighten Lum and Abner
• 440712. Listen: B.J. Webster gets Lum and Abner’s water analysis
• 440713. Listen: Job opening at defense plant
• 440717. Listen: Health resort may make Grandpap rich.
• 440718. Listen: B.J. will be sole owner of resort.
• 440719. Listen: Lum and Abner desperate to invest in health resort.
• 440720. Listen: Cedric explains efficiency measures at work.
• 440724. Listen: Grandpap ready to turn land over to B.J.
• 440725. Listen: Lum and Abner can’t get in to see President Spears
• 440726. Listen: Abner and Cedric put up screen door
• 440727. Listen: A tribute to the Merchant Marines
• 440731. Listen: Lum tries to serve eviction papers on Grandpap.

August 1944

• 440801. Listen: Grandpap finds out about eviction papers
• 440802. Listen: Lum will fiddle around with Grandpap’s property lines
• 440803. Listen: Abner doesn’t like Lum’s idea concerning Briar Creek
• 440807. Listen: Abner walks out on Lum
• 440808. Listen: As deputy town marshal, Abner minds the jail
• 440809. Listen: Abner divides Jot ‘Em Down Store
• 440810. Listen: Grandpap accidentally serves eviction notice on himself.
• 440814. Listen: Abner and Grandpap still not talking to Lum.
• 440815. Listen: Lum will trap B.J. with old traffic ordinance.
• 440816. Listen: B.J. agrees to let Abner arrest him.
• 440817. Listen: B.J.’s upcoming trial
• 440821. Listen: B.J. surprises everyone by pleading guilty.
• 440822. Listen: Lum uses B.J.’s fine to buy Dillard farm for Grandpap.
• 440823. Listen: Cedric mails Christmas package to Ernest MacMillan.
• 440824. Listen: Abner helps Grandpap move to new farm.
• 440828. Listen: Lum has plan to divert creek onto Grandpap’s new property
• 440829. Listen: Lum and Abner don’t have to change creek after all.
• 440830. Listen: B.J. accuses Lum of embezzlement.
• 440831. Listen: Abner can’t bring himself to tell Lum about embezzlement charge.

September 1944

• 440904. Listen: In jail, Lum decides to become a martyr
  • Song: The Prisoner’s Song
• 440905. Listen: Cedric brings Lum a cake with a surprise inside
• 440906. Listen: Abner helps Lum be miserable
• 440907. Listen: Repeat performance of Lum’s “Inflation Play”
• 440911. Listen: Lum isn’t worried about his upcoming trial… much
• 440912. Listen: Lum and Abner get ready to leave for trial
• 440913. Listen: Everyone working on Lum’s case in tiny hotel room in Mena
• 440914. Listen: Squire agrees to take Lum’s case
• 440918. Listen: Trial begins; Abner almost convicts Lum all by himself
• 440919. Listen: Grandpap’s testimony isn’t much better
• 440920. Listen: Lum thinks the situation looks hopeless
• 440921. Listen: Lum attempts to give his own testimony
• 440925. Listen: Closing remarks of trial
• 440926. Listen: Surprise evidence dismisses Lum’s case
• 440927. Listen: Lum appreciates everything at home
• 440928. Listen: Lum and Abner read through their junk mail

October 1944

• 441002. Listen: Jot ‘Em Down Store initiates new policy: “Keep Smiling”
• 441003. Listen: Lum will run for school board president again
• 441004. Listen: Abner and Grandpap ignore school board president Lum
• 441005. Listen: Rehearsal for play about Merchant Marines
• 441009. Listen: Parents complaining about Professor Sloane
• 441010. Listen: Professor Sloane gets a better job offer and resigns
• 441011. Listen: Lum and Abner discuss Sloane’s replacement teacher
• 441012. Listen: Applications for teacher arrive
• 441016. Listen: Phinus Peabody wants Jot ‘Em Down Store to sell birdbaths
  • Song: They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree
• 441017. Listen: Abner and Grandpap help Cedric with arithmetic problem
• 441018. Listen: Lum has been at the county seat examining records for new school teacher
• 441019. Listen: Lum prepares to greet new teacher
• 441023. Listen: Abner and Squire head for war bond meeting in Ft. Smith
  • Song: They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree
• 441024. Listen: Abner goes shopping in Ft. Smith department store
• 441025. Listen: Lost train tickets pose a problem
• 441026. Listen: Abner and Squire hitch-hike home
• 441030. Listen: New teacher, Emaline Platt, has arrived
• 441031. Listen: Halloween pranks

November 1944

• 441101. Listen: Lum works on water pipes in school house
• 441102. Listen: Lum looks for more excuses to visit school
• 441106. Listen: Abner helps Cedric write English composition
• 441107. Listen: Cedric is excited about his first time to vote
• 441108. Listen: Abner must visit relatives in Mineola, Texas
• 441109. Listen: Abner will have to learn to play trombone in order to impress relatives
• 441113. Listen: Off to Texas; Abner leaves valise at store
  • Song: The Trolley Song
• 441114. Listen: Abner and Elizabeth stranded at Johnson farm
• 441115. Listen: While quarantined, Abner calls everyone, supposedly from Texas
• 441116. Listen: Mr. Dennison, school official, visits.
• 441120. Listen: Abner and Grandpap play checkers over the phone
• 441121. Listen: Psychologist arrives to see Cedric; interviews Lum instead
• 441122. Listen: Cedric takes psychologist’s test
  • Wikipedia: Kenny Institute
• 441123. Listen: Lum tries to get Phinus to invite him over for Thanksgiving dinner
• 441127. Listen: Abner returns and has trouble in the home
• 441128. Listen: Grandpap gets Abner to write to newspaper love advice column
• 441129. Listen: Cedric reads Abner’s letter to school class
• 441130. Listen: Lum advises Abner; Barbara Stanwyck drops by again to push war bonds.

December 1944

• 441204. Listen: Lum thinks Abner should go on hunger strike
• 441205. Listen: Abner getting discouraged with hunger strike
• 441206. Listen: Third day of strike; Abner losing weight
• 441207. Listen: Squire suggests that Abner become a bum to gain Elizabeth’s sympathy
• 441211. Listen: Abner begins to enjoy a bum’s life
• 441212. Listen: Elizabeth wants Abner back; Abner doesn’t want to go
  • Song: Hallelujah, I’m a Bum
• 441213. Listen: Lum may become a bum also
• 441214. Listen: Letter from Pearl makes Abner reform his ways
• 441218. Listen: Husbands turning to Abner for marriage advice
  • Song: They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree
• 441219. Listen: Cedric visits Ole Doc Peabody Advice Bureau
• 441220. Listen: Grandpap wants Ole Doc Peabody to tell him all the town gossip
• 441221. Listen: Lum hints to Abner that he wants a leather desk set for Christmas
• 441225. Listen: Annual Christmas Story
• 441226. Listen: Lum wants an appointment with Old Doc Peabody
• 441227. Listen: Abner gives Lum advice about Miss Emaline… sort of
• 441228. Listen: Lum practices romantical speech

1943 < > 1945