1946

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 1946

February 1946

March 1946

April 1946

May 1946

June 1946

July 1946

August 1946

September 1946

October 1946

November 1946

  • 461104 Doc Withers arrives; L&A don’t know who he is.
  • 461105 Doc moves into Jot ‘Em Down Store feed room.
  • 461106 Squire meets his match when he tries to sell insurance to Doc
  • 461107 Doc likes eating Lum’s pancakes; decides to board with Lum
  • 461111 Cedric buys new shoes
  • 461112 Lum will go into perfume business
  • 461113 Lum decides to open chain of whaleburger restaurants instead
  • 461114 L&A will operate restaurant in Jot ‘Em Down Store
  • 461118 Cedric & Doc mind the store; Abner gets laryngitis so Tuffy Goff can take a week off.
  • 461119 Cedric delivers stove for restaurant
  • 461120 Abner still has laryngitis; saws 2 holes for stovepipe
  • 461121 Doc makes phone call to get icebox for Lum.
  • 461125
  • 461126 L&A try to get bus to stop at restaurant
  • 461127
  • 461128 Lum can’t bring himself to kill Chester the Turkey for Thanksgiving

December 1946

  • 461202 First busload of passengers arrives
  • 461203 L&A will advertise restaurant on party line
  • 461204 Lum decides to switch to singing commercials
  • 461205 Abner wants Duncan Hines to visit Lum’s restaurant
  • 461209 Lum furious at Abner for writing to Hines
  • 461210 Abner and Cedric practice hash house lingo
  • 461211 Lum will prepare roast duck for Mr. Hines
  • 461212 Squire finds out Mr. Hines will arrive Monday
  • 461216 Duncan Hines arrives, gets wrong meal
  • 461217 Hines likes Lumburgers, but Lum forgets how to make them
  • 461218 Lum remembers how to make Lumburgers
  • 461219 Doc Withers advises Abner to ask for raise
  • 461223 Lum has his picture taken for newspaper
  • 461224 The Fright Before Christmas Script in Jot ‘Em Down Journal, December 1997
  • 461225 Lum and Abner’s Christmas Story
  • 470106 Lum orders oysters

1945 < > 1947

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