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
- 460101. Listen: Old-style dollar bills provide a clue
- 460102. Listen: Lum and Abner burn robbers’ tent
- 460103. Listen: Squire writes newspaper article about Lum and Abner capturing robbers
- 460107. Listen: Lum and Abner collect $1500 in reward money
- 460108. Listen: Everyone has his hand in reward money
- 460109. Listen: Squire sells Lum and Abner Partnership Insurance
- 460110. Listen: Abner takes physical exam for insurance
- 460114. Listen: Grandpap makes Abner think Lum is trying to kill him to collect insurance
- 460115. Listen: Now Lum suspects Abner is up to something.
- 460116. Listen: Lum finds out Abner is packing a pistol
- 460117. Listen: Conversation with ornery gas station owner makes Abner even more suspicious
- 460121. Listen: Lum and Abner keep an eagle eye on each other
- 460122. Listen: Lum and Abner think each is trying to poison the other
- 460123. Listen: Lum and Abner will settle whole thing with a duel
- 460124. Listen: Lum explains rules of dueling to Abner
- 460128. Listen: Abner, notary public, infuriates the governor of Arkansas
- 460129. Listen: Lum is upset over the way Pine Ridge is being run
- 460130. Listen: Pine Ridge will elect new mayor
- 460131. Listen: Lum will be political boss of Pine Ridge
February 1946
- 460204. Listen: Organizing the New Broom Party
- 460205. Listen: Party Boss Lum
- 460206. Listen: Squire Skimp’s political party may cause competition
- 460207. Listen: Abner vs. Ezra Seestrunk for mayor
- 460211. Listen: Lum and Abner will have a political rally over the party line
- 460212. Listen: New Broom Party holds rally over party line
- 460213. Listen: How to get lodge hall away from Squire
- 460214. Listen: Political rally at the lodge hall
- 460218. Listen: Ezra starts mudslinging campaign
- 460219. Listen: Lum and Abner will print handbills
- 460220. Listen: Abner will make extravagant campaign promises
- 460221. Listen: New Broom Party courts women’s votes
- 460225. Listen: Women swing over to Ezra’s side
- 460226. Listen: Accident puts women back on Abner’s side
- 460227. Listen: Women head to Mena for big sale
- 460228. Listen: Lum will send absentee ballots so women can vote
March 1946
- 460304. Listen: Last day for absentee ballots to arrive
- 460305. Listen: The new mayor of PR is Peabody… ELIZABETH Peabody!
- 460306. Listen: Lum and Abner try to talk to Mayor Peabody
- 460307. Listen: Mayor Peabody makes Abner cook dinner for her
- 460311. Listen: Elizabeth appoints all-woman city council
- 460312. Listen: Lum loses his Justice of the Peace job to Miss Emaline
- 460313. Listen: 1000th broadcast over Keystone Network
- 460314. Listen: Abner and Grandpap discuss new lady barber
- 460318. Listen: Women pass law keeping men away from barbershop
- 460319. Listen: Men figure out a way to get around law
- 460320. Listen: Constant harassment makes Kitty the Barber call it quits
- 460321. Listen: Men will meet to decide how to defeat women
- 460325. Listen: Lum dresses as a woman to avoid curfew law
- 460326. Listen: Women will push big bond issue
- 460327. Listen: Lum stirs up men against crooked bond issue
- 460328. Listen: Men head for hills to spoil bond issue vote
April 1946
- 460401. Listen: Caleb Weehunt suggests men steal town records
- 460402. Listen: Men steal Post Office records
- 460403. Listen: Men give up and return to town
- 460404. Listen: Women welcome men back with open arms
- 460408. Listen: Dr. Roller the Pest Controller comes to town
- 460409. Listen: Lum hires Dr. Roller to get rid of Clyde the Mouse
- 460410. Listen: Dr. Roller tries every method to trap Clyde
- 460411. Listen: Dr. Roller is obsessed with catching Clyde
- 460415. Listen: Abner will trick Dr. Roller with a dead mouse
- 460416. Listen: Lum and Abner will sell antiques to pay for store repairs
- 460417. Listen: Confederate treasure map
- 460418. Listen: Treasure chest full of Confederate money
- 460422. Listen: Cedric tries to use Confederate money to see Partners in Time
- 460423. Listen: Confederate money is counterfeit
- 460424. Listen: Lum thinks Henry Kaiser will put a ship-building plant in Pine Ridge
- Wikipedia: Henry J. Kaiser
- 460425. Listen: Everything ready for Mr. Kaiser’s visit
- 460429. Listen: Visitor is Kay Kyser, not Henry Kaiser
- Wikipedia: Kay Kyser
- 460430. Listen: Cedric washes labels off all canned goods in store
May 1946
- 460501. Listen: Lum explodes when he finds unlabeled cans
- 460502. Listen: Big sale on surprise cans
- 460506. Listen: Grandpap can guess what is in cans
- 460507. Listen: An injunction against Grandpap
- 460508. Listen: Grandpap sells tips on guessing cans
- 460509. Listen: The secret behind Grandpap’s guessing
- 460513. Listen: Telegram from Mr. Hatstaff
- 460514. Listen: Mr. Hatstaff is advance publicity man for Bob Hope
- Wikipedia: Bob Hope
- 460515. Listen: Why is Bob Hope coming to Pine Ridge?
- 460516. Listen: Article about Bob Hope’s arrival
- 460520. Listen: Bob Hope arrives; wants to hire Cedric as a gag writer
- 460521. Listen: Selling raffle tickets on new 1946 automobile
- 460522. Listen: Lum and Squire bet on who can get a new car first
- 460523. Listen: Abner orders Lum a new car… for 1947
- 460527. Listen: Lum wins car in raffle, but doesn’t know how to drive it
- 460528. Listen: Lum can’t get to Mena to pick up new car
- 460529. Listen: Lum wrecks car
- 460530. Listen: Lum wins a bet with Squire
June 1946
- 460603. Listen: Squire almost traps Lum with another shady deal
- 460604. Listen: Squire’s new television popcorn business
- 460605. Listen: Lum buys five cases of hats in Mena
- 460606. Listen: Cases contain unassembled women’s hats
- 460610. Listen: Lum will become Bon Mot, ladies’ hat designer
- 460611. Listen: Bon Mot will have a hat style show in Jot ‘Em Down Store
- 460612. Listen: Lum goes over last minute plans for show
- 460613. Listen: Hat show a big fizzle
- 460617. Listen: Lum and Abner meet Tom Breneman in Hollywood
- Wikipedia: Tom Breneman
- 460618. Listen: Trying to get railroad tickets back to Arkansas
- 460619. Listen: Sharing a ride with a tourist
- 460620. Listen: Finally catching a train back home
- 460624. Listen: Lum roped into writing a play for PTA
- 460625. Listen: Miss Emaline encourages Lum in writing play
- 460626. Listen: Rehearsing Lum’s play
- 460627. Listen: Lum has plans to sabotage rehearsal
July 1946
- 460701. Listen: Lum and Abner to reopen old abandoned hotel for the summer
- Song: Love Lifted Me
- 460702. Listen: Operating Mountain View Inn
- 460703. Listen: Getting the hotel ready to open
- 460704. Listen: Guests coming, but no rooms left
- 460708. Listen: Who will be the manager of the hotel?
- 460709. Listen: Lum goes to Mena to meet a new guest, Trixie Van Duzen
- 460710. Listen: Trixie and her dog, Choo-choo Pie
- 460711. Listen: Miss Emaline is coming for a visit on Tuesday
- 460715. Listen: Strange things happening between Trixie and other guests
- 460716. Listen: Hotel guests aren’t all they seem to be
- 460717. Listen: A new guest adds to the mystery
- 460718. Listen: Detective Wilson has trailed a band of jewel thieves to the hotel
- 460722. Listen: Lum tries to get the bellhop job away from Abner
- 460723. Listen: Lum won’t believe Trixie is involved with jewel thieves
- 460724. Listen: Who will be the bellhop?
- 460725. Listen: Detective thinks Lum is tipping off jewel thieves
- 460729. Listen: Has Lum joined forces with thieves?
- 460730. Listen: Abner jails Lum to keep him away from thieves
- 460731. Listen: Lum and Abner split hotel between them; will compete with each other
August 1946
- 460801. Listen: Dick Huddleston tries to reason with Lum and Abner
- 460805. Listen: Abner steals all of Lum’s guests
- 460806. Listen: Lum gets revenge
- 460807. Listen: What has Lum done with Detective Wilson?
- 460808. Listen: Cedric finds Detective Wilson’s hat on Lum’s property
- 460812. Listen: Abner releases Detective Wilson
- 460813. Listen: Wilson is also a jewel thief, out to rob the jewel thieves
- 460814. Listen: Lum captures the whole gang
- 460815. Listen: Lum thinks town will want to put up statue of him
- 460819. Listen: Hotel stockholders vote to get new managers for Mountain View Inn
- 460820. Listen: Grandpap sues Lum and Abner
- 460821.
- 460822.
- 460826. Listen: Lum decides to become a piano tuner
- 460827. Listen: Lum can get a new piano on approval for 30 days
- 460828. Listen: Grandpap tells a story about a talking dog
- 460829. Listen: Lum destroys the church piano while trying to tune it
September 1946
- 460902. Listen: Abner tells Lum what happened at church
- 460903. Listen: Bloodhound following Lum around
- 460904. Listen: Uncle Henry Lunsford finds a clue
- 460905. Listen: Lum restrings piano with baling wire
- 460909. Listen: Lum’s 30-day free trial piano arrives
- 460910. Listen: Everyone congratulates Lum on donating a new piano to the church
- 460911. Listen: Lum tries to figure out how to pay for piano
- 460912. Listen: Lum will become Human Fly to raise money
- 460916. Listen: Abner & Grandpap play telephone joke on Lum
- 460917. Listen: Lum doesn’t know Abner & Grandpap caused him to miss out on $500
- 460918. Listen: Abner & Grandpap confess everything
- 460919. Listen: Lum may leave town over joke
- 460923. Listen: Lum starts contest for best bushel of apples
- 460924. Listen: Apple contest becomes pie baking contest
- 460925. Listen: Pie baking contest too expensive for Lum
- 460926. Listen: Women all try to get on the good side of pie judge Lum
- 460930. Listen: Lum will get rid of pies by having pie eating contest
October 1946
- 461001. Listen: Childers family needs a place to live
- 461002. Listen: Lum speaks to Ladies Aid about a home for the Childers family
- 461003. Listen: Childers family moves in with Lum
- 461007. Listen: Lum will build a house for the Childers family himself
- 461008. Listen: Lum makes adjustments to the blueprint
- 461009. Listen: Widder Cobb tries to interfere with Lum’s house building
- 461010. Listen: Lum and Abner meet ex-serviceman Mr. Duncan, who also needs a new house
- Wikipedia: Grauman’s Chinese Theater
- 461014. Listen: Widder Cobb finds out Lum tricked her
- 461015. Listen: Lum’s buying and financing becomes complicated
- 461016. Listen: Lum has complaints about the way the house is being built
- 461017. Listen: Childers kids like to listen to bad radio programs
- 461021. Listen: Mr. Duncan wants to see the lot Lum has for him
- 461022. Listen: Things work out right for Lum for once
- 461023. Listen: Mr. Duncan’s father-in-law creates a new difficulty
- 461024. Listen: Lum must fill out a government form before he can build a house
- 461028. Listen: Duncan can get a GI loan because he is a veteran.
- 461029. Listen: Grandpap wants Lum to build an office for the new doctor
- 461030. Listen: Veterinarian, Doc Withers, coming to town
- 461031. Listen: Lum plans a big welcome for Doc Withers
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