1954

Broadcast History:

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

  • Nov. 9, 1953-May 7, 1954. Syndicated with “Abner” doing recorded commercials for local sponsors.

Dates with no listings are missing episodes.

January 1954

  • 540101
  • 540104
  • 540105
  • 540106
  • 540107 (approximate date) Lum thinks town has forgotten him
  • 540108 (approximate date) Book on modern salesmanship. Methods run Grandpap off.
  • 540111 (approximate date) Different types of customers
  • 540112 (approximate date) Squire may become sales promotion manager of store
  • 540113. (approximate date) Lum and Abner burn book on modern salesmanship.
  • 540114. (approximate date) Adding machine arrives. Abner is skeptical.
  • 540115
  • 540118
  • 540119
  • 540120
  • 540121
  • 540122
  • 540125
  • 540126
  • 540127
  • 540128
  • 540129

February 1954

  • 540201
  • 540202
  • 540203
  • 540204
  • 540205
  • 540208
  • 540209
  • 540210
  • 540211
  • 540212
  • 540215 Lum will open farm & raise fishing worms
  • 540216 Everyone uses worm breeding stock for bait
  • 540217 L&A & Cedric go fishing for Moby Dick
  • 540218 Squire & Grandpap play chess
  • 540219 Lum will take correspondence course to become CPA
  • 540222 Everyone gets scholarship to correspondence school
  • 540223 Lum buys old truck at auction
  • 540224 Everyone frightened of voice coming from trunk
  • 540225 L&A open trunk… can’t believe their eyes
  • 540226 L&A wonder what to do with trunk full of jewels

March 1954

  • 540301 Lum getting threatening phone calls & hiding at store
  • 540302 Abner practices signals to protect Lum from Red X Gang
  • 540303 Is Squire a member of Red X Gang
  • 540304 Lum figures out truth about gang & Squire
  • 540305 Items in trunk have curse on them
  • 540308
  • 540309
  • 540310
  • 540311
  • 540312
  • 540315 Lum gives brooch back to Mrs. Moots; trunk’s owner wants it back
  • 540316 Mr. Thorndyke demands brooch
  • 540317 Lum must get brooch back from Mose Moots “or else”
  • 540318 Lum has new flame, Penelope Priddle
  • 540319 Lum accidentally invents Mohawk haircut
  • 540322 Everyone wants Mohawk haircut from Lum
  • 540323 Lum must convince Miss Priddle he is famous inventor
  • 540324 Lum returns from barber shop with Mohawk haircut
  • 540325 Miss Priddle thinks Lum has a twin brother, Llewellyn
  • 540326 Lum dates the Priddle sisters as the Ed’ards twins
  • 540329 Dating twins is wearing Lum to a frazzled
  • 540330 Squire gets Mose Moots to cancel all of Lum’s debts.
  • 540331 How can Lum & his twin brother appear together?

April 1954

  • 540401 Lum must have famous ancestors in order to marry Miss Priddle
  • 540402 Squire will hire genealogist to trace Lum’s family tree
  • 540405 (approximate date) Lum must round up all the Hempstead heirs
  • 540406
  • 540407
  • 540408
  • 540409
  • 540412
  • 540413
  • 540414
  • 540415
  • 540415
  • 540419
  • 540420
  • 540421
  • 540422
  • 540423
  • 540426
  • 540427
  • 540428
  • 540429
  • 540430

May 1954

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