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
- 540503
- 540504
- 540505
- 540506
- 540507. Listen: Lum and Abner adrift on a raft on the Ouachita River