1943

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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 1943

• 430104. Listen: Trial hinges on Wimpy Foster’s testimony
• 430105. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting #5 at Grandpap’s house. Topic: Architecture
• 430106. Listen: Winifred’s testimony, Wimpy Foster is drafted
• 430107. Listen: Trial ends when Winifred elopes with her doctor
• 430111. Listen: Cedric wins double grand prize at pinball
• 430112. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting #6 at Cedric’s house. Topic: Sir Isaac Newton
• 430113. Listen: Abner’s old trading fever goes out of control.
• 430114. Listen: Little Pearl applies for nurse’s training school.
• 430118. Listen: Ulysses S. Quincy has excuses
• 430119. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting #7 at Grandpap’s house. Topic: The Art of Conversation
• 430120. Listen: History of the Jot ‘Em Down Store
• 430121. Listen: Citizens leaving Pine Ridge to move to cities
• 430125. Listen: Little Pearl leaves for nursing school
• 430126. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting #8 at Ulysses’s house. Topic: Pattycake
• 430127. Listen: Grandpap’s new chemistry set
• 430128. Listen: How to make invisible ink

February 1943

• 430201. Listen: Accident makes invisible ink turn into synthetic rubber
• 430202. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting #9 at Abner’s house. Topic: NOT synthetic rubber!
• 430203. Listen: Synthetic Rubber Company elects officers
• 430204. Listen: Lum and Abner and Cedric practice red tape
• 430208. Listen: Grandpap must be one to keep secret formula in his head
• 430209. Listen: Fall on ice gives Grandpap amnesia
• 430210. Listen: Grandpap thinks he is Buster V. Davenport of Toledo, Ohio
• 430211. Listen: Grandpap/Buster sells Elizabeth a vacuum cleaner
• 430215. Listen: Amnesia is causing all kinds of trouble
• 430216. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting #10 at Cedric’s house. Topic: Curing Grandpap
• 430217. Listen: Lum and Abner try to recall synthetic rubber formula
• 430218. Listen: Abner and Grandpap/Buster play checkers
• 430222. Listen: Pine Ridge is saved from ruin
• 430223. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting #11 at Lum’s house. Topic: Tribute to Grandpap
• 430224. Listen: Lum and Abner decide Grandpap needs a “coming out party”
• 430225. Listen: Lum reads an etiquette book

March 1943

• 430301. Listen: Lum wants to be a social leader
• 430302. Listen: Grandpap will be a debutante
• 430303. Listen: Abner and Elizabeth to adopt Grandpap/Buster.
• 430304. Listen: Lum may adopt Grandpap himself.
• 430308. Listen: How to dress for a big society party
• 430309. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting #12 at Lum’s house. Topic: Etiquette
• 430310. Listen: Cedric is promoted at his war plant job
• 430311. Listen: Grandpap’s coming-out party to be held Monday night
• 430315. Listen: Grandpap doesn’t show up at his own party
• 430316. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting #13 at Abner’s house. Topic: Grandpap
  • Song: Cranky Old Yank
• 430317. Listen: Pine Ridge needs a dentist
• 430318. Listen: Dentist from county seat, Dr. Samuel Snide, is coming.
• 430322. Listen: Dr. Snide arrives and doesn’t treat Abner.
• 430323. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting #14 at Lum’s house. Topic: Grandpa Masters’ Tooth
• 430324. Listen: Dr. Snide decides to set up his office in the feed room.
• 430325. Listen: Mousey Gray comes home for a visit.
• 430329. Listen: Lum installs intercom in store/dentist’s office.
• 430330. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting #15 at Ulysses’s house. Topic: Dr. Snide’s Lecture on Teeth
• 430331. Listen: How to improve Dr. Snide’s business

April 1943

• 430401. Listen: Dr. Snide isn’t doing much dental work.
• 430405. Listen: Lum must arrest Dr. Snide for practicing without a license.
• 430406. Listen: Dr. Snide skips out of town
• 430407. Listen: Grandpap/Buster returns to Pine Ridge
• 430408. Listen: Lum and Abner persuade Grandpap to join county agricultural board
• 430412. Listen: Barbara Stanwyck drops by during a war bonds tour
• 430413. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting #16. Topic: Milford Avery Spears
• 430414. Listen: Lum wants to make Grandpap/Buster fall in love
• 430415. Listen: Lum and Abner try to arrange date between Grandpap and Charity
• 430419. Listen: Cedric’s carpool troubles
• 430420. Listen: Grandpap and Charity finally get together
• 430421. Listen: Grandpap thinks Charity is too good for him
• 430422. Listen: Danger of black-market meat
• 430426. Listen: Grandpap proposes to Charity
• 430427. Listen: Cedric accidentally restores Grandpap’s memory.
• 430428. Listen: Synthetic rubber formula was written on wall all the time.
• 430429. Listen: Lum explains his plans for synthetic rubber factory

May 1943

• 430503. Listen: Synthetic rubber is worthless
• 430504. Listen: Lum and Abner appointed chairmen of Pine Ridge War Bond Staff
• 430505. Listen: Business meeting at Luke Spears’ lunchroom.
• 430506. Listen: Lum writes a play teaching about inflation
• 430510. Listen: Squire suggests Neosho the Mind Reader as war bonds promotion
• 430511. Listen: Lum put up tent for fortune teller
• 430512. Listen: Neosho doesn’t show; Squire makes excuses.
• 430513. Listen: Abner substitutes for Neosho the Mind Reader
• 430517. Listen: Abner fixes Lum up with both Sister Simpson and Widder Abernathy
• 430518. Listen: Lum tries to get out of dinner with Sister Simpson
• 430519. Listen: Whole town knows of Lum’s troubles.
• 430520. Listen: Election for Lum’s wife selling lots of war bonds.
• 430524. Listen: Lum thinks election may be good idea
• 430525. Listen: Simpson and Abernathy relatives arrive in town
• 430526. Listen: Relatives camp out in vacant lot next to store and drive Lum nuts
• 430527. Listen: Squire suggests fictional third woman for contest
• 430531. Listen: Lum and Abner create biography of mystery woman, Mabel Melrose

June 1943

• 430601. Listen: Lum uses psychology on women; it doesn’t work
• 430602. Listen: Mabel Melrose shows up
• 430603. Listen: Mabel wants to claim her prize: Lum
• 430607. Listen: Squire says Mabel will leave town for $1000
• 430608. Listen: Lum falls in love with Mabel.
• 430609. Listen: Mabel is surrealist art painter from Little Rock
• 430610. Listen: Lum and Abner clean Abner’s attic for Mabel to move into
• 430614. Listen: Abner finds it hard having an artist in attic
• 430615. Listen: War Savings Staff will sponsor art exhibit
• 430616. Listen: Lum has trouble trying to paint surrealist pictures
• 430617. Listen: Lum paints a war bond poster
• 430621. Listen: Abner tries to get Lum to propose to Mabel.
• 430622. Listen: Preparations for surrealist art exhibit
• 430623. Listen: Lum gives instructions on how exhibit will be conducted
• 430624. Listen: Grandpap presides over surrealist art sale
• 430628. Listen: Lum thoroughly disgusted with art.
• 430629. Listen: Abner helps Lum and Mabel go birdwatching
• 430630. Listen: Lum studies correct grammar

July 1943

• 430701. Listen: Lum tries to propose to Mabel; Abner interferes
• 430705. Listen: Mousey returns from the war; Grandpap gets a new job
• 430706. Listen: Everyone wants to hear Mousey’s adventures overseas
• 430707. Listen: Mousey reads from his secret war diary
• 430708. Listen: Lum and Abner try to find out how Mousey was wounded.
• 430712. Listen: Mousey confesses truth about wound
• 430713. Listen: Mabel Melrose leaves town
• 430714. Listen: Lum and Abner get back to business
• 430715. Listen: Treasury Department honors Pine Ridge War Savings Staff
• 430719. Listen: Abner is worried that Old Blue will be drafted
• 430720. Listen: Golden Era Discussion Club meeting at Abner’s. Guests: Mousey and Old Blue
• 430721. Listen: Old Blue won’t be drafted after all
• 430722. Listen: Ellie Connors escapes from reformatory and hides in store
• 430726. Listen: Lum and Abner don’t tell police about Ellie
• 430727. Listen: How to disguise Ellie
• 430728. Listen: Ellie will live with Lum’s aunt in Wisconsin until things are safe
• 430729. Listen: Plan goes awry; Ellie poses as Lum’s niece

August 1943

• 430802. Listen: Everyone’s convinced that Ellie is Mary
• 430803. Listen: Cedric tries to entertain Mary
• 430804. Listen: Will Lum or Abner be Mary’s guardian?
• 430805. Listen: Lum heads for reformatory to gain custody of Mary.
• 430809. Listen: Abner and Mary have a scientific discussion
• 430810. Listen: Abner tries to cure Cedric’s insomnia
• 430811. Listen: Squire becomes suspicious of Mary
• 430812. Listen: Mary’s romantic problems with Kenny Pomeroy
• 430816. Listen: Lum returns; Mary will be on probation
• 430817. Listen: Uncle Henry Lunsford trails Mary all over town
• 430818. Listen: Mary tries to get on Uncle Henry’s good side
• 430819. Listen: Lum and Abner mind the jail for Uncle Henry
• 430823. Listen: Uncle Henry is in a wheelchair
• 430824. Listen: Mary is in trouble for stealing Mrs. Pomeroy’s kettle
• 430825. Listen: Cedric thinks he has measles and is quarantined in store
• 430826. Listen: Cedric infects everyone in Luke Spearks’ lunchroom
• 430830. Listen: Nurse Lunsford organizes jolly fun games
• 430831. Listen: Abner tells Cedric the story of Snorter the Pig

September 1943

• 430901. Listen: Mary gets rid of Uncle Henry… temporarily
• 430902. Listen: Lum and Abner try to stop Henry’s report to the reformatory
• 430906. Listen: Abner will impersonate Uncle Henry’s conscience
• 430907. Listen: Lum manages to change Uncle Henry’s mind
• 430908. Listen: Mary belongs to Lum and Abner
• 430909. Listen: Abner and Grandpap discuss modern conveniences of the future
• 430913. Listen: Lum will try to be re-elected president of school board
• 430914. Listen: Caleb Weehunt has deciding vote in school board election
• 430915. Listen: Caleb elected school board president
• 430916. Listen: Lum mopes over losing election
• 430920. Listen: Cedric will return to school as a high school student.
• 430921. Listen: Caleb doing all sorts of favors for Cedric
• 430922. Listen: Cedric writes paper for English class
• 430923. Listen: Lum discusses being a self-made man
• 430927. Listen: Caleb institutes trade school classes
• 430928. Listen: Lum will teach class in country storekeeping
• 430929. Listen: Lum leaves town in despondency
• 430930. Listen: Grandpap and Abner will find Lum thru classified ads.

October 1943

• 431004. Listen: Abner rents Lum’s house to Widder Jessup
• 431005. Listen: All of Lum’s possessions are given away
• 431006. Listen: How to get Widder out of Lum’s house.
• 431007. Listen: Lum, Abner, and Cedric haunt Lum’s house to scare Widder off
• 431011. Listen: Lum and Abner discuss opening a movie theater in Pine Ridge
• 431012. Listen: Lum wants to mortgage the store to pay for theater
• 431013. Listen: Where to get a movie projector
• 431014. Listen: Cedric tries to learn how to operate the projector
• 431018. Listen: Grandpap to play piano at theater
• 431019. Listen: Lum gives free passes to everyone in town
• 431020. Listen: Abner will go to Mena to learn to run the projector
• 431021. Listen: Abner packs his suitcase for a trip to Mena
• 431025. Listen: Motion picture salesman Virgil Kleespies arrives
• 431026. Listen: Lum buys a movie, The Vulture’s Revenge
• 431027. Listen: Film company president D. Hempstead Dwyer pays Lum a visit
• 431028. Listen: Mary is having problems in school

November 1943

• 431101. Listen: Abner returns from Lyric Theater in Mena
• 431102. Listen: Lum and Abner vote on a name for the movie theater
• 431103. Listen: Squire wants to be a third partner in the theater
• 431104. Listen: Squire will get even with Lum and Abner by opening a competing theater
• 431108. Listen: Lum and Abner lose all their help to Squire
• 431109. Listen: Squire tricks Grandpap out of his job
• 431110. Listen: Cedric delivers handbills for Squire; the opening will be Tuesday night
• 431111. Listen: Lum and Abner will beat Squire by having a free preview Tuesday afternoon
• 431115. Listen: Squire starts a rumor about Lum and Abner’s theater
• 431116. Listen: Ladies’ Uplift League boycotts Lum and Abner’s show
• 431117. Listen: Lum and Abner spy on Squire’s show
• 431118. Listen: Squire’s theater is illegal by being on the second floor of the lodge hall
• 431122. Listen: Lum is worried about arresting Squire
• 431123. Listen: Grandpap gets a warrant for Squire
• 431124. Listen: Squire upset over warrant
• 431125. Listen: Squire is tried in Lum’s Justice of Peace court
• 431129. Listen: Squire injured in fall at Lum and Abner’s theater
  • Song: Dardanella
  • Song: The Picture That Is Turned Toward the Wall
• 431130. Listen: Lum and Abner write an apologetic note to Squire

December 1943

• 431201. Listen: Lum tells Abner the story of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
• 431202. Listen: Squire sues Lum and Abner for damages
• 431206. Listen: Apology note becomes incriminating evidence
• 431207. Listen: Lum goes to county seat to hire lawyer
• 431208. Listen: Things don’t look so good because of note
• 431209. Listen: Abner in trouble for trying to steal note
• 431213. Listen: Squire will drop charges against Abner
• 431214. Listen: Squire’s lawyer visits Lum and Abner under false pretenses
• 431215. Listen: Will ask for Squire’s x-rays
• 431216. Listen: Doc Miller says x-ray shows Squire’s back is in bad shape.
• 431220. Listen: Lum leaves suddenly during trial
• 431221. Listen: Abner and Grandpap try to find Lum at hospital
• 431222. Listen: Abner, Cedric, and Grandpap wander the streets, trying to raise money to eat
• 431223. Listen: Lum returns and saves the day
• 431225. Annual Christmas Story
• 431227. Listen: Lum will become a lawyer
• 431228. Listen: Lawyer Lum decides it’s time to retire
• 431229. Listen: Splitting up partnership again
• 431230. Listen: Neither Lum nor Abner really happy with circumstances

1942 < > 1944