1945

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 1945

• 450101. Listen: New Year’s Day at Abner’s house
• 450102. Listen: Miss Emaline likes baritone singers, so Lum will become one
  • Song: On the Road to Mandalay
• 450103. Listen: Miss Emaline enters Lum in singing contest in Hot Springs
  • Song: The Whistler and His Dog
  • Song: Red Wing
• 450104. Listen: Lum tries to worm his way out of contest
• 450108. Listen: Phinus helps Abner in store while Lum is in Hot Springs
• 450109. Listen: Ira Hodgekins wants advice from Ole Doc Peabody
• 450110. Listen: Ira and his wife trade jobs
• 450111. Listen: Abner’s plan is not working out for Ira
• 450115. Listen: Lum returns from contest with first prize ribbon
• 450116. Listen: Abner probes Lum for details of contest
  • Song: And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine
• 450117. Listen: Sister Simpson wants Lum to sing at charity bazaar
• 450118. Listen: Squire will write newspaper article about Lum winning contest
• 450122. Listen: Lum sang at bazaar Saturday night and has not been seen since
• 450123. Listen: Message about shortage of nurses overseas (Guest: Cadet Nurse Beulah Tyler)

• 450124. Listen: The truth about Lum’s prize comes out
• 450125. Listen: Lum fixes everything with Miss Emaline
  • Song: On the Road to Mandalay
• 450129. Listen: Mose Moots dyes Lum’s hair the wrong color
• 450130. Listen: Abner will bandage Lum’s head to hide coal-black hair
• 450131. Listen: Cedric works on composition for Groundhog Day

February 1945

• 450201. Listen: Squire’s insurance policy on Abner has many loopholes
• 450205. Listen: Lum will have hair bleached at beauty shop
• 450206. Listen: Miss Emaline gets wrong idea about Lum and beautician
• 450207. Listen: Beauty shop bill comes to $24.50
• 450208. Listen: Mr. Sutton offers $2500 for Lum and Abner’s hill property
  • Song: They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree
• 450212. Listen: Lum and Abner camp out on property in the hills
• 450213. Listen: Old abandoned silver mine may be on Lum and Abner’s property
• 450214. Listen: Cedric shops for a valentine
• 450215. Listen: Cave-in traps Lum and Abner in old silver mine
  • Wikipedia: V-mail
• 450219. Listen: Grandpap and Squire wonder where Lum and Abner have been all weekend
• 450220. Listen: Dick Huddleston organizes searching party.
• 450221. Listen: In silver mine, Lum and Abner begin to crack under the strain
• 450222. Listen: Old Blue leads searching party to collapsed mine shaft
• 450226. Listen: Lum goes out of his head and tries to attack Abner
• 450227. Listen: Cedric and Dick find Lum and Abner
• 450228. Listen: Lum and Abner recuperating at Abner’s house

March 1945

• 450301. Listen: Newspaper article about mine accident
• 450305. Listen: W.J. Chancellor arrives to see Lum and Abner
• 450306
• 450307
• 450308
• 450312
• 450313. Mr. Chancellor is gone
• 450314. Listen: Mr. Chancellor is working on book about mine cave-in
• 450315. Listen: Lum must uninvite people to Miss Emaline’s buffet supper
• 450319. Listen: Cedric varnishes the plates
• 450320. Listen: First day of spring
• 450321. Listen: Lum wants to buy a diamond
• 450322. Listen: Mr. Chancellor will write a Broadway play instead of a book
• 450326. Listen: Lum buys engagement diamond from little man with a black hat
• 450327. Listen: Kunlun Diamond has a curse on it
• 450328. Listen: Lum measures Abner for new suit; Grandpap tells about diamond’s curse
• 450329. Listen: Abner worried about curse of Kunlun Diamond

April 1945

• 450402. Listen: April Fool’s Day
• 450403. Listen: Mr. Chancellor’s father has surprising revelation
• 450404. Listen: Grandpap gets threatening note about Kunlun Diamond
• 450405. Listen: Abner’s house is broken into; a stranger is looking for Lum and Abner
• 450409. Listen: Lum is nervous about keeping diamond
• 450410. Listen: Dick Huddleston advises Abner to sell the diamond
• 450411. Listen: The jeweler dies before Abner can sell diamond to him
• 450412. Listen: Abner and Cedric are stranded in Dick’s car, working on a crossword puzzle
• 450416. Listen: Kunlun Diamond continues to cause all kinds of trouble
• 450417. Listen: Lum and Abner can’t get rid of the diamond
• 450418. Listen: Lum wants to bury the diamond in Abner’s cellar
• 450419. Listen: Lum tricked into going to school house alone at night
• 450423. Listen: Cedric’s parrot saves the day
• 450424. Listen: Abner describes how he got rid of Kunlun Diamond
• 450425. Listen: Lum finds out Abner sold the diamond
• 450426. Listen: Lum explains the meaning of the United Nations peace conference in San Francisco
  • Wikipedia: United Nations Conference on International Organization
• 450430. Listen: Abner explains to Dick Huddleston why he was so secretive about the diamond

May 1945

• 450501. Listen: Dick tries to patch rift between Lum and Abner
• 450502. Listen: Jot ‘Em Down Store divided in half
• 450503. Listen: Dr. Fontaine Grill lives mysterious box with Lum and Abner
• 450507. Listen: Newspaper clipping alarms Lum and Abner about Dr. Grill’s box
• 450508. Listen: Lum and Abner open box
• 450509. Listen: More on contents of the box
• 450510. Listen: Lum, Abner, and Grandpap assemble “Robert the Robot”
• 450514
• 450515. Listen: Abner wants to put Robert the Robot to work in store
• 450516. Listen: Squire finds out about Robert the Robot
• 450517. Listen: Lady from Department of Child Welfare investigates Robert
• 450521. Listen: Cedric gets Robert the Robot a date with Clarabelle’s cousin
• 450522. Listen: Abner will use Robert the Robot to deliver groceries
• 450523. Listen: Making deliveries with Robert the Robot
• 450524. Listen: Abner loses control of Robert the Robot
• 450528. Listen: Robert the Robot is missing
• 450529. Listen: Cedric finds Robert the Robot and Ira Hodgekins’ dead prize bull in a ditch
• 450530
• 450531. Lum is Abner’s legal advisor.

June 1945

• 450604. Listen: Ira Hodgekins sues Abner for $500
• 450605. Listen: Squire gets involved in Abner’s case
• 450606. Listen: Lum postpones Abner’s trial to make his plans
• 450607. Listen: Trial begins, with Squire representing Ira
• 450611. Listen: Squire drums up more charges against Abner
• 450612. Listen: Abner in deeper after Cedric’s testimony
• 450613. Listen: Squire springs surprise witness
• 450614. Listen: Still more problems for Abner
• 450618. Listen: Lum suggests that Abner plead insanity
• 450619. Listen: Psychiatrist tries to figure out just who is crazy
• 450620. Listen: Ira’s lawyer, Squire, skips out of town
• 450621. Listen: Abner and Ira settle out of court
• 450625. Listen: Abner heckles Lum about outcome of case
• 450626. Listen: Lum found out the whole story behind Robert and bull
• 450627. Listen: Detective Lum tells what he found out
• 450628. Listen: Lum and Abner discuss converting Jot ‘Em Down Store into department store

July 1945

• 450702. Listen: Jot ‘Em Down Store will issue shares of stock
• 450703. Listen: Pine Ridge Stock Exchange open for business
• 450704. Listen: Lum doesn’t go to the 4th of July picnic
• 450705. Listen: Lum and Abner sell shares to Cedric
• 450709. Listen: Cedric’s pa makes Lum and Abner buy back shares at a loss
• 450710. Listen: Grandpap wants Consolidated Banana stock
• 450711. Listen: Grandpap thinks he is rich on Consolidated Banana
• 450712. Listen: Bottom drops out of banana market
• 450716. Listen: Lum and Abner must try to get share of stock back from Ulysses S. Quincy
• 450717. Listen: Lum and Abner are arrested for breaking into Quincy house
• 450718. Listen: Lum and Abner are in jail
• 450719. Listen: Jot ‘Em Down Store closes for 6 weeks

August 1945

On vacation.

September 1945

• 450903. Listen: Back from vacation, Lum has a great new idea
• 450904. Listen: Lum tells Abner about the new postwar world
• 450905. Listen: The Ed’ards & Peabody Split-Atom Company
• 450906. Listen: Lum and Abner dig for uranium
• 450910. Listen: Have Lum and Abner found uranium?
• 450911. Listen: Lum and Abner toss around a bottle of nitroglycerine
• 450912. Listen: Cedric drinks uranium; has he become a dog?
• 450913. Listen: Abner feeds Cedric, the St. Bernard
• 450917. Listen: The dog disappears and Cedric returns
• 450918. Listen: The dog runs off with nitroglycerine bottle
• 450919. Listen: Lum is trapped in truck with nitroglycerine
• 450920. Listen: Grandpap tells about big blowout in Mena
• 450924. Listen: Lum pretends to be sick; Miss Emaline wants a date with him
• 450925. Listen: Lum brags to Miss Emaline that he knows the president of the railroad
• 450926. Listen: Miss Emaline wants Lum to get train reservations for her
• 450927. Listen: Lum admits everything

October 1945

• 451001. Listen: Abner will help Lum fake an accident
• 451002. Listen: Cedric and Abner will run over Lum in car
• 451003. Listen: Miss Emaline gets an injunction against Lum
• 451004. Listen: The school board wants Lum to talk Miss Emaline out of resigning
• 451008. Listen: Lum makes excuses to the school board
• 451009. Listen: Everything is okay between Lum and Miss Emaline
• 451010. Listen: Lum claims to be a roller skating champ
• 510111. Listen: Abner teaches Lum how to skate
• 451015. Listen: Lum gave a comical skating exhibition Saturday night (Abner and Squire sing “Pine Ridge School Song”)
• 451016. Listen: Lum is the new coach of the Pine Ridge football team
• 451017. Listen: Pine Ridge Possums must beat Oden Owls
• 451018. Listen: The football team needs new equipment
• 451022. Listen: Pine Ridge loses to Oden
• 451023. Listen: Cedric is Pine Ridge’s star football player
• 451024. Listen: Sgt. V. W. Hartford is coming to work in the store
• 451025. Listen: Sgt. Hartford quickly takes over
• 451029. Listen: Lum and Abner are overworked
• 451030. Listen: Explaining the bookkeeping
• 451031. Listen: To collect unpaid bills

November 1945

• 451101. Listen: Lum and Abner try to collect bill from Grandpap
• 451105. Listen: Miss Hartford has been out collecting bills
• 451106. Listen: Lum and Abner decide Sgt. Hartford has to go
• 451107. Listen: Jot ‘Em Down Store is no longer bankrupt
• 451108. Listen: Perhaps romance would get Miss Hartford out of Lum and Abner’s hair
• 451112. Listen: Lum and Abner plan to match up Miss Hartford and Mose Moots
• 451113. Listen: Miss Hartford and Mose Moots are not a match
• 451114. Listen: Store will have big sale on pre-war girdles and nylon stockings
• 451115. Listen: Sale comes off with only a few casualities
• 451119. Listen: Sgt. Hartford gets a letter from matrimonial bureau
• 451120. Listen: Cedric must pass test to stay on football team
• 451121. Listen: Matrimonial bureau sends old photo of Lum to Miss Hartford
• 451122. Listen: Thanksgiving Dinner at Abner’s House
• 451126. Listen: Abner helps Cedric study for test
• 451127. Listen: Miss Hartford falls in love with 30-year-old picture of Lum
• 451128. Listen: Grandpap’s help makes things worse
• 451129. Listen: Miss Emaline and Miss Hartford both have same photo of Lum

December 1945

• 451203. Listen: Lum fakes love letter from “Mr. X”
• 451204. Listen: Miss Hartford thinks Mr. X works at wholesale grocery house in Mena
• 451205. Listen: Miss Hartford goes to Mena and finds a Mr. X
• 451206. Listen: Elizabeth wants to be “Queen for a Day”
• 451210. Listen: Otis Bagley comes to dinner
• 451211. Listen: Miss Hartford has eloped
• 451212. Listen: Abner’s pet mouse, Clyde
• 451213. Listen: Lum makes Abner set traps for Clyde
• 451217. Listen: Mr. Talbert and his father want to buy Jot ‘Em Down Store
• 451218. Listen: Cedric and Mousey help impress Talberts
• 451219. Listen: Lum and Abner borrow cash to make store receipts look better
• 451220. Listen: Talberts rob, tie, and gag Lum and Abner
• 451224. Listen: Lum and Abner are trapped in burning Jot ‘Em Down Store
• 451225. Annual Christmas Story
• 451226. Listen: Lum and Abner escape the fire
• 451227. Listen: Squire says Lum and Abner can’t collect on their fire insurance
• 451231. Listen: Lum and Abner search hills for robbers; meet ornery gas station owner

1944 < > 1946