1947

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.
  • Oct. 6, 1947-Sept. 24, 1948, CBS. 15m, weekdays at 5:45. Alka-Seltzer.

Dates with no listings are missing episodes.

January 1947

  • 470101
  • 470102
  • 470106 Lum orders oysters
  • 470107 Poor little oysters 
  • 470108 Restaurants want Lumburger recipe
  • 470109 1894 telegram from Grover Cleveland
  • 470113 Tipping Grandpap
  • 470114 Doc’s Telegram 
  • 470115 Grandpap hired as Lum’s secretary
  • 470116 Abner fills Grandpap’s former shoes as telegram delivery boy
  • 470120 Lum being crushed by own success
  • 470121 No one willing to be first to eat oysters
  • 470122 Grandpap finds pearl in oyster
  • 470123 L&A, Squire & Grandpap all claim pearl
  • 470127 Squire sues L&A for pearl ownership
  • 470128 Grandpap also wants to sue L&A
  • 470129 Squire offers to buy pearl for $800
  • 470130 L&A go to Mena; get pearl appraised

February 1947

  • 470203 Lum hires lawyer Wallford
  • 470204 Pearl is missing
  • 470205 Judge of Human Nature 
  • 470206
  • 470210
  • 470211
  • 470212 Possession is 9/10ths of the law
  • 470213 Abner takes the witness stand 
  • 470217 Doc Withers testimony drives Judge stark raving mad crazy
  • 470218 Cedric is star witness for both Squire & Grandpap
  • 470219 Cedric’s testimony makes Lum sound like a criminal
  • 470220 L&A on trial because of pearl in oyster
  • 470224 At trial, lawyer is more interested in horses
  • 470225 Lum takes witness stand; makes total mess of it
  • 470226 Trial postponed for preliminary hearing on Lum’s bribery charge
  • 470227 Doc Withers tries to treat Lum for nervous breakdown

March 1947

  • 470303
  • 470304 L&A discuss Superman; trial verdict in
  • 470305 Lum feels bad about winning trial
  • 470306 L&A divide pearl money with Squire & Grandpap
  • 470310 Grandpap gets threatening phone call
  • 470311 Mysterious voice on party line threatens Squire Skimp
  • 470312 Lum worried about mysterious voice on party line.
  • 470313 Abner hires Cedric to carry a gun; Lum thinks Abner is the Voice.
  • 470317 The Voice predicts more disaster for PR citizens
  • 470318 The Voice calls again; Doc Withers is upset over something
  • 470319 Doc changes name to Ben Withers and gives up his practice
  • 470320 Ben prepares to leave town
  • 470324 L&A monitor party line; listen for calls from the voice.
  • 470325 L&A disconnect town’s phone system
  • 470326 Squire conducts town meeting to discuss the voice
  • 470327 L&A decide the voice is ghost of former Pine Ridge horse thief
  • 470331 Ben Withers sets trap to catch ghost

April 1947

  • 470401 Everyone gathered in Jot ‘Em Down store waiting for Ben to produce ghost
  • 470402 Ben tells how he caught the voice
  • 470403 Voice needs protection from lynch mob
  • 470407 Abner waiting on present from Pearl; Ben Withers planning to leave town.
  • 470408 Abner’s present arrives, but what is it?
  • 470409 L&A find out present is a shortwave transceiver.
  • 470410 Ben Withers appointed constable of PR
  • 470414 Abner’s Short Wave Receiver
  • 470415 Transmitting Troubles
  • 470416
  • 470417
  • 470421 Lum appoints officers of new VPR radio station.
  • 470422 Abner tricked into making Lum prez of VPR
  • 470423 Cedric learns to be a radio announcer
  • 470424 L&A’s 16th anniversary; Hollywood stars surprise them in middle of show!
  • 470428 Everyone sells same hour of advertising on VPR
  • 470429 VPR broadcasts Love Comes To Gilbert the Boy Trapper, sponsors cancel show
  • 470430 Thank You for the Info

May 1947

  • 470501 Court of Human Beings
  • 470505
  • 470506
  • 470507 L&A attempt to find out VPR’s ratings.
  • 470508 Queen for an Hour; Widder Abernathy wants Lum as her prize
  • 470512 Lum tries to arrange romance between Ben Withers & Widder Abernathy
  • 470513 Lum finds out Widder must claim her prize within 2 wks or offer is cancelled.
  • 470514 Sponsor Mose Moots wants wedding helf tomorrow.
  • 470515 Abner & Ben Withers in disc jockey show, Peabody’s Platter Party
  • 470519 At rehearsal, Lum marries Cedric to Widder
  • 470520
  • 470521 Widder hires lawyer to see if wedding is legal.
  • 470522 L&A try to keep lawyer from talking to Widder
  • 470526 Lum will try new act for radio: will become hypnotist
  • 470527 Lum hypnotizes Abner into doing all work around store
  • 470528 Lum causes Squire and Cedric to switch personalities
  • 470529

June 1947

  • 470602
  • 470603
  • 470604
  • 470605
  • 470609
  • 470610
  • 470611
  • 470612
  • 470616
  • 470617
  • 470618
  • 470619
  • 470623
  • 470624
  • 470625
  • 470626
  • 470630

July 1947

  • 470701
  • 470702
  • 470703
  • 470707
  • 470708 L&A attempt to open box belonging to Hempstead heirs.
  • 470709
  • 470710 Lum has mysterious box that must be opened by Hempstead heirs
  • 470714 Genealogist proves everyone in town is related to Hempsteads
  • 470715 Lum thinks genealogist, Prof. Crenshaw, should be run out of town
  • 470716 Mysterious box will be opened tomorrow night
  • 470717 Box contains envelope promising fabulous riches
  • 470721 Envelope contains secret formula
  • 470722 Ben Withers arrests Prof Crenshaw for fraud
  • 470723 L&A form Ed’ards & Peabody Chemical Co. to market Hempstead formula
  • 470724 Ed’ards & Peabody Chemical Co. has total assets of $13
  • 470728 L&A sell interest in Jot ‘Em Down Store to Cedric for $25
  • 470729 Cedric starts trying to run things at store; Lum buys chemicals to mix formula
  • 470730 Cedric accidently drinks bottle of formula
  • 470731 L&A still trying to figure out what formula is for

August 1947

  • 470804 Formula dyes clothes purple by accident
  • 470805 Hempstead formula makes great insect spray
  • 470806 Formula great for killing potato bugs
  • 470807 L&A & Cedric elect officers of chemical co.
  • 470811 Potato bug formula may save cotton crop from boll weevils
  • 470812 Polk Co. Cotton Growers’ Assoc. orders 6000 gallons of formula
  • 470813 Ben Withers orders 200 barrels for formula, barrels full of sauerkraut.
  • 470814 Lum gives Abner 3 hrs. to get rid of kraut
  • 470818 Chemical co. in Little Rock interested in buying formula
  • 470819 L&A gave formula to wrong man
  • 470820 Imposter located in Squire’s office; Miss Emaline is leaving PR
  • 470821 Imposter didn’t get formula after all
  • 470825
  • 470826
  • 470827
  • 470828

September 1947

  • 470901
  • 470902
  • 470903
  • 470904
  • 470908
  • 470909
  • 470910
  • 470911
  • 470915
  • 470916
  • 470917
  • 470918
  • 470922 Wedding ceremony of Abner’s daughter Little Pearl
  • 470923
  • 470924
  • 470925
  • 470929
  • 470930

October 1947

  • 471001
  • 471002 Lum tries new psychology to improve business.
  • 471003
  • 471006
  • 471007
  • 471008
  • 471009
  • 471010
  • 471013
  • 471014
  • 471015
  • 471016
  • 471017
  • 471020
  • 471021
  • 471022
  • 471023
  • 471024
  • 471027
  • 471028
  • 471029
  • 471030
  • 471031

November 1947

  • 471103
  • 471104
  • 471105
  • 471106
  • 471107
  • 471110
  • 471111
  • 471112
  • 471113 PR celebrates Abner Peabody Day.
  • 471114 Lum has trouble starting the PR Navy.
  • 471117
  • 471118
  • 471119
  • 471120
  • 471121
  • 471124
  • 471125
  • 471126
  • 471127
  • 471128

December 1947

  • 471201 Ben Withers enters Abner in Mt. Ida rodeo.
  • 471202
  • 471203
  • 471204
  • 471205
  • 471208
  • 471209
  • 471210
  • 471211
  • 471212
  • 471215
  • 471216 470203 Lum hires lawyer Wallford
  • 471217
  • 471218
  • 471219
  • 471222 Lum tells everyone not to buy him any Christmas presents
  • 471223
  • 471224
  • 471225 Annual Christmas Story
  • 471226
  • 471229
  • 471230
  • 471231

1946 < > 1948

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