Radio broadcasting was the cheapest form of entertainment, and it provided the public with far better entertainment than most people were accustomed to. As a result, its popularity grew rapidly in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and by 1934, 60 percent of the nation's households had radios.

Lum and Abner

Lum and Abner

Broadcast History: 26 April 1931 to 7 May 1954
Theme Tune: Eleanor, by Jessie L Deppen. Evalena, by Sybil Chism Bock. Down on the Old Part Line, by Ralph and Elsie Mae Emerson

This comedy, that spanned over 23 years on the air, was centered around Lum Edwards and Abner Peabody, played by Chester Lauck and Norris "Tuffy" Goff, co-owners of the Jot'em Down Store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas. It was a "hillbilly" show and Pine Ridge was was based on the real life little town Waters, Arkansas. The Jot'em Down Store was based on a typical general store that was actually owned by a real life Dick Huddleston in Waters, Arkansas and Goff's father actually owned a wholesale grocery business in the larger town of Mena, which supplied products to the Huddleston store.

LA530416 - Other People Start Guessing Cans [366]
 2.49 MB

LA530417 - Lum and Abner Try To Guess Grandpap's Secret [366]
 2.6 MB

LA530420 - Lum and Abner Try To Get Back At Grandpap [366]
 2.61 MB

LA530421 - Lum and Abner Spring Their Trap On Grandpap [366]
 2.59 MB

LA530422 - What To Do About The Cans [366]
 2.69 MB

LA530423 - Lum Asks Out Miss Frederick [366]
 2.47 MB

LA530424 - Lum And Abner Discuss Adding A Library [366]
 2.5 MB

LA530427 - Lum And Abner Start The Library [366]
 2.35 MB

LA530428 - Abner Thinks Lum Wants Library Lions [366]
 2.66 MB

LA530429a - Cedric Tries to Get a Library Card [366]
 2.76 MB

LA530429b - Abner Reads Stories To Cedric [371]
 2.69 MB

LA530429c - Cedric Puts A Tent In Front Of The Store [371]
 2.52 MB

LA530430 - Lum And Abner Want Cedric To Move [371]
 2.67 MB

LA530501 - Getting Property From Squire [371]
 2.55 MB

LA530504 - Lum Decides To Become A Chef [373]
 2.57 MB

LA530505 - L&a Install A Stove [373]
 2.53 MB

LA530506 - Lum Invents Prune Bread [373]
 2.58 MB

LA530507 - Lum Tries to Market Prune Bread [373]
 2.25 MB

LA530508 - Lum Wants A Bread Truck [373]
 2.67 MB

LA530511 - Abner and Grandpap Wrap Bread [373]
 2.48 MB

LA530512 - Locket Found by Lulu Watts, Champion Weightlifter [373]
 2.42 MB

LA530513 - Lum Wants Abner to Talk Lulu out of Marrying Him [373]
 2.5 MB

LA530514 - Knuckles Will Fight for Lulu [375]
 2.45 MB

LA530515 - Final Show - Complete [375]
 3.2 MB

LA530515 - Lum And Abner Say Goodbye To Listeners Again [000]
 3.04 MB

LA530531 - Knuckles Fights Lum [325]
 3.18 MB

LA531020 - Lum Trades Bank Safe To Squire [000]
 2.42 MB

LA531021 - Squire Arrives To Claim Safe [000]
 2.29 MB

LA531022 - Lum Doesn't Know Anything [000]
 2.2 MB

LA531023 - Find OutTruth [000]
 2.3 MB

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