Theater of the Mind
Chester Lauck
Cast, Host

Born February 9, 1902.
1,191 episodes in 7 shows · 1935–1956
Chester Lauck played Lum Edwards on the rural radio comedy Lum and Abner, which he and partner Norris Goff began as a weekly skit on KTHS in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The act became an NBC network series in 1931 and ran until 1954, moving among NBC, Mutual, CBS, and ABC. Lauck also voiced Cedric Weehunt, Grandpappy Spears, and Snake Hogan, and played Lum in seven films.
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Lum and Abner1185 · Cast
1935
- Lum and Abner Sell the Oil Well to Mr. Carter
- Squire Skimp, President of the Oil Company
- The Squire Hears from the Southern Pipeline
- The Pine Ridge Oil Boom Is Over
- The Pine Ridge Matrimonial Bureau
- The Matrimonial Bureau Is Swamped
- Reading the Matrimonial Bureau Mail
- The Matrimonial Bureau Moves into the Store
- Abner Gets a Telegram from Hortense
- Abner Goes to Meet Hortense
- Lizabeth Thinks Abner Is Seeing Hortense
- Abner in Bed with Two Broken Arms
- Financing the Reopening of the Jot 'Em Down Store
- Horlick's Agrees to Distribute the Flashlight
- More Mail for the Matrimonial Bureau
- Election for President of the Jot 'Em Down Store
- Lum Tells Everyone Abner's Arms Aren't Broken
- The Insurance Company Pays Abner $200
- Lum Is Nervous
- Lum Is Arrested
- Dick Huddleston Gets Lum Out of Jail
- Lum Has the Lead in the Election
- Abner Hires Cedric to Carry a Campaign Poster
- Restocking the Jot 'Em Down Store
- Lum Wins the Election by 17 Votes
- The Jot 'Em Down Store Reopens
- Lum and Cedric Don't Like Abner as Boss
- Abner Buys Ten Cases of Soap
- The Squire Pays Abner for the Soap Rights
- Abner Wants to Start Trading Merchandise
- Lum and Abner Divide Up the Store
- Abner Runs the Store on a Swap Basis
- Abner Swaps with Snake Hogan
- A Broken-Down Circus Comes to Pine Ridge
- Almost All of Abner's Merchandise Is Gone
- Abner Forecloses on the Circus
- Back in Partnership
- Feed for Circus Admission
- Lum and Abner Hire Squire Skimp
- The Squire Assembles a Freak Sideshow
- The Circus Will Open Saturday
- Lum Gives Up the Trapeze Act
- Lum Thinks All Circus Jobs Are Dangerous
- Grand Opening of the Circus Tomorrow
- Lum and Abner Lose Money on the Circus
- Abner Buys a Cheap Pair of Glasses
- Walt Bates Will Move the Circus to Mena
- The Circus Is Big Business in Mena
- A Storm Blows the Circus Tent Down
- The Circus Moves to Belleville
- Lum Borrows $200 from the Union Bank
- Dick Smashes Lum and Abner's Glasses
- Lum Falls in Love with Zenora
- Lum and Abner to Travel with the Circus
- The Circus Plays Mount Ida
- The Squire Is the Main Suspect
- Lum Will Hide the Money
- The Money Disappears Again
- Lum and Abner Sell Their Circus
- Lum and Abner Make Up
- Evalena and Frank Foster to Be Married
- Lum Needs an Engagement Ring for Evalena
- The Squire Buys Evalena's Engagement Ring
- Lum Gets a Chain Letter from Denver
- Lum Will Start His Own Chain Letter
- Finding a Place to Keep the Hogs
- Chain Letters Are Illegal
- Lum Wants to Start an Un-Chain Letter
- The Hog Chain Letter Should Be OK
- The Squire Will Take the Hogs to Chicago
- Lum Wants a Statue in His Honor
- Discussing the Statue
- A Catalogue from the Monument Company
- Lum Orders a Statue of Himself
- The Squire Returns from Chicago
- The Story of King Midas
- Things Go Wrong at the Unveiling
- Lum Missing All Weekend
- Lum Returns
- How to Operate a Picture Show
- A Cotton Warehouse for a Theater
- Lum and Abner Hire Grandpap
- Naming the New Theater
- The Picture Show Is Costing a Lot
- The Squire Wants to Be a Partner
- Worrying About a Rival Theater
- The Squire Plans a Rival Theater
- Lum and Abner Lose to the Squire
- Dick Will Help Lum and Abner
- Advertising a Free Matinee for Children
- The Squire Spreads Rumors About the Matinee
- The Ladies Uplift League Will Boycott the Show
- The Squire Is Breaking the Law
- Lum Won't Arrest the Squire
- Grandpap and Dick Demand the Squire's Arrest
- The Squire Is Upset Over the Warrant
- The Squire Is Tried in Lum's Court
- The Theater Draws Big Crowds
- Writing a Letter of Apology to the Squire
- The Squire Goes to See a Lawyer
- Lum and Abner Are Sued
- The Letter Becomes Evidence
- Abner and Grandpap Break into the Squire's House
- Abner Arrested for Breaking and Entering
- Lum Explains the Case to the Lawyer
- Lum, Abner and the Squire Go to Court
- Lum Arrives with Important Evidence
- Lum Decides to Become a Lawyer
- Lawyer Lum Decides It's Time to Retire (1935)
- An Argument Over the Picture Show
- Abner Hires Cedric as Clerk
- Abner Believes Lum Cheated Him
- Lum's Theater Burns Down (1935)
- Lum Forgot to Buy Fire Insurance
- Boss Abner Makes Clerk Edwards Miserable
- Lum Goes into Business with the Squire
- Lum's New Venture with the Squire
- Selling Shares in an Arizona Silver Mine
- Everyone Wants to Be in High Society
- Discussing the Rules of Etiquette
- High Society: The First Families of Pine Ridge
- They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree
- Abner Hates Being in High Society
- A Plot to Buy the Jot 'Em Down Store
- Abner Sells the Store to Snake Hogan
- Abner Has Not Been Seen
- The Real Reason Abner Disappeared
- Abner Becomes the Biggest Society Man of All
- Dick Huddleston Is Skeptical About the Mine
- Who Are Dixie Belle and Mary Jane?
- Lum and Abner Are Tired of High Society
- Snake Hogan Won't Sell the Store
- A Contest to Name the New Store
- The Squire Wants a Third of the Store
- Inspecting the New Rolling Store
- Getting the Rolling Store Out of the Blacksmith Shop
- Cedric Loads the Merchandise
- The Squire Goes to Arizona to Sell the Silver Mine
- The Store's First Day on the Road
- Dick Is Losing Customers to the Rolling Store
- The Name-the-Store Contest Ends
- Stockholders Are Upset with the Squire
- Lum Becomes Owner of the Silver Mine
- Lum Decides to Buy a Trailer for an Office
- Sell the Mine
- A Lynch Mob for Abner
- Abner Hides in the Barn
- A Speech on Honesty at School
- Raising $5,000 Bail
- Lum Sells All His Possessions
- Dick Huddleston Talks to the Judge
- Discussing Detective Methods
- Abner Helps Lum Pack for Tulsa
- Will Lum Skip Out on His Bail?
- Tulsa Police Arrest the Squire
1938
- The Pine Ridge Moving Picture Company
- Writing a Script for a War Movie
- The Squire, Theatrical Agent
- Lum's Movie Begins Filming
- The Squire Promotes an Oil Well
- Volcanoes and the Rotation of the Earth
- The Moving Picture Company Disbands
- The Squire Gives the Money Back
- Finding Bones
- A Professor Is Interested in the Bones
- Trying to Assemble the Bones
- Examining the Bones
- Cedric Sells Chances
- Abner Pretends to Be Sick
- April Fool's Day Jokes
- The Matrimonial Bureau Reopens
- Lum Composes a Newspaper Ad
- Lum Wants to Get Married
- The Benefits of Being Married
- Abner Sends Out Photos
- Lum Doesn't Know About the Photos
- Trouble Because of Abner
- Lum Patches Things Up
- Lum in Hiding from Birdie
- Lum's English Estate
- Lum's English Frame of Mind
- Raising Money for the Trip
- The Squire Renames the Store
- Lum's Ocean Voyage
- To England via Siberia
- Lum to Leave for England on July 3rd
- Counting Sheep
- No Groceries on Credit
- Lum Wants Abner to Go
- Lum and Abner's Christmas Story
1939
- Lum Engaged to Bertha
- Jack Benny's Honorary Degree
- The Automatic Washing Machine and Abner's Limousine Adventure
1940
- An Election Will Be Held
- Stirring Up Trouble Among the Women
- The Women Gang Up on Lum
- The Big Election
1941
- Abner Buys Mr. Dilbeck
- Memorial Day Ceremonies
- Grandpap Wants to Buy the Mule
- Cedric, Marketing Director
- A Marketing Scheme Backfires
- Dressing the Dummy Like a Woman
- Abner's Rabbits Are Worth Money
- Showdown with Lizabeth
- Abner Stands Up to His Wife
- The Value of Rabbits
- Taxes Owed on the Rabbits
- Buying Property for the Rabbits
- Cedric Buys the Property
- The Professor's Old Chemicals
- Inventing a Way to Make Things Fall Sideways
- Lum and Abner Run a Bank
- Lum Buys a Bank Guard Uniform
- A Strange Box Left at the Bank
- Speculating on the Box's Contents
- The Box Contains Diamonds
- Dealing with Stolen Jewels
- Anxiously Waiting for a Reply
- Lum to Marry a Rich Widow
- Practicing Jujitsu Holds
- Mrs. Barrington's Letter
- Jewels Missing from the Box
- Everything Squared Away
- Lum and the Board of Directors
- The Bank Has No Charter
- Mohammed to the Mountain
- Lum Wants to Open a Nursery
- A Book on Modern Salesmanship
- The Salesmanship Book Arrives
- Getting Rid of the Sales Book
- The Correspondence Course
- The New Adding Machine
- The New Teacher, Miss Fredericks
- Lum's Broken Leg
- Collecting Accident Insurance
- Trouble with Deception
- Miss Fredericks Is Dating
- An Answer from the Course
- The Squire Helps Lum Out
- The Hindu Miracle Man
- Prince Ali Kush
- The Big Show at the Schoolhouse
- The Prince Heals Lum's Leg
- The Squire Wants Lum to Help Swindle the Town
- The Squire Is Cheating the Prince
- The Prince Beats Up the Squire
- Lum Dating Miss Fredericks
- Abner Wrecks Lum's Date
- Lum Puts a Library in the Store
- Cedric Delivers the Books
- The New York Library and Its Lions
- Abner to Buy a Lion
- Ervin the Lion Is Loose
- Cedric the Lion Tamer
- The Basics of Lion Taming
- Ervin the Lion Escapes
- Setting a Trap for Ervin
- Lum, Big Game Hunter
- Capturing a Mountain Lion
- Ervin Located and Adopted
- Lum to Open a Bakery
- Cedric Brings a Stove
- Putting Up the Stovepipe
- Lum Invents Prune Bread
- To Mena for Bread Orders
- A Red and Yellow Delivery Truck
- Miss Fredericks's Locket Is Lost
- The Locket Is Found by Gussie
- Lum Forced to Marry Gussie
- Mousey Gray Is Mad at Lum
- Lum to Dine with Gussie
- Mousey Knocks Lum Out
- Mousey Beats Up Snake Hogan
- Mousey the Prize Fighter
- Carnival Performer Iron Ike
- The Squire, Mousey's Manager
1942
- Lum Buys Mousey's Contract
- Mousey vs. Iron Ike
- Marketing Lucky Loaf Bread
- The Store and Bakery Go to Abner
- Lum Wants the Store and Bakery Back
- Mousey Loses His Last Fight
- Is Lum Destitute?
- Farm and Needlework Weekly
- Mousey as Delivery Boy
- Lum Fakes a Nervous Breakdown
- Ownership Papers to the Store
- Lum to Break into the Store
- Uncle Henry Lunsford's Jail
- Lum to Try Himself in Court
- Lum Sets His Own Bail
- The Ownership Paper Goes to Trial
- The Case Against Lum Is Dropped
- Ventriloquists
- Filling Out the Income Tax Form
- An Honest Man
- $10,000 to the Most Honest Man
- A Long-Overdue Grocery Bill
- Who Is the New Deputy?
- Cedric May Be a Deputy
- Pamphlets on Honesty
- Lum to Deliver Pamphlets
- Caught Using Lum's Ideas
- Clocks to War Savings Time
- Lum Is Circulation Manager
- Lum's Trip to Fort Smith
- Installing Victory Boxes
- Lum the Air Raid Warden
- Mousey the Airplane Watcher
- Strange Happenings at Night
- Cedric's License Plates Are Stolen
- The Plates Are Mysteriously Returned
- A Conversation with a Detective
- Wearing Diogenes's Clothes
- Cedric's Sudden Money
- The Lantern Must Be Magic
- A Half Interest in the Store
- Interrogating Cedric
- The Press Prints Money
- Abner and Cedric to Quit
- Lum Running the Printing Press
- Worry Over Going to Jail
- Cedric Escapes from Jail
- Harboring a Criminal
- Detective Mousey Gray
- Lum Brings Back Diogenes
- Diogenes Leaves $10,000
- Ways to Spend the Money
- The RKO Studios Premiere
- Committees for the Premiere
- Lum's Premiere Speech
- The Need for a Projectionist
- The Bashful Bachelor
- A Prize for the Best Suggestion
- Ulysses Wants a Toll Bridge
- How to Spend $10,000
- The Wonderful World Apartments
- Grandpap Is Ready to Move
- Mousey Wants His Mother to Move
- Cedric Can't Get an Apartment
- Cedric Living in a Tent
- The Squire Knows a Contractor
- Cedric to Remove the Tent
- Things Look Rather Shady
- The Apartment Idea Is Bad
- Lum Gets a Check from the Squire
- Discussing Car Pooling
- Building an Old Folks' Home
- $10,000 in War Bonds
- Lum to Start a Print Shop
- The Press Prints Store Bills
- Abner Sleeping on the Job
- The Oxford Overnight Writers
- More Money in Publishing
- Contribute to the USO
- Jewels on the Squire's Property
- The Property Deal Goes Sour
- The Phantom Author's Manuscript
- Abner Is the Frightened Author
- The Author Reveals His Identity
- A Store Full of Owls
- Robert Blevins Is Killed
- Cedric Tries to Get a Date
- The Greeting Card Business
- Greeting Card Verses
- Trying to Get a Poetic License
- How to Win Back Clarabelle
- Writing to an Advice Column
- A Desperate Love Life
- Cedric to Join the Marines
- How to Boss Your Wife
- Peace for Abner and Lizabeth
- Rumors to Help Abner
- The Rumor Backfires
- Lizabeth and Pearl Leave
- Lum Is Blamed for the Trouble
- The Masked Muskrat Reports
- Where Is Lizabeth?
- A Baby Left in the Store
- Mousey Takes Care of the Baby
- Lum and Abner to Keep the Baby
- Lum Dresses as a Woman
- Threats from the Black Pelican
- The Black Pelican's Confession
- The Masked Muskrat's Report
- A Ghost in Abner's House
- Lizabeth and Pearl Return
- Who Will Keep the Baby?
- The Baby Will Draw His Name
- The Coat of Arms in the Newspaper
- The Editor of the Mena Star Helps
- A Letter by Carrier Pigeon
- The Fundamentals of Babysitting
- The Baby May Be a Lost King
- Taking the Baby King's Place
- A Mysterious Phone Call
- Trying Foreign Languages on the Baby
- A Genealogical Search on the Baby
- The Baby Is Heir to a Gold Mine
- Custody of the Gold Mine
- President of the Gold Mine
- Mousey to Work in the Mine
- The Baby's Case Gets Expensive
- The Squire's $1,100 Note
- Entering the Baby in a Movie Contest
- Auctioning the Store Fixtures
- The Baby's Father Shows Up
- The Squire Isn't on the Level
- Everything Settled
- Lum and Abner Miss the Baby
- The Handy Folding Cot
- Mousey Opens a Travel Agency
- Vacation
- Mousey Shows Travel Slides
- The Horrors of Nazi Germany
- Election of the School Board
- A New School Teacher Is Needed
- Mousey Wants to Be Teacher
- The New Teacher Is Named Sloane
- The Penny Weighing Machine
- Is Sloane a He or a She?
- A Date with Professor Sloane
- V for Victory Homes
- Doing Things Lum's Way
- Lum the Matchmaker
- A Love Letter to the Widder
- No One Can Read the Letter
- The New Observatory
- A Location for the Observatory
- Investing in the Observatory
- Cedric to Join the Army
- Cedric to Get the Telescope
- The Mother of Invention
- Cheering Up Professor Sloane
- Lum, Substitute Teacher
- Buying the Observatory Property
- The Squire Is Up to Tricks Again
- Trying to Move a Heavy Box
- Meteorologist's Supplies
- Abner's Rocket Ship to Mars
- Mousey Wants to Go to Mars
- How to Build a Rocket Ship
- The Squire Wants to Manage the Trip
- Treasurer of the Mars Expedition
- Planning the Landing on Mars
- Enforcing Meat Rationing
- Varnishing the Rocket Ship
- The Squire Wants to Resign
- Keeping the Squire as Treasurer
- The Rocket Unveiling Ceremony
- Trouble Getting the Rocket Out
- The Mars Launch Is Tomorrow
- The Blast Goes Off Early
- Why the Squire Was Arrested
- Top Ten Chumps of 1942
- An Article on the Rocket Project
- Lum Deposits the Article Money
- Mousey Gray Is Drafted
- Preparing for the Physical
- A Going-Away Party for Mousey
- The Golden Era Discussion Club
- The First Discussion: Beethoven
- Is Cedric Engaged?
- Worried About Marriage
- The Club List and the Wedding Mix-Up
- The Club Meets at Grandpap's
- Cedric to Marry Tomorrow
- Cedric Kidnapped at the Wedding
- Cedric Returns
- The Club Discusses Spinoza
- A Breach of Promise Suit
- Cedric's Trial Begins
- A Discussion of the Mona Lisa
- Redfield's Testimony
- A Patriotic Speech at the Trial
1943
- The Discussion Club Talks Garters
- Wimpy Foster Is Drafted
- Winifred Elopes with the Doctor
- The Grand Prize on the Pinball Machine
- The Club Meets at Cedric's House
- Abner's Trading Fever
- Abner Needs to Find a Job for Pearl
- Has Lum Gone Crazy?
- History of the Jot 'Em Down Store
- Citizens Leaving Pine Ridge
- Can Lum and Abner Save the Town?
- The Club Meets at Ulysses's Home
- Grandpap's Chemistry Set
- How to Make Invisible Ink
- Ink into Synthetic Rubber
- The Club Doesn't Discuss Rubber
- The Rubber Company Elects Officers
- Practicing Red Tape
- Keeping the Secret Formula in His Head
- A Fall Gives Grandpap Amnesia
- Grandpap Is Someone Else
- Grandpap, Alias Buster, Salesman
- The Amnesia Is Causing Trouble
- The Club Tries to Cure Grandpap
- Trying to Recall the Formula
- Playing Checkers
- Pine Ridge Saved from Ruin
- The Club's Present to Grandpap
- A Coming-Out Party for Grandpap
- Lum Reads an Etiquette Book
- Pine Ridge Social Leader
- Grandpap Is a Debutante
- Adopting Grandpap-Buster
- Lum May Adopt Grandpap
- Dressing for the Big Society Party
- The Club Learns About Etiquette
- Cedric Is Promoted at His Job
- The Coming-Out Party Is Monday
- Grandpap Doesn't Show Up
- Grandpap Leaves for Toledo
- Pine Ridge Needs a Dentist
- A Dentist from the County Seat
- Dr. Snide Arrives
- The Club Meets Dr. Snide
- An Office in the Feed Room
- Mousey Comes to Visit
- Lum Installs an Intercom
- Dr. Snide Lectures to the Club
- Improving Dr. Snide's Business
- Not Much Dental Work
- Lum Must Arrest Dr. Snide
- Dr. Snide Skips Town
- Grandpap-Buster Returns
- The County Agricultural Board
- Barbara Stanwyck Drops By
- The Life of Milford Spears
- Love and Aunt Charity
- Grandpap and Charity Have a Date
- Cedric's Car Pool Troubles
- Grandpap and Charity Together
- Is Charity Too Good?
- The Dangers of Black Market Meat
- Proposing to Charity
- Grandpap's Memory Is Restored
- The Rubber Formula on the Wall
- Plans for a Rubber Factory
- The Synthetic Rubber Is Worthless
- War Bond Staff Chairman
- A Business Meeting
- Teaching About Inflation
- Neosho the Mind Reader
- A Tent for the Fortune Teller
- Neosho Doesn't Show
- Abner Subs for Neosho
- Fortune Teller Abner
- Trying to Get Out of Dinner
- Lum's Troubles Are Known
- Selling Lots of War Bonds
- The Election May Be Good
- Relatives Arrive in Town
- Relatives Use the Vacant Lot
- A Fictional Third Woman
- Biography of the Mystery Woman
- Lum Uses Psychology
- Mabel Melrose Shows Up
- Mabel Wants to Claim Her Prize
- Mabel to Leave Town
- Lum in Love with Mabel
- Mabel, Surrealist Painter
- Mabel to Move into the Attic
- The Artist in the Attic
- Preparing for the Art Exhibit
- Presiding Over the Art Sale
- Lum Disgusted with Art
- Lum and Mabel Go Birdwatching
- Lum Studies Correct Grammar
- Lum Tries Proposing
- Mousey Returns from the War
- Mousey's Adventures
- The Secret Diary
- The Truth About Mousey's Wound
- Mabel Melrose Leaves Town
- Back to Business
- Treasury Department Honors
- Old Blue to Be Drafted
- Mousey and Old Blue at the Club
- Old Blue Won't Be Drafted
- Ellie Connors Escapes
- Don't Tell About Ellie
- How to Disguise Ellie
- Ellie Will Go to Wisconsin
- Ellie Poses as Lum's Niece
- Everyone Is Convinced Ellie Is Mary
- Keeping Mary Entertained
- Who's Mary's Guardian?
- Gaining Custody of Mary
- A Scientific Discussion
- Curing Cedric's Insomnia
- The Squire Is Suspicious of Mary
- Mary's Romantic Problems
- Mary Will Be on Probation
- Trailing Mary Around Town
- On Uncle Henry's Good Side
- Lum and Abner Mind the Jail
- Uncle Henry in a Wheelchair
- Trouble for Stealing a Kettle
- Measles and Quarantine
- Cedric Infects Everyone
- Nurse Lunsford and the Sick
- The Story of Snorter the Pig
- Getting Rid of Uncle Henry
- The Report to the Reformatory
- Impersonating a Conscience
- Lum Will Change Henry's Mind
- Mary Is Lum and Abner's Ward
- Discussing Modern Conveniences
- President of the School Board
- Caleb's Deciding Vote
- Caleb Elected President
- Lum Mopes Over Losing
- Cedric, High School Student
- Doing Favors for Cedric
- A Paper for English Class
- Lum, a Self-Made Man
- Trade School Classes
- A Class in Storekeeping
- Lum Leaves Town
- Classified Ads
- Abner Rents Lum's House
- Possessions Given Away
- How to Get the Widder Out
- Ghosts
- Discussing a Movie Theater
- Lum Wants to Mortgage the Store
- How to Get a Movie Projector
- Learning to Operate the Projector
- Grandpap to Play the Piano
- Free Passes to Everyone
- Abner Will Go to Mena
- Packing a Suitcase for the Trip
- The Motion Picture Salesman
- Lum Buys The Vulture's Revenge
- The Film Company President
- Mary's Problems in School
- Abner Returns from Mena
- Voting on a Name for the Theater
- The Squire to Be Third Partner
- Opening a Competing Theater
- Lum and Abner Lose Their Help
- The Squire Tricks Grandpap
- Cedric Delivers Handbills
- A Free Preview Tuesday
- Rumors About the Theater
- The Ladies Uplift League
- Spying on the Squire's Show
- The Squire's Theater Is Illegal
- The Squire Arrested
- A Warrant on the Squire
- The Squire Rants and Raves
- Justice of the Peace Court
- The Squire Is Injured in a Fall
- Writing an Apology
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The Squire Sues for Damages
- Incriminating Evidence
- Lum to Hire a Lawyer
- Things Don't Look Good
- Trying to Steal the Note
- The Squire Will Drop the Charges
- The Squire's Lawyer Visits
- Wanting the Squire's X-Rays
- The Squire's Back Is in Bad Shape
- Lum Leaves During the Trial
- Trying to Find Lum
- Raising Money to Eat
- Lum Returns to Save the Day
- Lum Will Become a Lawyer
- Lawyer Lum Decides It's Time to Retire (1943)
- Abner Sole Owner of the Store
- Neither Lum nor Abner Is Happy
1944
- Everyone Against Abner
- Lum's Theater Burns Down (1944)
- Fire: Lum Loses Everything
- Abner Hires Lum to Work
- Lum Becomes Delivery Boy
- A Chamber of Commerce Meeting
- The Relationship Is Strained
- Lum Asks for a Raise
- Lum Is Diamond Jim Edwards
- The Diamond Business
- Everyone Wants to Sell Diamonds
- Lum Trades the Bogus Diamonds
- Abner Thinks Lum Will Fail
- Lum Practices Barbering
- A Play to Sell War Bonds
- Personalized Barber Mugs
- Lum Hires Customers
- Lum to Cut a Lady's Hair
- Lum Shaves Off Grandpap's Beard
- Grandpap on the Prowl
- Lum Disguises Himself
- Something to Tell Lum
- A Recruiting Book for the WAVES
- Lum Invents a Hair Tonic
- Grandpap Is Mad About the Tonic
- The Lost Treasure Expedition Company
- Cedric's Stenographer
- Expedition to Tennessee
- The Trip to Tennessee
- A Night in a Hotel Room
- The Car Breaks Down
- A Lecture on the Evils of Wealth
- Digging for Treasure
- The Treasure Hunters Are Broke
- Pawning the Pinball Machine
- No Questions from Grandpap
- Lum Will Give a Speech
- A Mysterious Package Arrives
- They Can't Open the Package
- Using Worthless Old Coins
- The Squire Wants into the Treasure Company
- Lum Decides to Open a Museum
- Labeling Items in the Museum
- Cedric's Latest Date
- Lum Wants to Hire a Woman
- Lum's Boring Museum Lecture
- The Stuffed Owl Disappears
- The Mystery of the Stuffed Owl
- Is the Owl Alive or Not?
- A Visit to Convalescent Lum
- Abner Was Once a King
- Phinus Peabody to Visit
- Phinus's Eccentricities
- Telling Lizabeth About Phinus
- Abner's Weird Behavior
- Phinus Calls from Mena
- Phinus Peabody Arrives
- Phinus Takes the WAVES Prisoner
- A 50th Wedding Anniversary
- History of the Peabody Family
- Cedric and Phinus Take a Trip
- Phinus Drives Lizabeth Nuts
- An Odd Collecting Habit
- Grandpap Can't Stand Phinus
- The Man Who Came to Dinner
- Phinus Meets Sister Simpson
- Trying to Find a Job for Phinus
- A Job at the Defense Plant (June 1944)
- A Tire Rationing Board Job
- A Rich Stranger Arrives
- Phinus Acts as Guide
- Discussing Lum's Business
- The Story of Ponce de Leon
- B. J.'s Business Meeting
- A Health Resort to Be Built
- No Property Development
- Taking Cedric's Picture
- Grandpap Agrees to the Resort
- Lum Will Hire an Architect
- Suspicious of B. J. Webster
- Lum to Analyze the Spring Water
- Teaching Cedric to Dance
- Results on the Spring Water
- B. J. Webster Gets the Analysis
- A Job at the Defense Plant (July 1944)
- Health Resort Riches
- B. J. Webster, Sole Owner
- Investing in the Health Resort
- Efficiency Measures at Work
- Grandpap to Sell His Land
- They Can't See President Spears
- Putting Up a Screen Door
- A Tribute to the Merchant Marine
- Lum Serves the Eviction Papers
- Grandpap Is Furious
- Fiddling with Property Lines
- Briar Creek Ideas
- Abner Walks Out on Lum
- Abner Minds the Jail
- Abner Competes with Lum
- Grandpap's Eviction Notice
- Still Not Talking to Lum
- Lum Traps B. J. Webster
- B. J. Webster Arrested
- B. J. Webster's Trial
- B. J. Webster Pleads Guilty
- Buying the Dillard Farm
- Mailing a Christmas Package
- Helping Grandpap Move to the Farm
- Diverting the Creek
- They Won't Have to Change the Creek
- Lum Accused of Embezzlement
- Telling Lum About the Charges
- Lum to Become a Martyr
- A Cake with a Surprise Inside
- Lum Is Miserable
- The Inflation Play, Repeated
- Lum Isn't Worried About the Trial
- Lum and Abner Leave for the Trial
- Everyone Working on the Case
- The Squire to Take Lum's Case
- The Trial Begins (1944)
- Grandpap's Testimony
- The Situation Looks Hopeless
- Lum Gives Testimony
- Closing Remarks
- Surprise Evidence
- Lum Appreciates Everything
- Reading Through the Junk Mail
- A New Policy
- School Board President
- Ignoring Board President Lum
- A Play About the Merchant Marine
- Complaining About Sloane
- Sloane Gets a Better Job
- Discussing a Replacement Teacher
- An Arithmetic Problem
- Lum Examines the Records
- To Greet the New Teacher
- The War Bond Meeting
- Hitchhiking Home
- The New Teacher, Emaline Platt
- Discussing Halloween Pranks
- Working on the Water Pipes
- Excuses to Visit the School
- Writing an English Composition
- Abner to Learn the Trombone
- Off to Texas
- Stranded at the Johnson Farm
- A Call Supposedly from Texas
- Mr. Dennison Visits
- Checkers Over the Phone
- The Psychologist Arrives
- Taking the Psychologist's Test
- Lum and Thanksgiving Dinner
- Abner's Trouble at Home
- Newspaper Love Advice
- Cedric Reads Abner's Letter
- Barbara Stanwyck and War Bonds
- Abner and the Hunger Strike
- Discouraged with the Strike
- The Third Day of the Hunger Strike
- Abner to Become a Bum
- Abner Enjoys a Bum's Life
- Lizabeth Wants Abner Back
- Lum May Become a Bum Too
- A Letter from Pearl
- Abner and Marriage Advice
- Doc Peabody's Advice Bureau
- Wanting to Hear Town Gossip
- A Leather Desk Set for Christmas
- Christmas Story
- Lum's Appointment with Doc
- Abner Gives Lum Advice
- Lum's Romantic Speech
1945
- New Year's Day at Abner's
- Baritone Singer Lum
- Lum Is in a Singing Contest
- Getting Out of the Contest
- Phinus Helps Abner in the Store
- Ira Hodgekins Wants Advice
- Ira and His Wife Trade Jobs
- Abner's Plan Isn't Working
- Lum's First Prize Ribbon
- Details of the Contest
- Lum to Sing at the Charity Bazaar
- A Newspaper Article About Lum
- Lum Sang at the Bazaar Saturday
- The Shortage of Nurses Overseas
- The Truth About Lum's Prize
- Miss Emaline Is Happy
- Lum's Hair Is the Wrong Color
- Lum Hides His Hair
- Groundhog Day
- Insurance with Loopholes
- Lum Will Have His Hair Bleached
- The Wrong Idea About Lum
- The Beauty Shop Bill
- $2,500 for the Hill Property
- Lum and Abner Camp Out
- An Old Abandoned Silver Mine
- Shopping for a Valentine
- A Cave-In Traps Lum and Abner
- Where Are Lum and Abner?
- Organizing a Search Party
- Cracking Under the Strain
- Old Blue Leads the Search Party
- Lum Tries to Attack Abner
- Lum and Abner Found
- Recuperating at Abner's
- The Newspaper Article (1945)
- W. J. Chancellor Arrives
- A Book About the Mine Cave-In
- Lum Must Uninvite People
- Cedric Varnishes the Dishes
- The Buffet Supper Is a Success
- A Play Instead of a Book
- Lum Buys an Engagement Diamond
- The Kunlun Diamond and a Curse
- The Diamond's Curse
- Abner Worried About the Curse
- A Surprising Revelation
- A Threatening Note
- Abner's House Is Broken Into
- Nervous About the Diamond
- Abner Is Advised to Sell the Diamond
- The Jeweler Dies
- Working a Crossword Puzzle
- The Kunlun Diamond and Trouble
- They Can't Get Rid of the Diamond
- Burying the Diamond in the Cellar
- The Schoolhouse at Night
- The Parrot Saves the Day
- Abner Gets Rid of the Diamond
- The Meaning of the United Nations
- Secretive About the Diamond
- Dick Tries to Patch the Rift
- The Store Divided in Half
- A Mysterious Box Left Behind
- The Newspaper Clipping
- Lum and Abner Open the Box
- More on the Contents of the Box
- Assembling the Robot
- Learning About Robert
- The Department of Child Welfare
- The Squire Wants a Carnival Tour with the Robot
- Clarabelle's Cousin
- Robert to Deliver Groceries
- Robert's First Day
- Losing Control of Robert
- Robert Is Nowhere to Be Found
- A Dead Prize Bull in a Ditch
- The Squire Gets Involved in the Case
- Lum Postpones Abner's Trial
- The Trial Begins (1945)
- More Charges Against Abner
- Abner in Deeper
- The Squire's Surprise Witness
- More Problems for Abner
- Abner Pleads Insanity
- The Pine Ridge Stock Exchange
- The Fourth of July Picnic
- Lum and Abner Sell Shares
- Buying Back Shares at a Loss
- Consolidated Banana Stock
- Grandpap Thinks He Is Rich
- The Bottom Drops Out of the Market
- They Must Get the Stock Back
- Lum and Abner Arrested
- Locked in a Jail Cell
- The New Postwar World
- The Edwards and Peabody Split Atom Company
- Digging for Uranium
- Lum and Abner Find Uranium
- A Bottle of Nitroglycerine
- Cedric Drinks the Uranium
- Cedric the St. Bernard
- Dog-Gone, Cedric Returns
- The Dog Runs Off with the Nitro
- Trapped with Nitroglycerine
- A Big Blowout in Mena
- Lum Pretends to Be Sick
- Lum Brags to Miss Emaline
- Lum to Use His Influence
- Lum Admits Everything
- Abner Will Help Lum
- Running Over Lum with a Car
- Miss Emaline and the Injunction
- Miss Emaline to Resign
- Excuses to the School Board
- Everything's Okay
- Lum Will Stop Exaggerating
- Abner Teaches Lum to Skate
- A Comical Skating Exhibition
- Football Team Coach
- The Pine Ridge Possums
- The Team Needs New Equipment
- Pine Ridge Loses to Oden
- Cedric Is the Star Player
- Sergeant V. W. Hartford
- The Sarge Quickly Takes Over
- Lum and Abner Overworked
- Explaining the Bookkeeping
- Collecting Unpaid Bills
- Trying to Collect a Bill
- The Store Is No Longer Bankrupt
- Romance and the Sarge
- Romance for the Sarge and Mose
- They Despise One Another
- A Big Sale on Prewar Girdles
- The Sale Is a Success
- The Matrimonial Bureau Letter
- The Football Team Test
- An Old Photo of Lum for the Sarge
- Thanksgiving Dinner
- Abner Helps Cedric Study
- Lum's 30-Year-Old Picture
- Grandpap Makes Things Worse
- The Same Old Photo of Lum
- A Love Letter from Mr. X
- Mr. X at the Wholesale Grocery
- To Mena, and She Finds a Mr. X
- Sergeant Hartford Has Eloped
- Abner Sets Traps for Clyde
- To Buy the Jot 'Em Down Store
- Impressing the Talbots
- Making the Store Receipts Look Better
- Lum and Abner Robbed
- Trapped in the Burning Store
- Lum and Abner Escape the Fire
- They Can't Collect the Insurance
- Searching the Hills for the Robbers
1946
- Old-Style Dollar Bills
- Burning the Robbers' Tent
- The Newspaper Article (1946)
- Collecting the $1,500 Reward
- Everyone Wants the Reward Money
- Partnership Insurance
- A Physical Exam for Insurance
- Trying to Collect the Insurance
- Abner Is Up to Something
- Abner Is Packing a Pistol
- Abner Even More Suspicious
- An Eagle Eye on Each Other
- Trying to Poison the Other
- Settling Things with a Duel
- Explaining the Rules of Dueling
- Infuriating the Governor
- Upset at How the Town Is Run
- Electing a New Mayor
- Lum Will Be Political Boss
- The Squire's Political Party
- Abner vs. Ezra for Mayor
- A Rally Over the Party Line
- The New Broom Party Holds a Rally
- How to Get the Lodge Hall
- Abner's Rally at the Lodge Hall
- The Mudslinging Begins
- Diogenes Smith's Old Press
- Extravagant Promises
- The New Broom Party Seeks Votes
- The Women Swing Over to Ezra
- The Women Back on Abner's Side
- The Women Head to Mena for a Sale
- Absentee Ballots for the Women
- The Last Day for Absentee Votes
- The New Mayor of Pine Ridge
- Talking to Mayor Peabody
- Cooking Dinner for the Mayor
- An All-Woman City Council
- Lum Loses His Justice of the Peace Job
- The 1,000th Broadcast
- Discussing the New Lady Barber
- Keeping Men from the Barbershop
- Figuring a Way Around the Law
- Kitty the Barber Quits
- Deciding How to Defeat the Women
- Dressing as a Woman to Beat the Curfew
- The Women Push a Big Bond Issue
- Lum and the Crooked Bond Issue
- The Men Head for the Hills
- Relocating Pine Ridge
- The Men Steal the Post Office
- The Men Give Up and Return
- Getting Clyde the Mouse
- Dr. Roller to Trap Clyde
- Obsessed with Catching Clyde
- The Shipbuilding Plant
- Labels Off the Canned Goods
- Mad About the Unlabeled Cans
- A Big Sale on Surprise Cans
- Guessing the Can Contents
- Tips on Guessing Cans
- The Secret Behind Guessing
- The Squire Almost Traps Lum
- The TV Popcorn Business
- Lum, Ladies' Hat Designer
- The Big Hat Style Show
- Last-Minute Plans for the Show
- The Hat Show Is a Big Fizzle
- Tom Breneman, Hollywood
- They Can't Get Railroad Tickets
- Sharing a Ride with a Tourist
- Catching a Train Back Home
- Rehearsing Lum's Play
- Lum to Sabotage the Rehearsal
- Reopening an Abandoned Hotel
- Operating the Mountain View Inn
- Guests but No Rooms Left
- A Phone Call to Get an Icebox
1947
- A Present from Pearl
- Abner's Present Arrives
- A Shortwave Transceiver
- Ben Withers, Constable
- The New Bloodhound
- Learning to Use the Transceiver
- The New VPR Radio Station
- Making Lum President of VPR
- Learning to Be a Radio Announcer
- 16th Anniversary on Radio
- Everyone Sells the Same Hour
- Love Comes to Gilbert the Boy Trapper
- The VPR Information Show
- The Court of Human Beings
- Finding Out VPR's Ratings
- Queen for an Hour
- Lum to Arrange a Romance
- Two Weeks to Claim the Prize
- She Wants the Wedding Tomorrow
- Abner and Ben Withers in a Disc Jockey Show
- Cedric Marries the Widder
- Is the Wedding Legal?
- Keeping the Lawyer from the Widder
- Trying a New Act for Radio
- Lum Hypnotizes Abner
- Switching Personalities
- A Mysterious Box Is Found in Lum's Attic
- Lum Has the Mysterious Box
- Related to the Hempsteads
- Professor Crenshaw
- The Mysterious Box to Be Opened
- Promising Fabulous Riches
- An Envelope and a Secret Formula
- Professor Crenshaw Is Arrested
- Edwards and Peabody Chemical
- Total Assets of $13
- Selling an Interest in the Company
- Chemicals to Mix the Formula
- Cedric Drinks a Bottle of the Formula
- What Is the Formula For?
- The Formula Kills Potato Bugs
- Electing Officers of the Company
- The Formula to Save the Cotton Crop
- 6,000 Gallons of Formula
- 200 Barrels for the Formula
- Three Hours to Get Rid of the Kraut
- A Chemical Company Buying the Formula
- They Gave the Formula to the Wrong Man
- The Impostor in the Squire's Office
1948
- Mind Reader
- Lum Fakes a Broken Leg
- Substitute Postmaster
- The Squire Talks Lum into Surrealist Painting
- Lum Becomes a Rodeo Cowboy
- Abner the Advice Giver
- Ezra Seastrunk's Cousin Rowena Has Thanksgiving Dinner with Lum
- Lum's Elopement
- The Traditional Christmas Show
1949
- Balancing the Books
- Lum Wants to Buy a House
- The Farewell Dinner
- Lum Opens a Collection Agency
- Lum Makes His Own Valentine for Rowena
- Raising Money to Go to the Convention
- Who Called Lum?
- Abner's Advice Bureau
- Lum's Insurance Company
- Lum Runs for Mayor of Pine Ridge
- The Big Spring Clearance Sale
- Lum and Abner Lose a Diamond Ring
- Lum and Abner Argue and Divide the Store
- An Invitation to Lum's
1950
- Lum Writes a Pageant of History
- The Reader's Digest Manuscript
- Trying to Buy Property
- Lum Wants to Sell His Interest in the Store
1953
- Grand Reopening of the Jot 'Em Down Store
- Abner Bought Something at an Auction
- The Squire Says It's a Shortwave Transceiver
- Starting Their Own Radio Station
- Cedric Listens at Home
- The New Station Will Be VPR
- Lum Sets Up Station Management
- Arguing Over Management Positions
- Cedric Auditions as Announcer
- All the Sponsors Buy the Same Hour
- VPR's First Show: Love Comes to Gilbert the Boy Trapper
- Mose Moots Sponsors Thankee fer the Information
- VPR Presents the Court of Human Beings
- New VPR Daytime Soap Opera: Life Faces the Sufferin' Jensens
- Rehearsing Mose's New Show, Princess of Pine Ridge
- Mose Wants the Ratings
- The Widder Becomes Princess and Wants Lum
- Lum Will Pawn the Widder Off on Someone Else
- Wrapping Bread with a Locket in a Loaf
- The Locket Is Found by Lulu Watts
- Lum Wants Abner to Talk Lulu Out of Marrying Him
- Knuckles Stroats Will Fight Lum for Lulu
- Lum and Abner Say Goodbye to the Listeners
Command Performance1 · Cast
The Bing Crosby Show1 · Host
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