Theater of the Mind
Norris Goff
Cast

Born May 30, 1906.
1,192 episodes in 9 shows · 1935–1956
Norris Goff teamed with Chester Lauck on Lum and Abner, which landed a network series in 1931. Goff played Abner Peabody, the likable, naive, checker-playing partner at the store, and voiced many other townsfolk, including postmaster Dick Huddleston and Squire Skimp. He co-wrote the earliest episodes, guested as Abner on Kraft Music Hall, and played the role in seven films.
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Lum and Abner1184 · 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
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
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