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.

LA420226 - Mousey, Airplane Watcher [076]
 2.69 MB

LA420227 - Strange Happenings at Night [076]
 2.67 MB

LA420302 - Car License Plate Stolen [076]
 2.78 MB

LA420303 - Plate Mysteriously Returned [076]
 2.85 MB

LA420305 - Conversation with Detective [076]
 3.08 MB

LA420306 - Lum and Cedric in Charge [181]
 2.23 MB

LA420309 - Wearing Diogenes' Clothes [183]
 2.67 MB

LA420310 - Cedric Sudden Money [183]
 2.61 MB

LA420312 - Lantern Must Be Magical [183]
 2.67 MB

LA420313 - Half-Interest in Store [183]
 2.53 MB

LA420316 - Interrogating Cedric [183]
 2.64 MB

LA420317 - Press Prints Money [183]
 2.58 MB

LA420319 - Abner and Cedric to Quit
 2.68 MB

LA420320 - Lum Running Printing Press
 2.57 MB

LA420323 - Worry Over Going to Jail [183]
 2.64 MB

LA420324 - Cedric Escapes from Jail [183]
 2.58 MB

LA420326 - Harboring a Criminal [186]
 2.65 MB

LA420327 - Detective Mousey Gray [186]
 2.49 MB

LA420330 - Lum Brings Back Diogenes [442]
 2.56 MB

LA420331 - Diogenes Leaves $10,000 [442]
 2.52 MB

LA420402 - Ways to Spend the Money [186]
 2.6 MB

LA420403 - RKO Studios Premiere [186]
 2.75 MB

LA420406 - Committees for Premiere [187]
 2.75 MB

LA420407 - Lum's Premiere Speech [187]
 2.64 MB

LA420409 - Need for Projectionist [188]
 2.82 MB

LA420410 - Movie-The Bashful Bachelor [188]
 2.59 MB

LA420413 - Prize for Best Suggestion [188]
 2.62 MB

LA420414 - Ulysses Wants Toll Bridge [188]
 2.48 MB

LA420416 - How to Spend $10,000 [188]
 2.6 MB

LA420417 - Wonderful World Apartments [076]
 3.8 MB

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