The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1933–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 3314
- Genre
- comedy
Welcome to Pine Ridge, home of the Jot 'em Down Store. This upload contains 1646 files of the Lum and Abner old time radio show, starring Charles Lauck and Norris Goff. The dates, episode numbers and titles are believed to be correct based on available sources, but any corrections are welcome.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
9 dated broadcasts across 22 years on the air, with 20 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1933, in original transmission order.
- 1. Friday Night Sociable · 1 Jan 1933
- 2. Horlick Agrees to Distribute Flashlight · 4 Feb 1935
- 3. Lum Wins Election by 17 Votes · 25 Feb 1935
- 01
Friday Night Sociable
1 Jan 1933 · 14 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Horlick Agrees to Distribute Flashlight
4 Feb 1935 · 13 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Lum Wins Election by 17 Votes
25 Feb 1935 · 13 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
L&A 1935-03-18 (66) Squire Assembles Freak Sideshow
18 Mar 1935 · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “l-a-1953-11-20-xx-thanksgiving-in-pine-ridge”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 05
Lum Will Hide Money
10 Apr 1935 · 15 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
L&A 1935-05-14 (107) Dick Says Hog Chain Letter Should Be OK
14 May 1935 · 14 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “l-a-1953-11-20-xx-thanksgiving-in-pine-ridge”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 07
Worrying About Squire Starting Rival Theater
6 Jun 1935 · 14 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Letter Will Become Incriminating Evidence
28 Jun 1935 · 14 min
Broadcast on NBC. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1933–1954
Other series the network carried while Lum and Abner was on the air.
Same seasons
comedy on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Friends in front of a microphone
Jack Benny and Fibber McGee sold intimacy: recurring characters, in-jokes, a house style. The modern hang-out show is the same trick without the script.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Lum and Abner
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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