Crime Classics
Crime Classics 1954-03-31 Robby-Boy Balfour; How He Wrecked a Big Prison's Reputation
31 Mar 1954 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 31 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1933–1954
- Surviving broadcasts
- 1645
- 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.
1954 · 401953 · 5
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Listenable · 1 of 45Rough but complete · 44 of 45
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: l-a-1953-11-20-xx-thanksgiving-in-pine-ridge
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
7 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.
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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1953, in original transmission order.
- 1. L&A Thanksgiving in Pine Ridge · 20 Nov 1953
- 2. L&A Everyone Helps Decorate Christmas Tree for Party at School House · 24 Dec 1953
- 3. L&A Lum Explains Details of Mule Naming Contest · 28 Dec 1953
L&A Adrift on a Raft on the Quachita River
1 May 1954 · 10 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 May 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
L&A Lum Must Round up All the Hempstead Heirs -- Exact Date Unknown
3 Apr 1954 · 10 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 3 April 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
L&A Squire Will Hire Genealogists to Trace Lum's Family Tree
2 Apr 1954 · 9 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 2 April 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
L&A Lum Must Have Famous Ancestors in Order to Marry Miss Priddle
1 Apr 1954 · 9 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 April 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
L&A How Can Lum and His Twin Brother Appear Together
31 Mar 1954 · 9 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 31 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
L&A Squire Gets Mose Moots to Cancel All of Lum's Debts
30 Mar 1954 · 8 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 30 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
L&A Dating Twins Is Wearing Lum to a Frazzle
29 Mar 1954 · 9 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 29 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
L&A Lum Dates the Priddle Sisters as the Edwards Twins
26 Mar 1954 · 8 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 26 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
31 Mar 1954
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 31 Mar 1954.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 31 March 1954. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
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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