Lum and Abner – The Spring Clearance Sale. 490529 (RetroExtra
A Spring clearance sale is the thing to do, and fend off collectors from the bank. If the gents cut their prices in half, how do they expect to make…
Lum and Abner – Lum Runs For Mayor. 490424
Lum tries to tell Abner about his decision to run for mayor, and reform the town of all its vices. Trying to spread his campaign buttons around, Lum still can't…
Retro OTRDiary 21 Lum and Abner Compilation – Movies To Oil Wells. (retro523)
Filling in a gap where the half hour shows go missing, I look back at the story arc as it was around this time of the year in March 1939.…
Lum and Abner – Lum’s Insurance Company. 490327. (RetroExtra)
Lum gets the idea to start an insurance company on a non-profit model. He tries to explain his business model to Abner, but without much luck. The lady from the…
Retro OTRDiary 20 Interview: Donnie Pitchford, Part 3 (retro521)
In this installment of my combined interview and glimpse at the 1935 season of Lum and Abner, Donnie Pitchford offers some background on the introduction of bandleader, Opie Cates as…
Retro OTRDiary 20 Interview: Donnie Pitchford, Part 3 (retro521)
In this installment of my combined interview and glimpse at the 1935 season of Lum and Abner, Donnie Pitchford offers some background on the introduction of bandleader, Opie Cates as…
Retrro OTRDiary 19 Interview Donnie Pitchford Part 2. (retro519)
In the style of a Retro OTRDiary, to stand in for where the usual installment of Lum and Abner is missing, I present another mashed together collection of classic clips…
Lum and Abner – Lum Writes A Newspaper Column. 490306 (RetroExtra)
Tasked with writing a newspaper column, Lum tries to find his old typewriter. What will he write about? He does his best to do a gossip column to report on…
Lum and Abner – Who Called Lum. 490227
New actors are on hand for the first time. Andy Devine is Mose Moots, and Opie Cates is himself to both lead the band, and add his own slow talking…
Retro OTRDiary 18 Interview with Donnie Pitchford (retro516)
Part of a longer interview I had with uncle Donnie Pitchford, President of the National Lum and Abner Society. The show is a series of clips. I talk with Donnie…