What happens
Lum and Abner run the general store in Pine Ridge, where the town has been stirred by Dogberry Smith's offer of $10,000 to the most honest, kind and helpful citizen over three months. Mousey Gray, the delivery boy, hopes he may be one of the secret helpers Dogberry has enlisted to watch over the town. Lum and Abner, meanwhile, debate how best to win favour with the townsfolk. The series is Lum and Abner, first broadcast on February 6, 1942, and its lead actors are Chester Lauck, Norris Goff and Lurene Tuttle.
The Jot-Em-Down general store in the small community of Pine Ridge
Characters: Lum Edwards, Abner Peabody, Dogberry Smith, Mousey Gray, Squire Skimp, Snake Hogan, Sister Simpson, Mose Moots
Listen for: Lum and Abner's sly comments about Dogberry Smith's honesty contest and the town's sudden show of good behaviour
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.