Mousey Wants Mother to Move: Lum and Abner (April 21, 1942)

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“Mousey Wants Mother to Move” is an episode of Lum and Abner, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 21, 1942. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Lum and Abner plan a housing project in Pine Ridge, using the $10,000 Mousey Grey has been left in charge of, and the old houses they expect to sell. Mousey and Lum argue over naming the first apartment building, and Mousey insists his mother should come live with him. Lum and Abner also begin discussing which shops and businesses should go on the ground floor. The episode is from the Lum and Abner radio series, first broadcast on April 21, 1942, and starring Chester Lauck, Norris Goff and Lurene Tuttle.

Pine Ridge, a small rural community, in the Jot 'Em Down Store and library

Characters: Lum Edwards, Abner Peabody, Mousey Grey, Gussie, Ebony

Listen for: Mousey's argument with Gussie over his mother moving in, and the plan to put shops on the ground floor of the new apartments

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.