What happens
Squire Skimp tricks Abner into believing Lum has broken into the store to recover a paper, and Abner has Uncle Henry Lunsford, the town marshal, jail Lum in the town jail. Abner, remorseful, tries to free Lum and explain that the whole thing was a joke, but Uncle Henry is too busy with jail regulations to listen. Lum insists he will bring no charges, yet Uncle Henry insists on enforcing the law and prepares to hold him as an example. The show is the Lum and Abner series, first broadcast on 1942-01-22, with Chester Lauck, Norris Goff and Lurene Tuttle in the lead roles.
The small community of Pine Ridge, at the town jail
Characters: Lum Edwards, Abner Peabody, Uncle Henry Lunsford, Squire Skimp
Listen for: Uncle Henry's jail routines, including the bell, the recreation hour and the exercises
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.