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We pause in our continuing story to offer the first 10 Christmas comic strips in the Lum and Abner series! Of course, we’ll have a new one for 2021 coming up soon!This first Christmas strip was originally published in 2011 and is based on the classic script first performed by Chester Lauck and Norris GoffContinue reading “Merry Christmas! – “Lum and Abner” Comic Strip Rerun #30!”

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum and Abner in Color!” – Chapter 4 Cartoonist & voices: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Our 2021 announcer is Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: “Singin’” Sam Brown! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum and Abner in Color!” – Chapter 3 Cartoonist & voices: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Our 2021 announcer is Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: “Singin’” Sam Brown! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page

“Brother Franklyn” Chapter 13! Click here to subscribe for FREE! Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio cast in order of appearance:Dr. Joe Oliver as announcer! Marc Ridgeway, composer/musician! “Singin’” Sam Brown as Dick Huddleston!Tim Hollis as “Bulldog Lummond”!Donnie Pitchford as Sheriff Slack! Here is our audio production: Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page!

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum and Abner in Color!” – Chapter 2 Cartoonist & voices: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Our 2021 announcer is Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: “Singin’” Sam Brown! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page

(#291 was a Christmas strip and #292 was a New Year’s strip! You’ll see ’em elsewhere!) Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Lum and Abner in Color!” – Chapter 1 Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Our 2021 announcer is Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: “Singin’” Sam Brown!Lum, Abner & Grandpap: Donnie Pitchford! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> NextContinue reading ““Lum and Abner” Rerun #293!”

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Gnome and Abner” – Chapter 5 Script: Tim Hollis!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Our 2021 announcer is Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: “Singin’” Sam Brown!Abner: Donnie Pitchford!Gnome: Tim Hollis! Audio recorded at the Hollis Museum in Dora Alabama! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the Archives page

Click here to subscribe for FREE! “Gnome and Abner” – Chapter 4 Script: Tim Hollis!Cartoonist: Donnie Pitchford!Audio credits:Our 2021 announcer is Dr. Joe Oliver!Music by Marc Ridgeway!Dick Huddleston: “Singin’” Sam Brown!Gnome & Crooked Man: Tim Hollis!Abner: Donnie Pitchford! Audio recorded at the Hollis Museum in Dora Alabama! Click to listen! Previous strip! <–Click for–> Next strip! Return to the ArchivesContinue reading ““Lum and Abner” Rerun #289!”

FREE! Lum and Abner fans: The Jot ‘Em Down Journal #71, April 1996, is available again to read (PDF) and/or hear (MP3)! Pine Ridge, Arkansas 60th Anniversary Issue!Cover photo: “Jot-M-Down Store” (1951) in Pine Ridge. “‘A Town That is Known by Three Rings on the Phone’ Pine Ridge, Arkansas: 1936-1996” by Tim Hollis and KathyContinue reading ““The Jot ‘Em Down Journal” #71”

The Texas-wide radio program The Sound of Texas will feature highlights of the beloved Lum and Abner episode known as “Lum and Abner’s Traditional Christmas Story” on Wednesday, December 8, 2021! Host Tumbleweed Smith’s guest will be Lum and Abner cartoonist Donnie Pitchford. The Sound of Texas airs somewhere between these times: 7:30-7:45 a.m., 12:30-12:45Continue reading ““Lum and Abner” on “The Sound of Texas !”