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Grandpap Makes Things Worse

Grandpappy Spears lets the cat out of the bag by revealing to Sergeant Hartford that the photograph is actually a picture of Lum! The episode stars Chester Lauck and Norris Goff.

Lum and Abner was an American network radio comedy program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was produced from 1931 to 1954. Modeled on life in the small town of Waters, Arkansas, near where Lauck and Goff grew up, the show proved immensely popular. In 1936, Waters changed its name to "Pine Ridge" after the show's fictional town.

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“Grandpap Makes Things Worse.” Lum and Abner. Radio broadcast, November 28, 1945.

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