+ Vic and Sade was an American radio program created and written by Paul Rhymer. It was regularly broadcast on radio from 1932 to 1944, then intermittently until 1946, and was briefly adapted to television in 1949 and again in 1957. During its 14-year run on radio, Vic and Sade became one of the most popular series of its kind, earning critical and popular success: according to Time, Vic and Sade had 7,000,000 devoted listeners in 1943. For the majority of its span on the air, Vic and Sade was heard in 15-minute episodes without a continuing storyline. The central characters, known as "radio's home folks," were accountant Victor Rodney Gook (Art Van Harvey), his wife Sade (Bernadine Flynn) and their adopted son Rush (Bill Idelson). The three lived on Virginia Avenue in "the small house halfway up in the next block." The program was presented with a low-key ease and naturalness, and Rhymer's humorous dialogue was delivered with a subtleness that made even the most outrageous events seem commonplace and normal. Vic and Sade was technically a "soap opera," in time slots slanted toward an audience of housewives, and sponsored by food items and cleaning products. Rhymer evidently felt some pressure from the sponsor's advertising agencies to include more romance and human interaction into his scripts, like the other daytime dramas on the air. Rhymer complied in his own dry way, by adding ridiculous touches (his romantic lead, Dwight Twentysixler, always speaks with his "mouth full of shingle nails"!) and oddball characters (Orville Wheeney, the slow-witted gas-meter man; Jimmy Custard, the crochety town official who never quite makes clear what he does; Mr. Sprawl, the frail old man who dotes on "peanuts with chocolate smeared on the outsides"). Vic and Sade went off the air September 29, 1944 but was brought back several times. In 1945, the cast was augmented to include many characters who were previously only talked about. In 1946 it was a summer replacement series, now in a half-hour format and played in front of a live studio audience. Later that year it became a sustaining (unsponsored) feature on the Mutual network.-WikiPedia Click here to read more about Vic And Sade
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Please enjoy these 346 old time radio episodes:
| Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07.26.1944 | sade pleads to see a movie |
+ Ivory Flakes. Should the Gooks attend the cinema tonight? There's a Gloria Golden movie playing, ... | |
| 07.27.1944 | vics foreign accent |
+ Ivory Flakes. "Mr. Gook, you ought to learn to speak with a foreign accent." Could this suggestio... | |
| 07.28.1944 | garbage box mystery |
+ Ivory Flakes. Another slab of concrete has broken loose from the garbage box. Mr. Erickson, the l... | |
| 07.31.1944 | hank cuts his debt to vic |
+ Ivory Flakes. Mrs. Victor Gook has been invited to play a free game of rotation pool, with all th... | |
| 08.01.1944 | rotten old overshoes |
+ Russell has no desire to wear Vic's old overshoes | |
| 08.02.1944 | sade asks vic to evict mr overholt |
+ Sade wants Vic to help Miss Harris evict her roomer, Mr. Overholt. Vic very reluctantly agrees | |
| 08.03.1944 | russell reminisces about the old days |
+ Ivory Flakes. "The Warriors For The Right," from Russell's old Sunday School, have had an alumni... | |
| 08.04.1944 | vic is boss for a day |
+ Tomorrow, Victor Gook is going to take charge of the Consolidated Kitchenware Company, Plant #14.... | |
| 08.07.1944 | vic and russell fix their own dinner |
+ Sade is busy making a dress and chooses to not make dinner! Vic and Russell are forced to fend f... | |
| 08.08.1944 | russell in charge of howard |
+ Vic and Sade are playing rummy...very slowly. Russell is in charge of Howard, Mr. Gumpox's horse | |
| 08.09.1944 | mr gumpox has lost his dentures |
+ Vic and Russell are walking home from the movies. A rare example of a "Vic and Sade" show that i... | |
| 08.10.1944 | sade struggles with a letter |
+ Sade has trouble writing a letter declining an invitation to a Thanksgiving dinner...in August. ... | |
| 08.11.1944 | uncle fletcher rests body and brain |
+ Uncle Fletcher needs a rest. He's only made of flesh and blood | |
| 08.14.1944 | uncle fletcher prolongs his stay |
+ Uncle Fletcher is extending his visit at the Gook house. He needs his rest | |
| 08.15.1944 | vacation from a vacation |
+ Ivory Flakes. Just when Uncle Fletcher is becoming unbearable, he decides to take a rest from tak... | |
| 08.16.1944 | a dandy picture of vic |
+ Ivory Flakes. Vic needs yet another photograph of himself for the Kitchenware Dealers Quarterly | |
| 09.01.1944 | arranging the honeymoon |
+ Uncle Fletcher plans to go on the honeymoon for his landlady! The body of the show only, no open ... | |
| 09.04.1944 | out of town wedding guests |
+ Uncle Fletcher has definite ideas about who Sade should invite to the wedding. The body of the sh... | |
| 09.04.1944 | wedding guest list |
+ As we enter the small house half way up the next block now, here in the kitchen we find Mr. and Mr... | |
| 09.05.1944 | money owed sade |
+ Sade recounts all the people who owe her money. The body of the show only | |
| 09.05.1944 | sade owed money |
+ It’s seven-thirty in the evening as we enter the small house half way up on the next block and h... | |
| 09.06.1944 | muted silver moonbeam |
+ Sade discovers that Vic was interested in buying "Muted Silver Moonbeam Chimes." The open, close,... | |
| 09.06.1944 | muted silver moonbeam chimes | ||
| 09.07.1944 | fancy box |
+ Vic and Uncle Fletcher discuss the contents of a strange box...a wedding gift. The body of the s... | |
| 09.07.1944 | the wedding present |
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