+ 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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| Air Date | Title | Synopsis | Rating |
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| 11.04.1941 | sades surprise gift slippers |
+ Ivory Flakes. Sade plans to return the "E-Z" slippers that she's received as a Christmas gift; an... | |
| 11.05.1941 | vics christmas gift list |
+ Vic plans to buy a lot of Christmas gifts, which doesn't sit too well with Sade. The plot line su... | |
| 11.20.1941 | a miserable object of public ridicule |
+ Nicer Scott has been telling everyone that Rush Gook eats with a baby's knife and fork. Rush is h... | |
| 12.01.1941 | winnie and her man |
+ Vic has to leave for a business trip to Plant #17 in Dubuque, but Sade has company. Bert and Winni... | |
| 12.08.1941 | the bottom buffet drawer |
+ Crisco, Ivory Flakes, E-Z White Naptha Soap (local). Red Net Pearl Harbor Coverage. Part 59. 3:45... | |
| 12.12.1941 | christmas shopping for mr buller |
+ Vic's boss has given him $20 and told him to have Sade go Christmas shopping for him. It's an ext... | |
| 12.25.1941 | north dakota river bottom revel |
+ A "North Dakota River Bottom Revel." A visit from eight of Vic's friends. "They swoop in amid a s... | |
| 02.11.1942 | fred will budget for vic |
+ The body of the show only. Fred Stembottom is bringing over a blackboard to lecture on the art of... | |
| 02.13.1942 | the prize clock |
+ Vic has his eye on another clock and the usual irresistable impulse strikes | |
| 02.17.1942 | hank gutstop hostess |
+ Hank Gutstop's new job is hostess at the Little Tiny Petite Pheasant Feather Shoppy...believe it... | |
| 02.18.1942 | edith suggins visit |
+ The body of show plus one Crisco commercial and the program closing. Sade has been visited by Edi... | |
| 02.19.1942 | uncle fletchers room is being painted |
+ Uncle Fletcher has come for a visit while his room is being redecorated | |
| 02.24.1942 | rawhide shoestrings |
+ Uncle Fletcher is having trouble untying his shoe strings...and with good reason | |
| 02.25.1942 | donahues doorbell |
+ Mrs. Donahue's doorbell won't stop ringing...Vic to the rescue | |
| 02.26.1942 | first to put up the porch swing |
+ The Gook's are the first in town to put up their porch swing...even though it's only February | |
| 03.03.1942 | accounting for spondulicks |
+ Rush has accompanied Sade on a shopping trip as official book keeper, and has failed miserably | |
| 03.04.1942 | the room warming |
+ Vic is reluctant to attend Uncle Fletcher's room warming | |
| 03.05.1942 | tornado gook |
+ There's a story about "Tornado Gook" in the Kitchenware magazine, but there are also a few inacc... | |
| 03.09.1942 | uncle fletchers unopened letter |
+ Uncle Fletcher has been carrying a letter from Sister Bess in his pocket for a year...he hasn't g... | |
| 03.12.1942 | tiny petite pheasant feather tea shoppe |
+ Vic is going to have lunch with his boss from the Kitchenware factory, at the Little Tiny Petite ... | |
| 04.06.1942 | the scrap drive |
+ Rush is collecting scrap for the war effort through the Virginia Avenue Sons Of Patriotism Salvag... | |
| 04.20.1942 | gravy boat |
+ A poem about olives and pickles. Bernardine Flynn, Billy Idelson | |
| 05.15.1942 | mentioned in dispatches |
+ Vic has an important story to tell, but Sade has an exciting story too. As a matter of fact, Rush... | |
| 06.08.1942 | 4th letter from bess |
+ Sade insists on reading another gem of a letter from her sister Bess...and Vic is overjoyed! A fu... | |
| 07.16.1942 | a gross of gavels |
+ "A Gross Of Gravels." Fred Stembottom plans to whittle 144 of them for Sade |
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