+ 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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| 03.31.1943 | brainfeebles house warming |
+ Chuck and Dottie Brainfeeble are planning on a housewarming...for sixty people! Aren't you giddy?... | |
| 03.18.1943 | appelrot picks on dottie |
+ sade is angry that Miss Applerot insulted Dottie Brainfeeble in Yamilton's Department Store | |
| 03.10.1943 | chuck and dottie wash dishes |
+ The Gooks' new neighbors are doing the dishes...and laughing uproariously. It's Dottie and Chuck ... | |
| 03.05.1943 | vic entertains dottie |
+ Dottie Brainfeeble is here for a visit...loud and giggly as ever, and she's planning to move next... | |
| 02.27.1943 | leland richards is homesick |
+ Uncle Fletcher and Dottie Brainfeeble try to cheer him up. The organ themes are not heard on this... | |
| 02.16.1943 | leland richards is coming |
+ Ivory Soap. Leland Richards is going to spend the night, along with Dottie Brainfeeble (whom Uncl... | |
| 02.15.1943 | dotties letter from chuck |
+ Dottie Brainfeeble is visiting and laughing loudly at a letter from Chuck...much to the annoyance... | |
| 01.07.1943 | fred considers joining the lodge |
+ Vic is perturbed because Fred Stembottom thinks he might decide to join the "Sacred Stars Of The ... | |
| 01.04.1943 | honorary titles |
+ Vic is considering the purchase of honorary titles from the Lodge. The organ themes are not on th... | |
| 12.07.1942 | miss neagle tears up lee street |
+ Mis' Neagle (the Sunday School teacher), is planning to tear up Lee Street! "She's All-Beef...str... | |
| 11.20.1942 | smelly cuts rushs hair |
+ Rush's hair has been cut by Smelly Clark. Five other amateur barbers try to undo the damage. The ... | |
| 10.27.1942 | christmas suggestions for the boss |
+ What to get the boss for Christmas? Let's see what's in the suggestion box! The plot line suggest... | |
| 10.20.1942 | freds concrete floor |
+ Fred Stembottom is up to his old tricks...trying to get Vic to help him pour concrete by temptin... | |
| 10.12.1942 | mayor wants to join the lodge |
+ The mayor is planning to join the lodge and is coming for a visit | |
| 10.01.1942 | cherry phosphates |
+ Rotten Davis has been treating everyone to free cherry phosphates...he has a 50-gallon barrel of... | |
| 09.15.1942 | the silent march |
+ Plans are made for all ten members of the Lodge's All Star Marching Team to march together...each... | |
| 09.14.1942 | sade and ruthie come out even |
+ Sade and Ruthie Stembottom have been shopping again. Who owes who what? It looks like a draw | |
| 08.24.1942 | rushs school clothes |
+ Sade is cooking beef punkles. She wants to take Rush to Yamilton's for new school clothes, but Ni... | |
| 08.18.1942 | cleaning the attic |
+ Sade and Rush are cleaning up the attic when Uncle Fletcher joins them | |
| 08.09.1942 | rush treats sade to the movies | ||
| 08.06.1942 | christmas cards c o d |
+ The program begins with a public service announcement about price ceilings to prevent inflation. ... | |
| 07.16.1942 | a gross of gavels |
+ "A Gross Of Gravels." Fred Stembottom plans to whittle 144 of them for Sade | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 04.20.1942 | gravy boat |
+ A poem about olives and pickles. Bernardine Flynn, Billy Idelson |
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