+ 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 |
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05.28.1937 | decoration day parade |
+ The opening organ theme and the body of the show only. Vic has to take a sudden trip to Chicago. W... | |
06.04.1937 | sades trip to dwight |
+ The body of show plus the closing organ theme only. Sade is going to Dwight tomorrow at 5:00 A.M. ... | |
11.28.1937 | congress and the supreme court | ||
03.03.1938 | official host |
+ Rush describes his ambitious plans for Sade's upcoming party. Doctors, nurses, firemen, and a tatt... | |
11.30.1938 | vics new hat |
+ Sade decides Vic needs a new hat and a date is made to meet in Kleeberger's Department Store. The ... | |
01.02.1939 | lodge regalia out on loan |
+ Vic needs his lodge clothes, only to find them scattered all over town. The open, close, and comme... | |
01.16.1939 | flower garden arranger |
+ Sade has a plan to make a million dollars by arranging her neighbor's flower gardens. Bernardine F... | |
01.16.1939 | flower garden biznes |
+ Sade has a plan to make a million dollars by arranging her neighbor's flower gardens. It’s early... | |
03.08.1939 | mr ericksons house repairs |
+ The landlord has a novel plan for fixing up the Gook house..."do it yourself!" | |
04.03.1939 | speaking acquintances |
+ Rush Gook has decided to count up all his speaking acquaintances. The program's open, close and c... | |
04.25.1939 | rotten davis telephones |
+ Rotten Davis is planning to visit the Gooks...a cheap date | |
04.26.1939 | sades new luggage |
+ Sade gets a suitcase as a present. The program's open, close and commercials have been deleted | |
N/A | mr chinbunny eats ice cream | ||
N/A | ms appelrot rearranges the furniture | ||
N/A | robert and slobert call long distance | ||
N/A | rush tenders his resignations | ||
N/A | russell tenders his resignations | ||
N/A | stacy yop and doctor sockers | ||
N/A | the thunder storm | ||
N/A | thirteen guests | ||
N/A | ushering at the bijou | ||
N/A | vics inspection tour | ||
N/A | vics photograph with r j konk | ||
N/A | freds concrete partition | ||
N/A | ms appelrots petition |
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