+ 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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01.02.1972 | tribute part 2 | ||
01.01.1972 | tribute part 1 | ||
10.26.1946 | august invoices | ||
10.10.1946 | mr z moves in |
+ The case of the handyman named, "Mr. Z" (whose full name happens to be "Bunker Verlin Z") "Indust... | |
09.19.1946 | uncle fletchers landlady farming him out |
+ Uncle Fletcher is up in arms when he learns his landlady is spending the winter in Dismal Seepag... | |
08.29.1946 | prearranged meals |
+ Uncle Fletcher decides to show his landlady how violent he is by wrecking the Gook's front porch.... | |
08.26.1946 | vics office work at home |
+ Sade has just had a fight with Mrs. Kesler...over the size of Mrs. Trogel's shoe. Well Sir, it’... | |
08.22.1946 | sade and ms kesler fight | ||
08.08.1946 | the honeymoon couple |
+ A pair of young honeymooners are visiting the Gooks for lunch. Uncle Fletcher suspects they are r... | |
08.01.1946 | l vogel drum |
+ L. Vogel Drum, the "Grand Nomadic Stenchel," is coming to town, he's a big man in "The Sacred St... | |
07.25.1946 | moving to peoria |
+ Fitch's Saponified Cocoanut Oil Shampoo. Vic is excited by a rumor that the kitchenware factory i... | |
07.18.1946 | midsummer madness |
+ Fitch's Shapoo, Fitch's Hair Tonic. "Mid-Summer Madness" is plaguing the residents of the little ... | |
07.11.1946 | vic the irish policeman |
+ KHJ, Sponsored by: Fitch Shampoo. The Chief of Police has moved the operations of his Departme... | |
07.04.1946 | womens auxillary | ||
06.27.1946 | the piano lesson | ||
12.07.1945 | sacred stars convention |
+ Speculations continue about what activity is going on in Mrs. Donohue's attic. Big news: The Sac... | |
12.06.1945 | rainy day fun |
+ Sade is preparing for a meeting of the Thimble Club. How to get the men out of the kitchen. Jimmy... | |
12.05.1945 | ms harris and dwight are engaged |
+ Is Miss Harris and Dwight Twentysixler going to get married? Uncle Fletcher feels that he's resp... | |
12.04.1945 | orville wheeney gets fired |
+ Mr. Korkle and Orville Weeney stop by with the bad news. Orvile has been fired from his job at th... | |
12.03.1945 | a slow dull tiresome evening |
+ Sade complains about a dull evening. Suddenly, Jimmy Custard, the City Callistorker, and Mr. Spr... | |
11.30.1945 | dwight twentysixlers scrapbook |
+ Dwight Twentysixler wants to show Miss Harris his scrapbook. The object is romance! Uncle Fletcher... | |
11.29.1945 | uncle fletcher arranges phone calls |
+ Uncle Fletcher receives a phone call or two...or three | |
11.27.1945 | parade of iterruptions |
+ Sade complains that she can't get her cleaning finished because of many interruptions. Jimmy Cus... | |
11.26.1945 | sweet corn mcblock |
+ Sweet Corn McBlock is being drummed out of The Sacred Stars Of The Milky Way. He failed to pay h... | |
11.23.1945 | sleeping in the courthouse yard |
+ Oxydol, Camay. Uncle Fletcher plans to sleep tonight in the courthouse yard. Dwight Twentysixler ... |
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